This film is very hard to wait. The
trailer is stunning.
has my favorite Chinese actress.
has Chinese actors that I quite love.
has a production team that can be called a quality guarantee.
has a more attractive title:
legs
Gui Lunmei + Yang Youning starring, director Zhang Yaosheng is the screenwriter of "The Sunshine", and he is also a member of Zhong Mengliang's team.
Over the past few years, Zhong Mengliang's production is a guarantee of quality. This time, Zhong Mengliang also acted as the photographer himself and contributed a master-level bizarre film.
In recent years, Gui Lunmei is the same as Zhou Xun in previous years, and the patch is scarce. Except for the
movie, there are few appearances, and no talent is wasted.
In 2018, after filming " Party at South Station ", within a few years, I went back to my hometown to pick up this "Legs".
But the "legs" in the title are not her legs! The
film was shortlisted for the best screenplay for the Golden Horse Awards .
Gui Lunmei was also shortlisted for best actress without any suspense, and finally lost to Li Peiyu in "Gone Valentine's Day".
In the process of watching "Legs", I felt that this movie did not have a good reputation in front of ordinary audiences.
The original love and marriage story, which was not particularly special, was trimmed and sculpted so slantly, supplemented by the deliberately weird performance of Gui Lunmei, which may make people uncomfortable. The more important reason for
is that the husband in the movie is the standard scumbag defined by the current internet culture.
He is not only scumbag, he is also plausible, and he takes up a lot of space in the movie to justify himself.
And the wife in the movie happens to be the mother defined by the current internet culture, which is very unfeminine.
From the inside to the outside, it is difficult to discuss the joy of public opinion.
A look at Douban, sure enough.
But I have always been disgusted to use such moral labels to simply and rudely distinguish roles or works.
You have your emotional logic and the character has his own. If
are the same, it is bland.
And this "Legs", in the coquettish photography, in the strange comedy packaging, in addition to the countless metaphors, is really asking the question that has always existed.
Why do we love and miss those who hurt us?
The blackened leg that Gui Lunmei has been looking for in the film is the last layer of her questioning about her lost love.
I think the character of Gui Lunmei has the same spiritual core as "I am not Pan Jinlian".
But the difference is that Gui Lunmei is presented in a way from absurd to weird, even a little distorted.
is not more funny, it is more sad.
So, a lot of people don't like the "legs" part, but that's why I like it.
Comparing the inner dilemma of the ruthless scumbag with the inner dilemma of the Brainless Virgin, it finally subtly explains and conceals their common sorrow.
If you can't believe their sadness is real, then you can't believe this weird movie.
and I believe.
The story opens with a bizarre death in which the husband dies in the hospital and the wife sees him off in dance costumes and demands a waltz on the hearse .
But sadness is real, dance is real, death, of course, is real.
But halfway through the hearse, the dance music was in full swing, and the tearful wife suddenly asked the hearse to turn around and go back to the hospital. She wanted to find the leg that was sawed off by the hospital for her husband.
The follow-up story is divided into two lines, one is from the husband's perspective, supplemented by first-person narration, telling their love story.
They are all beautiful and eccentric people who are isolated from the world. Dancing is their main way of communicating with the world and with each other.
This layer of "weirdness" is the root of the movie, and it deeply explains all the emotional logic of the two people.
When the husband's legs can't dance, the only channel of communication between him and his wife disappears.
But even if communication is impossible, even if it is completely broken, love for this kind of thing will not necessarily disappear.
This is the paradox that should be understood.
There are a lot of beautiful and emotionally unifying "weird" scenes in this storyline.
The scene of the wife bringing her husband home for dinner for the first time, and the father who just eats without saying a word.
Husband was tortured in a sea of firecrackers, the exquisite soundtrack and unique movement of the scene.
The husband was washing his wife's feet with his back to the huge wedding photo, and the wife told the erotic joke of "the sheep below died".
is rich in annotations of their unique and eccentric ways of falling in love, and then makes you stand in the middle of them and watch them back and forth. Another main story line of the movie is that the vexatious wife goes to the hospital to find The sawed-off leg of the deceased husband.
"Before you signed and said no, but now you throw it away and you want to find it again?"
This absurd pursuit is an alternative way for a wife to express her grief and love. There are also many good plays in this part of
.
Scary and gorgeous rummaging through the bloody rubbish heap.
During the process of delivering the corpse, the driver stopped by the custom shop.
is the phrase "a thousand mountains, a smooth journey".
And finally the absurd image of Gui Lunmei rising on the corpse car.
I like that the director didn't make this pursuit very painful, but dislocated blackness and irony.
During this process, the audience more or less understood the relationship between her and her husband, and also understood the meaning of legs to her.
That is repentance , it is forgiveness, it is intimacy , it is passion.
Beneath all the absurdity and eccentricity, there is a very continuous grey line of emotion.
