Qianjiang Evening News·Hourly News Reporter Lu Fang
This weekend, many people's circle of friends were flooded with a funeral-themed movie " Life Events".
Many hours of news users watched the movie and left comments under reporters’ articles.
They said that the movie captures death, which has always been taboo for Chinese people. Through the stories of ordinary people, it allows everyone to understand the familiar and unfamiliar funeral service industry. It also makes people think about the serious philosophical proposition of life and death, which is very rare.
A hourly news user left a message, "Children sometimes ask about death, and they never know how to answer it. I took the time to go to the cinema this weekend to find the answer."
Another hourly news user said, “My 12-year-old daughter watched it and cried so much.”
html On July 2, the box office of "Life Events" exceeded 100 million, becoming the first domestic film to exceed 100 million in a single day in 137 days after February 14 this year. The cumulative box office of the film exceeded 700 million in the 9 days after its release, surpassing the Spring Festival "Sniper" (602 million), and temporarily ranked sixth in the annual box office list. "Life Events" is produced by Han Yan, written and directed by Liu Jiangjiang, Zhu Yilong stars in it, Yang En is specially introduced to star, Wang Ge is a special guest star, and Liu Lu and Luo Jingmin star. It tells the story of mortician Mo Sanmei (played by Zhu Yilong) who met an orphan Wu Xiaowen (played by Yang Enyou) during a funeral shortly after his release from prison. Xiaowen's appearance unexpectedly changed his attitude towards career and life. story.
This weekend, Qianjiang Evening News·Hourly News reporter saw at Hangzhou Cinema that many of the audience were indeed parents with their children. In the film, Xiaowen's family relationship with his late grandmother and the "father-daughter relationship" with his third brother are both touching. Children and adults often wipe their tears together.
When it comes to funeral themes, there are many excellent foreign films, such as the Japanese film "The Undertaker " which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the Korean film "The Organizer", and the Pixar animation " Dreaming" Travel Notes " and so on.
Domestic movies with funeral themes are very rare.
It is taboo for Chinese people to talk about death, and the funeral industry has also been labeled as "unlucky" for eating the dead. When talking about his creative experience,
director Liu Jiangjiang said bluntly that this time he put things on the table that everyone thought were taboo.
"Everyone has to reach the end. It doesn't mean that if you don't talk about it or hide from it, it won't come. We provide everyone with an opening for discussion, and this discussion is benign. See At that end point, we will reflect on how we should live...(that is) standing at the end of death, looking back on how your life should be more meaningful and what you should cherish."
and hourly news users said after watching the movie, "The movie gave us a new understanding of the funeral service industry, which is both familiar and unfamiliar."
The third brother in "Life Events" has ancestors in the funeral industry. His family has a small shop called "Shangtian" with a shabby sign, which is in sharp contrast to the wedding company next door. Every time he comes back from work, the landlady next door always scolds him: "Can you park the car farther away? How can I do business?"
Even his girlfriend looked down on him and cuckolded him. He had no hope in life and was living in a state of despair. Live a miserable life.
It was not until the "Little Nezha" article appeared and the two redeemed each other that the third brother began to re-examine his career.
In the movie, there are indeed many specific details of funeral work.
For example, when encountering a stiff body, the third brother needs to apply warm water on the joints, and straighten the body bit by bit from the fingers to the limbs.
After the body of the husband of the third brother's ex-girlfriend was run over by a truck , the human shape was no longer visible. In order to leave with dignity, the ex-girlfriend begged the third brother to restore her husband's original appearance. In the
movie, the third brother's father, Lao Mo, was giving instructions and reciting mantras: muscles first, then bones, limbs first, then trunk, and the internal organs must not be messed up. Although
did not provide a direct picture, the sound effects of flesh and blood friction can make people imagine how the third brother rearranged a scattered corpse into a human form.
Then take the photo of the deceased, fill in the head, outline the facial features, and then apply makeup.
A hourly news user said, "I used to be most afraid of watching movies about death, but I didn't expect that "Life Events" would bring our most taboo topics to the table. The emotional parts make people break their guard", "I never dared to "Watching a movie with such heavy themes, especially when there are seniors and juniors, I didn't expect it to open in such a way." "The metaphor of planting a star is very romantic. One day we will become a star in space." travel".
Mo Sanmei, Wang Jianren, and Yin Baixue who work at the funeral and shroud shop "Going to Heaven" in "Life Events" are tenderly called "people who plant stars" by the orphan Wu Xiaowen. The four people, who have no blood relationship or geographical relationship, support each other and become a warm family, forming the "Zhongxing Family" together.
Why is the mortician compared to "the person who plants stars"?
director Liu Jiangjiang explained that when he was a child, he heard his grandma say: "If there is one less person on the ground, there will be one more star in the sky."
The ferrymen between life and death are those engaged in the funeral industry.
With the popularity of the movie, "star seeder" has also become a hot topic on the Internet. The stars in the sky are all people who have loved you before. When one love leaves, another love will appear.
In addition, many hourly news users said that it makes people think about the serious philosophical proposition of life and death. "The best movie in the first half of the year. There is really no big deal in life except 'rebirth' and 'death'."
"The big things in life" come from the folk saying "There are no big things in life except death." You should be relaxed and calm in life, because you cannot avoid death.
also praised domestic films for their courage to explore new themes, saying, "The title of the Japanese film "The Embalmer" alone is very profound. The title of "Life Events" is a little subtle, but for Chinese people, the subject matter is new enough. Deep enough and bold”.
Liu Minjian, a senior cinema management expert, also left a message and commented, "The current audience needs a movie like "Life Events" that can resonate with the audience and touch the audience's heart."
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