The long road of life is bumpy and bumpy.
We are bombarded by chicken soup for the soul the most often heard now, there is such a sentence:
"Everything has to look forward."
It seems that if we look forward, everything will be fine, the future is always bright, and there are always many unknowns and surprises waiting for us.
But is it really so? Or, is it really 'just' that?
We always say that Jiang Wen's storytelling is always a bright line and a dark line, two-pronged approach and two-line development. In Zhou Xingchi's shots, there are always two lines, one stretches out in front of him and the other stretches out behind him.
【Dream in front of you, warning behind you】
Qiangxiong told Mingfeng that he was the initiator. Mingfeng, who used to be known as the 'Golden Right Foot', had the ball scattered on the ground in his arms. From Mingfeng's eyes and smile, we can easily see that what Mingfeng harbors at this time is not anger towards Qiangxiong, but helplessness towards 'destiny' under self-blame and self-mockery.
Turnaround.
The reputation of the Shaolin football team started, and the game played well. Qiangxiong panicked, intending to win over Mingfeng, who is a coach, and persuade him to cooperate with him. Qiangxiong knew that he was wrong and said:
"Everything has to look forward."
Mingfeng looked relieved and smiled. He is indeed looking forward, but what is waiting for him in front of Mingfeng is not to cooperate with Qiangxiong, but to defeat Qiangxiong; not to be greedy for money as he was in the past, but to be greedy for the 'completeness of his heart' after winning.
Mingfeng therefore rejected Qiangxiong.
Mingfeng's choice is inseparable from the past.
In the past, Mingfeng was plotted by Qiangxiong for his greed for money, and then ruined his career. Gold's right foot was crippled, and he couldn't stand on the green to shoot. For 20 years, he has relied on chores under Qiangxiong to live, just to have another chance to lead the team: to change his identity and win glory on the field again. The same is true for Brother Ma in "The True Color of Heroes", except that Brother Xiao has been squatting for three years, and Mingfeng has been kneeling for 20 years; Brother Xiao Ma is not for money, nor to show off how great he is, but to prove You must take back what you have lost. Mingfeng is the same. When Mingfeng took over the training of the Shaolin team again, he was not unfamiliar with the ball at all - although his feet were lame, his heart was corrected and smoother.
When the brothers 'returned', Mingfeng knelt on the ground and saw the hope, he was as devoutly moved as he was kneeling to the Arhat Bodhisattva; when the Shaolin team defeated the devil team led by Qiangxiong to win the trophy, was Mingfeng's wish for 20 years? Is it finally over?
【In front of you is life, behind you are fetters】
When the Shaolin team formed a team, they were unable to recruit players. As a Shaolin disciple, the five senior brothers possess the stunt 'Vajra Legs'. He and Mingfeng ran around, looking for long-lost brothers and sisters in order to recruit team members.
The eldest brother 'Tietou Gong' is doing odd jobs in the bar, and he is always slapped by the boss's bottle;
The second senior brother of 'Whirlwind Ditangleg' was washing dishes on the street. He was troubled by hair loss after he just quit the toilet cleaning line;
Although the third senior brother of 'Golden Bell Cover and Iron Cloth Shirt' is up to hundreds of thousands per second, his driver is always absent from work;
The four senior brothers of 'Ghost Catcher' have lived in seclusion and have lived from the 20th century to the 21st century;
'Qinggong Water Drift' Six Junior Brother's cold bacteria entered the brain and drooped, and he was also obsessed with web games and couldn't extricate himself.
The five brothers were assimilated by the society, and in the world they lived in, they forgot the martial arts they had learned in the past, and they stumbled at the bottom of the society. No matter how high kung fu is, you are afraid of kitchen knives. In this place where kitchen knives are all registered with real names, what is the use of martial arts in this society? Survival is pressing on them, and it has already made them breathless. What dreams are there to talk about? What martial arts are you doing? What else are you playing? So when the five senior brothers invited them to play football, they all closed the door.
Although it always backfires, but there are days when people wish. In the dead of night, when the five brothers and sisters were looking back on the past with photos, they were all 'fascinated'. Because the ghosts are obsessed, the five senior brothers responded to the call of the five senior brothers together. This spirit of deviating from reality is not only the awakening of the essence of martial arts, but also the unwillingness to reality, and the concern and pursuit of friendship.
In that unfriendly 'friendly game', the five senior brothers awakened the unwillingness and determination that slumbered in their hearts under the humiliation, and retrieved the long-forgotten dignity of martial arts.
'Being ashamed before being brave' is not only the screenwriter's setting for the image in the play, but also the director's expectation for a group, a profession and even a race. However, it is a pity that there is no Chinese film, no Chinese football, and so on. no.
When the fourth senior brother, who looked exactly like Bruce Lee in every move, put on sunglasses and was carried out on a stretcher, the fifth senior brother played by Zhou Xingchi looked at him:
"Although you are gone, your spirit is always there."
This is really the most straightforward confession made by director Stephen Chow to his idol.
Before the three idiots made a riot in Bollywood, the six idiots had already made a riot on the football field. See the dream, don't assimilate, forget the iron rules - they are all fools.
【Escape in front of you, love behind you】
Amei, who kneads steamed buns, has no place in this 'society of beauty'. She is inferior because of her appearance and makes a living by working and kneading dough.
Amei is not only inferior in words, but also in her heart. Not only can she not lift her head up in front of the vicious proprietress, but even in front of customers, she has been covering most of her face with her hair—even if Amei herself is the same as the one in her hands Mantou is 'sweet', but with her ugly appearance, she can't even get an invitation to ask others' hearts, so how can people know that she's 'sweet'? Writing this, the ugly otaku couldn't help shedding tears of empathy.
Amei only got angry once, that time because her sweetheart not only failed to protect her dignity under the words of others, but also added fuel to the fire; Amei only hurt her heart once, this time because the person she loved did not Love her. Amei asked her sweetheart:
"Are we just friends?"
The sweetheart said to him:
"Let's all look forward...I'll never wear my shoes again."
Since then, Amei has never been able to make ''Sweet Heart'' steamed buns again.
Why are the shoes broken? Which shoes are born to be broken? Isn't it because it's been with you for too long? If you didn't wait for her in front, what would you do if you went? Without her waiting in front, you can see the end of the so-called 'front' at a glance by standing here.
When it was embattled again, Amei appeared again. With those 'broken shoes' from the past that the sweetheart threw away.
Tai Chi can be used to make steamed buns or to keep doors. Amei came back. Although her face became clean, her heart never changed. Are romantic endings as romantic as they appear? If Amei hadn't become beautiful, would the two of them still have this ending?
Not just these. Many details in the film are also 'symbols' that frequently appeared in Stephen Chow's previous films. For example, 'like flowers', such as Cecilia Cheung and Karen Mok who have worked with him, such as Gu Dezhao's line in "God of Cookery", "It's all hallucinations!" Although these symbols are optional, without them, Zhou's films would be lost. something 'seen but invisible'.
We all say that Stephen Chow's films are nonsensical comedies, but they are written about the sad smiles and tears of little people in the market, and this is an example of this. Ordinary people may not be worthy of being written into history books, or they may not be worthy of being on the news network on time every night to give lectures to everyone, or their voices may not be worthy of ripples. But everyone's joys and sorrows are the same, no matter whether you are a fallen emperor or a fallen child. So, we derived this formula:
It ends with Xiaoboda's nonsensical + twists and turns detours + romantic comedy ending = Zhou Xingchi.
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