Film: "Stop-and-Go"
Genre: Comedy, Family, Drama
Director: Long Fei
Screenwriter: Huang Jia
Starring: Hu Ge, Gao Yuanyuan, Yue Hong, Zhou Yemang, etc
Release time: June 8, 2024
"Stop-and-Go" is really a good-looking light comedy movie, young people in big cities return to their hometowns, young people in small cities go out to work hard, in addition to the torrent and torrent retreat, life stops and goes, and watching while walking, is the norm.
Wu Di, a young man in Beipiao, is an unknown screenwriter, he once again saw in the cinema that the content of his "killed" script was used in other movies, and he became an "unsung hero", and finally couldn't mix it up after ten years in the big city, his girlfriend and roommate left him one after another, and Wu Di could only return to his hometown.
When you return to your hometown, you have to face the sophistication of the "acquaintance society". Although the attitude of the family in the far magic capital towards Wu Di was a little subtle, his father begged people everywhere to find him a stable job. Wu Di, who is middle-aged, refused the arrangement of his family, and met Feng Liuliu, a high school classmate who is now a reporter, divorced and brought a baby, only to know that many classmates have married wives and children, been promoted and made a fortune, as if only he stopped in place, still obsessed with "finding himself", and believed that he was a late bloomer.
Seeing the world of a big city, but failing to take root means failure. For people like Wu Di, it is not a capital worth showing off, but is often ridiculed by the villagers in a weird way. Feng Liuliu locked Wu Di as a good documentary shooting material, and encouraged him to make his script "It Seems to Be an Old Man" into a movie, pretending to lend him equipment and invite actors, Wu Di was the director, his sister was the drama manager, Wu Di's mother played the heroine, and invited the "pillars" of the repertory troupe to play the male lead, and put together a grass stage team, although his father did not support it, but silently paid attention to it, everything in and out of the play was secretly recorded by Feng Liuliu's camera.
Wu Di silently digested the psychological gap after returning home from the big city, did not give up his ideals, and was not willing to compromise with reality, he knew the subtle attitude of the people around him, but he couldn't care, he always thought that he was a smart and studious person in the eyes of his teachers, classmates and neighbors, but he didn't expect them to say that he was naughty and unrealistic, and now he is a "jobless vagrant" who has achieved nothing.
Wu Di's return is like a stone falling into a calm lake, which not only completely changed his life, but also caused ripples in the lives of his parents and sister. Their different living conditions are like mirrors reflecting each other, going to the big city may not be able to break into the famous, and living a stable life in the hometown does not mean once and for all.
Just when the filming was going well, Wu Di's mother suddenly died of illness, and the filming came to an abrupt end. Wu Di found out that although his parents and sister are ordinary people, they are very loving and silently support themselves. Thinking back to his mother, Wu Di slowly realized that his mother was a very warm and open-minded person, his mother loved literature and art, and regretted that he was not admitted to the Beijing Dance Academy back then. Wu Di's father knew that his wife didn't like to give up halfway, so he pretended to be his wife and made up some shots and completed all the shooting. Although the Si people have passed away, it seems that they are old people.
The ripples on the surface of the lake exploded by Wu Di's return to his hometown, like a butterfly effect, triggering a drastic change in the lives of the people around him. Feng Liuliu's leaders used their power to steal the documentary shooting materials, took them out of context, and edited Wu Di into a lazy, whimsical, and tired mother by making movies, and also won the shooting award. Feng Liuliu resigned angrily and decided to take his children to Beijing for development. Three years later, Wu Di's father died, and his sister decided to go to Shenzhen to develop, Wu Di, who stayed in his hometown, inherited his sister's taxi and became a taxi driver, and met Feng Liuliu by chance, but the other party had remarried, and the two stopped and stopped, and finally did not meet again. Before leaving, my sister sent Wu Di's movie "It Seems to Be an Old Man" to a film festival for exhibition, and her mother Jiang Meiling won the Best Newcomer Award, I don't know if Wu Di is going to start pursuing her ideals again.
"Stop-and-go" is a life film that exudes some literary and artistic atmosphere, a few strokes outline a delicate sketch, traditional parents in small cities, confused middle-aged people, young people who are unwilling to be tied down are looking for a way out, each character lives in their own independent world, life is stop-and-go, there are a few years of "gap period" is actually nothing. If you are willing to slow down, calm down, and watch this movie, you will smile because of some coincidences in life, and moisten your eyes because of the silent attention of some family members, which is very healing and relaxing. However, movies with a sense of relaxation and warmth often lack commercial explosions, are not competitive at the box office, and there is always a pity in and out of the play.