This sincere domestic film shouldn't have lost so badly.

Today, I want to talk about a movie that I've wanted to talk to you for a long time.

this movie was officially released in domestic cinemas this summer, and the attention was not high.

You will know that this is a domestic film.

Yes, it is one of the few domestic cinema films worth seeing this summer-mountain cry.

The film is adapted from a novella of the same name written by Ge Shuiping, a contemporary female writer in China.

This work won the 4th Lu Xun Literature Award and the People's Literature Award in 25, and was put on the big screen by director Yanting Li in 213.

So this year's mountain cry is actually the second cinematic presentation of the original novel.

Compared with the first edition, the new version of the film has more changes to the original, bolder adaptation and more exquisite pictures.

Up to now, Douban has scored 7.5.

Some viewers even said that they saw the hope of domestic movies through it.

Whether this statement is exaggerated is a matter of different opinions, but it is undeniable that

In today's China film market, where bad movies are in vogue and the wind of making money is prevalent, "mountain cry" is indeed a clean stream.

It has no red meat, and it focuses on rural themes outside the mainstream vision.

Frankly speaking, the whole movie is a little dull, but it is not short of highlights and touches.

The story happened in a small village in Taihang Mountain.

The opening of the film is a sex scene.

But it's rather rough, savage and without beauty-it seems that "rape" is more appropriate.

The woman who is pressed on the bed is the heroine of this film, Hongxia.

she is a mute who can't speak.

and that rude man is her "husband", Lahong.

This scene alone shows the unequal and abnormal relationship between the two people. At the same time, it also succeeded in making the audience establish sympathy for the heroine in a very short time.

We even hope that Hongxia can get rid of this animal-like man quickly.

And the following story also conforms to the audience's expectation-

Lahong's leg was blown off by a detonator buried by the villagers while picking fruit on the mountain, and he finally died in a remote place without any medical equipment.

The villager who buried the detonator and accidentally killed Lahong is the hero of this film, Han Chong.

At first, he just wanted to fry badgers with detonators to please the widows in the village, but

he didn't expect to kill himself.

People in the village thought that if this murder case was reported to the Public Security Bureau, it would affect the reputation of the village.

So they discussed with Han Chong's father and decided to let Han Chong pay for his personal gain.

hongxia, on the other hand, is acting "extremely abnormal" at this time-her man is dead, but she is not sad at all.

Instead, she took out dusty mirrors and soap that had not been used for a long time,

and began to freshen up.

Even when Lahong was buried, she couldn't help laughing.

In the face of the compensation scheme proposed by the villagers, she showed no concern-and told the villagers not to pay compensation herself.

This beautiful brushwork is also a foreshadowing.

The villagers all thought that she was crazy with excitement, so they had to make decisions for her-let Han Chong take care of Hongxia and her two children temporarily.

In this way, the lives of the hero and heroine began to intersect, and the following story mainly revolves around two clues.

One is the memory line that keeps appearing in Hongxia's mind-

Through this line, we finally know Hongxia's life experience and her relationship with Lahong.

It turns out that she was born in a wealthy family, smart and well-educated since childhood.

Unfortunately, Hongxia got lost with her relatives when she went out.

Then it was abducted by traffickers and sold to Lahong.

More unfortunately, one day Hongxia overheard the fact that Lahong had killed his wife before-

Lahong silenced her by violence in order not to leak the news.

After that, Hongxia lived a miserable life for several years-she was often ravaged and beaten by Lahong.

It was not until half a year ago that she came to the village where the story happened with Lahong, so no one knew their past.

To outsiders, it was the sudden death of her husband that broke her down, but in fact it was her welcoming her new life.

This also explains why Hongxia doesn't want money, because the money is related to Lahong.

yes, hongxia finished saying goodbye to the past with an extremely determined attitude.

and what really rekindles her passion for life is love.

The love line is another clue of the film I mentioned earlier:

At first, I heard that Han Chong, who had to take care of Hongxia's family, was reluctant-even afraid that Hongxia would depend on him for the rest of her life.

But as they spend more and more time together, they get to know each other better and better-Han Chong finds Hongxia pitiful and

cute, while

Hongxia thinks that compared with her previous cruel husband-Han Chong is simply too reasonable and

too understanding.

it is said that love grows with time, not to mention the two people who stay together all day-one is hurt internally and the other feels that he has made a mistake.

so you will find that the love between them is not completely pure. The boy's love is mixed with debt and sympathy; Girls are more dependent on boys.

Of course, not every love in this world is pure. In a word, Han Chong and Hongxia are in love.

And when the film depicts the change of feelings between two people, it uses an interesting detail-eating.

On the first day Han Chong went to Hongxia's house, she brought food and threw away all her old junk food.

The next morning, Hongxia asked her daughter to call Han Chong home for dinner.

in a short time, the ice was broken.

But at this time, although Han Chong is eating at Hongxia's house, they are sitting at two tables-

There is a physical distance, which also implies that the distance between their two hearts is far away.

As the plot progressed, the two began to have a good impression on each other-

Han Chong also sat down with the Hongxia family, just like a family.

comparing the above two screenshots, you will find that the light used in these two scenes is mainly artificial natural light,

but the brightness of the light is completely different. The former characters are in the dark, while the latter is bright.

this is to express the mood of the characters with light.

However, the relationship between them was not smooth sailing. In the face of Hongxia's love, Han Chong still had many concerns.

after several hesitations, he decided to lose money.

This scene uses a symmetrical composition, and the camera shoots horizontally, suggesting the confrontation between the two people.

At the same time, the scene takes place at night, and the main light sources used are candles and a small lamp in the corner, which again coincides with the mood of the characters.

After this scene, the sad Hongxia began to ignore Han Chong.

Only she and her daughter are left at the dinner table, and it's night, and the picture is panoramic-

In this shot, the characters often appear small and weak, and the film is also made to highlight the miserable state of orphans and widows.

The pictures of the above-mentioned dinner scenes are actually very ordinary when taken out alone, but you will find them subtle when combined with the plot.

Eating, a quite common behavior in life, has a special flavor in mountain cry.

This is the genius of this film, which I personally appreciate-the fine arrangement of rough life scenes, and then making life itself a metaphor and conveying meaning.

to put it bluntly, it is to look for some kind of "myth" in meaningless daily life.

From this perspective, many life scenes in the film can be interpreted as metaphors.

For example, on the day of Lahong's burial, the wooden stick was broken at the moment when everyone lifted the coffin, which seemed to imply that his death was not that simple.

For example, the scene of Hongxia standing in front of the fire and burning old bedding and clothes had the taste of being reborn from the fire.

For example, the close-up of Hongxia helping Han Chong to thread a needle can be understood as-

Hongxia finally started to walk into Han Chong.

Of course, the most important metaphor of the film is the title of the film, calling for mountains.

The so-called calling for mountains is not simply shouting, but also beating gongs and drums, pots and pans-in ancient times, it was to make noise and drive away wild animals.

hongxia is a process from aphasia to voice recovery, and from depression to liberation, which can be regarded as the awakening process of female subjective consciousness.

In other words, calling for mountains shows the strength of women's nature and calls for women's rights through the interaction between man and nature.

This is the core theme in the original novels of Ge Shuiping, a female writer.

However, this theme has been greatly weakened in the new version of mountain cry. In the second half of the film, love has completely become the main theme.

Friendly reminder, and then there will be an ending spoiler and analysis ~

After Hongxia's disregard and deliberate avoidance, Han Chong finally found that he could not live without her, so he boldly confessed.

But at this moment, news of Lahong's murder came to light, and the police were about to find him.

In order to put aside the responsibility, the villagers decided to drive Hongxia away,

And Han Chong decided to turn himself in to let Hongxia stay,

But the villagers didn't agree with him to turn himself in,

So Han Chong had a face-to-face fight with the whole village,

At the end of the film, the police arrived and handcuffed Han Chong.

At this moment, Hong Xia, who couldn't help herself, suddenly turned herself in and told everyone that she had killed her.

It turned out that she had already seen Han Chong set the detonator and then deliberately asked Lahong to pick the fruit.

Moreover, Lahong didn't die directly after being injured, but she made up the knife again-she killed Lahong.

in this way, hongxia was taken away by the police.

The story of the film ends with Han Chong's unwilling and unwilling eyes when he chased the police car and got up after falling.

Friendly reminder, the spoiler is over, please see the analysis below ~

I have to say that this picture looks really touching, and the love between the two is touching enough.

But the shortcomings of the film are also obvious-the ideological thickness in the original text has been greatly weakened.

Although Han Chong in the film is also aggrieved by the oppressed women in the face of the villagers' ruthlessness,

but his attitude and motivation are equally suspicious.

To put it bluntly, he still regards himself as the savior of women-"I want her to be my woman."

hongxia was also moved by his masculine confession.

Therefore, the awakening of women's subjective consciousness completely degenerates into the reward of love or the sacrifice of love.

Of course, apart from the slightly weak ideological content, there is another controversy in the film, that is, it has no sense of time.

The film begins in 1984, but

there are contemporary buzzwords.

The setting that villagers were killed by mistake in 1978 to pay 2, yuan is obviously unrealistic.

In Hong Xia's memory of her own home, some furniture actually carries the style of the Republic of China.

As for the confusion in clothing, props and characters' language styles, I won't go into details here.

The director of this film said that because he had no life experience in that era, he might as well do the opposite to restore the era and create a visual experience that is not bound by the background of the era.

Director Yang Zi

Actually, this is ok, but wouldn't it be better to delete the 1984 film at the beginning?

In a word, this is a domestic film with both advantages and disadvantages.

it's not as heavy as the abduction theme in the past, nor as lifeless as the common literary films.

Some people say that the mountain village it presents is not as real as Blind Mountain.

But I want to say that the truth of Blind Mountain is actually just one form of real mountain village.

It doesn't represent all the mountain villages in China.

From the film's point of view, the disorder makes the film not rigorous, but from the viewing point of view, its eclecticism adds some features to the film.

people who know me must know that I still have the most affection for our domestic movies.

It's easy to find fault with children, and it's easier to spray without brains, but in the face of such a serious domestic film with both advantages and disadvantages, I'm still willing to-

tap its bright spots with the greatest goodwill and look forward to its progress with the most sincere evaluation.

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