Review of "Only Yun Knows"

After reading a work, I believe everyone’s horizons must have broadened a lot. It’s time to write a post-viewing review to record it. Are you at a loss to write or have a clue? Below is my review of "Only Yun Knows" that I compiled for you. I hope it will be helpful to you. Thoughts after watching "Only Yun Knows" 1

Because only they know the past events of the protagonists Sui Dongfeng and Luo Yun, and only she knows what secrets Luo Yun hides.

At the same time, I also understood why the heroine was called "Yun". Because Yun is a special name for Chinese people. The heroine in "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" by Qing Dynasty writer Shen Fu is called "Yun." Lin Yutang said, "She is the most important person in Chinese literature and Chinese history (because there is indeed such a person ) the most lovely woman. "Yun" is Chen Yun, Shen Fu's wife. The two once had a simple and happy life, but later due to sudden changes in the Shen family, they were kicked out of the house. After living a hard and dependent life, Chen Yun died early.

Lin Yutang once translated "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" into English and wrote the preface. In the preface, he said the above sentence, He also summarized Chen Yun's life like this:

Her life can be quoted from Su Dongpo's poem, saying that she was "like a spring dream without a trace." If this book had not been saved by chance, we would still be alive today. I don’t know that there is such a woman in the world, who has experienced the joys of the boudoir and the sorrow of ups and downs.

I am translating her story now, but because this story should be known to the world; on the one hand, it is to spread her. On the other hand, because in the simple life of these two little sweethearts, I watched them pursuing beauty, being impoverished, being tortured by unsatisfactory things, being bullied by treacherous villains, and at the same time they were bent on enjoying a half-day leisure life. Happy, but afraid of the gods' disapproval - in this story, I seem to see the essence of Chinese philosophy of life reflected in the lives of two ordinary elegant people who happened to become a couple. There are no special achievements in the world, just admiring the beautiful scenery of the universe, mountains, forests, springs and rocks, and living a quiet and comfortable life with a few close friends - trying hard but not changing their joy.

Sui. Dongfeng and Luo Yun, in many places, are like Shen Fu and Chen Yun in the 1980s. After leaving Beijing for New Zealand, they spent fifteen years in a small town called Clyde, under the blue sky and green sky. Kusama lives a quiet life.

They own a small Chinese restaurant, a beautiful home on a hillside, and they adopt a stray dog ??named Blue. Take care of the restaurant and go home together until some small accidents happen.

This movie is different from all the movies directed by Feng Xiaogang. All of them are plot-heavy. There are stories, jokes, and strong emotions. However, this story is extremely light and has a long and slow pace. The scene always stays on the grass, woods and hills.

What can be called a plot. The life is as light as water, and the trivial things in life, which occur in a country like New Zealand that is considered to have entered the "end of history", are as light as the breeze, and the stories appear for more than a minute. There are no more than ten actors, including dogs.

But it is such a movie that makes people lose their focus for a moment, and makes the audience in the theater cry from beginning to end. Like "Yun", she stays quietly with her lover, pursues beauty in a peaceful life, and never forgets the mountains and rivers, the Northern Lights, and the whales on the sea. The two "yun" are like two two-flowered flowers, which can show that people's desire for life is actually synchronized in ancient and modern times.

In this story, the person who plays the "best woman" like "Yun" is Yang Caiyu.

Many people know Yang Caiyu through "Love in the 1980s" and "Youth". In fact, she debuted very early and was considered a child star. The ending song of the cartoon "Legend of Nezha" produced by CCTV " "Young Hero Little Nezha" was sung by her when she was 11 years old.

This song was written by the famous lyricist Qiao Yu and composed by Li Haiying. "It's him, he is him" is a deep memory of many people who experienced the 1990s. Later, she went to the United States to study. When she was 19 years old, she returned to China and was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy and entered the acting department.

She is the kind of girl who takes it easy and excels in academics. She quickly makes a name for herself wherever she goes. She was a singer and host when she was a child. After being admitted to Nortel, she became the representative of the freshman performance department and served as the tenth He was the bilingual host of the Beijing Film Academy International Student Film Festival. He acted in "Youth" and became one of the "Four Beauties of "Youth" together with Zhong Chuxi, Miao Miao and Li Xiaofeng.

But even so, Luo Yun in "Only Yun Knows" is a difficult role for her, or for many actresses.

First of all, this story has real character prototypes - this is the story of Feng Xiaogang's best friend Zhang Shu and his wife Luo Yang. Zhang Shu later returned to China to engage in film work and collaborated with Feng Xiaogang on more than a dozen films. . Both Zhang Shu and Feng Xiaogang have requirements for the performance of their roles.

Secondly, this is an ordinary character in an ordinary story. There is no dramatic turning point, no arc that saves mankind, no roar, no long tearful confession, and even the most likely tear-jerking illness. The scene has also been simplified very skillfully. "Only Yun Knows" Review 2

When I first heard the story of "Only Yun Knows" - a man, in order to fulfill his deceased wife's wish, took her ashes on the road to fulfill them one by one. ——, I thought it was a road movie.

Unexpectedly, it is not exactly.

Not only is it not exactly the ups and downs that I originally imagined those road movies should have, those so-called design scenes, the kind that allows the audience to gradually and slowly follow the passers-by during the journey. Understanding the heroine's ups and downs is not the focus of this movie.

Feng Xiaogang’s heart is not here. To some extent, "Only Yun Knows" is full of surprises.

In terms of subject matter, it is far from the rich history and feelings of family and country that Feng Xiaogang's movies have pursued in the past ten years. In this movie, the once persistent Feng Xiaogang showed almost no ambition. The most intense conflicts seem to be the relationships between people and time, people and space, and people and themselves.

In terms of form, it is completely different from the non-startling and endless tone of "I'm Not Pan Jinlian". Whether it is composition, scheduling, or editing, it is very simple, gentle, calm and indifferent.

In "Only Yun Knows", just like the beautiful New Zealand scenery that appears repeatedly in the film, the so-called story is more like a background, and the key points the director wants to tell seem both clear and vague——

The story of a man and a woman who meet each other, know each other, fall in love, and stay together. Putting aside the element of death, it is actually neither shocking nor thrilling. All the most intense parts of the plot are compressed into a very small space and completed quickly. More time is spent on how the male protagonist circles around the stove after opening a restaurant in a remote town, and how the heroine cuts meat. The hand is about taking a walk in front of the house after adopting a dog, and it is about short jokes about foreign language communication.

No wind, no waves, no surprises, no danger, just walk the dog to buy some goods, criticize which store’s shrimp is not good enough, at most, dream of a whale, bump into a drunk man with a gun. . Three years, five years, nine years, fifteen years, the days are like the sun, rising and setting as usual.

The rhythm is slow and leisurely, with bits and pieces.

So, what does Feng Xiaogang want us to watch?

From another perspective, we have never seen a Feng Xiaogang movie like this before, or a Chinese movie like this: it neither tries to make people laugh. , does not attempt to make people cry, and does not seem to care much about whether you will be nervous or whether you can adapt to its narrative rhythm. However, it does not have the style of a superior art film, and is neither difficult nor complex.

No matter in terms of creation or attitude towards commercial recycling, in the context of current Chinese movies, "Only Yun Knows" seems a bit strange and willful, although what it tells may be everyone's current situation. A question that no Chinese can avoid: Why do we live? For the sake of a better future, do we have to live the life in front of us as copy and paste? Is it the business or the house that can give us a sense of security, or do we have to do it every day? Who is he/she facing?

And, if we choose to fight for the future, what does that home thousands of miles away mean to us?

These problems have been crushed into pieces and scattered throughout the days of copying and pasting by the male and female protagonists, along with their loneliness and loneliness that have not been expressed much.

As for myself, I like the slowness and lightness of "Only Yun Knows", especially after being filtered through the layers of sunshine, grass and trees in the film, the look and feel seems comfortable and breathable. The author neither forces nor insists on it. The same goes for the attitude of not exaggerating. It made me relax and feel at ease in the cinema, and I felt that as an audience, I didn't have to worry about whether I could keep up with the rhythm or miss any hidden key points. Instead, it was an experience of being treated well. As for the double flashback structure, it does not pose a challenge to watch the movie. On the contrary, it makes this extremely simple story less emotionally depressing when it leads to inevitable grief.

I also like the love in "Only Yun Knows". It's not strong, funny or exaggerated. It's just like meeting a talkative and enthusiastic boy who is familiar but not annoying, and a beautiful and slim red girl who is not arrogant. A girl in clothes, a smiling mother-in-law who is pampered but does not rely on her old age, a foreigner girl who is lively but not superficial, a sloppy-looking but warm-hearted uncle who is a passerby, but inadvertently, he will say "Miss him", "I I love you." He turned around and bowed deeply to the person who had helped him, saying with deep love, "I will do my best to let you live the best life. I drink boiled water, you drink, and I eat. Meat, you eat bird's nest" does not sound cheesy, nor is "You are a sun, warming my heart" false.

I like the soundtrack of "Only Yun Knows", especially the flute music played by the male protagonist. Although it is only a short section, it has a long aftertaste. I am also sorry that he abandoned the flute in order to make a living, but in the flute, there is what his wife most wanted to say to him.

But I don’t know how Feng Xiaogang came up with the idea of ??making this movie, and why he made everything go so slowly in a movie about the struggle of going abroad. Why do those large numbers of beautiful aerial shots, those moments of being with nature that many Chinese people dream of, reveal not only self-reconciliation away from the hustle and bustle, but also deep helplessness and loneliness?

Perhaps only Feng Xiaogang knows the answer.

Yang Caiyu is as good as ever, gentle and delicate, and has a good control over her emotions. I can see a lot of things in her eyes and her emotions have great ups and downs. Of course, she is extremely beautiful from any angle, so beautiful!

But what surprised me the most was the director. This time he did not bring one of the New Year comedy films we have seen in the past. At the same time, he did not pursue high box office, let alone expect The movie has been well received, and I have to say that this is Director Feng's consistent style. Director Feng simply tells a story of his own for his buddies. This movie "Only Yun Knows" does not have many ups and downs, nor any ups and downs. The ins and outs of the movie, only the camera can record these moments. I hope that after watching this movie, everyone can turn on their mobile phones like a grandfather who went to sea, dial the number of his lover, and tell her I love you, silent as clouds and flowing like wind. Only Yun Knows" Afterview 4

The story happened to a Chinese couple living in New Zealand. In the fifteenth year of their marriage, his wife Luo Yun (played by Yang Caiyu) suddenly passed away, and Sui Dongfeng (played by Huang Xuan) ) set out on the road with his inner grief and his wife's ashes divided into four parts. He walked back to the place where they left their footprints, relived the good memories of the past, fulfilled his wife's last wish, and left his wife's ashes in the "stay" where she wanted to stay most. " place. At the end of the story, Sui Dongfeng returned to Beijing, picked up the flute again as his wife wished, and raised a dog like the dead "Bulu".

The story itself is quite simple, especially showing Sui Dongfeng's affectionate and meticulous care for his wife Luo Yun. The film mainly uses flashbacks and interludes to tell the story of the death of his wife, the two opening a restaurant, getting to know Melina, raising "Blue", Mrs. Lin's life, the two falling in love and getting married, watching whales, reporting the funeral to the parents-in-law, etc. event. The whole plot is connected by routes in the world, but in fact, time is used as a thread. The shortcomings of the film are that the plots are loosely connected and lack tension, and the story itself lacks conflicts. It relies on good-looking pictures, beautiful music, and "talking" skills to attract the audience's attention. It is inevitable that people will yawn while watching the movie. At the same time, the character creation is thin, lacks a sense of three-dimensionality, and the theme is unclear. Two themes are barely mentioned: one is "the person who is left behind is the one who suffers" - the grief of being widowed in middle age, and the other is "the nine years of opening a restaurant." You have never played the flute, I wish the restaurant could be ruined" - the labor of making a living has ruined the passion for life. Of course, both themes are only mentioned in general terms, lacking strong support and profound insights.

The advantage of the film is that the carefully designed and beautiful shots show the beautiful and tranquil natural scenery of New Zealand. The soulful soundtrack helps people better enter the character's sadness. The ingenious design of symbolic elements such as rings, whales, flutes, and benches touches the inner chords of the audience. At the same time, the movie highlights three small surprises, Yang Caiyu's beauty, Huang Xuan's acting skills and Xu Fan's dialect.

The good and bad of this film are clearly distinguishable, showing the consistent creative style of Feng's films-ignoring the contradictions of the story and exploring human nature, and attaching great importance to audio-visual elements and emotional resonance. These characteristics also determine and answer why Feng Xiaogang's movies often succeed at the box office but fail in the competition. It also explains why Feng Xiaogang was repeatedly frustrated when he wanted to pursue "artistic creation" after gaining fame and fortune. Because the core essence of film art is to show the complex and obscure deep texture of human nature in a storyline constantly driven by contradictions. However, Feng Xiaogang, who was born as an "art assistant", has not received systematic training in the film profession, and has not been able to experience and acquire the valuable legacy of creative theory and practical skills left by previous film predecessors. Everything relies on his own hard work in the industry, accumulation of practical experience, and his own intelligence to sum up a set of methods to attract the audience, and then rely on this set of box office methods to get from "bowing down" to "feeling proud" .

There is no doubt that Feng Xiaogang is very successful from a realistic perspective. He was born in poverty and did not receive a good higher education. However, he has become the most famous actor in China through his hard work and performance in the film industry. One of the directors has successfully entered the upper class society.

After becoming famous, he also tried to create art and criticize social reality. From these aspects, Feng Xiaogang deserves people's respect and admiration. It's a pity that "Success is Xiaohe, failure is Xiaohe". When Feng Xiaogang was successful, the movie box office also sealed his ceiling. The experience he accumulated over the years made him too superstitious about "beautiful pictures, emotional music, and tragic and sensational sales". Brings the magic. As everyone knows, the ideological depth of a movie determines its height. All external forms must ultimately serve the ideological purpose. After reversing the priorities, they can only entertain the audience. This is about the difference between "craftsman" and "home". The former caters to the audience, while the latter inspires the audience; the former shows skillful intelligence, while the latter contains profound insightful wisdom; the former is always pursuing pursuit, while the latter sighs Come and seek.

There are too many contradictions in Feng Xiaogang, and everyone's evaluation of his character and works tend to be at two extremes. The root cause of all this may be found in his contradictory personality. Douyou Wusequanwei analyzed Feng Xiaogang's character in his film review "Sorry, I Can't Praise "Youth"". There is no room for me to comment. You can go and take a look at the details. The following is a quote from the article.

I often feel Feng Xiaogang’s sincerity and self-contradiction. Just like how he often makes surprising statements but often gives in quickly, he is actually extremely cautious, timid and uneasy inside. ”

Finally, to summarize, Feng Xiaogang’s successes and limitations all reveal the characteristics of the era in which he lived, emphasizing “emotion” over “rationality”, emphasizing “profit” over “righteousness”, and the relationship between the country and the economy. They advanced all the way, leaving behind a group of timid and restless individuals. After watching "Only Yun Knows" 5

In late December 20xx, my hometown has entered the cold winter. Although it is very cold outside, it is difficult to sit there. Watching the movie "Only Yun Knows" in the cinema made me feel happy and warm.

Warmth One, this is a story about love. Many years ago, a pair of young people came to New Zealand to work hard. They meet unexpectedly at the landlord's house. Their similar circumstances and similar hobbies are deeply attracted to each other and come together. Although the plot does not have dramatic ups and downs, the days are extremely warm. Although life is difficult, they live a life of mutual support. More than ten years later, the middle-aged female protagonist Luo Yun died of illness, and the male protagonist Sui Dongfeng discovered some of her secrets. He decided to fulfill her wishes alone, such as going to the sea to watch whales. Talking about returning to my hometown of Beijing, for example, being buried with my beloved dog Blu. This kind of love is very precious to everyone, but how many people can live with the pressure of fast-paced life? How about slowly enjoying this kind of love life? Just like Mu Xin's poem at the beginning of the film: In the past, the sun became slower, the cars, the horses, and the mail were slower. There was only enough time to love one person in a lifetime.

Warmth 2: The beautiful scenes in the movie brought me unexpected visual impact. I am a person who likes to travel. I was very surprised by the visual beauty and beauty of the environments during travel. I enjoyed it very much. For example, when this young couple opened a Chinese restaurant in New Zealand, they lived in a small town. Their house was surrounded by green grass. They lived in an old house with history on a hillside. One shot was of a young couple walking on a winding path next to a meadow with a flashlight. The house on the hillside was filled with orange lights. The flashlight in their hands formed a small beam of light. In my eyes, this was nothing. Life in this world seems like an ancient fairy tale.

In order to fulfill his wife’s wish, the husband took his wife’s ashes on a boat to see whales. The boat was sailing on the vast sea, and they were waiting for it. At that time, whales suddenly appeared, one or two, their huge bodies drew arcs, and they sprayed wonderful water jets. I have never been able to figure out how to take this picture. This beautiful picture shocked me so much. .

Warmth three, poetic dialogue alludes to the philosophy of life. For example, there is a majestic and quiet tree on the grass near the couple’s house. Luo Yun asked, there are no trees around, there is only this. A tree grew so big, Sui Dongfeng said, because he wanted to live, because he wanted to live so much.

After listening to this dialogue, I was particularly moved. Only with a strong desire and the courage to not be afraid of difficulties can we live a beautiful, tough and elegant self, whether it is animals, plants or people. Remember, we are here When I was visiting Yanoda in the Hainan Tropical Rainforest, there was a tree growing on the hillside. When the roots of the tree could not absorb water, the big tree changed its shape and structure, and sprouted from the middle of the trunk. With many roots, rooted in the gurgling stream of the creek, this tree has become uniquely itself. Why do I admire this big tree so much? Is it its tenacity? Is it courage? Is it unique to him? But one thing is for sure, this tree must have its own wonderful dream, and it must be courageous and perseverant on the road to realizing its dream. Just like the tree in the movie, only by having a dream can the dream come true, no matter what Is it a person or a tree.

Watching whales requires luck. The ship is sailing on the vast sea. Sui Dongfeng tells the story of him and his wife Luo Yun to the old captain. The old captain does not have much expression on his face, but he must understand in his heart. To what. When he was favored by the God of Destiny and encountered a whale, when Sui Dongfeng scattered his wife's ashes into the sea, the old captain called his wife at home and said with deep affection: I love you. My wife was very surprised and said: What did you say? Are you terminally ill or have a mistress?

This dialogue may seem ordinary but it is so wonderful. Many people do not know how to cherish happiness when they have it, but regret it when they lose it. After watching this movie, I also had a deep understanding. Luo Yun had a heart disease since she was a child. She knew that she never knew when she would leave this world, so she had many dreams, such as going to the sea to watch whales. But due to various reasons, these dreams were not realized in time. What if Luo Yun insists on fulfilling his dream? In fact, many dreams can be realized if you persist. For example, she wanted to see the outside world, but her husband said that as long as I still have the energy, I can work for a few more years and earn a few more years. So her dream of going to the sea to see whales could only be fulfilled by her husband. Letting others help you fulfill your dreams is a song of love, but it is completely different from working hard to fulfill your dreams yourself.

So I always tell myself that a happy life cannot wait. If you have a dream, just realize it. If you have passion, just bloom. Nothing can stop you in this process. The only one who can stop you is yourself.

The years of life are like a river, and the long river of years merges into songs. Of course, these songs include reading good books, listening to good plays, appreciating beautiful songs, and one is watching your favorite movies.