Now when it comes to "Beijing", many people will think of the Great Wall, the big city, and the capital, but the older generation still has a Beijing in their hearts, and it has another name, that is, "Beijing".
Of course, the story of old Beijing is far more than these gorgeous and tall palace temples.
If you want to be grounded, you must not miss the movie "Find Fun", the old city wall of Beijing and Peking Opera are the two important cultural elements in the film "Find Fun". Everywhere in the film is the familiar city of Beijing, and the smell in the air is still such a smell of "old Beijing". "Finding Fun" is one of the Beijing trilogy.
The "Beijing Trilogy" is divided into: "Finding Fun", "Police Story", "Summer Warm Yangyang"
"Finding Fun" is the story of the grandparents of Beijing City;
"Police Story" is about the father's generation;
"Summer Warm Ocean" may be the sons of Beijing.
Such a look at the Beijing trilogy, all male themes! The director, Ning Ying, a fifth-generation Chinese director, was only 32 years old when she made the old film, and she had another unknown identity, that is, the assistant director of "The Last Emperor", when she became Bellutolucci's right-hand man at a young age, contributing to the success of the film.
First from the left: Ning Ying
Her second work is "Finding Fun", a film depicting the life of a retired elderly, and director Ning Ying's focus is from the appearance of the city to the human heart, and directly attacks the changes in China's social order. The face of the city is not just a manifestation of the changes of the times, and everyone who lives in it is the real experience of reform.
This young and beautiful director is indeed very mysterious, her life and art constitute such a strong contrast, people are elusive, she elaborated on a less inconspicuous sentence in her evaluation of "Find Fun": "The most important thing is how you feel, you have to feel that there is no score, then it is right, you must not shoot according to the score." ”
Maybe this is Ning Ying's own exclusive secret to making movies.
"Find Fun" looks like a feature film, but the actual plot is not very strong, many fragments are like the life record of retired lao Han, like the realism of this movie, and the performance of the actors, it is a feature film, god like a documentary, like Peking Opera, god like drama, simply like a record image of an old era.
Since the 1990s, China has entered the society of the elderly, and the work and career of the elderly and the elderly have received great attention and attention from the state. As far as the current social situation is concerned, when it comes to the elderly, many people will think of negative news such as "bus giving way" and "occupying public places to dance", which is the status quo and also a social structure problem that cannot be ignored.
After all, our country has gradually entered the aging stage, and there will only be more elderly people after that.
How to "find fun" for them is not only a problem in today's society, it is a problem at any time, and now we may think of square dance, but in the nineties, their amateur life was still very rich.
The protagonist is Lao Han "typical of the residents of old China".
He often strolls through the streets of Beijing in a leisurely way. The most to do is "nosy", after retirement, lao Han entered a state of idleness, all day long there is nothing to do around, to the street will put the lid of the garbage can on, or pass by the public bathhouse, want to help people plug the windows, see this really can't help but pinch a handful of sweat for him, if the people inside treat him as an old hooligan peeking at the bath, then he can't tell... Eventually he blocked the window with bricks on the ground, and was relieved to leave.
After that, Lao Han saw a group of retired ticketers singing Peking Opera by chance, because he had seen the gate at the Beijing Theater before, and naturally he had heard about it, so he pointed out to this group of people next to him, as the saying goes, "I have not eaten pork, but I have seen pigs run." The others were also impressed by the professional guidance of the old Han Tou was the Tao.
In this way, Lao Han found his own fun, and from his nosy attitude before, it can be seen that he is a person who does things one by one and is also conscientious, but such a person will always be hated by others.
Winter is coming, Lao Han wants to help everyone apply for the establishment of the elderly Peking Opera activity station, Zhang Luo all kinds of things, formulate activity charters. As a result, people who do not abide by the rules are not used to it, and after tearing their faces and making a big fight, Lao Han is a person with a high heart, and he will not do it directly for this matter...
At this time, everyone realized that without old Han Zhangluo, the activity station could not be opened at all.
At the end of the movie, several elderly fans returned to the park to sing, and after Lao Han calmed down, he hid in the corner and listened to everyone's true evaluation of him, and finally plucked up enough courage to go to his old guys.
The film is about the living conditions of the elderly, the actors choose non-professional actors, truly reflecting the life of the characters and the social environment, the collision of tradition and modernity, people's loneliness is first manifested in the inertial way of thinking of people under the old system and the incompatibility of production methods under the new economic system:
Now it seems that the character of the old man in Beijing is indeed flawed, so where it is strange, but it is this kind of love who they love, who does not matter the energy, will make people feel cute, may suffer losses, but also live happily, everyone has the day of old age, will slowly become stubborn, stubbornly guard their own small world, seem so unsociable...
Now we have the yearning of the past, but also lose the existence of the past, and can only find the past through the film.
The reason why the movie is called "Finding Fun" largely represents the only pursuit of the elderly, and there is no excessive family life after aging, so their happiness can only be attached to the external life, which is not only the dilemma faced by Lao Han, but also the lonely ticket friends and the elderly people who have nothing to do in society.
It's not so much about finding the joy of retirement as it is about finding ways to fill a sudden void deep inside.
Original text, figure network