On June 10, "Jurassic World 3" was released in mainland China, injecting a boost into the Chinese film market that had been quiet for a long time. The single-day box office exceeded 100 million again after 103 days.

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On June 10, "Jurassic World 3" was released in mainland China, injecting a boost into the long-quiet Chinese film market. The single-day box office exceeded 100 million again after 103 days. But this is a "foreign monk" after all. We still need a strong domestic film to support the appearance. Fortunately, " Life Events " is here.

Many movie fans immediately listed "Life Events" among the "Top Ten Domestic Movies of the Year" after watching the movie, and even called "The Best Domestic Booking of the Year". Putting aside the possible operating factors of the film studio, the film's scores on Maoyan and Taopiaopiao are indeed outstanding, with both scoring a super high score of 9.7. You must know that the highest score in Maoyan history is 9.8 for "Dangal!" Dad", followed closely by "Wolf Warrior 2" with a score of 9.7. The high score of "Life Events" has raised expectations. Although the score dropped slightly after the screening, it still scored 9.6 points. The author walked into the theater with such expectations. Now I want to tell you something - the best domestic product of the year? Wait!

The foundation of top students

"Life Events" has been a hit since its debut: the

project originated from the 2019 Pingyao Film Festival. At that time, "Life Events" was still called "Going to Heaven" (many elements in the film It still maintains echoes of the original film title, store name, promotional song, etc.). In the venture capital section of the Pingyao Film Festival, this is an inconspicuous project. The story is based on people and events that director Liu Jiangjiang heard about. At that time, the main plot of the film involved the word "funeral", which made the film producers "shun". Later, the project was spotted by the discerning Lianrui Pictures. After more than two years of operation, "Life Events" was finally produced.

said that he is a top student because the company behind it is Lianrui Pictures, a leading film company that is not well known to outsiders. In recent years, it has been a master of turning stones into gold: from the joint production of " Animal World " From ", Your " to "Send You a Little Red Flower" and "My Sister", which were both cast and controlled by major investors, all of them have achieved good box-office and word-of-mouth success. Their "secret weapon" is the film's producer, director Han Yan. With director Han Yan, from his blessing in the script stage, to attracting famous actors, to controlling details in the shooting stage, this film has attracted much attention from the beginning of preparation. The highly emotional trailers and other materials released before the release also demonstrate the quality of the film.

The most important thing is that the film has many breakthroughs: first, it uses a medium-cost commercial film to challenge "funeral", a movie topic that is not favored by the public and is even a bit taboo; second, it is Enable Zhu Yilong , a well-known actor who is not very popular at the box office, and at the same time transform him with a "movie quality", with a straight face and wild local dialect, which can be called Zhu Yilong's largest scale since he started filming.

breakthroughs and attempts always attract attention, and this video did it.

Performance of Famous School Students

After two rounds of screenings, the audience's evaluation of the film was mainly focused on "full of tears", and the times I watched the film were no exception. In the film, the male protagonist Mo Sanmei, played by Zhu Yilong, and the younger sister Xiaowen, played by the young actor Yang Enyou, are two strangers who were once incompatible. In the story, they develop a family relationship that transcends blood ties, which warms the hearts of the audience. The creative team skillfully mobilized the audience's emotions, with a large number of scenes between the two protagonists, supplemented by tear-jerking music that was irresistible to the audience, making the audience unable to hold back tears.

In fact, it is not difficult to make people cry. What is interesting is that the film also cleverly avoids the depression and dullness caused by the "funeral" theme, and the depth of the funeral industry is also well controlled within the acceptable range of ordinary audiences. Coupled with a large number of jokes and comedy scenes, it perfectly forms the "laughing and crying" element necessary for China's emotional hit movies.

’s performance outside of movies is also very impressive. Several posters are all excellent, and the released trailer also follows the same "strong emotional" route as "My Sister", specifically cutting out the most distinctive scenes in the film and the protagonist's strongest emotional release, which strongly stimulates the audience's excitement. Emotional pain points and spark curiosity.A series of excellent publicity actions have made the film extremely popular even before it was released. A medium-sized funeral film has actually received 420,000 Maoyan "want to see" people. The industry generally predicts that the film's final box office will exceed 1 billion and 500 million. It should be stress-free.

The Talent of a Medium Student

It is one thing to understand the audience's desire for high-quality domestic film content, but it is another thing to objectively evaluate the film. We hope that there will be more and more films telling Chinese stories and Chinese emotions like "Life Events", but we still need to talk about the problems of the films objectively.

From the perspective of genre, "Life Events" is actually a road movie without road scenes. The characteristic of this type of film is that the two protagonists come together like enemies under a specific dramatic setting, and often hate each other. But a specific task must be completed within a specific time period, and then at the end of the task, the relationship between the two changes, resolving the past, and even developing deep emotions.

The domestic " people are on the embarrassing road ", the foreign "Green Book" and " due date " are all the same. The road movie does not necessarily really take place on the road. The so-called "road" actually refers to the protagonist. They go through a "journey" together, so films like " Untouchable " can also be called "road movies." "Life Events" is a typical example of this kind of film. Mo Sanmei and Xiao Wen were bound together by fate without any preparation. They experienced a period of getting along, each grew and changed, and developed a moving relationship between flesh and blood. Family affection. However, the originally perfect genre has caused a series of problems due to an important mistake in the film's script, that is, the film lacks character motivations throughout.

All such tender healing movies have one thing in common, that is, the character being cured (actually Zhu Yilong’s character in this film) has a clear character appeal, which directly or indirectly connects the two protagonists. , driven by this appeal, the two walked through this journey side by side. For example, in "Due Date", Robert Downey Jr.'s character must rush home within a few days to catch up with his wife's delivery; in "Green Book", the male protagonist is touring the United States; in "The Intouchables", the old man has to be in a Try out the black guy within the month to see if he is qualified...

Some people say that this film is very similar to the Japanese movie " White Rabbit Candy ". It is also about a middle-aged man adopting a little lolita, but the difference between the two is also The problem with this film is that in "White Rabbit Candy" the male protagonist takes the initiative to adopt a lolita. How to raise the lolita well becomes the male protagonist's biggest problem and motivation. Looking back at "Life Events", you can't answer the male protagonist's motivation: is he doing a funeral? It became clear that he was not interested in the business. Are you plotting against the old man's house? He's not really a heartless person. Take care of Xiaowen? This is already in the second half of the movie. Similarly, what about Xiaowen’s motive: is he looking for his grandma? No, it would have been easy for her to live with the person she believed had "killed" her grandmother. Do you live with Mo Sanmei? She also hated Mo Sanmei at first.

Neither of the two protagonists have clear motivations, which leads to a big problem with the film's text - there is no real plot driving force. Neither of the two protagonists has a clear thing to do. They can only rely on sporadic events that constantly appear to promote the development of the movie's plot. The two protagonists' emotions develop in the sporadic incidents that constantly appear, which eventually leads to the entire plot being fragmented and pieced together. Full of feeling. The correct way to handle

should be that the protagonist wants to do something, and during the process of event processing, the emotions of the two protagonists change, instead of presetting the emotional development status of the two protagonists first, and then randomly matching the events that occur, and at the same time This event was also chosen very randomly because there was no main storyline.For example, after Xiaowen made a big fuss at someone else's funeral, the hero's father demanded that the hero raise 300,000 yuan to open his shop; then someone suddenly appeared and said that he wanted to spend 300,000 yuan to hold a funeral for himself. The reason was actually The 300,000 yuan demolition money caused disharmony in the family and needed to be spent; when the male protagonist needed to sublimate his personality at the screenwriter level, he arranged for the unexpected death of his ex-girlfriend's husband who had cuckolded the male protagonist; in the second half of the film, there was even a scene There are many useless scenes that have nothing to do with the main plot... For another example, when the film needs to be tear-jerking, it arranges for Xiaowen's biological mother who has never met to "come back to life". If she wants to return to Xiaowen, the male protagonist "does it for Xiaowen" "He actually chose to hide it from Xiao Wen and force his biological mother to take Xiao Wen away and so on.

I have to say that the director of this film has a very high level of creative completion. The stunning protagonist performance, fresh funeral themes, and excellent humorous scenes allow the audience to be immersed in the emotional development of the two lovely protagonists. Sensibility has the upper hand. It effectively masks the fact that the film has so many cobbled-together plots that it becomes tiring. The creators also tried their best to hide this problem with abundant emotional expressions, and it was not until the final section of "the biological mother recognized her relatives" that the tail was revealed.

Kung Fu Beyond Poetry

Although the film has obvious flaws, the author still believes that the film can be regarded as the "light of domestic products" in this year's film market. It is difficult to say whether it is the best of the year. After all, there will be " Alone on the Moon " later. There are many potential rivals such as "I Love You" and "Universe Exploration Editorial", but its significance may have transcended the movie itself - the film industry, which has been hit by the epidemic and is riddled with holes and is dying, is in urgent need of a film with a greater impact. Domestic films with strong power and good quality, in the summer season, will extend the life of the industry, encourage practitioners, and strive for good fortune for Omi Kronhou's domestic films.

In this sense, he is not only a "major event in life", but also a "major event in Chinese movies".