Yang Dechang said in an interview about "Yi Yi": "This movie is based on the family unit. The family is actually a sample of the life course. In the story, there are life experiences of different ethnic groups such as parents, teenagers, children, and grandma. The family has a very complex, intertwined, and layered thickness." In
this family, there are mother-in-law, NJ and Minmin, uncle, Tingting, and Yangyang. From the elderly to the children, there are different ages that need to be dealt with. The problems that came out one by one were addressed in a calm manner. The life of a family is like parallel lines at first, then slowly intersect, and then diverge from each other.
The movie started as a wedding banquet. Although my brother-in-law had deliberately delayed the wedding for auspicious days, it was still a festive event. At the end of the movie, it appeared at the funeral of the mother-in-law who had been in a coma for a long time and suddenly woke up. This life and death became a reincarnation in a certain sense. Yang Dechang is a director who is delicate and likes to think. This common thing in life can easily lead to some philosophies that we often overlook. I still remember NJ sighing and expressing the mentality of the middle-aged man, "I thought that if I live again, there might be something different. The result... is still the same, there is no difference. I just suddenly felt that if I live again, it seems like ...It's really unnecessary, it's really unnecessary." This middle-aged man has entered the age of no confusion, when everything is stable as calm as stagnant water to live this ordinary day after day, occasionally When jumping out of the original circle of life and the inertial thinking formed over a long period of time, there is a sense of bluntness. Presumably Minmin is just like that, and she realizes that her life is so blank. "Why do I only have so little. I feel like I have lived for nothing. I am like a fool every day. What am I doing every day?" She tried Seeking solace in the spirit, poured this physical and mental dependence on the faith in the monks' mouths, and after returning for a few months, they still feel that it is still empty. The true transformation of the mood is not deliberately changing the environment, but in the sense of spiritual fulfillment.
The love of young people. Tingting is an obedient and kind child. She never thought of hurting anyone, but she didn't intend to be hurt by others? There are still many things that such a flower-like age cannot understand. Even she has always believed that her mother-in-law's fall and coma were her fault, because she did not clean up the garbage on the balcony in time. I have always liked a set of small details in movies. When NJ crossed the road with his old girlfriend, Tingting, who was in love with her, also crossed the road with her boyfriend. Yang Dechang's expression of this kind of life environment is very subtle, and contains a trace of warmth, but it does not lose the element of social criticism.
The plot of Xiao Yangyang, a cute child, taking pictures with his camera is also very meaningful, because the child can see the side that adults can’t see, that is, the truth of things. He patted the back of people's heads, because the back may be more real than the front. My uncle asked him why, and he said, "If you can't see it, I will help you see it". Such words come from the mouth of a child. This thinking is always full of philosophy. "Why can't people see behind oneself, why can I only know half of the things?" Yang Yang is a sensitive kid at his age, and he is very sensitive to things. The insight is far beyond his age. Indeed, the truth is often hidden on the back of things, and the truth we see is only the truth we think. At the end of the movie, Yang Yang read her diary to the portrait of her mother-in-law, "Mother-in-law, I miss you so much. Especially when I see that little cousin who has no name yet, I will remember you often telling me that you are old. I am. I really want to tell him that I think...I'm getting old too." When such words were spoken by an eight-year-old child, the shock was even greater than the feelings they had originally thought.
Yang Dechang himself is a person who likes to think. In movies, some trivial things in life are often placed in a big perspective. In a certain social background, people of certain ages look at it, showing its unique value and brilliance.
Regarding the name of "Yi Yi", Yang Dechang said: ""Yi Yi" represents everything simple and natural. In fact, it refers to the relationship between people. This relationship is not only verbal communication, but more importantly, emotional communication. , I insist on the importance of each individual life." The English translation is "A One and A Two". When two "ones" are stacked together, they become "two", so simple and natural.
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July 2. I accidentally chatted with a friend about the "Guling Street Juvenile Murder Incident" and said, "It's just who you think you are. I am the same as this world and cannot be changed." There were faint tears. Not a person who knows later. It's just that I feel a little bit sad for this unexpected and natural loss. For a certain period of time, I thought about it, when there is no Zhang Yimou, no Wang Jiawei, no Hou Xiaoxian. Those groups of people who have witnessed the history of Chinese cinema, whose movies were we still watching at that time? I will still miss those faint tunes in "The Best Time" in "To Live" in "To Live" in "2046" in Gong Li's youthful face. The death of Yang Dechang has certainly lost some new expectations, but this wheel of history will still bring us the joy of other new forces. I wrote some subtle words to recall the details of "Yi Yi" and chat to commemorate.
PS. Written a year ago. Old things found at the bottom of the box. I suddenly thought of him.
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