I really like Mr. Zhu Xu's movies so much. All the movies are full of human fireworks. All basically revolve around human art, inheritance and passage.
In his movies, he has seen Bainiao Chaofeng, a teahouse, and played Uncle Qi, the old curator who has a deep memory in Time Like Water. I still remember the impressive scene in Time Like Water, when the designer Rene Liu asked Zhu Xu: "Uncle Qi, how many years have you been cultivating books here? Zhu Xu slowed down and said tremblingly: "For a lifetime. "His context at that time reminds me now, and I am moved by an indescribable feeling. Zhu Xu is such an excellent old artistic actor. Although he has passed away, his acting skills are not found in modern people. Acting naturally and calmly to the core.
Back to the topic "Changing Faces". I just watched this movie recently. Really like it after watching it. The humanistic appearance of China 20 years ago, the place is also in the ancient town full of market flavor, there is a popular opera troupe, you can set off lanterns, lion dances, fireworks and watch the show during the New Year. The Chinese New Year in the past was much more lively than it is now. And the story of the face-changing is slowly hidden inside.
Zhu Xu will have a unique craft in it and change his face. Eat all over the Jiangnan and four north by changing your face. The outfit of one person, one boat and one monkey is quite a bit of the wandering and unrestrained style of the old Chinese craftsmen. Coupled with the background of the ancient town where the overall blue is always foggy, it adds to this flavor.
Zhu Xu, who has no relatives or children, began to worry that his excellent craftsmanship would not be well passed down through chatting with the opera boss, and he would be taken to the coffin board by himself in the future. I started thinking about buying a doll. But Zhu Xu, like the feudal ideology of the old society at that time, was very patriarchal. He felt that craftsmanship could only be passed on to male dolls. When you come to the place where dolls are bought and sold, in China in the old society, there are many human traffickers and many poor families who can't raise their children, so they will sell their children. However, it is usually female dolls that are sold.
Zhu Xu watched for a long time, and was suddenly attracted by the sound of "Grandpa". He looked at the child who called him. The child still has the straw tied around his head. This child is the later dog.
Zhu Xu was very happy after having a dog baby. In an incident, he suddenly learned that the dog baby was actually a female baby.
Zhu Xu was very angry and told the dog not to call him grandpa. From then on, she was just a part-time worker and wanted to call him the boss. The dog baby is very well-behaved, and is slowly impressing the old man, but the old man still laments that the dog baby is a female doll. Later, Zhu Xu was wrongly accused of abducting and selling the grandson of the county magistrate. The two talents became real relatives, and the dog baby also inherited the unique skill of changing faces.
In addition to paying tribute to the traditional art of face-changing, this film also reflects the background and humanistic thoughts of many old societies. Patriarchal preference, buying and selling their own children to make money, human traffickers are rampant, collusion between county magistrates and security chiefs, and so on.
These are the places where this film is very beautiful. There is also the Leshan Giant Buddha in Sichuan.
Of course, the most touching thing is the grandfather-grandfather love between Gouwa and grandpa. There is no blood relationship, but in that era when you couldn't eat well or dress warmly, there was such a warm story.
This is a movie that belongs to the local flavor of China, our own characteristics.
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