The ticket price of this AMC is relatively expensive, with an average price of two or three dollars; the seat is an electric sofa, you can fully lie down to watch a movie; every two seats are couple seats, and the armrests can be fully raised in the middle; beverages break through the sky Expensive, popcorn is salty to death.
The little rich people in the Upper West Side come here to watch movies. There are almost no white people in Harlem AMC, more than 30 streets to the north. Yes, even in the most open New York, the race problem is so obvious.
Speaking of this movie. This movie theater in the Upper West Side has always shown only blockbuster movies. In other words, a deep, artistic film will not be shown unless it is hoped for.
Such a commercial movie theater will show this kind of Christmas comedy on Friday night, of course, it is full of seats.
The movie is about three good brothers, how to live the last crazy Christmas Eve when they are married and have children, have a successful career, and are lost in love and unemployed.
Movies that can be summed up in one sentence, to be honest, I don’t even know how to write film reviews.
But I still like this movie. The "House of Congee" they go to in the movie is also a Cantonese restaurant I often go to. This item can add one point. As for whether it is funny or not, in the section where the fat man received the yellow text message in the movie, the white man beside me and the popcorn-eating white man almost gave a high five with a smile.
In fact, it is difficult to answer the question of how comedy looks good. For tragedy, it is relatively simple.
Lu Xun wrote in "Revisiting the Falling of Leifeng Pagoda", "Tragedy destroys the valuable things of life for others to see." Many people know this sentence, but few people know that he also wrote what comedy is: "Comedy tears that worthless
to others to see." I personally disagree with his views on comedy.
In fact, what is valuable in life and what is worthless?
Tragedy is nothing more than loss. In the eyes of many people, lost things have value, because people will never forget them, and they will never forget them.
Then comedy is possessed, at least not lost, so is it worthless? On the contrary, I think that what a person has is valuable.
Any comedy that wants to make people laugh must be a fuss about what people have.
For example, in the movie, the protagonist's parents died, and the director categorically did not dare to use this as a joke.
But Seth Rogen, the fat man in the movie, has a harmonious and happy family, and his wife is pregnant for eight months. Using him as a joke, no matter how he takes drugs or how embarrassed he is, the audience will laugh without guilt.
Why? Because the audience knows that he will not lose everything because of these madness.
Movies in the Christmas season should be like this. So I think of our domestic Lunar New Year stalls. The reason why domestic comedies are funny, I personally think, is that they still stay at the facial laughter.
For example, in "Thirty-Three Days of Broken Relationship", a rich second-generation wife is about to get married, but the wedding is messed up. She calls and scolds the heroine. She changes her usual dignified appearance and speaks Henan dialect—except In addition to the audience in Henan, audiences from all over the country expressed amusement.
This is the facial comedy. It seeks to ridicule things in people's lives and weaves it into a story.
However, the movie "Christmas Eve" is completely different.
It didn't look for things that people would find funny in their lives. On the contrary, he put on the screen what people usually don't dare to do, and made everyone bend their waists for laughter.
This is the current trend of American comedy, beginning with "The Hangover". They are becoming more and more unreasonable, becoming more anti-traditional, and more and more touching minefields that are politically incorrect.
This movie also touched on some minefields: ridiculing Jewish sweaters, vomiting at Jesus on Christmas Eve, telling pregnant women that they wanted to drop their children into trash bags and throw them away. These are especially taboo Americans, but fortunately, everyone in the movie theater laughs so much.
This also goes back to what we said at the beginning, comedy is to make a fuss about what people have.
Jews are extremely powerful in the United States, and it is safest to tease them; Jesus is so fraternity, tolerant, and forgives people who treat vomiting; only the problem of pregnant women is a bit too much, but Americans are talking about what they say. Has always been more tolerant.
Domestic comedies are still in the stage of catching the disadvantaged groups and making fun of them. Why is the sketch of the Spring Festival Gala not funny? Because the sketches of the Spring Festival Gala began to make fun of what people lost. In the past few years, Zhao Benshan's sketches were all ridicule of rural affairs. Why was it funny at that time? Because people still have rural areas, there has not been such a serious polarization and urbanization. Now that you ridicule the rural people, the vast majority of people who have left their hometowns will only feel disgusted, because it reminds them of loss.
Losing is a tragedy, who can still laugh.
So I think this movie is the closest comedy movie to "The Hangover" in recent years. Of course, it also has shortcomings. This is a very masculine movie. Women have no sense of substitution at all. This is like a hangover, which is still relatively niche.
But then again, there is absolutely no need to be politically correct at this point. Men and women are different from each other.
If domestic comedies have been killed by censorship, then American comedies have been damaged by various political correctness. They all target their respective markets. This bowl of soup is so big that anyone can drink a few mouthfuls. This is the best market.
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