Directed by post-80s director Han Yan, the film Beyond the Sky, starring Hundred Flowers Award actor Wu Jun, Huayi Brothers rookie Worm Valley and powerful newcomer Zhao Ran, received strong response in the cinema of Xinka University. For a time, the theme of "teaching in rural areas" in the film has also become a hot topic for teachers and students in colleges and universities. "Beyond Heaven" won one of the recommendations of domestic films in 2008, and the performances of several new actors in the film have also become the focus of much attention. "Beyond Heaven" will enter the national cinema this year, when more audiences will have the opportunity to enjoy the wonderful performance of this powerful newcomer.
Director: Han Yan
Film genre: plot
Duration: 96 minutes
Country/Region: China
Screenwriter: Wu and Lu Xunmin
Starring: Jiang, Xu, and Wu Jun, Teacher Luo.
Distribution: its Xin Ran film and television organization, its Xin Ran Film Company.
Products: Hunan Yuanrun Culture Communication Co., Ltd., Shi Pingren and Media Advertising (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Hunan Runfu Bioengineering Co., Ltd.
[Edit this paragraph] Summary
It tells the story of Xu He, a beautiful female college student, and Jiang, a lover, who signed up to volunteer to teach at Shui Gu Road Primary School in a remote mountain village after graduation for three months. On the other side of the sky, they met Teacher Luo, played by Wu Jun, and a group of lovely children in the mountains. They have experienced a challenging and joyful life around the three-foot platform, and their choice of life has also undergone tremendous changes. Teacher Luo speaks Hunan dialect to learn English, and Jiang steals chickens from the village, all of which are hilarious clips of the film.
[Edit this paragraph] Main story
In the year when Xu graduated from university, she signed up to teach in a mountain village with her college sweetheart Jiang. Xu left his hometown and parents for the first time. No one knows why she chose this way, but she really left and went to a place she had never been before. At that time, even she couldn't tell why, only knowing where to go and a long way to go. Yes, she and her lover, they really went there. For Xu, it was an unimaginable place, deep in the mountains, beyond the sky … Later, they came to the village deep in the mountains. Everything is so novel, and everything makes people feel a kind of unrestrained freedom. Indeed, it is far away from the noise of the city and the chaos of the world. Some are the blue sky, some are the fragrance of the earth, and everything looks like heaven.
However, all this seems to be so short-lived, just for a moment, then slipped away from Xu's fingertips. On that day, she met someone who changed Xu's life. He is Teacher Luo. The pain of life, with Mr. Luo and the children in those mountain villages, broke into Xu's life together. At that time, Xu was just a girl in her early twenties. The love of parents and the care of family almost made the girl fall down in the face of difficulties. Later, I gave it to myself and gave it to her and Coco for three months. She told Coco that she would stay here for three months. In three months, she will marry Coco and leave here. It may be from this time that there seems to be some kind of gap between her and Coco. However, Xu didn't notice this at all, and she began to focus on those children. She met a lot of people, naughty Xiaogen, silent Erfeng, and a spring show that loves singing. ...
Xu went to a distant county. She bought all kinds of stationery for the children. Watching the children get the stationery, a happy smile appeared on her face, and she suddenly felt that her choice was correct. At this time, she has gradually melted into the mountains and into the world of children in the mountains without knowing it. She took them for picnics, autumn outing and collecting specimens ... However, life was always drifting ... The village chief came to tell her that Coco had left the village. When Xu chased the county railway station, it rained heavily, and she didn't keep Coco. The train has already left.
She cried. Sick in the hospital. It is Teacher Luo who comforts Xu. Perhaps at this time, Xu really grew up, and she also felt that she had matured a lot. Coco's departure made her feel lonely, but the existence of children quickly filled this loneliness. Xu gradually started a new life, a completely independent life. Xu cried, but after all, she was not from the mountain, and she still wanted to leave. On the day of leaving, many people went to see Macey off.
After returning to the city, the village chief came to see her one day and told her that Teacher Luo had died because he repaired the classroom and carried yellow mud on the mountain. Her heart shook and she decided to go back there.
[Edit this paragraph] Introduction of the starring role
1, Wu Jun's major works: the movie Zhang Side, the day when I left Lei Feng, and the TV series Kangxi's Private Visit, etc. Main awards: Best Actor Award in China Watch Award, Best Actor Nomination Award in Chinese Golden Rooster Award and Best Actor in Hundred Flowers Award.
2. Zhao Ran's major works: The Promise of Fate, Twenty-five Children and a Father, Eight Hours of Accident, and Just a Classmate and Teenager.
3. Worm Fire Valley's main works: The List of Gods in 2006, Basketball Tribe in 2005, Chocolate Lover and My Schooldays. Playing Jiang is a young actor who is known as the "new generation girl" of Huayi Brothers. Prior to this, he had appeared in TV series familiar to the audience, such as It's not easy for parents to have children and become Jackie Chan, and the list of new gods. This time, the teacher who taught for love left a deep impression on everyone who had seen the film. His handsome appearance and humorous performance made him gain a lot of fans when he screened the screen in colleges and universities. Some viewers commented that his role was the closest to reality and impressive. He also said that although there is a certain gap between the role of Jiang and his own personality, I hope that this role and this film will bring more sense of * * * to the audience.
[Edit this paragraph] behind-the-scenes production
Beyond Heaven continued its first screening in Peking University at the Central University of Finance and Economics. The scene is still in full swing. Starring, producer Yang, director Wu and other film creators were present to communicate with the students. Han Yan, the director of Beyond Paradise, and the male and female protagonists are both fresh blood of the post-80s film industry. The story tells the problems encountered by post-80s college graduates under the impact of ideals and reality in the process of teaching. Of course, such youth films have attracted the attention of students now. Coupled with the strong performance of Wu Jun, the best actor in China, the screening room of 300 people was packed half an hour before the film was shown. The students who entered the school later even brought their own chairs to sit in the aisle of the screening room to watch movies, and the scene was hot.
As a light and humorous film, the attitude of students watching it fully affirmed it. This 90-minute film will trigger a burst of laughter from the students every few minutes. The beautiful embodiment of rural scenery in Hunan, the profound description of post-80s love and all kinds of touching details of rural life in the film have aroused students' great interest in the film. After the film, the main characters, producers, screenwriters and other creative personnel exchanged views with the students on the film. The producer said that the motive of creating this film is not only to reflect the phenomenon and problems of teaching in society, but also to attract the attention of all walks of life to the education problems in poverty-stricken areas. All the extras in the film are simple villagers living in the local area, and restore the truest side of rural life to the audience with the purest heart.
At present, the film has been shown in the first round of college cinemas, and other major cinemas have not yet been shown. The producer analyzed the unconventional screening procedure, mainly considering that the film is about teaching, and college students, as one of the main participants in teaching, premiered at the university as a tribute to their efforts for the national teaching cause. I also hope that through the students, the film can convey the information about China's education industry to the society more purposefully and efficiently, which will arouse the attention and thinking of a wide range of people in society. It is reported that the film was released in major theaters in early 2008. The audience feasted their eyes and felt this touching film full of youth.
[Edit this paragraph] Audience comments
The first part of the film should give people the feeling that two words are funny, especially when the village head just entered the village with the heroine and faced the close-up greetings of the camera, which is very meaningless. Looking down, however, by the end of the movie 1/3, when the heroine learned some special details of this primary school, she could no longer make people laugh, but the movie gave people a feeling of deep sadness.
Recently, the society is full of news about college students' teaching every year. For a few college students who choose to teach for one year, the greatest benefit of one year's teaching life may be their free access to master's degree. Of course, it does not rule out that many well-intentioned people really love this profession and hope to make some contributions to the motherland. The film gives people the impression that one year's teaching career is insignificant for children in those areas, and the rotation of teachers is also very cruel. How long does it take for a college student to express his views fluently and freely from the beginning to the end of imparting knowledge to students? Except in winter and summer vacations, they will not shine on the podium for more than 8 months at most. However, the lives of these children still have to go on. How can they go on? Many people are waiting for the arrival of the next teaching teacher in despair. Round after round, they continue to start their teaching career for one year from running-in.
A few years ago, Xu Benyu, a college student who taught, became a college student who touched China. Many people stand on the platform while teaching. He is just a good example, but after the teaching, they still come back to continue their postgraduate career. The difference is that some people, such as Xu Benyu, have made some great achievements for those children in need during their teaching years, but such people are too few. Year after year, these schools have changed groups of young teachers, who come and go. However, these children can't grow up so quickly.
The film Beyond Heaven ends with the heroine returning to the mountain village primary school to continue her teaching career instead of the dead old principal "Lolo". This ending is very sad, but in reality, it simply doesn't work, or it is difficult to achieve. How many college students can safely deliver their youth to this barren countryside, let alone spend their whole lives? In that case, he is a saint, but most people are not. Of course, most people can't do this, not because there is no love or anything, but because of the living environment. Habits formed since childhood may prevent you from living there for a long time, which is the most deadly. At the end of this film, the information revealed by many plots in the film is also an expectation for the current teaching methods: college students come to remote areas to teach and bring new teaching methods and knowledge, which is a good thing, but the time is too short to do many things at all! For children in these areas, what they need is not necessarily the best and most avant-garde teaching methods and theories. All they want is a "stable teaching team". You may not be the best or the smartest, but as long as you can take root here, the children in the mountain village will go out one day! At the same time, the state should effectively raise the salaries of teachers in remote areas.