Shortly after the filming of "Unfortunate" began, it was called off because of its "low tone". It was not until 2000 that after 4 years of hard work by the producers, the film, which was deeply concerned with Chinese marriage and cheating, was renamed "" Sigh " was released to the public. The
movie is adapted from Wang Shuo's "Living a Miserable Life". To be honest, if you look at the name of the movie, and if you look at the adaptation of Wang Shuo , you can imagine what the content is roughly, so the movie was banned because of its "large scale". , it is well understood.
Director Feng Xiaogang chose to cooperate with Wang Shuo at that time. In fact, he knew what he wanted to shoot?
He really wanted to express the real situation of the middle-aged men's extramarital affairs at that time, but because of the excessive manipulation of the content, he was considered to be "values that violate socially recognized moral standards" and failed to pass the review.
At this time, Feng Xiaogang , has already drawn up his own royal team, Zhang Guoli, Liu Bei, Xu Fan , the old actors are all in place, but only ten days after the movie started, he was forced to disband, leaving a cavity full of enthusiasm Director Feng was very disappointed.
When the film was released in 2000, it caused a huge response and won the second place at the box office of the year. At the Cairo Film Festival, it also won the Best Screenplay, Best Male and Female Lead, and Pyramid Gold Awards, all of which are heavyweight awards.
But even if the movie is highly praised by foreign entertainment, it is still not tolerated by our society to directly attack the content of marriage derailment. The judges of the Golden Rooster Awards did not give Feng Dao any face, saying that a sigh "would be misleading." Audience's Views on Marriage".
Let's take a look at what kind of content, so that people inside and outside the industry are related, and they are still reluctant to face it after many years.
Writer Liang is the male protagonist in the movie. At the age of forty and confused, he has a small career and a happy family. In order to let Writer Liang concentrate on his work, his wife grasps everything and does not let her husband worry about it.
The reason for the story is that the boss of the company needed a script, arranged for the male protagonist to go to a villa in Hainan to concentrate on writing, and assigned him a young female assistant Li Xiaodan.
So alone, because of work, they live in this big villa away from the crowd.
This story environment is simply designed for the male protagonist to make mistakes.
Because there is no one else in the villa, besides discussing the script, they also talk about some personal life topics, and the relationship is getting closer.
The most important thing is that the young female assistant is quirky and quirky. She is very willing to communicate with Writer Liang. After getting drunk once, she said a bunch of lines in the play, which meant something. The trend of the plot is skewed.
Fortunately, our writer Liang has kept his integrity in this party.
And the next day, he began to avoid risks and decided to go back to Beijing by himself. He should also know that if he didn't leave, it would be really bad.
But that's how men are. At the end of the day, they still can't control themselves. Both the man and the woman went to Beijing and went to Li Xiaodan's home to make up for all the action scenes that Hainan didn't do.
After going to bed, Li Xiaodan was very generous and said to Writer Liang: You have a wife and a daughter, they need you more than me.
Just like that, this middle-aged man who had slept with other women returned to his home.
Unfortunately, an extramarital affair is like an open zipper, even if you don't pull it down, it will slowly crack.
Finally, his wife found out that her husband had a lover outside and chose to divorce, but because there was no letter of introduction from the unit, the application was not successful.
The man could not get a divorce for the time being, and Li Xiaodan also lost his job because of this incident, and the two lived together.
Two years later, Li Xiaodan couldn't stand the days of living together without marriage, and wanted Writer Liang to give him an explanation.
Unfortunately, at this time, his wife was injured, and the middle-aged man went home to take care of his wife, and started a cold war with his lover.
The final movie ends after the two women talk peacefully and the story goes back to where it started. The
movie describes the derailment phenomenon that modern society is most reluctant to admit. When people reach middle age, they enter a period of emotional stability, and they are easily tempted by new things or feelings.
Even though they know this behavior is dangerous and unethical, once they get past the bottom line, they indulge themselves.
But in fact, such a man and woman, even if they divorce their current lover and jump into another marriage, after a long time, the essence of marriage will not be different. After your new marriage reaches a stable period, it will be a period of emotional stagnation.
In the movie, both men and women are not bad by nature, and men are not all sex-seekers.
Xiaosan did not break up other people's families wholeheartedly. It was just that when an ordinary man met another ordinary woman, because his body could not hold back, he fell into a whirlpool from then on. In the
movie, their struggles were vividly displayed, but they did not criticize too much, which is why the movie was criticized.But it is precisely because of this close-to-real operation that the audience has a feeling, and the box office is a big hit. At the same time, many people say: People who don't have a story can't understand this film.
There are also many people in the industry who have commented that this film is Feng Xiaogang's most successful work, but it is a pity that it was dusted by the subject matter.
