The big winner of the Golden Horse Awards last year was undoubtedly "Sunshine".
Won the best feature film, best director, best actor, best supporting actor, best editing 5 awards, and also won the annual Golden Horse audience vote for the best film.
This shows that "The Sunshine" has not only conquered professional audiences, but is also a movie that everyone can understand and love.
The family of four on the poster reminded me of Japanese family movies for the first time: no matter what, family harmony is the most important thing, and in the end it is always going to be sitting at a dinner table and talking and laughing.
But no, in this movie, the younger son enters the juvenile prison, the elder son commits suicide without warning, and the father eventually becomes a murderer. Under the sun, everyone has shadows.
The core characters of "Sunshine" are three teenagers: the youngest son Ahe, the eldest son Ahao, and Ahe's "bad friend" Caitou. The core contradiction is the opposition and difference between the child and the parent. Next, I will discuss three points. The first two points will talk about the three teenagers, and the third point will talk about the father in the movie.
First, the thing I paid the most attention to in the whole film should be Caitou. Caitou is a small but important and subtle role.
Caitou is a low-level person who has to grow into a treacherous, cunning and cruel heart. He is the kind of person who is most likely to be labeled with various stereotypes, and is hated and feared by all members of the bright society. Caitou actually has nowhere to go. There is only an elderly grandmother at home, and when he commits a crime on impulse and loyalty, not only his family cannot provide him with any help, but the family can’t pay a dime, even the only one. His relatives and grandma were sent to the nursing home, and no one around him showed any mercy to him. Friends only wanted to draw a line with him. In short, he was a poor and helpless person. If he was not ruthless, he would probably be The type of people who have to beg for food. He complained that his friend Ah He was completely responsible after the accident, and he was the only one who was responsible for the crime. He also complained that when Ah He was bullied, he who was a friend helped him "without saying a word" when he was bullied. He vented his breath, and when he was in trouble, there was no one around him. Relatively speaking, Ahe's parents gave him a lot of help, and in the end his father even "helped" him kill the "troublesome" Caitou.
When Caitou came out of the juvenile control office, he "had trouble with Ah He". At least Ah He regarded him as a trouble, including Ah He's father. In short, as soon as Caitou appeared on the stage, Ahe's life seemed to become "tensed". Ahe who wanted to live a fair and honest life was very afraid of getting involved with Caitou, but Caitou repeatedly came to the door. Caitou looks like an existence who keeps dragging down the young people who have worked hard to reform themselves, a bad friend who "brings the children of our family". However, in the end, Caitou would be killed by Ah He’s father, but because he was afraid that his friend would be scolded by the boss again because of the smell of smoke in the car, he chose to get out of the car and smoke. This allowed Ah He’s father to find a suitable person to kill him. Chance. Seeing this old lady, she almost burst into tears. Caitou is not a bad boy at all, he just has to be bad, and in the end he will die, actually because he is not bad enough, bad enough, and ironic enough.
In the end, Ah He's father confessed to his mother that he had killed Caitou by driving. He also felt a little relieved after learning that Caitou had been killed, and ran on the viaduct. Unlike the day when Caitou died, the sky cleared, and it seemed that Ah He could really start a new life.
When Ah He was threatened by Caitou many times and was forced to dirty his hands in the underground economy, I was thinking about how rehabilitated people like Ah He could escape the shadow of the past, and Dang Ah He’s father decisively killed Caitou’s At that time, I seemed to know the answer. This is how little people can solve their troubles. This society and the existing system can’t help much at this time, just as Ahe’s father was able to be confident when he was forced by Hei Lunbo to get debts. Say: It's no use going to anyone! I am a person protected by law!
Social norms like the law can only work on people who can’t see the dark, and what the law can protect is only those who live in the daytime. As for the Caitou who lives in the law of the jungle, none of them can help him. Even if he was killed, the underworld people thought he must have been beaten to death. After all, people like Caitou were beaten. The chance of death is too great.
Second, judging from the fate of Ahhao and the brothers, as the parents of the two, it seems that they have never understood their children.
Since it is a movie and has a script, the director must have figured out the reason why Ahao wants to commit suicide, but I often wonder, can we really understand the suffering of others? Because there are some depressed friends around me who watched their favorite idol commit suicide, and then I saw people around them making all kinds of firm judgments about their illness and death. This incident made me extremely scared. I think the understanding between people is really too difficult. In other words, we often think we know and get close to others, just like no one knows why Ahao chose to commit suicide, including his friend Xiaozhen. , Although she received the last text message from Ahao.
During the conversation with the psychological counselor in the Junior Management Office, the younger brother Ahe said that his elder brother was too good, and he did everything right. He was so powerful that he only did one thing wrong in his life, and that was suicide. Right now, I deeply disagree with this sentence, and then I started to think about whether this is what the director wanted to express. Afterwards, Ah He really said it during the conversation with my father. All of us didn't know what my brother was thinking.
Based on my current guess, what the director wants to express may indeed be a realm that the relationship between people cannot reach forever. In another work by the director, "The Big Buddha", at the end of the movie, Caimu came to the home of his dead friend Ducai, only to find that Ducai’s house hid a universe that no one had seen before, and said a sentence that moved countless people. The audience’s famous quote: “Although it is now in the space age, humans can reach the moon by spacecraft, but they cannot see through the universe in everyone’s heart.”
But is your elder brother always doing the right thing like his younger brother Ahe imagined? It may not be right. When his family was not present, his elder brother Ahao ran into the instructor in the cram school and was kicked out of the teacher. He sensibly offered to help his mother take Xiaoyu to the obstetric checkup, but quietly took Xiaoyu to visit his younger brother Ahe in the juvenile management office. The right thing in the middle school may always be different from the parents or the social recognition, which led to his depression and suicide.
At the end of the movie, Ah He, who was walking with her mother, wanted to take her for a ride on a whim, just like her mother was taking her own ride when she was a child, so he unlocked a bicycle on the side of the road. At this time, my mother said: When did you learn this? Ah He said: I will get this early.
Ahe’s parents probably don’t know when Ahe became an unbehaved child, whether he was bullied before, and they couldn’t ask. They only knew that his son didn’t like to go to school at elementary school, and junior high school began to join him. The boxing team then began to fight frequently until they entered the juvenile control office. But when Caitoulai questioned Ahe, he mentioned that Ahe was bullied by Heilun, so he invited Caitou to "scare" Heilun with him. Unexpectedly, Caitou came in and chopped off the opponent's hand. It became a tragedy. Ahe is a thin and small boy, not a ruthless character, and he can also see from the interaction with the dormitory members on the first day when he enters the juvenile management office. First hit the opponent on the ground. But it is impossible for mom and dad to ask about this, including Ahe’s little girlfriend, Xiaoyu. In Aunt Xiaoyu’s discussion, Xiaoyu was a very cute child when she was a child, but after she grew up she didn’t understand her less and less.
Third, the life philosophy of the father who is a coach in a driving school is: grasp the time and master the direction .
In fact, the role of father is quite contradictory. On the one hand, he didn’t want to admit the existence of his younger son. He publicized that there is only a “son who will go to medical school next year”. On the other hand, as a driving school coach, he knew that he was not a high class in society. He even had a low self-esteem in front of his elder son. He showed complete obedience and humbleness. He went to the cram school to find his son. That scene can prove it.
Grasp the time and grasp the direction. This sentence came from the slogan of the driving school and became his mantra and philosophy of life, as well as the director's black humor. The youngest son he regarded as a shame had already gone in the wrong direction. It was not until the elder son committed suicide that he had no choice but to gradually accept the younger son.
This philosophy of life is actually a certain kind of social Darwinism, and it is also the current universal value orientation-time is important, opportunity is important, forge ahead, face the sun, and keep up. You must walk the right path.
Believing in this philosophy is a great source of pressure for Ahe, who has been inferior to his brother since childhood, and Ahao, who failed the college entrance examination. Only raising and right or wrong are left in the parent-child relationship, but there is no love and communication.
I seem to like Zhong Menghong’s works quite a lot. "Parking" is the first one I watched. To be honest, I watched it for Gui Lunmei, but this is also the director’s first feature film, and it is still one of my favorites so far. This is a film that is very suitable to watch when I have nothing to do at home, but it is the film I remember the most details. All the black humor hits my heart, bitter and sweet, without any pretentious feeling, as if the screenwriter has already Is a veteran of 800 years of experience. Maybe "The Sunshine" lacks this kind of calmness in my opinion? The laughter is a bit deliberate, and the plot conflict is also full of abruptness, and it feels like it serves the trend of the plot.
Finally, the soundtrack of Lin Shengxiang's team silently adds points, although it is very different from the style of the Great Buddha, I only found it when I watched the end of the film.
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[This article was handwritten the day after I watched the movie. The main purpose is to write down the points that I still remember. After the Chinese New Year, I climbed up to check the movie and suddenly found that this article was seen by many people, and some people commented on it. Speaking of my mistake about "Big Buddha"! It's not the clock, the clock is just photography! I won’t change the original text and keep the traces of the error. The comments below from the province seem unclear, but the tonality of this wave of directors in Taiwan is really quite similar. I personally like Zhong Hahaha.]
[Because the original intention of writing a film review is to discuss and communicate with more people, my interpretation is only my thoughts after seeing it in the cinema once, and I usually ignore a lot of details when I watch a movie, I want everyone’s interpretation They are all worthy of respect. My personal opinion does not believe that it is necessary to stick to the only interpretation. Other people’s comments have also inspired me-I hate the so-called "interpretation of right or wrong", and friends who have heard Q&A should also I will meet the director saying "Oh, I didn't think about that much", but I think the openness of interpretation is interesting]
[I wrote very little about the interpretation of the older brother, I think it is not enough, because I admit that I have a lot of points "I don't understand too much", so I don't know how to explain it! The truth of life in real life is even more confusing. Last month, a college student suddenly committed suicide. The students around him, including his girlfriend, were very sad, but everyone said that he had never mentioned that he wanted to die. I think all explanations for suicides have a very high degree of "unauthorized". However, the director said in the interview that this work is related to his experience as a father, so I guess that from the director's own perspective, the father should be the closest to his own perspective? However, there is a popular work in Taiwan in 2018, "Your Child is Not Your Child", so I think "Brother" is a template for a certain type of child, maybe the director considered it]
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