I am a little apprehensive about writing some comments about "Graduate Exam". Because the movie presents a world that is very close to our real life, the human society, the mid-life crisis, and the immigration of overseas students. Isn't this the daily life discussed on our social media? It may not be a good thing to be too close to the movie, and it is too easy to bring emotions into it.
The film depicts a middle-aged doctor named Romeo, whose marriage has lost sustained motivation and no hope for society. Unexpectedly, her daughter was attacked on the eve of the final exam. Romeo worried that her daughter's exam would be affected by the injury. In order not to let all the efforts of these years go to waste, Romeo had to use his contacts to try to "open a new way" to fulfill his wish for many years.
Such examples seem to be common around us, but what makes the male protagonist unique is the reflection of his idealism from time to time. When the girl's grandmother felt that young people should not be sent abroad and should stay to change the status quo, Romeo sighed about his life: "We stayed, but what have we changed?" Young people in their hometowns are gradually being wiped out by the reality of their homesickness. Since nothing can be changed, the only thing I can do is ask not to be changed.
Therefore, when the doctor tried his best to establish a relationship for his daughter's future, he felt that he had already moved farther and farther from the ideal of integrity, and he had no face to face his daughter, who was always taught to be honest and trustworthy. He had nowhere to go and no suffering. I can only hide in the grass by the roadside and cry.
But these unintended things have strengthened the doctor's will to send his daughter abroad, so that she does not have to live in this mess. But his mind became more and more confused, he became more and more suspicious, and even got into a fight with his daughter's boyfriend. In order to ensure his daughter's performance in the exam, he did not tell her anything about her grandmother's illness until the old man fainted at home.
Protecting her daughter comprehensively, without worrying about things other than GPA, and finally sending her to a kind paradise far away from this land, this is Romania's middle-class dream. But does everything go away when you go abroad? Parents all hope that the regrets that happened to them will not be repeated in the next generation, but Yang Dechang seems to tell us in "One One" that life is not like "some movies", everyone can live clearly, with clear motivation and adventure After breaking through the disaster, I found the true meaning of life; this is not the case, some of the pains of growth are destined to be experienced.
The most wonderful long shot in the second half of the film is to show that the father who loves his daughter, in order to take revenge, tracks a suspect to a dark alley in the middle of the night. Not to mention the figure of the suspect, only the doctor's own heavy breathing could be heard clearly. Under the occasional metal banging and the barking of dogs, and by the occasional moonlight, we saw the doctor's stunned face, staggering away.
In the end, the daughter did not accept the "shortcut" opened up for her by her father, and chose to hand in a satisfactory answer in her own way. Whether or not she ends up successfully studying abroad, when she realizes the limitations of her parents' ways and begins to take responsibility for her own future, this is the beginning of growth.
Everyone's life is like walking alone at night, walking through the hard and stumbling path, and also through the long and smooth road. But in the face of major choices in life, everyone is the first time, and "parenting" is the same, growth is always on the road. When we realize this, we may be able to get along like friends with a normal heart, understand the inappropriateness of their education methods, appreciate the road they have paved for us, and embark on a further journey.
A: I knew for a long time what I was going to write, I just couldn't find the right story. There are a few things I'm interested in, but the one I'm most interested in is portraying people of this age group. I want to shoot A movie like this: When you look back, you realize that most of the important things in life have passed, but you look forward, and you have a long life left. You know that the child will soon be leaving your side, So you don't really know what to do next, because you find that life is not what you thought it was before, and it's very different. So to me, it's a movie about getting old, a movie about family, A movie about "Life is different from what we imagined". When something in life doesn't go the way we want it, we turn to our children. We hope that something in our experience, something we've been wrong about, might be okay Help them. And in reality, it's just a huge hallucination that kids still make their own mistakes. But it's funny that we repeat to our kids the same things we hear from parents, those words in our It never worked, but for various reasons, we need to repeat these words to our children.
Q: What do you think about the scene where the male protagonist gets off the bus and goes to the backyard to look for the suspect?
A: It's been so long that I've forgotten... But I can tell you how the scene was designed, when you create a movie like this, you need to make sure that there's always a certain amount of reality in it, so for that segment there's also Reasonable explanation. If you follow the plot of the movie, you will find that he noticed that the person outside the bus was one of the four suspects who had just been identified at the police station, and he got out of the car and followed the man. I like it very much One of the reasons for this scene is to understand that a person goes from being a hunter to being a prey: at first he looks for the suspect, and at the end he becomes very frightened. When we talk about culpability, things are not so easy. This work to me is a film about people who feel guilty, and the general feeling about this film is: to describe the protagonist in a state of mind, which is very difficult to do in a film. If it is a literary work , describing how a person feels, what is going on in his head, is easy to do. But in a movie, you even have to create a scene to describe what the protagonist thinks and feels, in the hope that by the end, the audience will be able to Understand the feelings of a person who feels guilty for lying.
Q: You mentioned that you rewrote the last thirty pages of the script, so is there any difference between the original ending and the current one?
A: No, the key at the end is to reflect the daughter's position when facing her father's demands on her. It doesn't matter whether she graduates or not, whether to go to the UK or not, the important thing is to understand that her position will be It's not up to me to decide whether it's moral or immoral, I try to not only give my answers, but to understand the people around me, because the whole movie is not just my opinion of what happened, but also Including a lot of disappointment. Some belong to me, most of the disappointment comes from my society, and more, I think most of these disappointments belong to you. I think it is an era when people are very easy to feel disappointed( ?). The reason they don't want to accept the truth is because it's hard to look at yourself: you find out that you're not a very good person, you make a lot of decisions that aren't quite right, that's why I made this The reason for the movie, I think it's a lot easier to watch someone else's story on the big screen and then think about it for yourself.
Q: When Elisa said "I did it my way" at the end, was that a way for you to point out the new Romanian society? How do you feel about Romanian society?
A: For me it's not just a film about Romania: a film has to be set in a location, and I still live there. I think it's very important for a filmmaker that he has a relationship with people and The relationship between people is very understanding, not just about a scene. I think it's a movie about human nature. In fact if you look closely at the end, she does "in her own way", but she finds that There is another "safe" way of doing things, and if that other way is "safe," then I have a hard time appreciating it, because I don't have an answer in my own life. When I wrote the script, I What comes to mind is: Can we be optimistic about the future, and on top of that, if we just educate our offspring with the education we ourselves have received, will the younger generation be better off? I'm not sure. This The film also speaks about the importance of "going out": as long as we are age-determiners, we have to make sure we create frameworks for the younger generation that can make a difference, otherwise it's just a very childish optimism, And this is very common in politics.
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