Author: Zhao Nan
Editor in charge: Xie Wanfei.
WeChat editor: Wang Xinyuan.
At the end of "If You Are the Truth, Do Not Disturb 3", ** sat with Ge You to congratulate everyone on a happy new year and say goodbye, I couldn't help but feel like a world away, from the first part of this series to the final chapter, 15 spring and autumn have passed, and the silent change of the times has also passed. The times have indifferently examined the development of Chinese films, and have also silently abandoned many filmmakers who are still in the bubble of the times. And Feng Xiaogang is undoubtedly trapped in the bubble of the times, and finally sang the last elegy of Feng's comedy with "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 3".
Feng Xiaogang's films were once one of the representatives of Chinese citizen comedy. When the fifth-generation Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige were still chasing the narrative of the times and grand shots, Feng Xiaogang filmed "Party A and Party B" by chance, carrying out the joys, sorrows and sorrows of China's low-level citizens, and expressing a philosophy of life from the banter and ridicule, which was undoubtedly popular at the time. Ge Youjia Feng Xiaogang's New Year file combination has also accompanied many people's Spring and Autumn Period, and the subsequent films such as "See You or Leave", "Endless", "Big Names", "Mobile Phone" and other films have cut the lens to the lives of ordinary Chinese citizens, and followed the tide of market economy to give a lot of thoughts to the changes of the times due to the continuous development of the economy. At that time, many viewers also followed the characters in Feng Xiaogang's films, whether happy or sad, and deconstructed their own lives in a highly humorous language.
To this day, every Spring Festival, I always turn out "Party A and Party B"** for the last sentence "1997 has passed, I miss it very much".
With the diversified exploration of Feng's comedy, Feng Xiaogang also began to try to explore something that could cut to the heart, and he began to ask the core of the Chinese.
In "The Assembly Horn", it is Gu Zidi's persistence in the entire company and his stubbornness in blowing the trumpet; In "Tangshan Da**", it is the joys and sorrows of the Fang family that are shocked by the aftershock; In "1942", it is a gaze on human nature under the famine from multiple perspectives......This is another answer sheet handed over by Feng Xiaogang to his heart under the trend of Feng's comedy gradually fading out of the historical stage, if Feng's comedy is to deconstruct life in banter, then this series of movies seems to be looking for life in pain. He tried to find the pain from the memory of the times, and looked forward to finding the strength to live in the pain.
And the "Do Not Disturb" series is also like the end of Feng's comedy. Feng Xiaogang and Wang Shuo hit it off immediately, and the book of "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" came out, Qin Fen in the film seemed to correspond to the souls of Feng Xiaogang and Wang Shuo, and told their feelings about time and love at the end of middle age as a joke. In the second part of "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb", they also talked about their understanding of life and death through this shell of love.
And the part I feel the most about "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 3" is that Qin Fen, who flashed back in the third part, accompanied Li Xiangshan through the last time of his life. Li Xiangshan knew that his life was short, so he took advantage of his last years to hold a memorial service for himself, and finally delivered his body to the sea. This is a joke to analyze life and death, a review of one's own life, and an explanation of oneself. He has listened to what everyone says about him, as if an observer has observed his own life, he knows that he will die without regrets, and he also knows that his unfinished story will continue to live in everyone's heart. "First, it's better not to see each other, if you don't fall in love", this is the beginning of Cangyang Gyatso's "Ten Precepts Poem", he asked for ten precepts, but at the end he wrote: "Ande and Jun are absolutely anone, and they are exempt from teaching life and death to be lovesick." "The ten precepts in name are the stories of us and the people around us, we all know each other from meeting each other and finally parting, the final parting is a great sorrow in life, it is the two people who are still holding hands one second ago, and one of them will always go to another world the next second, and there will be no two people parallel between heaven and earth. But this kind of sorrow is a sorrow that cannot be replaced, it is the sorrow that Mr. Liang Yuchun said we must experience, we must experience life and death, and we must also understand the joys and sorrows, just like we cannot live without water, and we cannot live without this sorrow.
This kind of sadness seems to be the most real background color of Feng Xiaogang's comedy, he always starts from deconstructing the sadness of the little people, so as to perceive the power of life instinct in the sadness. But this kind of power is constantly diluted in the continuous change of the times, because the little people of that era are no longer applicable to the current people, and many things that miss the old have long seemed pedantic and ridiculous at the moment. And I also saw Feng Xiaogang's attempt to get rid of this pedantic, he tried to breathe the breath of the current youth, but this era did not allow him to get in touch with it anymore. He is very helpless and powerless, and his movies are no longer an irreplaceable part of Chinese films. More and more diverse genre films continue to deconstruct and reshape Chinese films, and many old creators are being unloaded and many new ones are being incorporated. Feng's comedy has long been unsuitable for this era and has fallen.
Going back to the movie itself, the part where Liang Xiaoxiao talks to a real person and a robot is also thought-provoking. Although it is presented in a comedic effect, Feng Xiaogang's feelings about the emotions between people caused by the continuous progress of science and technology are also worth pondering. When the mobile phone gradually becomes our daily companion, the thinking about existence and life should be worth having, in the whirlpool of science and technology, try not to become a soulless personality, but also try to touch the most real relatives and lovers in life, this may also be Feng Xiaogang after thousands of sails, in the change of the times want to express.
In the end, Feng's comedy may no longer be applicable in this era, and there are too many "meal replacements" that will replace Feng's comedy as a link in Chinese cinema. Although Feng's comedy has faded, and he sang his last elegy with "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 3", we must also try to remember that there was once a director who seriously ** Chinese low-level citizens and the essence of Chinese.
Review: Yang Yue.
Reviewer: Zhou Wei.
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