Movie Flying Life 2
The most impressive sketch on the stage of this year's Spring Festival Gala is "Cold" partnered by Shen Teng and Ma Li. As many viewers said, even if Shen Teng stood on the stage without saying a word, he could make people laugh, and the sketch itself was full of laughter, which was even more unforgettable.
Getting back to business, "Flying Life 2", directed by Han Han and starring Shen Teng, will officially meet the audience on the big screen on January 10, 2024.
In short, if you are a loyal fan of Shen Teng, if you haven't seen that kind of heart-pounding and in-depth sequel movie for a long time, if you want to watch a passionate racing movie during the Spring Festival, if you have ever been obsessed with the open-ended story ending of "Flying Life" in the Spring Festival file five years ago, then "Flying Life 2", which was created by the original team of the previous work and contains 100% Teng, will be a must-see movie for the Spring Festival.
"Flying Life", which was released during the Spring Festival in 2019, sparked a movie-watching boom as soon as it was released, and this racing-themed movie directed by Han Han finally won 172.8 billion at the box office. The success of the previous game made the launch of the sequel logical, and after several years of polishing, "Flying Life 2" finally hit the big screen after a lapse of five years.
That year's "Flying Life" told the story of Zhang Chi, who was in the adversity of life, although he was ruthlessly hit by reality, he still maintained his persistent love for racing. After many twists and turns, Zhang Chi and his team once again arrived at the Bayingbrook Clarion Championship, which is coveted by countless racing drivers, after a five-year ban, and competed with countless strong opponents for the Bayingbrook Championship Trophy, which symbolizes the highest honor in rallying.
Zhang Chi, who was expecting to turn over with this race, crossed the finish line because the vehicle lost control and rushed out of the cliff ......Both the characters and the story end in an open-ended ending. What is the ending of Zhang Chi? Who is the winner in Bayingbrook? What is the story of the Flying Spur Squad after this game?
Let's walk into the story of "Flying Life 2" together.
In the end, Zhang Chi did not drive the car across the mountains and the sea as he did at the end of the first part, but sank after rushing off the cliff. Because the seal of the pass mark on the car was lost, Zhang Chi's desperate and desperate race results were invalidated. Five years have passed, and Zhang Chi, who has been polished by ruthless reality, has long lost his brilliance, and has become an experienced driving school instructor in a down-to-earth manner.
While someone knows my face, arrange a few more classes for me" Today's Zhang Chi no longer has racing cars in his mouth, there are only reality and life. But even so, the hand of fate teased him again - not to mention being a coach and being slandered and bribed, even the driving school was forced to face the end of demolition because of reality, and the question of where to go in life was once again placed in front of Zhang Chi.
When you are in trouble, there will always be a big brother to come to the rescue. In the first part of the story, the impoverished Flying Spur team was able to complete the car modification thanks to the sponsorship of Big Brother Tengger. In "Flying Life 2", the director of Xindi Machinery Factory, played by Jia Bing, became Zhang Chi's lifesaver at a time of crisis.
Today's Zhang Chi is almost a typical representative of negative characters, but even so, the factory director, as a loyal fan of Zhang Chi, still never abandons him - set up a memorial hall for Zhang Chi, ** Zhang Chi's game video, and also wrote on the wall "Bayinbrook's eternal soil" (Wang's head fell off). The long-term production task of Xindi Machinery Factory is to imitate the "low-profile old man music version" of famous cars from all over the world - the vehicles produced by Xindi Machinery Factory will produce a driving experience similar to that of a roller coaster during driving, and with the increase of speed, it can also explode equipment anytime and anywhere.
Of course, the factory director did not just bring Zhang Chi to take a group photo, but wanted Zhang Chi to go out of the mountain again and form a team to impact the last Bayin Bruclaria Race, so as to save the Xindi Machinery Factory on the verge of bankruptcy. The sincere invitation from the bottom of the factory's heart, the depressed Zhang Chi and the impoverished Flying Squad, it seems that the opening plot of a small person's counterattack is about to come out, but "Flying Life 2" did not follow this routine.
Unlike when he came back after a five-year ban, Zhang Chi now has to face both psychological and physical trauma. The race five years ago brought Zhang Chi multiple comminuted fractures all over his body, although it was rare to survive the ordeal, but Zhang Chi was still full of fear of the race in his heart, and his increasingly stiff body also made this middle-aged boy drift away from the racing career he once loved so much.
The biggest challenge ahead of us is the changing times. Five years ago, Zhang Chi finally set an unprecedented time record for Bayingbrook with his superb driving skills and love for racing. But just five years later, with the continuous innovation of racing technology and the gradual rise of a new generation of racing drivers, the unattainable championship record of that year has long since disappeared and has been broken countless times by latecomers.
The most emotional is Manager Ye played by Wei Xiang. This character had desperately supported Zhang Chi's return to the game in the previous work, and he once sang the sincere "Glorious Years" in the face of the discouraged Zhang Chi. After a lapse of five years, Manager Ye and Zhang Chi's position on the stairs reversed, the former Zhang Chi responded with a smile, but now Manager Ye sneered indifferently, the same song, Manager Ye's completely different choices are not only based on realistic considerations, but also have a change in mood.
Where should Zhang Chi's life go, and what kind of story will the revitalized Flying Spur team usher in? If the first half of the film is full of the unbearable reality, then the second half of the story returns to the romantic ideal pursuit journey.
At the heart of comedy is tragedy. This is a well-known quote from many people, and in many people's mouths it is the words of the English dramatist Shakespeare, of course, later research found that Shakespeare did not say this, but he said: "Life is like a big laugh, full of sorrow and pain." ”
A truly good comedian will know how to find laughter in the bitter reality, and find sadness and worry in the carefree joy. Compared with the comedic little characters created by Shen Teng in the past, Zhang Chi in "Flying Life 2" undoubtedly provides Shen Teng with more space and room for imagination.
A cliff leap five years ago can be said to have completely changed Zhang Chi's life, because of this accident, he suffered multiple comminuted fractures all over his body. And the most unacceptable thing is that the results obtained with all his best efforts were finally invalidated because he did not find the qualified seal on the car, and Zhang Chi, who was famous because of the previous ban, completely fell to the bottom of his life because of the invalid results of this competition. What's even more dumb and laughable is that Zhang Chi worked hard to pull the eldest child, because Zhang Chi's notoriety found his biological parents, leaving him alone to face the cruel reality ending.
It's hard to imagine how much helplessness and bitterness there is behind Zhang Chi's life experience full of jokes. Who would have thought that the middle-aged man who said frankly "while there are still people who know this face, arrange a few more classes for me" was once a desperate dream-chasing teenager? Zhang Chi now calmly mentions how much time in the past five years has been difficult to carry out postoperative rehabilitation, and the unexpected failure of the brakes brought to Zhang Chi a lingering psychological shadow, and it may be difficult for others to understand why this middle-aged man who has won the Baying Brook Clara Championship many times always steps on the brakes early when driving now.
Compared with other roles portrayed by Shen Teng in the past, Zhang Chi in "Flying Life" has a unique charm and the heaviness of reality, he is a desperate boy chasing the wind, and a hero who is getting twilight, but also a man who bows his head in the face of cruel reality, and of course, he is also a "master" who is unreservedly willing to teach racing skills and life experience. Shen Teng's interpretation of the complex emotional world of this multi-faceted character is unusually in place, which also makes the film's finale, which is both the beginning and the end of the last Bayingbrook tournament, more symbolic. In this race, Zhang Chi finally faced his inner fears, reached a reconciliation with his past life, and passed on his love for racing to the next generation. No one will always be young, but there will always be people who are young, the past is in the past, grasp the present, and face it positively is the most important thing.
A man is a teenager until he dies, and his love can last a long time. Han Han finally left a happy ending for this character, and it also made the audience in front of the screen think about what life should be like through the story of the film? Rabindranath Tagore once famously wrote: "Life is like the splendor of summer flowers, and death is like the quiet beauty of autumn leaves." "Even if the reality is full of cruelty, even if it doesn't come true in the end, the memories of those dreams and the courage to move forward in love and even desperate will remain in my heart forever and become the most precious treasure in life.