In 2019, the movie " and my motherland" was released for eight days and the box office exceeded 2.1 billion. In 2020, " and my hometown" continued to lead the National Day, and this October holiday unexpectedly ushered in " Me and My Father", this film has a total of four stories, namely "Cheng Feng" directed by Wu Jing, "Poetry" by Zhang Ziyi, "Duck Prophet" by Xu Zheng and Shen Teng's "Youth Travel".
Among them, Xu Zheng is the only director who has participated in the "National Day Trilogy". Zhang Ziyi and Shen Teng are both the first directors. With the "Wolf Warrior" series, Wu Jing is once again a household name and is currently the chief of the domestic war movie. face. They are both directors and starring actors. They have partnered with Huang Xuan, Song Jia, Ma Li, Wu Lei, , Peng Yuchang, , and Zhang Ouhao. , Chen Daoming, Li Xuejian and other old drama guest appearances, such a lineup is worth looking forward to.
"Riding the Wind" is adapted from real events. During the May 1st anti-sweep in 1942, the commander of the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment Ma Renxing sent his son Ma Chengfeng to spearhead the reconnaissance. In order to protect the displaced villagers from being discovered by the Japanese and puppet troops, he made a difficult choice.
The war scenes of a hundred horses galloping, the cruel and lifelike fighting scenes, and the high-spirited music can easily bring people back to the blood-boiled era, which opened the grand curtain of the whole movie. But "Chengfeng" has a huge body and empty inside.
Ma Chuanxing, played by Wu Jing, continues his cold-hearted and straightforward heroic image in previous movies. However, the first half of the short film still has the patience to tell the story, and the second half directly became Wu Jing's personal show, especially holding the banner against the gunfire, regardless of the possibility of being shot, just to pay tribute to "Wolf Warrior"; The enemy ended up walking around the corpse in slow motion in circles, highlighting his tall image; the backlit silhouette of standing on the top of the cliff and reining in the back light after winning, revealing the foundation of his previous kung fu martial arts movies.
Therefore, in order to illuminate the theme of the revolutionary spirit, the short film adds a scene of the encounter four years later. With the hasty narrative of the film, it should have been an epic blockbuster, with its monotonous approach, it should be more streamlined . It just so happens that the cavalry regiment leader Sun Desheng of "Bright Sword" is also a cavalry in "Riding the Wind." Substantial support.
Zhang Ziyi's "Poetry" photographer Yu Jingping , screenwriter Li Yuan is the production team of "July and Ansheng". This short film was filmed from the Hohhot Family Home in the 1960s. The soft light image quality is chronological, the voice-over is praised, and the setting is real. , Suddenly there was a bang in the distance, familiar explosions, and they all guessed what happened.
"Poetry" opens the narration of space dreams from the perspective of children, the correspondence between Kongming lanterns and rockets, and the comparison between the past and the future. The great space dreams come from children's deep yearning for their parents, and the passage of poetry in the sky is extremely romantic.Since "The Great Master", Zhang Ziyi's temperament has sunk. Now she is very good at playing the image of a persevering and forbearing intellectual woman. Both the characters in the short film and the narrative have a sense of simplicity, which makes the audience feel deeply about the scientific research work of that era. The respect of the person.
However, every director wants to get the maximum degree of performance within the specified time period, so too much time, "Poetry" has such a problem. It's best to write a poem in the sky at the end. There is no need to keep playing back and rendering the moments of the difference between Huang Xuan and Zhang Ziyi. One is sensational, and the other is blurring the relationship, whether it is parent-child or love.
Xu Zheng is still stable this time. His shot returned to Shanghai alley. That Dongdong had a bragging father, Zhao Pingyang. Zhao Pingyang tried his best to sell medicinal liquor until it gave birth to the first advertisement in China. Xu Zheng is good at fusion. The composition tone of "Duck Prophet" is reminiscent of the retro style of Wade Anderson's " Budapest Hotel", and the plot of promoting medicinal liquor is substituted in " Crazy Stone", the early stage of the father image It is shown through Dongdong’s composition and comics, followed by a play in play, with a sophisticated structure. See the details. For example, Dongdong and his father promoted medicinal liquor. Before getting on the bus, Dad wore shorts and Dongdong trousers. After a montage was edited, the dresses of the two got off the bus were reversed.
Among the four short films, Xu Zheng's "Duck Prophet" is the most complete narrative. Dongdong’s attitude towards his father goes from disgust to trust. This is also the core of many parent-child relationships. “At that moment, I believe what Dad said is true”, which is more effective than all preaching.
Shen Teng’s "Youth Walk" tells the robot Xing Yihao's journey from 2050 to 2021,A little story about a single-parent boy. The combination of temporary father and son, the movies "Perfect World" and "Summer of Kikujiro" all have classic presentations.
Shen Teng's directorial debut is still the familiar happy twist recipe: The robot assembles two legs and folds a small advertisement on the butt. Ma Li, Zhang Xiaofei , Changyuan , Allen , Spicy Yoko all have surprise performances. But the overall plot is nothing new, especially the children's ridicule to promote the development of the plot, the values are naked, and the characters are facialized .
The National Day trilogy is more than 150 minutes long, but "My Motherland and Me" tells 7 stories, "My Hometown and Me" 5 stories, "Me and My Fathers" "4 stories. Therefore, the short films in "Motherland" are like short stories and tend to intercept important scene narratives. The short films in "Fathers" are like novellas. .
In short, "My Fathers and Me" is a movie that makes people cry and laugh. The first two are sensational and the latter two are very lively, suitable for the whole family. As long as one has resonance, it is worth the price. NS.
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