Chinese-style music coupled with a set of scenes of steaming steamed buns, the audience established a movie viewing concept about Chinese stories within a very short time of opening, but after that, the details that showed that the place took place abroad were quickly pulled up. The discussion of cultural differences between China and the West lays the foundation for the film's contradictions with a simple setting.
The neutral tone in the picture of the husband and wife eating together minimizes the possibility of conflict between the two, which also makes the husband raise his hand, look at the watch, speed up the meal, and leave to appear more ordinary. The vacant seat left suspense for the film, but if you look carefully, you will find that the photos on the wall have told us a little bit of the story.
The steamed buns turn into babies. The positional relationship between the cage and the empty chairs announces the protagonist's appearance. The green leaves tell the story of vitality. Then the long-disappeared background music appears and gradually increases, and the story officially begins.
In several groups of life scenes of the two, the music is festive and more and more high, and the subsequent sharp turn indicates the starting point of the turning point of the story, and the following plot highlights the contradiction step by step with light and shadow and characters.
Bao Baobao found a new interest. In the first picture, when he was buying fruit, he was in the dark, and the football was in the light. Balanced by the gentle Taijiquan on the left and the exciting football game on the right, he chooses football again; in the third picture, two people are sitting in the car. At this time, the mother and Bao Baobao are completely sitting in the light and dark, and the two are in conflict. rapidly increase.
The next paradox is back at home, where the mother in the narrow, dark corridor contrasts sharply with the baby in the bright, spacious room. At this time, the music has a strong sense of rhythm, and the psychological and emotional changes of the follower characters rise and strengthen again. Unfortunately, after that, the pictures of the two are always separated by the door frame, or Bao Bao runs out of the door frame, and the distance between the two is getting farther and farther. Darkness and overeating bring bad moods to the extreme, and the only light from the kitchen doesn't help.
"Wife" and "Leaving" are the biggest contradictions in the whole story of the two, and it is also the only time that Bao Baobao's subjective shot appears, which is the oppressive mother who needs to be looked up to. The fear of "marrying a daughter-in-law and forgetting your mother" made the mother hurt her child in a panic. This swallowing and the spit at the beginning do not know what kind of irony echoes, and the mother's pain increases as the brightness of the picture decreases.
Although the father plays very little role, his identity plays an extremely important role. In the first picture, the mother is in a little light outside the dark door. In the next picture, the balance is half light and half darkness. The father is standing in the light, playing an important intermediary role. In the end, when the proportion of light is larger, the father is more Is to push a child. The silence on weekdays and the stand-up at critical moments allow this character to perfectly demonstrate the greatness of a Chinese-style father.
In the end, the son took the initiative to turn on the lights, warm colors, music again, a box of barbecued pork buns, and the aggregation of the mother's small action to resolve the contradiction. So far, it has appeared three times, eating together → eating alone → eating together with the barbecued pork buns. A story of cultivating feelings → generating conflicts → resolving conflicts has come to an end.
The film focuses on the contradiction between parents' possessiveness and children's self-awareness. The background setting of Chinese families living in the West uses "the influence of the environment on people" to escalate this contradiction. Finally, it is based on "home" The concept of resolving conflicts can be regarded as a short film that is more qualified to express Chinese family culture.
(I found a small point: the calendar in the film said that "three" should be the month, but the number of days was only 28. I don't know if it was intentional or a production error.)
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