Reflections on "Chen Xiang's Six-thirty Boxing Champion's Mother"

There is a big problem with the rhythm of the film and it cannot find the center.

In order to make money and practice boxing, the heroine participated in the audition for the movie "Boxer Mom". After she was not selected, she decided to participate in a fighting competition to prove that she would not give in to life. So is the highlight of the film on the auditions or the fighting competitions?

If it is an audition, the conflict in the film is not enough, the plot is too simple, and the audience's emotions have not been aroused; if it is a fighting competition, it seems too hasty, and there may only be twenty minutes from the intensive practice to the end of the film. minutes, and the previous time is occupied by various life problems, it is difficult for the audience to believe that the heroine can enter the octagonal cage in a short period of time.

Feature films need to have a goal, especially emotional films like this that can give the audience a strong sense of immersion. The film needs to guide the audience step by step into the emotional high point set by the director, and finally be released.

This film has managed to arouse strong emotions in the audience, because the heroine is miserable from beginning to end, and there is always a tragic moment that can hit the audience's heart.

But things must be reversed at the extreme. An overly miserable character can easily make people ponder whether she really needs to be so miserable?

Why does she work hard to maintain her marriage to her alcoholic and accomplished husband, just because she wants to give her daughter a complete home? But the father's image has probably collapsed in the eyes of his daughter. Her idea is that as long as she works hard, the family will definitely get better. The traditional female characters have a "motherly" legacy. If the film can intersperse at some point what touching things the husband has done to the heroine, The scene where the heroine follows him whole-heartedly may make the film look and feel much better on an emotional level, instead of giving people the impression that the heroine is mentally cheating and is doing a helpless act to maintain the dignity of the family due to practical factors. The reasons for a spirit of devotion to family are untenable. ?

Another problem with the film is that there are too many shadows of other films, and it is impossible to tell whether it is a tribute or a fusion. The first half is like "One Hundred Dollar Love", the second half is like "Fighting", and "The King of Comedy" is interspersed in the middle. "The King of Comedy" is a fitting tribute. Anyone who understands it will smile knowingly, and the sentence "I will support you" will echo in the heart countless times. However, the difference in plot style between the first and second half makes the film seem a bit fragmented, which also confirms the problem mentioned above that there is no central point.

This kind of movie is suitable for editing into short clips and putting them on Douyin. I believe the click-through rate will be much higher than that of a feature film.