In the end, what kind of reality will love be defeated?
According to previous understanding, the reality of being able to defeat love is nothing more than a huge identity gap under the concept of a good match, or economic strength. But there is a Taiwanese love film that gives richer answers, telling us that there are many more realistic factors that can defeat love.
This movie does not have many beautiful and romantic love details, but instead it smells like "depression". It was like a heavy punch, hitting the viewer hard in the chest, making people feel a little breathless.
It is: "The Last Verse".
As a movie with a main love tag, "The Last Verse" does run through a main emotional line between men and women.
When he was a student, the heroine Li Xiaoping was a girl who liked to run in the playground, while the hero Shi Renjie was a boy who wore a Manchester United jersey and liked to play football on the stadium.
Because he looked at Li Xiaoping on the playground, the adolescence Shi Renjie was in love for the first time and stood on the court in a daze. By chance, Shi Renjie and his good friend took the initiative to chat with Li Xiaoping and made an appointment to go out for an outing together. It is the summer of the millennium. The young men and women who are outing together play and play by the streams in the mountains, allowing each other's emotions to be revealed simply. In the communication of talking and laughing, Shi Renjie and Li Xiaoping, who were in love, held hands and officially began their love.
The water is gurgling, the trees are green, and the brilliant sunshine penetrates the woods to create a warm atmosphere, full of youthful beauty, just like the love between Shi Renjie and Li Xiaoping. But as time goes by, their emotions gradually change.
At first, although Shi Renjie and Li Xiaoping, who served in the army, were in a long-distance relationship, their relationship was very strong. The woman began to plan her future life carefully, and the man also imagined the future with a smile on her face. Their ideas were very simple: work, marriage, and having children.
When I really entered society, Shi Renjie and Li Xiaoping's lives failed to move forward steadily as planned, and instead encountered resistance again and again.
First, the father's suicide, then the gang pursuit caused by the debt left by his father, and then the job changes (from bank staff to house sales). The heavy pressure made Shi Renjie irritable and also caused a crack in his relationship with Li Xiaoping.
Faced with his father's death, he seemed ruthless, and he didn't want to shout out the last sound of his father; in the face of high debts, he worked hard but had no choice but to do anything; in the face of Xiaoping's desire for marriage, he was not ready to deal with it perfunctorily... From being full of expectations for the future to being almost cold in love, Shi Renjie's mentality has undergone tremendous changes, which has also caused his and Xiaoping's emotions to change qualitatively.
He would resist angrily at first and still have hope for life, but after suffering repeated blows, Shi Renjie, who was once full of passion, gradually lost himself.
He tried to have sex with others to relieve the pressure, but after seeing Xiaoping "infidelity", he quarreled angrily; he tried to go to the mainland to have a big fight, leaving Xiaoping behind and running away alone, but was deceived into becoming a smuggler.
And just after he returned home, he learned about Xiaoping's series of unfortunate experiences. I returned to Xiaoping again, but lost her completely. With anger and guilt, he finally mustered up the courage to find the "three rich bastards", but finally pointed his gun at him.
He was so energetic and full of expectations for love and life. He also worked so hard, but in the end he achieved nothing and was powerless to turn things around in the face of love.
Facing a simple style of mountain stream water painting, he fell into memories and recited the last poem:
only hopes to wake up one morning
We are all beautiful people
Have a beautiful life
Sunshine will embrace us
Fragile swaying in the wind
I will embrace her
Like embracing a pure dream
It seems that reality defeated the love between Shi Renjie and Li Xiaoping, but in fact, it is Shi Renjie who really defeated their love.
He has a sunny and simple side, but he has a proud and arrogant side. He hated his father who borrowed money to do business. He despised the gang that came to collect debts. He was unhappy to borrow money from Aunt Xiaoping. He was unwilling to bend down to do something he looked down upon... But in the end, he became the kind of person he had hated and despised.
Of course, we can say that it is the reality of life that makes Shi Renjie powerless, but from another perspective, if he is calmer, borrow money to pay off his debts from the beginning, and then work hard with his wife to slowly improve, can life be better? If he was better to Xiaoping, don’t be so conceited, don’t leave her and go to the mainland to develop, can he and Xiaoping live happily?
It is precisely because of Shi Renjie himself that his love with Xiaoping finally became fragmented.
Many viewers said they felt very angry when watching it, thinking that people like Shi Renjie were too irresponsible and too irresponsible, and thought that Li Xiaoping should have left him and pursued a better life long ago. But even though Shi Renjie was so disgusting, Li Xiaoping still kept on him, which was enough to show how deeply she loved him.
Obviously, the final ending is sad and sad. To a certain extent, "The Last Verse" seems to be about love, but in fact it is a helplessness in outlining life. The love story it depicts is full of powerlessness and makes people feel very disappointed. The film
also has a strong sense of the times. From 2000 to 2016, it went through three "leaders" periods, telling the process of the male and female protagonists meeting, knowing each other and getting apart, and also telling the real living state of Taiwanese youth. tells this state, reflects on society and the times, reflecting the connotation of "life is always unsatisfactory", which is a kind of power behind the "depression" of the film "The Last Poem".
Director Zeng Yingting When dealing with the film "The Last Poetry", the story was completed just right and the rhythm was controlled just right. It was literary but not boring, heavy but profound. It is a "thrilling and thought-provoking" work.
But what impressed me the most about this film is the male protagonist in it. When I was walking through the actor's subtitles, I also paid attention to his name: Fu Mengbai.
This deep impression mainly comes from his performance: the character Shi Renjie he portrays has a full character and distinct personality traits. It can capture the hearts of the audience, make people intertwined with love and hate, both sighing and pity, and is very easy to empathize.
Of course, the first thing that reached the audience was his handsome external image. With a clear angular face, handsome facial features, tall and upright figure, and a low-key and deep temperament, Fu Mengbai looks very idol-like.
But what is more surprising than his handsome and masculine appearance is his acting skills. Although he looks a little dull, when expressing the character's emotions, he has a proper control of expressions, lines, shapes, and movements. This gives his performance a texture, and the characters he portrays are more vivid and three-dimensional.
There are two scenes that are deeply impressed: one is when he was buried in a pile of sand and gravel by a gang member, forcing him to pay off his debts, he resisted hard, and acted like he would rather die than surrender; the gangster boss walked over and slapped him in the face, with an angry look and raised head to show resistance; but the gangster boss was not rude at all, and slapped him in the face in the face in a row. At this time, you can see that Shi Renjie, who was originally struggling to resist, began to change his eyes and expressions - from the beginning, he gradually became a little afraid, laying the groundwork for the compromise later, and the whole performance was very tense.
There is another incident in which he was sitting in an old friend's car and was taken home by the other party. He told him about Li Xiaoping on the road. When he learned about Xiaoping's experience, his expression had obvious emotional progressive changes in the front and back, which well showed the emotional fluctuations in the character's heart.
Overall, Fu Mengbai's performance is textured and layered, which can not only interpret the sunny and simple side, but also show the down-and-out and decadent side, making the character moving enough. It is precisely because of his outstanding performance in "The Last Poem" that Fu Mengbai not only won the recognition of a large number of viewers, but also won the honor of "Emperor of Video" at the 52nd Taiwan TV Golden Bell Awards.
At the Golden Bell Awards ceremony last year, Fu Mengbai said: "I am only 30 years old, and the road to actor has just begun" .
Looking back at his resume, he appeared in movies and TV series relatively late. However, he started late but walked quickly. The first time he was destined to be the Golden Bell Award was the 51st Golden Bell Award in 2016. He was nominated for the Drama Actor Award for "HTM15 Generation of Recruitment: The Eight Young Men ", and that time was his first time as the male lead. He then starred in the short films "The Cat in the Wardrobe" and "Plum Rainy Season", which received praise from both inside and outside the industry.
In addition to the performance on the big screen, Fu Mengbai also appeared in mainland TV series.
In " True Love Lies: Icebreaker " aired in the first half of this year, Fu Mengbai played the role of the male lead Jin Yuan's good brother Shaoyang. This character is very likable because of his loyal and righteous personality. Fu Mengbai also managed the character traits of the character well. After the series was broadcast, he also attracted a lot of fans through the Shaoyang character and received a lot of praise in his Weibo message.
In the following six months, I didn’t see any news about him. When he appeared again in everyone’s eyes, was the news that he was shortlisted for the 55th Golden Horse Awards Best Newcomer Award . The works he shortlisted are the movie " Fan Baode " directed by Xiao Yaquan and produced by Hou Hsiao-hyun
Some media use "star luck" to describe him, but I think it is more appropriate to describe it as "gold will always shine". After all, you can only pass for a while by luck, but by strength, you can pass for a lifetime. Judging from the trailer, Fu Mengbai showed his deep and restrained performance style, and interpreted a story about his father's family affection in a touching way.
This movie is more steady and has a slow rhythm, and is a type that needs to calm down and feel it. Fu Mengbai interprets Fan Daqi well through Zhang Chi's moderate performance control, which is indeed worth looking forward to.
If he can win the Best Newcomer Award, it will undoubtedly be a good help for his acting career. But he himself felt that he was satisfied to be shortlisted. may be his pursuit when he starts late and walks fast, but he will walk steadily.
Although he has masterpieces, many people may still be unfamiliar with Fu Mengbai’s name: on the one hand, his works have fewer been released in the mainland, and on the other hand, he is usually relatively low-key.
But when you look at his Weibo, you will find that this is really a "treasure" boy.
This "older young man" born in 1987 has graduated from the Department of Drama of Taipei University of Art. I was a versatile male classmate in college. He was not only good at acting, but also good at painting.
If you follow his Weibo, you can occasionally see photos of him drawing.
Interestingly, before becoming an actor, Fu Mengbai's wish was actually to become a photographer.
He loves photography very much. He likes to fiddle with cameras when he was a student. He is a typical photography enthusiast. Even now, he has become an actor, and he will bring a box of camera equipment when filming, so as to satisfy the fun of photography at any time.
Occasionally starred in the MV. In Tian Fuzhen's ", don't think of me ", he appeared like an "eastern egg". The unshaven young man is him.
In life, Fu Mengbai is often immersed in the things he likes and seems particularly focused. He likes to ride a motorcycle to let himself go, and he also likes to repair his "old cars" and enjoy the fun of dismantling parts. During work breaks, he would even spend an hour or two carefully polish a watch to observe and experience this "rigorous" craftsmanship.
He also likes exercise, insists on fitness exercise, and strictly controls his diet. He also likes pets, especially dogs. No matter where he is, he will show his gentle side when he meets a dog.
Whether it is various preferences in life or various performances in work, what Fu Mengbai values in his heart is to gain precipitation through these preferences and work.
He once said in an interview: "In the years, my life and outlook on life have not changed much because of actors. At most, I have gone to many different places because of work, met many different people, and different script characters have also taken me through many parallel worlds. I enjoy these processes very much, and I also like the self-precipitation of after each drama."
This attitude is commendable, especially in the increasingly impetuous society. Being able to stick to your inner pursuits, and can understand how to precipitate yourself through life and works is a cool thing in itself.
, and Fu Mengbai, who is slowly precipitating himself, will also be released in works such as "Love Under the Starry Sky", "Guests on QQ ", and "Encourage the Demon". How much potential does he have? Let's wait and see!
PS: The text is original by the author [Muyi Movie], and the pictures are all from the Internet.
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