"Hello, Li Huanying" tells the story of Jia Xiaoling traveling back to 1981 when her mother died in a car accident and accompanying her young mother. The thought of "I came back from time to time just to make you happy" is beautiful and pure, shining in the movie. The picture shows a movie poster.
The Spring Festival battle between gods, and many of the films have a polarized evaluation. Only "Hello, Li Huanying" starring Jia Ling, , Zhang Xiaofei, Shen Teng and others has almost won the favor of all audiences, and the box office and reputation continue to rise.
As of around 15:00 on February 16, the total box office of the film in five days has exceeded 2 billion yuan, and more than 320,000 users on Douban have scored a high score of 8.3. At present, this debut work by director Jia Ling is the top single-day box office list for the Spring Festival with a good reputation. The industry is generally optimistic and believes that it will continue to gain a long-tail effect after the Spring Festival. There is no strong IP and no strong special effects. Among the blockbusters, why does "Hello, Li Huanying" break through?
Dean of the School of Art and Media of Beijing Normal University Zhou Xing said: "Whether technical travel or story expression, the most fundamental success of the film lies in the support of human nature and emotions. After all, the Spring Festival period and even Chinese films have reached a new era. If there is no true feelings, no deep experience of life, and no emotional need for movies to express their inner feelings, then Those creations must be just a noisy moment, only satisfying superficial sensory stimulation. "
Starting from abundant personal emotions, simple and pure
On September 25, 2019, Jia Ling posted a Weibo: "Three years of preparation, the movie "Hello, Li Huanying" is on filming today..." Li Huanying is Jia Ling's mother. She unfortunately died in a car accident when she was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama. For countless days and nights since then, Jia Ling's regrets were related to her mother: her mother always wanted a refrigerator, but she couldn't bear to buy it; she was not good at being a child, and she seemed to have never done anything that made her mother proud; her mother's positive and optimistic personality was the greatest wealth for her daughter, but she had never seen her child performing on stage...
So, the movie became the emotional carrier for Jia Ling to make up for her regrets. In fact, as early as 2016, Jia Ling performed her story with her mother on the stage of comedy variety shows. After the sketch, she planned for more than three years, filling in many details, and replaying this "family card" in a way that is more suitable for the movie. Regarding the self-written, directed and acted by himself, "Hello, Li Huanying", she said: "This is a movie I took out my sincerity." In Zhou Xing's view, good works, especially their debut works, are often in-depth in the creator's personal emotions. For Jia Ling, because she is unforgettable, she has delicate emotions.
video tells the story of Jia Xiaoling traveling back to 1981 when her mother died in a car accident and accompanying her young mother. Because of her own blame, Jia Xiaoling did not really make her mother happy, after traveling through time, she came to the chemical factory where her mother Li Huanying worked when she was young. Every thing she did was with the original intention of "I just want her to be happy." I hope my mother can encounter "big things". Jia Xiaoling helps the young Li Huanying organizes players to participate in the women's volleyball competition; I hope my mother's future destiny can change, and she matches Li Huanying with her and the factory director's son Shen Guanglin. She also performed on stage with Jia Xiaoling to fulfill her wish to let her mother see her daughter on the stage. Many plots in the
video are traceable in the real world, but they have cut through some details and secretly hide Jia Ling's love thoughts. This is her warm comedy in the form of her time travel setting, creating a ceremony for her mother who has left her. Smiling jokes and baggage are not only a harmonic agent that wraps around inner emotions, but also a way of healing when looking back at the wounds in the heart.
is driven by emotion and sincerity from beginning to end, and has reached empathy
In film and television works, the method of time travel is not new. The plot design of time travel in "Hello, Li Huanying" triggers the audience's greatest empathy. There is nothing else to do with the secret, only emotion and sincerity.
In reality, Jia Ling failed to meet her mother for the last time. In the movie, when her mother was dying, Jia Xiaoling stayed in front of the hospital bed. She turned her most painful point into a critical moment in the story - the starting point of her "time travel".Jia Ling was born in 1982, and Jia Xiaoling in the film traveled through time to 1981, which is the first emotional driving force.
The color of the picture of the time travel process is like the film of the times, from the current bright colors to the black and white of the TV in the 1980s, and then slowly adjust to the nostalgic tone that belonged to 40 years ago. That is the world where mother Lee Huanying is located, with dazzling youth, bright sunshine and passion. In Jia Ling's impression, her mother was positive and optimistic, and she smiled with a high spirit. Li Huanying, played by Zhang Xiaofei, interprets such a unique charm, replicating the vitality and vitality of young women in the 1980s. Returning to the most beautiful youth of my mother, this second layer of emotional driving touched many people born in the 1950s and 1960s who walked into the theater with their children. Just like the words in the end credits, "I remember that my mother was like a middle-aged woman. So I always forget that my mother was once a flower girl."
The fall into the clichéd time travel drama often makes time travelers take the perspective of an omniscient plenary session, but Jia Ling did not write the script to let Jia Xiaoling help Li Huanying "pass through the level" and do everything. She did not change the established result of the women's volleyball competition, nor did she reshape her mother's life destiny, and only resonated with the audience with simple emotions. The thought of "I came back from time to time just to make you happy" is beautiful and pure, shining in the movie. This is another layer of emotional and sincerity driven time travel.
When the biggest mystery of the film was revealed, it turned out that the mother could always understand the omniscient perspective of her daughter. Many details in the film that are only supported by emotions are given more reliable logic. The emotional thoughts of time travel make the audience suddenly realize that the child just blindly feels that he is a trouble for his parents, but he doesn’t know that the greatness of love is because I know that you may not be good enough, but I still choose to love you.
There is a highly praised comment on "Hello, Li Huanying" on Zhihu, which uses a poem to describe the feeling after watching the film: "The waterfall is going upstream, the seeds of dandelion float back from a distance, gathering into an umbrella, The sun rises from the west and , falling to the east; the bullets return to the gun chamber, the athlete returns to the starting line, I handed back the admission notice, forgot about ten years of hard work; the fragrance of food floats in the kitchen, you sign my paper, turn off the TV, and help me carry my schoolbag; you are still by my side."
Jia Ling once said: "I didn't want to be a director to make this movie, I wanted to make this movie, but I was the director." From beginning to end, she did all this purely for Li Huanying. Therefore, even if there is some immature audio-visual skills, the audience will only cherish her sincerity and purity more.
Any advanced technique is actually not as good as the sincerity a director reveals when facing himself, life, and life. (Reporter Wang Yan)
