I went to see this film on Valentine's Day and unexpectedly received a box of candy and a rose. I wonder if there are still a large number of viewers who also get this kind of surprise. This is the film publicity staff to do the work in detail. This move will have no impact on the box office of the day, but the filmmakers obviously hope that this special approach can accumulate word-of-mouth for the film. Because a rare operation was released later that night: the film will be withdrawn and re-released on March 30.
The announcement of the film is hi sugar.
Film distributors know the truth of "one drum and then decline", and films that are postponed and withdrawn usually do not get better. But miracles always play out in life. Who knows?
Among several films in the Spring Festival file, "Let's Shake the Sun Together" ranked at the bottom of the revenue, which is obviously far from the box office results expected by the distributor. Whether this kind of temporary withdrawal and postponement of the release for more than a month can save the current decline is more like a rare experiment in the release of the film, and it can only be said to be a last resort. For distribution, the total water level estimate of each schedule, the word-of-mouth dynamics of competitors, and even whether it will be windy and rainy in the days of release will have a huge impact on the box office. Now that the distribution strategy has changed in time, at least it shows that the filmmaker is confident in the quality of the film, and feels that it can still rely on the audience's word-of-mouth to survive the death.
Like the plot of the film, the filmmaker seems to hope to call for a beautiful miracle by "shaking the sun" with his mind. After all, if people live, we must always believe that there is a better tomorrow waiting for us.
Let's Shake the Sun Together" poster.
Objectively speaking, many passages of "Let's Shake the Sun Together" are extremely well shot, and the sincerity is enough to move the audience to tears. For director Han Yan, the Douban score of "Let's Shake the Sun Together" is 79, and the previous elderly-themed "I Love You!" is tied for the highest score in his works, surpassing the previous similarity in the subject matter of "Send You a Little Red Flower", which can prove the feedback of most audiences on this film.
Of course, this film will not become perfect just because of roses and candy, and there are also some similar "I love you!" The overall perception of the two is quite similar. Maybe the details of this film will be better.
Director Han Yan has been specializing in the "theme of dying suffering" since his debut, and this "Let's Shake the Sun Together" can be regarded as the fifth work of the same type - the publicity copy is called "the final chapter of the life trilogy". For similar themes and characters' emotions, Director Han has his own uniqueness. From "I Love You! At the beginning, the extensive use of hand-held lenses and jumping clips made the overall style of the film more realistic in the style of a documentary, and also formed a more distinctive mark in art.
These accumulations make "Let's Shake the Sun Together" equivalent to a work that was completed before Director Han, and the overall texture is quite mature and sophisticated. A lot of mobile phone shooting materials are used in the film, creating an amazing sense of realism in life, and even in the end credits Easter eggs, you can see a lot of descriptions of the sweet moments of the hero and heroine - these are not plot clips, which are quite important for the improvement of the overall atmosphere of the film, and even some parts are placed in the final easter eggs, which seem too careful.
The short ** shooting of the mobile phone is an important stylistic feature of the film, creating a feeling of freshness and closeness to the present.
Correspondingly, the whole film depicts the details of medical treatment and uremia patients' lives, which also makes people feel that they are among the top in similar medical film and television themes, and the level of detail can make audiences who do not understand this kind of pain feel the difficulties encountered by patients in the process of treatment. If in the field of TV dramas, a large number of viewers are dissatisfied with the protagonist shouting "poor" while living in a 100-square-meter house, then a large number of life details presented in this film, such as the old gas stove that is difficult to ignite, and the mildew on the wall of the community, will remind everyone of a similar environment in reality. Even the makeup of the main male and female characters deliberately chose a rather simple and even "dirty" shape at the beginning to show the rush and difficult state of life of seriously ill patients.
A lot of details are created to make the characters fuller and convince the audience that the story is "true".
The art details and character modeling of this film are very solid.
In fact, contrary to the promotional impression, the film does not depict the story of the "terminally ill patient" - not counting spoilers, but everyone in the film survived to the end, and did not deliberately create a tragic plot of death in the drama. This film depicts two critically ill patients, the "unhappy" (played by Li Gengxi) with uremia and the "brainless" (played by Peng Yuchang) with a brain tumor, from strangers to love, and the story of supporting them together.
This story is adapted from the report "The Most Utilitarian Marriage Transaction, the Most Emotional Eternal Promise", which is based on a controversial incident in reality: a female uremia patient took the initiative to marry a critically ill male patient because she wanted to match the utilitarian purpose of the kidney source. This move, in fact, involves the gray area of China's organ transplant regulations, and is inevitably reminiscent of complex social issues such as organ trading and marriage bride price. I am afraid that many people will have different understandings of whether the behavior of the parties is reasonable. This real event is like the story of "I Am Not the God of Medicine", there is a layer of depth of social problems in addition to "terminally ill love", and there are efforts to make people sympathetic in order to "survive", which makes the film faintly have the flavor of realistic criticism.
Of course, this film does not expand the controversy of this issue, but uses the protagonist's hesitation and repetition to blur the motive of this "utilitarian marriage", from "utilitarian license" to "marriage for true love". Through the police criticism and education, hospital organ matching and other plots, ordinary viewers can understand that in reality, there are quite detailed specific regulations in the handling of related issues, so as to prevent organ donation, a serious cause of saving people's lives, from becoming a place of buying and selling that destroys humanity.
After all, it is a romance film, and it is difficult to blame the creators for not bringing this story to a more powerful realism path. Compared with romantic romance films, this film depicts "love" more realistically. Although "love is beautiful", the trend of young people wanting to fall in love and get married is declining every year. Romantic relationships that clearly lack specific goals are no longer suited to these stressful times.
The marriage rate is declining year by year, and the rise of utilitarian marriage, in the final analysis, does not consider all kinds of property, birth and other practical needs, and people do not need to apply for a marriage certificate at all.
Speaking of 2023, not long ago, the national agency selected a word to symbolically summarize: the international word of the year is "danger", and the domestic word of the year is "Zhen". Interestingly, Malaysia's word of the year is "expensive", Singapore's "fraud", and Japan's "tax", indicating that the road to economic recovery after the epidemic is not easy.
In the field of film, how to reflect the many pressures and realities faced by ordinary people is a complex issue. For "depicting suffering", too bitter not only has to deal with the censorship mechanism, but it is not suitable for the box office, but there is indeed enough suffering in life to crush ordinary people. In the film, we see that in addition to the difficulty of seeking medical treatment, the protagonist also faces the oppression of rental agents, healthy friends inadvertently stay away, and even can't hold a decent wedding. These episodes are quite gripping, and can remind all viewers of our daily exhaustion, gradually bowing our heads in the face of pressure, losing our dignity, and losing hope that the future can become better.
On the other hand, the characters in the film are always in a state of full struggle, trying to live with dignity and live "like individuals". Including the heroine's efforts to marry and cure herself at the beginning, the hero's energetic mental state like paranoia, and even the two of them held a "wedding ceremony that is not a wedding" with the blessings of many strangers.
The performance of the heroine Li Gengxi is surprising, supporting the simple and temperamental "unhappy" girl, which is more vivid and real than the delicate female white-collar workers in most urban dramas. And Xu Fan plays a middle-aged mother who speaks Changsha dialect, and even the father played by Gao Yalin turns around and cries, which will make the audience feel distressed. The overall performance and character image are quite powerful.
The actor seems to be unsparing his image in this film, and most of the time he devotes himself to the role, presenting a reality of life. For example, the actor Xu Fan in the lower left corner of this still, I don't know what he's doing, but it's very natural.
In addition to the full characters and a lot of details that create a sense of reality, what hinders the film from going further is the relationship with "I Love You!" is similar, the plot is often deliberate, and there is a taste of "making a play". In terms of plot logic, the male protagonist's too annoying character state in the first half, and the level of writing that even elementary school students can't reach, make people wonder if he is really a girl, even if he is a seriously ill patient, can fall in love with him because of care and concern; In the second half of the decision, it seems that they have forgotten that the patient only needs a kidney transplant, and it is not necessary for one person to die in exchange for another to live better.
These subtle questions sometimes inadvertently destroy the realistic atmosphere that the whole film strives to create, so that the audience can instantly notice that this is a plot deliberately arranged by the choreographer and director to guide us to laugh and cry. Although compared to "I Love You! The more pompous image of the elderly in this film is already quite close to the ground, but some such as "Ollie" that hangs on his lips all day long, or the alien liaison device with bells and whistles, will still make people embarrassed to pick their feet. Although the seriously ill patients are not as physically as healthy people, they are still a little far from mental illness, and some plots deliberately amplify their isolation and helplessness, pushing them to the more marginal corners of society.
It seems that the director is not confident enough to believe that the details of those difficult days are enough to move the audience. The whole film has a bit of an over-the-top taste, like a soup stock that has been boiled for several hours, and a handful of MSG is sprinkled, and some passages spoil other scenes that are enough to convince people to cry.
Let's Shake the Sun Together" stills.
Of course, overall, this film will not disappoint the audience. For the mutual support of the two people in love, and the hope and confidence in the future, this winter is very precious. People will always die, because we believe that we can encounter some good things in the future, even if it is only a small happiness, and we are worth continuing to live and waiting for the rising sun of a new day. Maybe when we go to the cinema to watch this film and see someone living a harder life than us, we will be grateful and cherish the "little luck" that we can still have now, and then go out of the theater to have the courage to face the difficulties in life.
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