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Under the vast moon, you can think about everything and think about nothing. I feel like a free person. What must be done during the day and what must be said can be ignored now. This is the beauty of being alone. I have used this boundless lotus fragrance and moonlight. ——Zhu Ziqing
In Berlin in mid-February, the chill finally subsided a little. The Berlin Film Festival attracts many filmmakers and tourists from all over the world. After all, Berlin is the Berlin of the common people. The film festival is open to all the public, and the red carpet is also prepared for all the audience who enter the venue.
The premiere of the competition unit of the Golden Bear Awards is usually held in the main theater, the Berlinale Palast. You can see the red carpet entry and curtain call of the director and starring actors, and you can fully feel the atmosphere of the film festival.
Tickets can be purchased online for the first three days of the movie’s premiere. Tickets for “Long Time, Long Days” are very popular, and they were sold out in seconds when it was just released. After waiting for 20 minutes, I finally got a missed ticket.
There are many people queuing up at the on-site ticketing point, but it is still possible to buy it if you go to the queue early. Later, it was found that a small amount of online tickets will be released on the day of the screening, so that people who really want to watch the movie can buy it.
On the day of the premiere, I watched the live media interview at noon, and I felt the excitement of the scene through the screen. The media said that they were "crying collectively", which made me look forward to the premiere at night.
Three hours is very long, and after the screening, the four big characters "Early and Long" reappeared on the screen. There was applause. The director and actors wept on stage and bowed.
As time goes by, this title is also meaningful.
The first is " friendship lasts forever ".
The friendship of the three families in the film began in the 1980s, when disco dancing became popular, wearing sunglasses and flared trousers, playing music on tapes, and a couple of good friends dancing in the staff dormitory with the door closed and the tape recorder on, revelling in the "friendship place". In the music of "Long Tianchang", he recalled the time of the educated youth.
In the 1990s, two families who gave birth to a son celebrated the child's birthday together, and joked to each other that if it was a boy and a girl, they would order a baby to kiss. The two children grew up and played together until the accident that changed the lives of the two families happened.
Twenty years later, when they meet again, everyone's temples are gray. The melody of a long-lasting friendship is repeated many times in the film, and each time has a different meaning.
"The pain lasts forever" .
The couple, played by Wang Jingchun Yongmei, are the tragic center of the film. The English title "So long, my son" (goodbye, my son) directly pointed out the theme, and their whole lives have been experiencing farewell to their sons.
Their pain of losing a child has different interpretations at different ages. Aggrieved and unwilling in youth, great grief and pain when tragedy occurs, forbearance and unbearable grief in middle age, and insight and reconciliation in old age.
Time is a punishment for the grieving, too long to see an end. Time gradually healed the wound, and the grief that could not be mentioned was finally transformed into a deep nostalgia.
The other two families in the film also experienced different pains, brewing different fates with the passage of time. Although there is not much ink, it can make the audience feel the twists and turns.
"Times change forever" .
The fate of individuals and families is inseparable from the times. In the 1980s, the crackdown on "Voice of Extravagance", family planning, the wave of laid-off workers in the 1990s, the earth-shaking changes in cities after the millennium, the prosperity of real estate...
The three-hour movie duration and the slow rhythm also seem to be "a long time and a long time", so it is also complained that "it's like eight sets of TV series on CCTV".
From the very beginning, I was immersed in various details of the 1980s and 1990s, such as the room with green wall skirts, pink and white towels, enamel cups for drinking and gargling, briquettes in the corridors, the “quiet” on the hospital wall "Character.
Seeing the memories of my childhood in my homeland on a foreign movie screen is like a lifetime away.
After returning home after living in a different place for many years, the protagonist couple hardly recognizes the place where they once lived, just like our wandering wanderers have complicated thoughts every time they return home, lamenting the changes and development of the city, but at the same time Again disappointed.
How small we are in the face of the giant wheel of the times.
In the movie, Wang Jingchun and Yong Mei thoroughly portrayed the lives of little people. Their emotions are complex and restrained in the face of no matter how big the tragedy.
The worker played by Wang Jingchun, as a man, tried several times to resist his fate and keep his children, but he was always powerless. The wife played by Yong Mei felt that her husband had cheated and just watched him go home in silence. After a while, she said to him, "If you want to get a divorce, I can also."
It is this superficial restraint that can't hide the surging sadness in the heart, which is the most disturbing part of the film.
The long-lasting tear gas bomb exploded in the media field before the premiere, so that the comments of fans have been "crying all over", "very good to cry" and "can't find the tear point".
The story is not deliberately sensational, but after the foreshadowing in front of it, it slowly opens up one after another with restraint, and the emotion flows out unconsciously .
There was a scene at the premiere where I suddenly heard a loud sob. I thought it was crying in the movie, but it was later discovered that it was the audience in front.
Although foreign audiences may not fully understand our times and living habits, they can empathize with the theme of love.
It can be seen that the director and actors are deeply emotionally invested in this film.
Two years after the film was completed, the crew reunited in Berlin. When Qi Xi just arrived in Berlin a few days ago, she couldn't hold back her tears when she saw the long-lasting posters hanging on the wall of the airport. Wang Yuan cried and laughed at the premiere of his movie. Arya also wiped tears excitedly as she bowed to the curtain at the end of the premiere.
Director Wang Xiaoshuai said, this is not a movie, this is our life.
Looking forward to this Chinese family epic being released on domestic screens as soon as possible.
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The best actress in Berlin
Wang Jingchun is the second Chinese-speaking Berlin actor and the fifth "Big Three" actor among Chinese-speaking actors.
①Ge You "Alive" in the 47th Cannes in 1994
②Xia Yu, "Sunny Days", 51st Venice in 1994
③ Tony Leung "In the Mood for Love" in the 53rd Cannes in 2000
④Liao Fan, "Fireworks in the Daytime", the 64th Berlin 2014
⑤Wang Jingchun's "Long Time", the 69th Berlin 2019
Yongmei is the third Chinese-speaking Berlin actress and the fifth "Big Three" actress among Chinese-speaking actors.
① Gong Li's "A lawsuit against Qiu Ju", the 49th Venice in 1992
②Maggie Cheung "Ruan Lingyu", 1992, the 42nd Berlin
Maggie Cheung "Clean" at the 57th Cannes in 2004
③Xiao Fangfang, "Forty Women", the 45th Berlin 1995
④ Ye Dexian "Peach Sister" in the 68th Venice in 2011
⑤Yongmei "Long Time" 69th Berlin 2019
Winners of the 69th Berlin Film Festival
Best Picture Golden Bear : "Synonyms" (France)
Jury Prize : "Thank God" (France)
Alfred Bauer Award : System Breaker (Germany)
Best Director : Angela Schanelec "I was at home, but..." (Germany)
Best Actress : Yong Mei "Long Time" (China)
Best Actor : Wang Jingchun "Long Time" (China)
Best Screenplay Award : "Teenage Mafia" (Italy)
Best Artistic Contribution Award : "Going to Steal a Horse" (Norway)
Best Documentary Award : "Talking about trees" (Sudan)
Best First Feature Award : "Oray" (Germany)
Best Short Film Golden Bear : "Umbra" (Germany)
Silver Bear for Best Short Film : "Blue Boy" (Brazil/US/Canada)
Two other Chinese films also won awards:
New Generation Kplus International Jury Award : "The First Parting"
Teddy Bear Award (Jury Award) : "Goodbye Nanping Evening Bell"
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