Dear readers, first of all, I would like to greet you for the New Year!
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, of course, we still have to talk about movies.
What to talk about? It's better to start with the most familiar one in the Spring Festival file.
Yes, that's right – Flying Life 2!
Just because of the full score of this film, it is difficult for you to refuse it.
In which year's Spring Festival stalls, can you still be without the company of Uncle Shen Teng?
But then again, before walking into the theater, I believe that most people are like me, the biggest confusion is:
What, Zhang Chi is still alive?
Time goes back to five years ago, even if you forget what "Flying Life" is about, you will definitely not forget the very romantic and very anti-climactic ending.
Zhang Chi won the race, but the car failed to get on the podium.
He flew into the sunset and into the clouds.
So, this may also be the first surprise that "Flying Life 2" gave us:
Zhang Chi, our good friend, he, is still !!
The good news is that people are not gone.
The bad news is that although he was not sent away, he was also injured.
With multiple fractures all over his body, he narrowly escaped death in the ICU, and his life was to pick up one, but there was nothing left other than that.
The money was all lost on medical expenses.
reputation, a desperate leap that year, was finally convicted of violations. He left his results but couldn't win the first prize.
The future - as you can imagine, there is no future.
The former champion is now just a driving school instructor on the verge of going out of business.
However, the new Baying Brook Clara Race is coming again.
Therefore, the former king of Bayingbrook is still galloping on the battlefield again.
Under the sponsorship of the director of the cottage old man's music factory, Zhang Chi was able to reorganize the team and enter the last Bayin Bruclara Race.
On the comedy level, the full content of "Flying Life 2" will never disappoint you.
For example, in this one, what made me very hilarious as soon as I came up was an old man's music racing in which Zhang Chi and his old partner Yu Qiang participated.
Two tall middle-aged people, crowded into the little old man's music, drove the car quietly. Before the race was over, the car had already consciously reduced its burden and turned into scrap metal with missing arms and legs.
Watching this scene of chickens flying and dogs jumping, absurd and revealing the desire to win, it is hard not to make you laugh and cry.
However, through this absurd old man's racing, you can also learn more about Zhang Chi's poignant current situation:
Not only did he have no money and no fame, but his body was basically dragged down like his old man's ride.
Even if it's an old man's car race, it's very, very difficult to beat the young people in the factory.
Therefore, he chose to bring the young men into his team and go with him to Bayingbrook.
As a result, the plot cleverly leads to another protagonist, the young and unambitious genius driver Li Xiaohai.
From this opening plot, you can feel that the laughter of this part has obviously become more advanced.
On the one hand, it is more closely integrated with the plot, fully kneading the comedy into the story.
is no longer the kind of pure line jokes, but adds more physical and dramatic changes, and there is also a better wholeness, which can serve the main line of the plot.
On the other hand, it's also more distracted. A lot of the jokes are thrown naturally, self-deprecating, sincere, with a little sadness and cuteness.
After all, Zhang Chi in this part is no longer a god. He's just a middle-aged man who wants to live.
is not only at the comedy level, but after watching the whole film, you will feel that "Flying Life 2" is not only better looking and more enthusiastic, but also more solid in the play.
The story unfolds with the inheritance and relay of two generations, and the whole main line is very smooth, and it is still written about how Zhang Chi prepares for Bayingbrook, how to modify the car, how to train the newcomer Li Xiaohai, and how to overcome ......many difficulties with his old friend Yuqiang Jixing
In addition, there are also many seemingly inconspicuous details buried in the play to subtly show the true hearts of the characters.
For example, how do you write Zhang Chi's "fear"?
Not with lines, but with actions.
To write that he always braked early.
This small detail can best reflect that he has changed, and he is no longer the person who is desperate and only dares to rush forward. His body instinctively feared, resisted.
So, how to write Zhang Chi's unwillingness?
Still no need for lines.
To write that he memorized the rules of racing and memorized the blue book by heart, better than anyone else.
Because it was these rules that judged him to "violate", and made his former leap in Bayingbrook meaningless.
Although I have sighed many times, I still have to say, Shen Teng, you acted well!
He perfectly grasps the scale of comedy and reality.
With a little more banter, the character doesn't seem so believable. And a little more pain, it seems to become too bitter again.
But Shen Teng performed the lightness and heaviness of the characters very well.
Zhang Chi is a person who is unwilling to complain and show weakness, so he always uses a smile and self-deprecation to cover himself.
And peeling off this shell, you can see his devastated body and mind.
After all, compared with the previous work, Zhang Chi in this part is really much more difficult.
Because he had hit the steel plate, his hands and legs could no longer reach their former state, and he could barely even pull the handbrake.
There is also a psychological shadow, that year, he obviously won, but in the end he was sentenced to a violation because he couldn't find the seal, so for him, it seemed to become a race with no end.
Did Bayinbrook run away?
Should have run away, right?
So why is there no result?
All kinds of results are superimposed, injuries, age, failures -
Zhang Chi is no longer the king of the field.
He became an ordinary person, a frustrated middle-aged man.
may also be why, the role of Li Xiaohai appeared in this part.
Because Zhang Chi must accept a reality, generation after generation of gods, this is no longer his time.
On another level, Li Xiaohai is like Zhang Chi in the past, which also reflects the problems of this era.
Although he is a young genius and has outstanding talent, he can only drive in the old man's car factory.
Why can't geniuses be seen?
Because of the rules of the game in this era, there are more important things than talent, such as capital, such as technology.
In Bayingbrook's "post-Zhangchi era", it is no longer a person who breaks the record, but a model, the lithography team and the gasoline-electric hybrid car built by them with a lot of money.
No one remembers the names of the racers anymore, people no longer matter, but are reduced to the backdrop of capital.
Therefore, in this movie, Zhang Chi's opponents were not only Manager Ye or a specific person, but an entire era.
The clash of times is reflected in the old and the new – the technology of the racing car is constantly being innovated, and new people are emerging on the track.
The limits he once created, the technology he relied on, were all scoffed at.
It is also reflected in dreams and reality - the brothers of yesteryear have succumbed to the cold reality, and the so-called "rules of the game" are sometimes not so fair.
If Zhang Chi continues to sink, maybe one day he will become Manager Ye, a person who is "alienated" by capital, and a person who is eroded by reality.
But in the end, he still chose to be the one who sang "Glorious Years" in the sunset, and chose to stick to his ideals between bread and ideals.
Different opponents, different dilemmas.
The same romance, the same blood.
The two games of "Flying Life 2" brought us the first blood rush of the year.
How to describe the final rally of the film?
First of all, it must be cool, very cool, hearty. It's the passion and madness that we haven't seen on the big screen for a long time.
Han Han is also more able to use pictures to tell stories.
Two games, two very different states.
One is a young man rushing to the top, and the other is overcoming his demons and crossing the finish line.
Li Xiaohai's game is very simple, very pure, and it is completely bloody.
After countless exercises, the suppressed youthful spirit was released the craziest at this moment.
He just wants the fastest, the strongest, the most absolute speed.
The preparation for the first twenty years of my life was all for this moment, for a sprint with no way out.
The success of this moment belongs to Li Xiaohai, and perhaps to Zhang Chi ten years ago, and to every king who conquers the track for the first time. When they were teenagers, they all had such high-spirited moments, and they all had the pinnacle of life.
And when the baton is handed to Zhang Chi, the meaning of the game is much more complicated.
Everything is about the last.
It was the last Bayingbrook race, and he was the last racer to set foot on the track.
Behind him, the track, which is inscribed with many legends, will be completely sealed. He will make his last memories here. There will be no more traces left by a second car that covers his tires.
For Zhang Chi, everything is not about victory, but about completion.
Maybe by the halfway point of his life, he has already stood at the peak and has had a moment of Li Xiaohai. But he also knows what kind of frustrated road it will be to go down from the peak, and how many regrets and unwillingness he will have to face.
He had to face the trapping of his colleagues, the bitter cold of nature, and the ...... of a car that was about to be scrapped and not prepared
As long as he can cross the finish line, that's what he means.
And this may be what "Flying Life 2" wants to convey to us: the final landing point of the film is an adult romance.
Finish is more important than perfection.
Face regrets and accept regrets; Do your best and leave no regrets.
Five years have passed.
For the audience and Zhang Chi five years ago, the ending is not important, what matters is only that moment.
But for Zhang Chi five years later, life goes on after the romantic freeze.
To this extent, "Flying Life 2" is actually a realistic portrayal.
It tells us that there will always be a sequel in life, and the decision on how to write a sequel is up to us.
What has happened in these five years?
Maybe it's not the best era for Zhang Chi or for us.
The pandemic, unemployment, salary cuts, and the loss of ...... houseWe struggled to get up from the trough and hope that the new year will really be a little bit better than last year.
Therefore, "Flying Life 2" tells a story of coming out of the trough.
You don't have to strive for perfection, you don't have to stand on the highest, even if you just stand up a little bit, you can see a more beautiful sunset.
I'm still very happy to see this movie on the first day of the new year.
This is an inspiration for us under the screen: in fact, there are more possibilities in our lives, and we can also choose to go to the world and choose a broader world. Romance for blood, run for love.
For Zhang Chi, his world is on the track, and for you and me, it can be skydiving, skiing, diving, ......
We can all choose a freer life, a more "impossible" life.
We can all gallop across our respective wildernesses.