Still a teenager after sixty years, Chen Kaige is a born dreamer

Chen Kaige in Tencent Variety Show "The Actor, Please Take Your Place" broke many audiences' inherent stereotypes of him-mysterious, severe, and unattainable international director-I did not expect that Director Chen in private would be so approachable, except Cherish and encourage young actors, he also contributed countless stories: He Shuhuan is a scumbag in one word, and cue Zhao Wei appeared on stage as Little Swallow, and seriously commented on Guo Jingming’s controversial "Sadness Against the River" and remade it into a short film... …For many moments, I feel that the dimension wall is broken!

It is hard to imagine that the director who made "Yellow Earth" and "Farewell My Concubine" would be so familiar with youth films and chick films. Zhao Wei said that he envied Chen Kaige from the film. An aristocratic family, like a child of choice, as if he should have been born to do this; however, what she didn't mention is that Chen Kaige has actually endured hardships. When he was young, he was a worker, peasant and soldier for ten years. This experience made him Deep love for people of all sizes.

In "The Actor, Please Be In Place", Director Chen brought the last short film "Haircut", which is also about the little people-one is the barber shop owner Ming Dao, middle-aged and borrowed Alcohol relieved me of sorrow so that I got trembling hands. I can no longer help people with a haircut and prepare to close the shop. One is the apprentice Yan Aaron in the shop, who has been with Master for many years but has never really cut his hair before, so he can only use a human head model. Training hands, resentment is quite deep; one is Niu Junfeng, a critically ill patient who wants to undergo a final treatment before chemotherapy, is about to undergo a craniotomy.

Chen Guidao is good at telling stories in audiovisual language. He did not use large lines to explain the background of the characters. He just let the camera scan over the plastic heads with empty eyes in the cardboard box. I took another shot of the three-color column rotating at the entrance of the store, and stopped abruptly-a few pictures immediately made people see the hearts of the master and apprentice as dead and full of film.

On the sidewalk, Aaron Yan and Ming Dao bet that if you open your eyes and see the green light on, you won’t close the shop. The last thing you really see is the green light. Urban fairy tales, the passionate background music accompanied by the glowing green light is contagious enough to make people willing to believe this story. Although we know that the lamp must be malfunctioning, the most important thing is that Mingdao’s inner "fault" "It's fixed.

The bright red woolen cap on Niu Junfeng's head represents the belief in survival. Why does he insist on having a haircut in the Mingdao shop? At first glance, it seemed unreasonable. It was not clear until he slowly told the story: before the shop, he had a haircut under the tree at the door, and then the shop opened. The boss at the time was always Give him candies and decals on the window... The little barbershop carries countless memories of his childhood.

Niu Junfeng’s lines seemed to take me to various alleys in Beijing at once. In the early years, I could vaguely see a piece of white cloth under the locust tree. Hairdressers are almost extinct now; I think of "the candied fruit in the shop of dried fruits, and the bean juice of Rong Chengxiang" in "Hong Chen", and the bells under the eaves of the courtyard in "Depth of a Hundred Flowers", and the ubiquitous ones. With the pigeon whistle, Chen Kaige always reminds us with these humane details that he is actually a child! A child who grew up in Beijing.

It’s no wonder that Director Chen has so many lovely performances in "The Actors Please Be in Place" and has countless fans; reflected in his works, it is the fairytale color and poetry as always, so Lang Yueting said Director Chen is an accurate dream maker. And this time, "Barber" went to the next level, laying a sad background underneath that dream: Even if Ming Dao reopens the shop, his hands will not be trembling, even if Niu Junfeng has his hair cut, the next day Still have to face surgery, chemotherapy will make hair fall out. Chen Kaige does not evade the cruel reality. He only cares most about the truth, goodness and beauty remaining in this reality. He collects them carefully and passes them on. On top of the great grief, little happiness blooms, and flowers bloom in the dust.