Another fiercely competitive Spring Festival stall is coming.
It is the same as in previous years, with a large number of directors, bright stars, and a single-day box office is about to reach the level of 1 billion+.
But among the many films, there is one that stands out from the rest.
That is "Mr. Red Carpet" directed by Ning Hao and starring Andy Lau.
I believe you can tell from the stills, posters and trailers released so far that it is very unusual-
"It's not a gossip movie, it's not a hilarious meme, it's not a family carnival. ”
"Watching a movie quietly? ok！”
Let the audience choose? ok！”
In such an atmosphere that has always been a family carnival during the Spring Festival, how dare Ning Hao make such a slogan?
But after watching the film, the president wanted to say that Ning Hao's daring was more than that.
Not only does he not play popular Internet memes, he doesn't go to family carnivals, and he dares to let the audience choose for themselves.
He also aimed his guns at everyone - top directors chasing awards, superstars with fame and fortune, film investors who are Party A, and so on.
At a time when everyone is seeking "safety".
In countless wonderful jokes, Ning Hao released a rare "danger".
"Mr. Red Carpet".
At the beginning of the film, it was earth-shattering
On the red carpet, superstars are constantly smiling and sarcastically smiling at each other for the attribution of an award.
On the other hand, the film is aimed at the director, and the directors of commercial & art films look down on each other and look at each other.
From Wang Jing, to Jia Zhangke, to Ning Hao himself, one by one "gracefully debuted".
The role played by Andy Lau in the film is even more enjoyable to listen to
Liu Weichi, the three words come from Andy Lau, Tony Leung, and Stephen Chow. In Ning Hao's heart: This role represents the entire entertainment industry.
To put it more bluntly, Liu Weichi is a microcosm, a concentrated embodiment of the strange status quo of domestic entertainment for decades.
What kind of strange situation?
A huge narcissism.
Perhaps when many people see "narcissism", they will think of various traffic stars, and think of fans who do data on various platforms and shout "brother is so handsome" and "sister is beautiful".
But Ning Hao did not hide in the safety zone, like many practitioners and **, attributing the big and small problems in the film and television industry to traffic stars.
On the contrary, he swept every narcissistic film and television industry practitioner equally.
Backstage at the awards ceremony, Liu Weichi personally swapped the posters of himself and "Chen Long", as a top superstar, his poster must not be on the far left;
Seeing others playing realistic themes and winning the actor, Lau Weichi was very angry, although he thought that it was very funny for Hong Kong actors to play rural films in the mainland, but he still took the script of "Lin Hao" (played by Ning Hao);
Lin Hao looked down on Liu Weichi, who didn't understand the script, the screenwriter who couldn't write the role well, and the investors who didn't understand film art;
The investor thinks that the movie is nothing, and it is nothing without his own investment, and he also asked the company's several ** owners to play cameo roles in the movie, there must be lines, and it is best to have some action ......scenes
As you can see, everybody thinks they know best, and everybody looks down on anyone but themselves.
Therefore, it doesn't matter if you are a superstar, an international director, an advertiser of a car company, or a social media platform or a public relations company, no matter what kind of coffee position you are, whether you have money or not, as long as you appear, you will definitely be shot.
As the protagonist of the film, Liu Weichi was hit by bullets countless times.
After being ridiculed and humiliated at the awards ceremony, he tried to get out of his safe zone and act in a rural movie that could help him win the best actor.
At first, he was confident, elegant and decent.
Everywhere he goes, he maintains the aura of a star, actively embraces the new ** after filming, and acts as a bridge of communication between the director and investors with ease, but later, he was embarrassed and lost his dignity.
When the emperor's new clothes were punctured, he realized that he was just a part of this narcissistic play
Even more narcissistic than everyone else.
In the third scene of the story, Liu Weichi, who walked out of the safety zone, encountered greater danger -
Narcissistic, he goes head-to-head with the narcissistic public.
When filming a horse riding scene, the director originally asked him to ride a fake horse, sit still, all rely on post-cutout + special effects, and wait for the action scene to be a stand-in.
But Liu Weichi refused the director's request, he wanted a real horse, a real ride, and a real fall.
After the filming of a scene, the crew applauded thunderously.
Although Liu Weichi was injured, he was proud in his heart, and uploaded the relevant shooting highlights to the ** platform.
As a result, he didn't expect that what greeted him was the polar reversal of the wind review.
was first questioned for being a show, then angrily criticized for hurting animals, and then all kinds of old melons that were true and false were picked up by the marketing account, and finally a thousand words were gathered into one sentence:Liu Weichi get out of the entertainment industry!
And Liu Weichi's narcissism made him choose never to admit his mistakes.
He tried to explain his original intention, but in the established mood of the public, the result of the explanation was only "more and more black".
At this point, Ning Hao showed his hole cards
Narcissism is not only in the entertainment industry, but also all of us in the current society.
As a complex individual constructed by the audience, culture, and film, the star is a classic image of social culture, and it also presents the contradictory dilemma of modern people.
In the past, celebrities were also honest and loved to communicate.
* I once said in an interview: "When people are bored, they want to play with men." feelings", spicy and direct;
Faye Wong also said with a smile when she won the award: "I know I can sing, so I also fully affirm the judges' affirmation of me";
In the show "No Defense Tonight", Leslie Cheung smoked a cigarette and chatted with Huang Zhan and Cai Lan about the girl he liked, and also **his own **experience;
Also here, Maggie Cheung is generous, saying that she made her debut in beauty pageants and entered the entertainment industry, "definitely because of her love for vanity"...
But now, not to mention in the show and interviews, even on their own Weibo, celebrities have been silenced.
Almost all of them are just advertisements, ** and character essays, all of which are neatly aligned like unprecedented, like pure robots.
Na Ying's sentence "Damn's most annoying pretending person" has also become the last highlight moment of the star on the Internet.
The reason for the celebrities is generally "more to say more and make more mistakes, less to say less to be wrong", since it can't satisfy everyone, then I simply don't say anything.
So they took refuge back in the safety zone.
Liu Weichi's narcissism is to never admit his mistakes, while reality stars are another kind of narcissism - hiding in their own safe room and refusing real communication.
What is Narcissism?
There is only one me, and not all of them – all others are dangerous and need to be guarded against.
And the end point of narcissism is to use one "I" to crush the complexity of all others.
This is not only the stars, but also thousands of us.
Narcissism is invading our lives in all directions, and people are becoming less and less able to communicate.
Han Byung-chul once wrote such a passage in "The Disappearance of the Other":
Nowadays people talk a lot about authenticity. It forces people to be like themselves alone, to define themselves, to write themselves, to create themselves only through themselves. Forcing yourself to constantly torture, eavesdrop, snoop, and surround yourself. And in this way, it exacerbates narcissistic self-involvement. ”
A fairly obvious example is that Liu Weichi in the film has a high-end multi-functional sleeping pod.
Whether it is his family's mansion, or the set of filming, or even the countryside to experience life, even if he is airlifted over, he has to use this sleeping pod-
The sleeping pod is the circle he drew for himself with a golden hoop stick, and it is the "self-kingdom" that he restricts himself and does not allow others to intrude into at will.
Even intimacy and love are dangerous.
In the film, whether facing his ex-wife or a newcomer, Liu Weichi is always full of vigilance.
Except for himself, all others carry the suspicion of "enemies".
And back to reality, individualism prevails + the information cocoon of big data ——
It also allows almost all of us to have the same self-kingdom, and we all oppose others intruding into our "kingdom".
But at the same time, everyone feels that they are right and others are wrong, and constantly uses their own values to try to infringe on other people's egos.
Some people want to study medicine, law and other majors, and some people ridicule each other for "persuading people to study medicine, and the sky is thundering";
Some people yearn for love and marriage, and some people will scold him for being a "love brain", and he needs to dig wild vegetables for at least 17 years;
Some people don't want to fall in love, don't want to get married and have children, and some people will pull out the plight of the elderly who live alone and intimidate him;
Once, the Internet Bible was "I don't agree with you, but I swear to defend your right to speak." ”
Nowadays, in this increasingly narcissistic society, we can only continue to strengthen our "self-kingdom".
And then also hide in the safe zone of the self, with a morbid vigilance against the other.
The vicious circle of narcissism was born
The whole world is just a reflection of the "self", everyone is as narcissistic as Nakasos, and 5G surfing is just a mirror to find itself.
And the so-called communication, is disappearing:"The only way to do that is to give up communication. ”
Just as Liu Weichi encountered all kinds of strange incidents, it was difficult to solve them, and he was "bullied" by the hotel robot at the moment, and suddenly took off his elegant camouflage.
Began to break the defense and shouted-
"I'm Liu Weichi, can you respect me! ”
But no matter how much he yells, the robot won't respond.
Because the robot is also just a completely closed programThere is no longer a "same language" between the two sides of the closure.
You might say that people speak the same language.
Is that really the case? In the gradual change of social culture, "hehe" has changed from a smile to ridicule, and "haha" has changed from laughter to perfunctory, and "hahahaha...... must be used"to show that I'm happy.
The latter semantics do not need to be explained in the eyes of young people surfing with 5G, but the former semantics are still applicable to middle-aged and elderly people who are "content", and the latter is the semantics that need to be explained.
If you want to, of course, people can understand and empathize with each other.
In Ning Hao's words, the key to solving the problem is:"We might have to let go of something. ”
What to put down? The "sleeping pod" that is inseparable everywhere.
But in the film, Ning Hao only presents the problem and shows a complexity, rather than giving any ultimate answer.
A generation has a generational proposition.
The sorrow of the times is not necessarily the sorrow of each of us.
And whether you choose your own safety or try to open the door to yourself, each individual has his or her own righteousness.
Ning Hao still chooses, let the audience choose for themselves-
"Mr. Red Carpet" is worth **, and after walking out of the theater, we may have an answer of our own.