It has been 15 years since the first "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" was released in 2008.
Ooh. "Do Not Disturb 3" is finally here.
Those post-70s and post-80s who have walked into the theater, the couples who are happy and moved by this series have now entered middle age, and the post-90s have also stepped into 30+, I don't know how many ups and downs, joys and sorrows have been experienced in everyone's marriage and love life, and I don't know if everyone has been smoothed out by life, or is still trying to support it.
It doesn't matter!!
Because of the third part this time, you can still see people laughing and crying, happy and moving.
After reading it, no matter who is around you, you can look at each other and be smooth.
"Do Not Disturb 3" focuses on the topic of AI robots and is a near-future light sci-fi romantic comedy.
Moreover, director Feng Xiaogang suddenly made a 360-degree sharp turn this time, the narrative style is different from the past, the whole movie uses dopamine colors to drive the plot, activate the emotions of the characters, and tell this love spanning 15 years from the perspective of the present.
In 2031, Qin Fen (played by Ge You) will be 70 years old, and Xiaoxiao (played by **) will also leave home for ten years because of joining a global environmental organization.
In order to relieve his thoughts of Xiaoxiao, Qin Fen fell in love with making kites.
Whenever Xiaoxiao sent a postcard from afar, Qin Fen would fly a kite.
Not long after, Qin Fen received a gift from Lao Fan (played by Fan Wei), who opened a technology company, an artificial intelligence person who completely imitated Xiaoxiao, in order to relieve the pain of ten years of lovesickness for Xiaoxiao.
What are my hobbies?"—Love me" (AI smiles).
With the arrival of AI Xiaoxiao, Qin Fen's peaceful life was broken, he regained his enthusiasm for life, and he got better and better with AI Xiaoxiao, which was enough to mess with him.
Until one day, the return of the real smile, the daily life of chickens and dogs forcing him to face a choice.
Can artificial intelligence, which replicates lovers, become our life partners?Can it fill our emotional emptiness?
Can marriage, or love, be replaced by AI products?
This is the first expression of "Do Not Disturb 3", that is, the issue of artificial intelligence that echoes the times.
The movie also gives its own answer.
In the massage scene of Call Back "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 2", the real smile blurted out "You really think you are the last emperor", and the memories are killed, which makes people break the defense instantly.
The loving interplay between lives, those memories, the details, the folds, can never be replaced by the replica lover.
Because in their bodies and memories, there are our growths, feelings, and traces, and the bits and pieces of the past of each other's lives.
What about a particularly perfect intelligent person, what we need is still a real lover who has overlapped with our own lives, which can never be programmed, because TA is complex enough and real enough.
It's also enough to mirror ourselves.
Truth and true love will always be the answer, and it is also the precious light in the era of artificial intelligence.
At first glance, "If You Are the Truth, Do Not Disturb 3" often thinks that you can predict the plot, but it ......
In fact, many details are a little surprising.
The colorful dopamine color scheme, which appears in Feng's films, is really curious.
And such a color is the director's ingenious setting. Feng's comedies, both in the shell and the core, often focus on a humorous banter of reality, and realism cannot be discarded. And only fairy tale worlds, and even specific scenes such as nursing homes, will have such a strong and rich visual color.
In fact, the color of the movie is not abrupt, the real thing is hidden under the surface of dopamine.
This brings us to the second expression of "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 3".
There are several impressive treatments in the film.
For example, when AI Xiaoxiao appeared outside the door, Qin Fen looked out from the house, it was a dark green color set, the choice of this shooting angle was actually very ingenious, the dark green here was depressed and gloomy, reflecting ** Qin Fen's mood was lonely and gloomy.
But in the next scene, when Xiaoxiao appeared in front of him, the camera switched to the scenery at the door. The light is bright, with a pink sunset in the foreground, and the dark green tones in the picture turn green. This obviously sets off the change in Qin Fen's mood.
In other words, it exposes the director's mind.
Is the smile here a person, is it a real smile or an AI?Put a question mark.
There are also space scenes that are scary and scary.
In the movie, Qin Fenshi repainted him and Xiaoxiao's home one by one while waiting for Xiaoxiao, painting him and Xiaoxiao's home into a colorful world.
Feng said that he was referring to the painting style of Edward Hope and the details of the room design of some elderly people, and Hope is known for his ability to depict human loneliness.
Director Feng cleverly used these to carry out a "visual deception".
Qin Fen's color setting and living setting, this "unreal" living space, may actually be Qin Fen's spiritual soul wandering space.
Therefore, "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 3" is actually a dream of the elderly Qin Fen, and it is a picture of his dream.
This can also explain why there are old friends who take turns to appear under Zhang Hanyu's voiceover.
The main classics from the first two films are back:
There is Lao Fan, who acquired Qin Fen's "divergence terminal" in the first part, and the "third generation" Jianguo played by Chang Yuan, Chuanchuan who reads poetry in the second part has grown up, and the deceased Li Xiangshan also exists by Qin Fen's side in other material forms (crazy green baskets), Yao Chen plays Mango and Wu Sang in Hokkaido also return.
A 70-year-old man waiting in the same place for so many old friends to come and go.
It can be understood as a movie in a dream, or it can be understood as a kind of perfect ending.
As a result, the ending of "Do Not Disturb 3" is not a mystery, but a mystery of the whole story, and Qin Fen's emotional expression of Liang Xiaoxiao in the process is a hint given by director Feng Xiaogang.
Qin Fen is a long-term person, and he has been waiting for Liang Xiaoxiao for 10 years in their home.
Maybe everything is a dream of Qin Fen, in which there is a lover to accompany friends to get together, like a fairy tale version of a bright dream.
As times get faster and faster, lightning-fast love and lightning-fast breakups are commonplace. Now a state of young people's feelings: "If you don't reply for a week, it seems that the relationship is over." ”
And long-term love, in Feng Xiaogang's view, is the romance in the bones of their previous generation.
If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 3", the earthy love stories that interact with the times will poke your heart violently when you suddenly come back to your senses at the end.
It is based on the loneliness and sadness of middle-aged people, and paints comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak. ”
This also explains a detail, in the dopamine-style home, there is only a sad picture of "Qin Fen facing the sea, smiling and facing the audience", which has become a large hanging painting on the bedside of Qin Fen's bedroom.
Chaplin said that life is unfortunate up close, but comedy from afar.
And the back side of Feng's comedy is also sad. That's so heart-wrenching.
One of the great characteristics of Fung's comedy is that there will be different feelings at different stages of growth**.
If you want to find a handsome guy, don't come, if you want to find a wallet, don't meet. ”
If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 1", as a "citizen director", he keenly grasped the blind date outlet, and also stewed many hot topics in a pot, which interestingly predicted our reality.
The movie uses Qin Fen's blind date experience to thread the needle and depict a picture of the sentient beings of the times. At that time, society was rushing forward, and everyone was eager to rush forward. Therefore, when Qin Fen met Liang Xiaoxiao, who was truly in love, he felt so precious.
When it came to "Do Not Disturb 2", the core came from the advice of an old cannon with terminal cancer to his friends in a wheelchair.
No matter how you choose a marriage, it is wrong, and a long-term marriage is wrong. ”
When Xiaoxiao asked Qin Fen if he would always be good to her, Qin Fen said, "Who dares to give forever a ticket." In the worldview of the protagonist set by Feng Xiaogang, "forever" is a nonsense, but this does not mean that love is unreal, nor does it mean that it will not work hard for it.
These golden sentences have long been rooted in the hearts of the audience, and they still seem to be true and profound.
There are also those scenes of Feng's "ritualization" that continue on.
"If You Are the Truth, Do Not Disturb 1" has the underworld funeral that strayed into the temple, the four sisters' izakaya, the church confession, and the confession in the primeval forest, and "If You Are the Truth, Do Not Disturb 2" is Li Xiangshan's farewell ceremony once again used the eternal proposition of "love and death" to save the love impasse between Qin Fen and Xiaoxiao.
When it comes to "Do Not Disturb 3", the whole movie is a ritual.
It is the ritual of separation, the ritual of farewell.
In "If You Are the Truth, Do Not Disturb", Qin Fen completed the accumulation of wealth at the beginning of the film with the absurd "high-tech" product "Divergent Terminal", and turned into a middle-class with material wealth but urgent needs to solve the needs of marriage and love.
This initial and initial "divergent terminal" seems to have absurdly established this tone.
If You Are the Truth, Do Not Disturb 3 introduced AI laughter, the laughter and tears brought by it, and the series came to an end.
In this way, it is also an interesting intertextuality.
All of this is based on the two-sided emotions of Feng Xiaogang's comedy:
Funerals, divorces, and farewells are all marching in the excitement, and this coexistence of joy and sorrow sees the deeper and more sincere emotions behind the comedy. In the laughter, there is a hidden reflection on life and death, separation.
That's why this series of stories transcends genders and gives most people countless moments of resonance.
From 2008's "Do Not Disturb", to 2012's "Do Not Disturb 2", and then to 2023's "Do Not Disturb 3", the first part of the two met and was a narrative of fate;The second part of the trial marriage between the two is to describe love;The third part is a narrative of marriage.
The essence of the three films is to talk about feelings in a playful manner, but the trilogy has a common theme.
That is, to believe in love.
Behind the expression of comedy is the exploration of life experience and the meaning of life, although creating entertainment is a major feature of Feng Xiaogang's Chinese New Year films, and his films have always been sensitive to the thoughts and concerns of the current public.
Director Feng really understands what the current audience wants.
Love is the hypnosis of each other's depth, and we are still willing to accept the final "hypnosis of love".
Watching "Do Not Disturb 3" is like a party with an old friend who hasn't seen you for many years.
In the course of your life, it has already left many traces of laughter and tears.
The story of Qin Fen and Xiaoxiao is finally coming to an end.
We need to give them a ritual to see on New Year's Eve, which couldn't be more suitable.