Author: Hu Jianli
As a domestic drama film without special effects and big scenes, " Life Events " has a box office of 240 million yuan in the first weekend, with Douban 7.5 points, and Maoyan and Taopiaopiao 9.6 points, fully indicating that it is a movie that has won the recognition of most audiences.
Zhu Yilong plays the funeralist Mo Sanmei in the film. She portrays a character who looks careless, full of ruffianism, kind and brave, and rich emotions, and has a vivid interpretation of the role. The performance is very exciting, and it can be said that she has completely tore off the idol label.
What impresses the audience most is the emotional drama, including the "father-daughter love" between Mo Sanmei and the little girl Xiaowen, and the emotions between Xiaowen and grandmother, Mo Sanmei and her father. The only drawback is that a few plots are sensational for the sake of sensationality, which seems unreasonable.
uses Han Yan's method to make the audience laugh and tears
"The Big Events in Life" is produced by Han Yan, directed by Liu Jiangjiang, starring Zhu Yilong, and starring Yang Enyou, Wang Ge , Liu Lu, and Luo Jingmin . The film rarely focuses on the funeral industry, and uses humorous and warm methods to tell the story of separation from life and death.
The director and screenwriter of the film Liu Jiangjiang is a young filmmaker. There is only one sentence for him on Baidu Encyclopedia, and the amount of information is equal to zero except for "Director of "The Great Events in Life".
The information about him on Maoyan is slightly richer: he studied journalism in college, and after graduation, he joined the TV station to film column dramas for 11 years. He entered the film industry in 2017, and was shortlisted for the Pingyao Film Festival Venture Capital for his self-written and directed project "Going to Heaven". Obviously, this is what the audience sees now.
This project was successfully brought to the screen in three years. Judging from the influence of creation and the final film effect to the audience, Han Yan, as the film producer, undoubtedly played a great role.
uses humorous and warm ways to tell the story of separation from life and death with a smile. It was Han Yan who was previously in "Get out!" The most skilled and consistent narrative style in "Kun of Tumor" and " Give You a Little Red Flower ".
This time in "The Great Events in Life", Han Yan and Liu Jiangjiang continued to make the audience laugh and cry in this way, but the theme is no longer the patient's anti-cancer, but the funeral industry that is rare on the screen, the characters are more fireworks and the story is warmer and healing.
When it comes to funeral theme movies, many viewers will think of the Japanese movie " Devourer ", which won the Oscar for the best foreign language film.
Although "The Great Events in Life" is not as pure and profound as "The Devourer", in the film, Mo Sanmei and Xiaowen "don't fight or know each other" in the funeral process, the story of "father-daughter love" healing each other is also tear-jerking.
tear off the idol tag, Zhu Yilong performed wonderfully
"The Big Events in Life" tells the story of five funerals: Xiaowen's grandmother passed away, middle-aged couple lost their daughter, the elderly held a living funeral, Mo Sanmei's ex-girlfriend died in a car accident, and Mo Sanmei's father died.
seems to be a very sad story, but it reflects the various aspects of the world, allowing people to see the warmth and coldness of human feelings.
Mo Sanmei's "Going to Heaven" funeral trio and the little girl Xiaowen, Xiaowen's longing for her grandmother, and between Mo Sanmei and her father, three emotional lines run through the entire film, carrying out three-dimensional and all-round "emotional bombardment" on the audience, interspersed with funny scenes such as Xiaowen's tricks in kindergarten and living people in the kindergarten to hold emperor-style funeral farce.
The whole film has strong drama conflicts and emotional conflicts. It is a movie that is both appreciative and can make the audience laugh with tears.
Personally believe that is more successful in shaping the characters compared to the more routine plot.
main characters in the film are vivid and vivid, especially Mo Sanmei played by Zhu Yilong and Xiaowen played by young actor Yang En. Both of them have wonderful performances, their expressions and behaviors are very consistent with the characters, and their eyes are very tacit.
Zhu Yilong's performance in the TV series " Rebel " last year has become impressive.This time in "The Great Events in Life", he completely put down his idol burden and became a powerful actor. In the
film, he has buzz cut , wearing a floral shirt, unkempt, lighting cigarettes with paper money burned by others, and his rude look, allowing the audience to see a completely different Zhu Yilong from the past.
Previously, some netizens praised Zhu Yilong for looking like Tony Leung , hoping that in the future, he can become a good actor who truly follows Tony Leung in acting.
is a bit sensational, and a few plots are too deliberate
amid the praises, and the author also points out some shortcomings in the plot of "The Great Events in Life". For example, it seems unreasonable that a few plots in the film are sensational for the sake of sensationality.
The most typical part: Xiaowen's biological mother found Mo Sanmei, hoping to get her daughter back. After a brief and painful thinking, Mo Sanmei actually hid her two partners who "Going to Heaven" and Xiaowen. On a rainy night, she secretly handed Xiaowen over to her biological mother while Xiaowen was asleep. This is obviously unreasonable!
First of all, the two partners of "Going to Heaven" are Xiaowen's legal adoptive parents. Mo Sanmei should not hand over Xiaowen to her biological mother without telling them.
Secondly, Xiaowen is not a two or three-year-old child, and Mo Sanmei should not secretly hand her over to her biological mother without telling her. What's more, he didn't ask Xiaowen's biological mother if she has a job and whether she has the ability to raise her?
This plot is the biggest failure of the film. I personally think that the main creator is not invisible, but to present the sensational scene of Mo Sanmei running in the car she was riding in on a rainy night, she deliberately arranged this.
This plot is deliberately designed for tear-jerking in order to be sensational and tear-jerking, which is a shortcoming of the film.
This may be a common problem for Han Yan's works similar to the theme. "Get out!" "The Lord of Tumor" and "Send You a Little Red Flower" actually have flaws of sensationality and not restraint. The former scored 7.4 on Douban and the latter scored 7.2 on Douban, which is still far from classic works.
"Big Events in Life" currently has a score of 7.5 on Douban, and it is expected that the score will also drop slightly in the future.
hopes that the main creator can learn from it in the future. While is drawing on the advantages of type films, we should also try to avoid the shortcomings of being too routine and move the audience through more reasonable and restrained emotional expressions.
Overall, "The Great Events in Life" is a rare domestic masterpiece worth watching after the Spring Festival. It has made a good start for domestic movies this summer. I wish you a big box office success!
