Li Fei.
During this year's Spring Festival holiday, a number of high-quality domestic films continued to promote the heat of the film market. One of the phenomena that cannot be ignored is that there are three realistic movies in the top four on the box office list - "Hot and Hot", "Flying Life 2" and "Article 20" contributed more than half of the box office to the box office during the Spring Festival holiday, adding a different flavor to the Spring Festival. The success of this kind of realism on the screen highlights the charm of the film itself to express "the people's yearning for a better life".
The return of this realist theme brings aesthetics back to real life and gives special meaning to behaviors in everyday life. Although "Hot and Hot" and "Flying Life 2" are developed based on IP - the overall story structure of "Hot and Hot" forms a strong intertextuality with the Japanese movie "100 Yuan Love"; "Flying Life 2" continues the previous speed and passion as a sequel, but this development integrates the muscles and warmth of the current daily life experience. "Hot and Hot" and "Flying Life 2" actually express the same theme: to give losers a chance to face failure and start the life of their dreams.
"Hot and Hot" integrates the delicacy of Jia Ling's sketches, transforming the extremely selfish decadence in "Hundred Yuan Love" into the current reality characteristics and Chinese-style warmth of "mourning" - at least Le Ying (played by Jia Ling) still cares about her mother's partiality in the ten years she has been at home, and has not worked for ten years under social and family pressure. Le Ying also experienced a more "tragic" failure in social life than Kazuko Saito (Sakura Ando) in "100 Yuan Love": overweight. Therefore, the focus of the video falls on what Le Ying sees as activities that have the meaning of changing herself—* and boxing. Therefore, Jia Ling, who appeared as a comedian in the past because of her body type, also has the value of spectacle marketing in this movie-she is endowed with the meaning of self-body revolution.
"Flying Life 2" shows the failure in Han Han's vision in the form of a road comedy: rally driver Zhang Chi (played by Shen Teng) was banned for racing without permission. Shen Teng integrated the usual comedy routines of happy twist sketches into the movie, and made the film full of joy and joy through the dramatic lines on stage, but at the same time there was the helplessness of laughter with tears. Laughter and tears are intertwined, presenting life that is not easy to be silky, and also giving more value to the behavior of pursuing dreams in the profession.
"Article 20" directed by Zhang Yimou revolves around Article 20 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, from the perspective of prosecutor Han Ming (played by Lei Jiayin), a popular law film about "legitimate defense". In the movie, Han Ming is a sleek person. In the process of investigating the assassination of Liu Wenjing by Wang Yongqiang, with the help of his partner Lu Lingling (played by Gao Ye), he experienced the transformation from "not making mistakes" and setting the law at the time of Zhang Guisheng's case to jumping out of the law itself to protect judicial justice. In the film, as the embodiment of the weak, Wang Yongqiang's wife, the deaf girl Hao Xiuping (played by Zhao Liying), silently expressed despair with death. Touched by this, Lu Lingling, who was investigating under pressure, said deafening words to help Han Ming clarify the relationship between the law and the lives of the people: "Have you ever thought that what we are handling is not a case, but someone else's life? !"The law is to make it more expensive for the bad guys to commit crimes, not to make the good guys more expensive." This in itself is the protection of social values and a better life.
The return of realism on the screen also excavates the resilience of life itself. In "Hot and Hot" and "Flying Life 2", whether it is to return to society or return to the racing track or others, it conveys the protection of individual dreams and beauty, and bears the tempers of social life in the process. Article 20 expresses the protection of the righteous and courageous acts that are becoming more and more expensive in the daily lives of ordinary people, the protection of the value of fairness and justice, and the watchful view of social order and good customs. And these are precisely the things that have muscles, morals, and warmth in a society. The comedic treatment makes the plot less heavy. The return of this realistic theme adds strength while bringing joy to the audience.
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