The first discovery of the film may be its own style, condensing the contemplative telephoto that creates a considerable sense of distance. This kind of scheduling suppresses the tone of the film very indifferently, and strives to achieve "de-dramatization", in addition to saying that such a plot is nothing special, but a must in life; it also pulls the audience away from the plot, It builds a space for reflection, allowing people to reshape their hearts and connect their own experiences.
Come again and you may find that the film uses many things that are almost certain to happen to people as symbols.
The wedding means the birth of another family, the baby, makes you think of life and then the mother-in-law's coma brings the threat of death. These settings remind the viewer of several inescapable issues in life - family, life and death. Moreover, there are some typical characters in the film, none of them are unique, and what they encounter is also some ordinary things.
All these things are added together in order to imitate the real state of each stage of existence and construct a life model that pays attention to meticulousness and realism.
Then you noticed that the film is nearly three hours long, and there are multiple branch lines that can be independently formed. Why does the director have to tell the stories of so many characters all at once?
In addition to covering all stages of life, the more important thing is to juxtapose these stages, so that the viewer can stand higher and see the line of life in a more three-dimensional and multi-faceted form. . At the same time, it also emphasizes the family value that maintains people.
So you will find that this expression is much more vivid and accurate than tracking a character's growth from childhood to earth.
Furthermore, this three-dimensional presentation also presents the message that the director wants to convey through the film more naturally.
For example, Yang Yang, a child, faced reality alone, summoned up the courage to jump into the water, and thus overcome his fear of swimming; that turned out to be a response to the adult escape problem. In addition, the first love throbbing of the eldest daughter Tingting on the first date of the boy was interlaced and juxtaposed, echoing each other. In this episode, the director makes the audience understand that although the eldest daughter can't let herself go with the boy in the end, when she grows up, when one day she looks back on her past with her old lover like a father, she will meet the old man again. Dad also understands that even if everything is overturned, their choices will not change very much, and there will be no regrets.
Summarizing the whole film, the director told the audience that when death comes near us, we naturally know how to live in the present better. What it takes to live in the moment is to face reality, and then you will find that there is nothing to fear, and nothing to regret. This is growth, this is life.
All in all, the importance of the film lies in its re-emphasis on family values in this disintegrating contemporary city, and at the same time for the realistic film to use typical characters as social models to set it within a family, replacing social phenomena with life states, Handed over a demonstration that must be watched again and again.
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