The theater chain finally has a domestic movie that can be played.
Douban opened with a score of 7.5, and the box office exceeded 200 million in 3 days and 300 million in 4 days.
The film was not optimistic before its release, which can be seen from the box office forecast. After the release of the movie
, all parties have raised their box office expectations. has been raised from the initial 300-500 million to 1000-1500 million.
is a dark horse.
The data comes from the word-of-mouth reputation of Beacon Professional Edition
.
accumulated a lot of praise during the screening period, but there were some complaints after the release.
"Jumping back and forth between hahaha and woo woo", "The movie collapsed from the moment the biological mother appeared", "The first half was great, but the second half was too sensational and the story fell apart", "As a commercial film, it is qualified".
You must know that there are not many domestic movies that are scheduled to be released now.
And it’s so bold to suddenly come out with a movie that talks about dead people.
has a respectable box office and commendable courage, but today we still have to talk about its quality.
"Life Events"
Lighting Up The Stars
022.6.24
Fake father and daughter
The male protagonist Mo Sanmei, known as the "Third Brother".
He has a round haircut, a gold chain, a floral shirt, big pants, and flip-flops. He looks like a gangster, and the words "just released" seem to be written on his face.
He has a fierce appearance, a stubborn personality, a bad temper, and a miserable life -
He was cheated on by his girlfriend, was wrongly accused and was imprisoned, and everyone shunned him because they thought he was "unlucky".
He does funerals.
The third brother, who had no skills, took over the family's funeral shop. Wherever there was a dead person, he and his brothers would go there, knead the joints of the hardened body, put on clothes, and then carry it away.
But from the bottom of his heart he despises this profession.
You can tell by the way he uses paper money to light cigarettes and works without spitting out chewing gum.
Because his family does funerals, he has been scolded since he was a child for eating the dead.
acted like a fool because he didn't like doing it. As a result, his own father thought he was worthless and would punish him with sticks at every turn.
But in the final analysis, the person he despises the most is himself.
’s background of being in prison, his girlfriend’s betrayal, and his father’s harshness all made him feel that he was not living like a human being.
To sum it up, you are doing the most unfavorable job and living the most miserable life.
Until one day, a little girl named Xiaowen disrupted his life.
Xiaowen is a wild child. His grandmother passed away, he has no father or mother, and his relatives don’t care...
He talks about "I" all day long, never leaves his hand with a wooden gun, and dares to find a shroud shop at a young age.
Dare to arrest her? I'll give you a bite when I go up.
is like a devil incarnate, invulnerable to oil and salt, invulnerable to swords and guns, the true reincarnation of Nezha.
The encounter between the third brother and Xiaowen originated from the death of Xiaowen's grandmother.
As a funeral director, the third brother sent the old man off for his last journey.
couldn't understand the little article about "death" and thought that the third brother had hidden her grandmother.
For the sake of her grandmother, she pestered her third brother and kept clamoring for her grandmother all day long.
Helpless, Xiaowen’s uncle could only let her stay in the shroud shop temporarily. The theater chain finally has a domestic movie that can be played. Douban opened with a score of 7.5, and the box office exceeded 200 million in 3 days and 300 million in 4 days. The film was not optimistic before its release, which can be seen from the box office forecast. After the release of the movie , all parties have raised their box office expectations. has been raised from the initial 300-500 million to 1000-1500 million. is a dark horse. The data comes from the word-of-mouth reputation of Beacon Professional Edition
.
accumulated a lot of praise during the screening period, but there were some complaints after the release.
"Jumping back and forth between hahaha and woo woo", "The movie collapsed from the moment the biological mother appeared", "The first half was great, but the second half was too sensational and the story fell apart", "As a commercial film, it is qualified".
You must know that there are not many domestic movies that are scheduled to be released now.
And it’s so bold to suddenly come out with a movie that talks about dead people.
has a respectable box office and commendable courage, but today we still have to talk about its quality.
"Life Events"
Lighting Up The Stars
022.6.24
Fake father and daughter
The male protagonist Mo Sanmei, known as the "Third Brother".
He has a round haircut, a gold chain, a floral shirt, big pants, and flip-flops. He looks like a gangster, and the words "just released" seem to be written on his face.
He has a fierce appearance, a stubborn personality, a bad temper, and a miserable life -
He was cheated on by his girlfriend, was wrongly accused and was imprisoned, and everyone shunned him because they thought he was "unlucky".
He does funerals.
The third brother, who had no skills, took over the family's funeral shop. Wherever there was a dead person, he and his brothers would go there, knead the joints of the hardened body, put on clothes, and then carry it away.
But from the bottom of his heart he despises this profession.
You can tell by the way he uses paper money to light cigarettes and works without spitting out chewing gum.
Because his family does funerals, he has been scolded since he was a child for eating the dead.
acted like a fool because he didn't like doing it. As a result, his own father thought he was worthless and would punish him with sticks at every turn.
But in the final analysis, the person he despises the most is himself.
’s background of being in prison, his girlfriend’s betrayal, and his father’s harshness all made him feel that he was not living like a human being.
To sum it up, you are doing the most unfavorable job and living the most miserable life.
Until one day, a little girl named Xiaowen disrupted his life.
Xiaowen is a wild child. His grandmother passed away, he has no father or mother, and his relatives don’t care...
He talks about "I" all day long, never leaves his hand with a wooden gun, and dares to find a shroud shop at a young age.
Dare to arrest her? I'll give you a bite when I go up.
is like a devil incarnate, invulnerable to oil and salt, invulnerable to swords and guns, the true reincarnation of Nezha.
The encounter between the third brother and Xiaowen originated from the death of Xiaowen's grandmother.
As a funeral director, the third brother sent the old man off for his last journey.
couldn't understand the little article about "death" and thought that the third brother had hidden her grandmother.
For the sake of her grandmother, she pestered her third brother and kept clamoring for her grandmother all day long.
Helpless, Xiaowen’s uncle could only let her stay in the shroud shop temporarily.
But how could the devil incarnate be honest? Not only did he wet the third brother’s bed at night, but he also made a scene in the funeral parlor, causing trouble for the third brother everywhere...
Fireworks
Funeral theme, Oscar-winning foreign language film "The Encoffiant" must be mentioned carry.
But unlike "The Embalmer", which has a gentle, sad and solemn style, "Earthly Events" is like a snack street on the streets of Wuhan, hot and authentic, with a fragrant aroma.
may be so sad that he wants to cry while eating hot dry noodles!
Compared with the sadness caused by death, the tears shed by the audience for "Life Events" were mostly moved.
The story of "True Relationship between Father and Daughter" is also very similar to "White Rabbit Candy".
It’s hard to say whether the director borrowed inspiration from this movie, because the plots of sending a child to kindergarten, a child getting sick, and a child getting lost are all very similar.
Some people say that "Life Events" is a plagiarism/remake of "White Rabbit Candy", but everyone who has watched it knows that the two can only be regarded as similar (an uncle paired with a lolita) .
"Life Events" is actually the original work of director Liu Jiangjiang, adapted from his 2019 Pingyao venture capital project "Up/天/堂".
The director prepared for 2 years and interviewed many funeral directors, and there are also people in his family who are in this industry.
even went into the coffin to direct during the filming.
overall.
"Life Events" is a very Chinese story, with its character setting and the "One smooth tendons, two second bones" in the funeral and interment industry. It has a lot of cultural heritage.
Compared with the "father and daughter" who have always been plain and warm in "White Rabbit Candy", the relationship between the third brother and Xiao Wen can be said to be like enemies getting together.
As for why the gap is so big, the reason is that as a local "life event", it has a noisy and market atmosphere that Japanese movies do not have.
, to put it nicely, is "fireworks" .
Picture source comes from Zhu Yilong Weibo
Just look at the comparison between Zhu Yilong and his previous appearance. Do you dare to say that this is not down to earth?
"Do you know whether it should be green, fat, red, and thin?"
The appearance of the third brother did not come out of thin air.
At that time, the director and actors went to a real funeral home to observe people in the industry and added real life elements to the third brother.
As for Xiaowen, Yang En, who plays her, is only nine years old this year. When
was acting, many scenes were her real reactions.
The filming location was Wuhan. Producer Han Yan felt that Wuhan "is a very lively city with very strong fireworks."
The shroud shop "Shangtiantang" and the street where it is located were rebuilt in an old demolition area in Wuhan.
real-life shooting.
Zhu Yilong, who lives in Wuhan, crosses this street every day when he goes to work. When local fellow villagers see him, they will greet him enthusiastically in their dialect.
This off-screen liveliness is transferred to the movie, that is, the shroud shop "Going to Heaven" is next to a wedding shop, and the proprietress is scolded every day;
The show Xiaowen performed in the kindergarten turned out to be a funeral;
Even a shroud shop can hold a wedding, which is no different from any lively wedding banquet.
This grounded atmosphere allows the film to humorously and easily introduce the funeral industry and its practitioners to the audience.
Director Liu Jiangjiang made "Death" warm, funny and colorful.
Just like the third brother told Xiaowen that dead people will turn into stars, the movie is also telling the audience:
Death is a big event and a common thing. It is something that everyone has to go through, and it is something that does not need to be avoided or feared. .
Nothing major happens in life except death
Before becoming a film director, Liu Jiangjiang worked as a reporter and columnist on a television station.
The customs and customs related to funerals he encountered in his work gradually gave him the idea of making a funeral-themed work, but unfortunately he has not started writing it yet.
It wasn’t until one day when he was passing by a shroud shop and saw a little girl sitting inside doing her homework that he finally grasped the feeling he wanted and wrote the first version.
produced "Get Out!" Han Yan, who worked on "Tumor King" and " Give You a Little Red Flower ", became the producer this time, injecting his own humanistic care into the movie, and became this "Life Event".
Liu Jiangjiang and Han Yan
Director Liu Jiangjiang said that they were actually "talking about life from the perspective of a funeral."
However, the accumulation of too many materials made the second half of the movie lose its rhythm.
It’s like a student writing a propositional essay. The first part focuses on the relationship development of the third brother’s essay, and the second half starts with crazy questions.
Then the audience saw the third brother calling one after another, as if he was a rescue specialist.
Another thing is that the early promotion of the movie has always used the funeral theme as a gimmick, but in fact, it is just telling the story of "family" under the cloak of funeral.
Director Liu Jiangjiang said:
"Although we are shooting about funerals, what we are shooting is actually life, food, clothing, housing and transportation, which is the beauty of the world."
"Life Events" seems to be about the funeral industry, but what it is really about is, in fact, about life. It is the warmth of family, the fetters of family affection, and the cherishment of human affairs under the condition that "except for death, there is no big event in life."
So, why can't "Life Events" become China's "Encoffiner"? People talk about life and death when it comes to the essence, but we are more like the prodigal son turning back and suddenly awakening.
If the movie pays too much attention to this kind of "pyrotechnics", the seriousness and weight of death will inevitably be greatly reduced.
But to me, the greatest significance of "Life Events" is its breakthrough in movie themes and its themes that adapt to the times..
Jiang Wen said in his early years: "I think for movies to prosper, you must have an open attitude. You should be allowed to try any type of movie."
"It's like talking about a person's hair. Don't talk about hairstyle first. You Let me grow my hair all the way first, and then we can discuss what kind of hairstyle will look good. Don’t talk about whether to comb it in the middle or part it just because the three strands of hair are still there. Moreover, we often have to discuss whether to pluck out another strand in order to comb it into the middle part. There are only two hairs left, I thought it was a hairstyle.”
In the current epidemic, survival and death have become the most important topics.
In this era where no living person may live a decent life, it is very rare to watch a movie about "decent death".
Just like the third brother told Xiaowen that dead people will turn into stars, the movie is also telling the audience:
Death is a big event and a common thing. It is something that everyone has to go through, and it is something that does not need to be avoided or feared. .
Nothing major happens in life except death
Before becoming a film director, Liu Jiangjiang worked as a reporter and columnist on a television station.
The customs and customs related to funerals he encountered in his work gradually gave him the idea of making a funeral-themed work, but unfortunately he has not started writing it yet.
It wasn’t until one day when he was passing by a shroud shop and saw a little girl sitting inside doing her homework that he finally grasped the feeling he wanted and wrote the first version.
produced "Get Out!" Han Yan, who worked on "Tumor King" and " Give You a Little Red Flower ", became the producer this time, injecting his own humanistic care into the movie, and became this "Life Event".
Liu Jiangjiang and Han Yan
Director Liu Jiangjiang said that they were actually "talking about life from the perspective of a funeral."
However, the accumulation of too many materials made the second half of the movie lose its rhythm.
It’s like a student writing a propositional essay. The first part focuses on the relationship development of the third brother’s essay, and the second half starts with crazy questions.
Then the audience saw the third brother calling one after another, as if he was a rescue specialist.
Another thing is that the early promotion of the movie has always used the funeral theme as a gimmick, but in fact, it is just telling the story of "family" under the cloak of funeral.
Director Liu Jiangjiang said:
"Although we are shooting about funerals, what we are shooting is actually life, food, clothing, housing and transportation, which is the beauty of the world."
"Life Events" seems to be about the funeral industry, but what it is really about is, in fact, about life. It is the warmth of family, the fetters of family affection, and the cherishment of human affairs under the condition that "except for death, there is no big event in life."
So, why can't "Life Events" become China's "Encoffiner"? People talk about life and death when it comes to the essence, but we are more like the prodigal son turning back and suddenly awakening.
If the movie pays too much attention to this kind of "pyrotechnics", the seriousness and weight of death will inevitably be greatly reduced.
But to me, the greatest significance of "Life Events" is its breakthrough in movie themes and its themes that adapt to the times..
Jiang Wen said in his early years: "I think for movies to prosper, you must have an open attitude. You should be allowed to try any type of movie."
"It's like talking about a person's hair. Don't talk about hairstyle first. You Let me grow my hair all the way first, and then we can discuss what kind of hairstyle will look good. Don’t talk about whether to comb it in the middle or part it just because the three strands of hair are still there. Moreover, we often have to discuss whether to pluck out another strand in order to comb it into the middle part. There are only two hairs left, I thought it was a hairstyle.”
In the current epidemic, survival and death have become the most important topics.
In this era where no living person may live a decent life, it is very rare to watch a movie about "decent death".
