This year's Spring Festival stalls are quite lively.
There are warm and funny, some people talk about reality, and some people talk about distance, which can be called a hundred flowers blooming.
Which movie is the best, I can't comment on it, because everyone's aesthetics are different.
But "Mr. Red Carpet" is the one with the most stamina after watching it.
The film's mockery of reality is straightforward and at the same time intriguing. You can feel the abundance of intentions and metaphors, washing over the senses again and again, stimulating them to complete thinking and interpretation.
Andy Lau played by Andy Lau is a Hong Kong superstar, serious and dedicated in his work, pursuing his career, and his dream is to win an actor.
However, he is meticulous in his work, but he is not attentive enough to the companions around him.
His wife asked him when he would disclose his married status, and he was silent.
The child wrote a small note to apologize to him, but was criticized for writing incorrectly;
The agent advised him to make prudent decisions countless times, in exchange for his insistence.
The movie throws out the contradictions between him and the outside world again and again, making the audience more and more aware that the problem is not the external world, but the uncommunicable and extremely self-egoistic Liu Weichi himself.
Because they only think about their own situation and only know how to think about problems from their own standpoint, they habitually ignore the emotions and feelings of others, and do not listen and understand, and do not communicate and communicate.
I think that's exactly what the movie wants to talk about:Why people are always unable to communicate and understand each other?
There is a scene, in order to pursue reality, Liu Weichi asked not to use a prop horse, but to ride a real horse and run wildly, and then fell.
When the tidbits were spread to the Internet, he was attacked and condemned by netizens one after another:
You're abusing horses! ”
Has anyone ever considered how a horse feels. ”
Boycott the movie, boycott Liu Weichi. ”
Liu Weichi fell into a dilemma of being unable to argue.
Public relations? Apologize? Indemnify?
It seems that all means become useless at such a moment.
In the end, Liu Weichi faced the camera and collapsed and shouted:
I really don't understand, I personally act, personally experience life, personally pull investment, am I wrong? Is there something wrong? ”
At this moment, he, who was not understood by the public, finally resonated with people who were not understood by him in the past.
The arrogant Liu Weichi has been taught the best lesson in life.
The misalignment of communication between people is not an unfamiliar topic. But to my surprise, Ning Hao chose to use a very special perspective to cut into this topic - the development of the Internet has triggered an information scuffle, which has led to the intensification of the problem of misalignment.
Liu Weichi, who was trapped in the Internet**, and the people who denounced him on the Internet, formed two groups with distinct positions.
From their own perspectives, they see completely different stories. The former sees himself and feels that he is dedicated, hardworking, and worthy of recognition; The latter focused on the fallen horse and immediately criticized it.
The difference in positions and perspectives makes it impossible for people to understand each other, and then attacks each other, so contradictions arise.
Isn't this the result of miscommunication?
Sadly, this is not a fictional story from a movie, but a reality that we experience almost every day.
Last year, Daolang released a song after a long absence, "Rakshasa Ghost City". Because its lyrics are too unique, it has been sent to the hot search.
The title of the song is based on a story in Pu Songling's "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", which says that there is a Rakshasa country that regards ugliness as beauty, reversing right and wrong, and even determining its official position and wealth because of the degree of ugliness. It is not difficult to see that Pu Songling is using irony to make spicy sarcasm about the real world.
So many people think that Daolang's songs are also expressing similar emotions, saying that he sings about the current situation of internal entertainment.
Many people analyzed the lyrics word by word, and even interpreted Daolang as a few heavyweights who had criticized him in the yin and yang weird Chinese music scene.
For example, in the lyrics, it is sung "that bird", and the word "bird" is spelled together as "chicken", and the chicken is homophonic to Naying.
It just so happened that Na Ying once commented: Daolang does not have an aesthetic point of view.
There is also a sentence of "turning your head before you speak", which was understood by netizens as complaining about the action of the tutor turning around in a certain music comprehensive.
Now netizens are blowing up. From their point of view, this is a cool story, the people who look down on you have been scolded by you in the song, and this song is also popular, how exciting.
If netizens just make up for their own brains, they still have to go to the comment area of these people to find a place, and they can't wait to press their heads to let people admit that Daolang is awesome, and I criticize him and I am guilty.
To be honest, does Daolang's song really have so much meaning? I don't think so.
In particular, most of the connotations of individuals are excessive interpretations by netizens, mixed with private emotions, and are the presentation of individual perspectives, not facts, and cannot represent the creator himself.
What's more, there must be people who like and people who don't like a song, it's all personal freedom.
But probably everyone can't escape the fate of being misunderstood.
What's even more frightening is thatAs public figures, these celebrities have more right to speak and more abundant social resources, but they still can't get out of this predicament, how can they get more understanding as ordinary people?
This kind of thing is not uncommon, often on the Internet you will see people criticizing that "the three views are not correct", but in fact, it is only talking about "the three views are not correct".
Many people can't understand the behavior of others, and they don't want to think from the other person's point of view, so they simply choose to believe that the other person is wrong and they are right.
They don't care about the truth of others, they don't want to communicate, they only care about judging the world with their own logic.
You may even feel that you are a moral pacesetter and a righteous advocate for justice.
But is it possible that the world is not so black and white?
The world is colorful. It's normal for everyone to have different ideas.
If you can't figure it out, you'll never be able to understand others.
To make matters worse, information cocoons are exacerbating this problem.
Today's Internet is constantly creating information barriers in order to retain users, what you search, the Internet will push you to what you want, what you want to see, the Internet world will present you with something.
People always see information that aligns with their own views and always feel that they are right.
Someone has done a test before, and the front-row comments seen by different accounts under the same piece of content are even different. As a result, they will become more and more convinced of their own judgment and approve of their own approach.
In this way, ordinary people are kept in captivity on the Internet, assimilated, coerced, and lose the ability to communicate information.
Mr. Red Carpet is very rare to be able to capture this situation concretely and keenly, and express it.
The film takes a seemingly absurd approach in many places.
One of the scenes that impressed me deeply was Liu Weichi's criticism of his son for not even writing the word "Dao" to apologize, but his wife jumped out and said Why are you criticizing your son. The conflict between father and son was transferred to husband and wife.
Including later, Liu Weichi broke down and vented his emotions with the publicists, and the publicists reprimanded him in turn, and a pig rushed out when everyone was deadlocked. The emergence of one chaos solves the previous one, and then it is replaced by the next one.
A lot of things here are unresolved and there is no follow-up.
And this echoes the most common solution on the internet – when something else starts to get noticed, no one cares about the previous thing.
Truth, understanding, and even communication seem to be no longer important here.
I don't think that's a good thing.
Although I don't want to admit it, there is no real empathy between people. Individual feelings are different, and different things and different standards will trigger worlds of different emotions due to different individual experiences.
Many people can understand people who are in a similar situation to them, but it is difficult to understand people who are diametrically opposed to them. They can applaud and cheer stories that are good for them, but they don't want to read about the conflicting interests.
To borrow a phrase from Dong Yuhui,"Understanding between people is as difficult as a machine and a pig. ”
Therefore, people need to communicate and understand, so that they can see each other's world and get more care and recognition.
The misalignment of communication and the lack of understanding will make each other more and more separated.
watched Ning Hao's interview before, and he said that this movie was filmed about some of the feelings of others after they reached middle age.
Instead, I found the Ning Hao in the past in the movie, dare to think and shoot.
Even if you may be questioned, you must insist on filming what reflects reality and what you want to express.
Although I personally like this style, I can fully foresee that the film will inevitably receive polarized reviews.
Just by looking at their propaganda style, they were labeled as "three no's movies" from the beginning: not a gossip movie, no hilarious stalks, and no family fun. At first glance, there is a feeling of being unaccustomed to the Spring Festival.
But after watching the movie, you will know that this label is not wrong at all.
This is neither a biographical film for the sake of the entertainment industry or breaking secrets, nor is it committed to a large number of explosive memes that make people laugh, Ning Hao just wants to tell a story of "all kinds of conflicts between people from different perspectives".
Therefore, Liu Weichi didn't understand why the choreographer asked him to shout liaoliaoliao, but couldn't directly say 666; The director also didn't understand why he was making a movie, but he turned into an advertisement for investors.
Contradictions and conflicts make everything chaotic, but this chaos seems to be the essence of the world.
There will definitely be people who think that such a plot has no logic, but isn't the world just a huge grass platform, what logic is there to talk about? This constant chaos is not a normal part of life.
From this point of view, watching this movie is like watching the absurd lives of you and me.
So I still recommend everyone to watch "Mr. Red Carpet".
It tells a very different story, full of self-deprecation and criticism of life. Everyone can find some familiar metaphors from the movie, and see the people around them being realistically projected into the movie characters.
Even we can see the problems we expose and feel the extension of different perspectives.
If movies can also make you realize the importance of communication, you will be willing to work harder to understand others.
If you watch a movie, you are willing to see the world from someone else's point of view.
Then I feel like it fulfills its meaning.