I've finished reading "Sunward Flower".
上午10點，普通影廳，124分鐘時長。
After reading it, I couldn't hide my excitement and couldn't calm down for a long time.
I thought there should not be many people at ten o'clock in the Qingming file, but I didn't expect that there were really a lot of people.
Looking back on it now, it's still full of graphics.
Before I start talking about this movie, I want to complain about it.
That song "Wild Child" is too brainwashing, I've been out of the theater for 3 hours, and now this song is still playing back in my head repeatedly.
At that time, as soon as the ending song came out, with the shot of Gao Yuexiang being injured and still struggling to run, my tears came down! "Let the wind blow, let it mess up, and destroy it is my prospect at the end", after listening to it, I wanted to rush into the screen and fight with them!
However, I still recommend everyone to watch this movie, especially this Qingming file, which is really a very special movie.
Some netizens named the film "The History of Bottom-level Female Workers with a Case Record", and I think the overview is very accurate.
Before watching the film, I was curious about why director Feng Xiaogang persuaded Zhao Liying to play such a grizzled role.
As a result, I saw the taster: Zhao Liying. It turned out that this was what she wanted.
電影上映5小時，已拿下1900萬票房。
The praise is not low.
Some netizens said that this is really a movie that is touched, laughed and healed with tears.
Although compared with many box office blockbusters, the film is indeed not so exciting, and the capital may not be very optimistic.
But this kind of realism is always indispensable.
I was originally very sad, but I seemed to be given a big hug by Gao Yuexiang, and even had a little more courage to live.
I don't think many box office blockbusters can give this kind of experience.
After watching "Sunflower", if you want to ask me what is my most direct impression, I will use 2 words to describe it, unexpected!
Why the accident?
I was surprised, not because this is a movie made by Feng Xiaogang with an all-female lineup, and the only two male supporting roles are Wang Xiaoyu and Qian Yi, the old drama bone in "The Long Season" and the mute brother mixed world.
I was surprised that it was not the film that focused on the ex-convicts and tore apart the prejudice label of society against ex-convicted women.
I was surprised, it wasn't for Zhao Liying's Gao Yuexiang's appearance to be so earthy, her whole face was oily, she didn't look like a female star at all, like a real actress.
I was surprised, it's not that Lanxiya is so tiger, Wang Ju is so domineering and funny.
I was surprised that it was Feng Xiaogang, a movie written by himself, that did not fall into the perspective of male gaze at all, and it was really a movie with an unconventional story and imperfect characters, but it was real, tragic and shocking enough.
Feng Xiaogang really put his heart into it, friends.
What surprised me even more was that the movie did not deliberately avoid the dark side of the characters, but really filmed the suffering and hardship of the poor, and it can even be said that this is the poorest domestic movie I have seen with the protagonist in several years.
There is a Taiwanese saying that deeply hurts my heart-
Seriously, before watching "Sunflower", I went to Zhao Liying.
But after watching it, I was really moved by the real life of the people in the film, we little people are like this, the more difficult the life, the more it shows the vitality of combat effectiveness.
Finally, I would like to solemnly say that Zhao Liying, who broke into the "ruthless" track on the big screen with a no-makeup short hairstyle, really kicked the door of women's prison movies open this time.
Because I can't spoil it, I'll give you a little interpretation.
"Sunflower" is adapted from the literary novel "The Past of Educational Reform", with an original score of 0.0.
After Feng Xiaogang's adaptation, the 28-year-old female prisoner Gao Yuexiang was used as the protagonist of the whole film.
Like many female prisoners undergoing labor camps, she is not heinous, but has been pushed into the abyss by life.
Under the high gray wall, Sunflower will always look for the sun and embrace the sun, which is the reason why the movie is called "Sunflower", and it is also the theme of the whole film.
The first third or so of the film is in prison.
趙麗穎飾演的高月香是農村女子，丈夫是混蛋，為給女兒買20萬的人工耳蝸，誤入歧途，走上違法犯罪的道路。
After being imprisoned, she got acquainted with the deaf and dumb sister Heimei (played by Lancia), who grew up in the den of thieves, and experienced with Hu Ping (played by Wang Ju) from looking at each other unpleasantly to "no one dislikes anyone".
and Guo Aimei (played by Cheng Xiao) never fought or didn't know each other to worship Guan Gong together.
In the end, they were born step by step with the help of the discipline Deng Hong (played by Tini).
The last two-thirds is the story of her and Heimei's continued to work hard to buy cochlear implants for their daughter after they were released from prison, partnered to make a living, and worked hard to make money to counterattack life.
Gao Yuexiang in the film has done everything, from killing fish in the smelly and noisy seafood market, to being picked by someone to try makeup, to being forced to step into the bright night to accompany the wine, it is not easy to make money in various professions, the more difficult it is, the more clumsy and stubborn she is to make a living.
In order to make a living, she can pick up wine bottles and smash them at unscrupulous bosses; In order to protect the deaf and dumb sister Heimei she met in prison, she drew a knife and pointed directly at the underworld.
However, the movie is not a cool movie, there are also plots in the film where the heroine's daughter is bullied and her cellmates betray others for self-protection, real life is very cruel, not to mention the ex-prisoners.
After reading this introduction, I know what you want to say - is this kind of realistic movie good?
When I first started watching the movie, I was also worried.
However, the further back you look, the more complete the story becomes, and the further back you look, the more flavorful it becomes.
The length of the movie is 124 minutes, and it can't be said that there are no urine spots in the whole process, but when I saw the end of the movie, I still had a feeling of unfinished business.
Even, after the movie ended, many audiences in the movie hall where I was staying wanted to leave and stay, standing in place to listen to "Wild Son".
I think they were more or less moved by the film just like me.
Like everyone, before the screening of "Sunflower", I was both looking forward to and a little worried about Zhao Liying playing Gao Yuexiang.
I don't question Zhao Liying's acting skills, but because although Zhao Liying has also played the rural women in "Happiness to Ten Thousand Homes", the ex-convicts from rural areas have a great challenge after all.
However, after watching the movie, Zhao Liying slapped me in the face with an amazing performance.
Gao Yuexiang played by her, except for a plastic Hunan dialect that is indeed a bit choking, the other parts are perfectly fit the film.
First of all, she is not playing a big heroine, but just a mother who does everything for her deaf and dumb daughter.
A line in the film well sums up the character's trait "treat yourself as a piece of iron".
This character, in addition to bowing her head to the guards who cared about her at the prison gate,
From beginning to end, it is the one who does not admit defeat and does not bow his head.
Even if she is exhausted, she has not given up the desire to survive, and the power of the little people is the most moving.
There are many people who are attracted by the hot performances in Zhao Liying's films, such as seeing Heimei being bullied, she immediately rushed up with a knife, "The old lady came out of prison, if you don't kill me, I will stab you to death."
There is a sense of madness that watches Hong Kong-made prison films as much as possible.
But what touched me the most were some life dramas.
For example, Gao Yuexiang's scene of collecting waste products, although Zhao Liying acted like a professional waste collector at all, and the posture of pulling the car was not right, but it was right to act like this.
Because Gao Yuexiang is indeed not a professional waste collector, she just does everything to live, Zhao Liying's performance in this scene is not skilled, it is precisely the kind of unskilled labor, this is a real actor.
Even if many female stars play the poor, they are also wearing full makeup and playing the beautiful poor. As for Zhao Liying, she has no makeup, short hair, and is dressed in shabby clothes, her whole person is black, and the bruises on her arms and the sweat stains on her face are clearly visible.
It is said that for the sake of the role, Zhao Liying did not wear hand cream for three months, making her hands rough and chapped.
This is what an "experiential" actor would do.
In addition to the rigid side of the role, Zhao Liying is more exciting because of the weak side of the role.
When he had to drink with him for his livelihood, his eyes were full of humiliation and unwillingness.
What's even more aggrieved is that he was discriminated against and slandered by the hotel manager for stealing money, and even had to be searched on the spot!
Gao Yuexiang eagerly defended from the beginning, to neatly ripped open the collar certificate to be innocent, and when the misunderstanding was resolved, she sneered: "Look at it, I'm sorry for taking the money", every subtle change in expression made the audience empathize.
There is a scene where Gao Yuexiang sits on the ground paralyzed, as if she has been drained of her last strength by life, her hair is greasy, her clothes are full of sweat stains, and her face is also stained with dust, Zhao Liying knows how to act out the exhaustion and collapse of life.
How can someone who really collapses roar at the sky? I can't sit still.
But even on the most difficult days, when the originally dull eyes suddenly bloomed with a smile, the character suddenly glowed with a fearless power.
Zhao Liying's own stubborn and unyielding temperament is too suitable for the role.
I have no doubt that Gao Yuexiang will be another classic role of Zhao Liying.
It's not just Zhao Liying who is good. In fact, the actresses in the whole film have surprises.
Especially Lancia, her role as "Gu Yu" in "When the Mountains Are Blooming" last year impressed many people, and she couldn't be more suitable to play a stubborn dumb black girl with stubbornness.
Especially after the two quarreled, Gao Yuexiang held an umbrella for Hei Mei in the rainstorm, and Lan Xiya looked back, it was really better to be silent than sound at this time, and a good performance was worth a thousand words.
Wang Ju is the best one in the dialect of the whole film.
is also the most laughing female character in the whole film, I even think that her role is too little, not enough to watch, for this movie with a somewhat gloomy atmosphere, this character with its own hilarious laughter, it would be good to have more scenes.
The prison guard played by Tini also has a sense of story, and the lines of the self-defense scene are excellent.
is still Cheng Xiao, playing an Internet celebrity who fell into the dust and changed due to plastic surgery loans, and unexpectedly co-produced.
The rivalry of several actresses is also very good, just like director Feng Xiaogang said, "The characters in "Sunny Flower", they face more evil, so they will be more sensitive to good. ”
True sisters, they can't be separated.
I believe that many viewers will be moved by the sense of reality in the film.
Let me be more direct, how long has it been since you have seen a real poor person like Gao Yuexiang in a domestic film?
The five golden flowers in the film are "marginal people" who have been released from prison, and they are "ruthless characters" who struggle at the bottom, who are bullied by unscrupulous bosses, threatened by criminal groups, and discriminated against by ordinary people.
Gao Yuexiang's bastard husband at the stall even wants to lose his daughter, which is inferior to a beast, but this is the real life of many ordinary women.
Because renting is too expensive, Gao Yuexiang lives in a house next to the train station that no one wants to rent.
It's a dangerous building. The windows were rotten, and it felt like a gust of wind could blow them away.
Under the bright sun, she wore a shabby straw hat, a sloppy towel on her shoulder, and gloves, and she was stubborn to collect waste, and every movement was so difficult.
The reality of such a little person is not like acting.
To say that "Sunflower" is a good movie to cry is only half true.
It is a movie that makes people cry and laugh at the same time.
Director Feng Xiaogang may not be very superb, but he must be a rhythm master who is good at mobilizing the audience's emotions.
In the last scene, watching Gao Yuexiang use information asymmetry in prison to help the black girl fool Hu Ping, the head of the house, the audience was hilarious.
In the next scene, the truth about the poverty of Hu Ping's family, who has always said that he is very rich, is exposed, and the audience can't help but sigh.
In the last scene, Gao Yuexiang and Heimei disagreed and "quarreled".
In the next scene, a hard-mouthed and soft-hearted one buys her cigarettes, and the other holds an umbrella in the rain, and the audience feels the beauty of friendship, and it is really my sister's "leper dog".
In the last scene, the heroine was fed up with the hardships of life, and the audience collapsed together.
In the next scene, watching several people struggle to run towards life, the audience ignited again.
Director Feng Xiaogang seems to have brought a metronome, scratch your squeaky nest, and poke your heart socket.
In the end, you still can't help but cry for the characters' "sharp kindness".
Only by understanding how they are in desperate situations again and again, how they are full of pain and desperately run out of the darkness, can you understand the ending song "Let the wind blow, let it be chaotic, and it will not be destroyed is my prospect at the end".
will also understand how much power the sincere friendship between women can burst out.
不是為母則剛，而是女子本剛。
Of course, I'm not the only one who thinks it's good-looking, and the evaluations given by Douban netizens are also surprisingly consistent.
不過目前貓眼的影片票房預測，總票房預測還是只有兩億。
In fact, this is also the box office dilemma of reality films.
Even with Zhao Liying's strong box office appeal and good premiere reputation, many audiences are still reluctant to vote for the marginalized female group, and go to see the inspirational story of this group of women who refuse to admit defeat in the face of life, refuse to accept fate, and "hard-hitting" in life.
The audience for the film is still too small.
But I still hope that this realistic film focusing on women who have been released from prison can become a dark horse in the April film market.
On the one hand, Chinese films need such low-cost, high-quality small- and medium-budget films, and if "Xiangyang Flower" runs through, there will be more such realistic movies.
More importantly, I hope that the film will allow this group of resilient women to be seen, even if they are in the mud, they are naturally sunny.
Give them a drop of hope and they will blossom.
No one doesn't want to live a good life and be a good person, but life sometimes forces people to make mistakes, and I think everyone deserves a chance to change.
Feng Xiaogang put their stories in the pot, and stir-fried them with just the right heat and hot seasonings, and made a bowl of fried rice noodles from street stalls in the Hunan Night Market into a Michelin flavor.
Zhao Liying's performance is the icing on the cake.
Some movies are not so gorgeous, but they can provide you with instant emotional satisfaction, shining like a warm sun in this early spring, silently, in your heart, a flower.