I have never been to the cinema to watch "Changjiang No. 7". This is because all my trusted friends told me unanimously that this is a Stephen Chow movie that lacks bright spots and is mediocre to the extreme. Now that the DVD came out, I just watched it casually. It was really boring, and I almost fell asleep in the middle.
A very unsuccessful pseudo-children's film.
Why didn't it work? Why did I use pseudo-words? Because the core of this movie is actually a successful old man who is lamenting his lack of childhood. So it is doomed that this is not a children's movie, this is just a memoir made up by a middle-aged man. So it never impresses me.
Some people say that this film is Zhou Zai's tribute to the image of his father. But I believe that any normal-minded migrant father will not bite the bullet and send his child to an aristocratic school. Only endless insults are waiting for the child, which does not make anyone happy. Zhou may have just created a sense of drama, but at the cost of making it appear that he is insulting the intelligence of poor fathers across China. Therefore, the father-son relationship created in this situation is a relationship that makes each other extremely uncomfortable. How can we talk about family affection?
And he repeatedly taught his son in the film: go to school well, grow up to be a useful person. More like a threat from the adult world to the child's instinct to stay happy. We all know that Zhou is suffering from a little lack of culture, so we feel deeply. But that doesn't mean that endless preaching can show a fatherly heart, it just makes me uncomfortable. It makes me feel that this old man only sees his own suffering, but forgets his sweetness as a child. "I'm your father, I've worked so hard for you, so you have to listen to me." This is the subtext of this film, which is definitely against innocence.
It can be seen that Zhou wants to learn Spielberg, but Zhou has lost a heart full of pure imagination. The reason why ET can impress all adults and children in the world is that Uncle Si is really shooting with a child's innocence. And Zhou Xingchi is using adult values to tell children's stories; and when his feces and farts come up in his bones, he makes this film very nondescript. Whether it's a stout girl like a stupid elephant, a space dog spewing shit, or a father and son clapping their hands and feet and stepping on cockroaches, such a scene in a children's film will only make my physiology uncomfortable. In fact, it was Zhou who put himself in such an embarrassing situation -- unwilling to return to his usual style, and unwilling to completely give up his previous little tricks.
Therefore, I still love "The Secret of the Treasure Gourd". Except for an unhappy ending, the original fairy tale, the black-and-white version shot in the early years and the color version of the film remake last year, the whole story is about the happiness of children. About the child's desire, about the child's laziness, about the child's refusal to grow up. So it delights me and reminds me of my true childhood state. If China has a great "Robocat" style work, then it deserves it. Just as we like and envy Nobi, like because of his clumsiness and weakness, just like we used to be; envy, because the robot cat is always responsive to his needs and can never dig out the treasure. Although there are similar children's little greed in Changjiang No. 7, they were forcibly smashed by the father, the man named Zhou Xingchi.
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