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Kaci 2022-03-21 09:03:17

Fame, family. There are two simple life pursuits, and the choice between the two undoubtedly troubles each of us. The film "With You" directed by Chen Kaige perfectly interprets the entanglement between the two, allowing the audience to better understand the relationship between family affection and fame and fortune through this film.
The film tells the story of Liu Xiaochun, a 13-year-old violin genius. Xiaochun's father Liu Cheng is proud of his son and wants to make Liu Xiaochun get a better education through his own efforts. During this difficult process, the relationship between father and son has become more and more tense. Facing the choice between fame and fortune and family affection, Xiaochun finally abandoned fame and fortune and chose great family affection. Throughout the film, the director narrates a lot of character relationships. Father-son relationship, teacher-student relationship, male-female relationship, sibling relationship, etc. Among the many relationships, the one that stands out is the father-son relationship. The kind of affection between father and son deeply moved every audience.
At the beginning of the film, the director opens with a close-up. Xiaochun in the shot is getting a haircut, and Professor Yu also has a haircut for Xiaochun in the back of the film. There is an inseparable connection between the two. At the beginning, Xiaochun was a character from a simple and small city with ordinary hairstyles. At that time, he was still far from success. Later, Xiaochun, as Professor Yu's student and about to participate in an international competition, became more and more bright, so he changed his beautiful hairstyle. There is an obvious contrast between the two hairstyles, reflecting the change of Xiaochun's "status". When Xiaochun went to Teacher Jiang's last class, the director also used a few close-up shots. The violin and piano in the shot were perfectly combined. The soft, bright and slightly blurred light shone on the scruffy but now clothes The neat and tidy Teacher Jiang brings a beautiful and sacred feeling to the audience. At the same time, it also shows Xiaochun's reluctance towards Teacher Jiang.
The director's use of music in the film can be said to be ingenious, exciting, soothing, and especially infectious. At the beginning of the film, the combination of the traditional Chinese folk instruments, the flute and the pipa, composes a melodious piece of music, depicting a simple and generous picture of a water town, giving the audience an immersive feeling. In the middle part of the film, when Professor Yu explained Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" in class, he mentioned that he overheard in the heavy rain when he was thirteen or fourteen years old, "You have a secret, a secret between music and music, music. It's your first love, and that's a wonderful feeling." The explanation of the music here can make the audience understand the meaning of the music more thoroughly and play a very intuitive role. At the end of the film, when Xiaochun found his father at the train station, he played for Liu Cheng himself once, and he played the song that Xiaochun originally played. One side is Xiaochun's performance, and the other is Xiaochun's sister Lin Yu's performance. The two are constantly changing, highlighting the entanglement between family love and fame and fortune, and the family relationship between father and son. Affection produces deeper understanding.
At the end of the film, Xiaochun did not go to the competition, but chose to follow his father. "With You" "you" is not only father, teacher, sister, but also family and music. All fame and fortune are thrown away, and what is left is great love.

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  • Liu Xiaochun: [in Mandarin] Dad, my back itches.

    Liu Cheng: [in Mandarin] Here.