Text / Levin - The film review was published in the Beijing Youth Daily.
This year's "March 8th Women's Day" coincides with Friday, forming a "Women's Day file" with the weekend two-day holiday, with many films with different styles and themes If you want to be romantic, you can watch "Eros", if you love fantasy, you can watch "Inverse World", if you are looking for excitement, you can watch "Midnight Train", if you want to have fun, you can watch "Laughing Gongzhen Wulin", and sisterhood can watch "Runaway, Woman" ". There are also two biopics of women that are also worth watching. One is "Iron Lady: Solid Tenderness", which won Meryl Streep's Oscar for the second time last year, and the other is directed by Huo Jianqi and starring Song Jia. "Xiao Hong", both films deduce the legendary life of a "famous woman", both of which have merits, but the emphasis is different. In terms of character characterization and overall control, people can still see the obvious difference between domestic films and Hollywood films. gap.
"Iron Lady" is undoubtedly laudable for its creativity. The film is not told in chronological order like ordinary biopics, but unexpectedly starts from the trivial life of the elderly Mrs Thatcher, and depicts the life outside the politician's halo. Little-known retirement life, the film begins with the old-fashioned Mrs Thatcher going out to buy milk, and then having breakfast and chatting with her husband. At this time, someone outside came in to say hello to her, and the camera turned, from the perspective of an outsider, Thatcher The place Mr. Er made was empty, and Mrs Thatcher said to herself: "Yes, we are here." The scene that was full of warmth instantly turned strange and sad, it turned out to be suffering from Alzheimer's disease Margaret Thatcher, always fantasized about her deceased husband still alive. Just a simple camera change makes Mrs Thatcher's old life have a strong emotional impact on the audience.
In the subsequent plots, the retirement life of the elderly Mrs. Thatcher has always been the main line of the narrative, and flashbacks to the previous life are interspersed with ingenious montage techniques. The rhythm of the background music achieves a seamless connection, and this flashback breaks the limitation that sequential narration must be coherent in time and space, avoiding the pressure of the richness and complexity of Mrs Thatcher's life on the length of the film. The essence of Mrs. Thatcher's character, emotional experience, political ups and downs, and ideological will are presented in the flashback, which makes the plot of the flashback more vivid, compact and exciting.
Since Mrs Thatcher was nicknamed "The Iron Lady" and was the first female prime minister in the history of the British Empire, the film revolves around her female identity and "iron" character to interpret the role. His political consciousness undoubtedly came from a politician father, but as the daughter of a grocer, her identity and gender would be despised and mocked by the upper class, and as a girl, she ate with conservative politicians, and after dinner the men started "Talk about business", and women are accustomed to leave the venue and cannot participate in these discussions. When she actually became an MP, she was mischievously put on an ironing board and iron in her women's-only lounge. Even when she became prime minister, her male staff viewed her with more suspicion than trust. Mrs. Thatcher never flinched in the face of all this, but with tenacious and tenacious beliefs, she made the male world stand out with her iron fist and decisive decision-making. When Mr. Thatcher proposed to her, her remarks "I am not like other women, a person's life must have a meaning, it is more meaningful than cooking, cleaning and taking care of children, I can't wash the teacup and die" declared Her beliefs and aspirations far surpassed that of contemporary British women. And this "Iron Lady" temperament can be said to have run through Mrs. Thatcher's life, especially in her old age, she did not always immerse herself in the fantasy world of her husband, but resolutely walked out of it, leaving her husband behind. All the clothes are packaged and given away, and she chooses to face the real and lonely old life, thus proclaiming that even though she is getting old, her character has not changed, and she is still the "Iron Lady" who will not admit defeat in the face of any difficulties.
"Xiao Hong" continues the beautiful and lyrical lens style of director Huo Jianqi's works, plus a large number of literary and artistic lines taken from Xiao Hong's works and original words, making the whole film exude a strong poetic atmosphere and emotional color . Although the film is also like "Iron Lady", it traces back to the previous life from the days before Xiao Hong's death from illness, but the structure is not as ingenious and delicate as "Iron Lady". Flashback to the corresponding past. Moreover, in the balance between Xiao Hong's literary talent and emotional journey, the film will focus entirely on his emotional journey, focusing on his emotional entanglements with his fiancé, Xiao Jun, and Duanmu Hongliang, as well as his relationship with Luo Binji. Ambiguous emotions of friendship and love. Although Xiao Hong's emotional and life experiences are indeed full of drama, she was pregnant with other people's children twice but married to another man, trying hard to live a normal life as a husband and wife, but always encountered cheating and abandonment, and experienced poverty and hunger. , the dilemma of living in a turbulent life, but this is only one side of her life, and the other side of her life - the literary achievements of creating famous novels such as "Life and Death", "Hulan River Biography", is what people remember her. The real reason, not those bloody emotional entanglements. In this regard, "Iron Lady" can be used as a comparison. Although "Iron Lady" also depicts Mrs. Thatcher's relationship with husband and wife, it does not disrupt her portrayal of a political figure full of ideals and aspirations. There are a lot of plots. It still revolves around her political career. And "Xiao Hong" almost completely ignores the description of her literary creation origin, literary ideals and mentality, and only evaluates Xiao Hong's works through the mouths of Lu Xun, Xiao Jun and other people. There are very few, it seems that it is difficult for the director to take into account Xiao Hong's literary and emotional characteristics in the portrayal of the characters. The whole film just makes people feel that Xiao Hong is a sad woman with a bumpy relationship, and she can't see her shining as a female writer. What's the point? Maybe it's more appropriate to change the title to "Xiao Hong's Love" or "The Story of Xiao Hong and Four Men".
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