Today, director Wang Xiaoshuai's new film "Long Time" won awards at the Berlin Film Festival: Best Actor and Best Actress, becoming the first domestic film to win both the Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the Berlin Film Festival. piece.
First of all, congratulations to Wang Jingchun and Yong Mei, who won the Best Actor Award and the Best Actress Award. Wang Jingchun is known as a "professional policeman". His early role as a police officer in TV dramas is impressive. In the past two years, "The Detonator", "Police Diary" "The acting is also very brilliant.
And Yong Mei is a show character who does not show the mountains and waters. As early as 15 years ago, she has been well received in the TV series "Chinese Divorce" starring Chen Daoming and Jiang Wenli. In the play, she played Xiao Li, an intellectual, generous and understanding single woman, which made the audience shine.
A total of three Chinese films participated in the selection at the Berlin Film Festival this time. Only this "Long Time" came to the end, and at the same time won the excellent results of the best actor and actress awards, which gave everyone a surprise.
According to media reports, the audience responded well to the screening of the Berlin Film Festival: many Chinese fans and film critics were moved to tears by the plot of the film, and not only that, but also the Western audience who watched it were moved to tears. So, what kind of story is it that can arouse strong emotional resonance between Chinese and Western audiences?
The film reproduces the collective memories of the post-80s generation . Wang Jingchun and Yong Mei play a couple whose son had an accident while playing in a reservoir in 1986. They were about to have a second child, but the second child was discovered by a family planning committee member, Shen Yingming (who was their good friend), and the forced abortion combined with the failure of the operation prevented the heroine from becoming pregnant again.
Wang Jingchun Yongmei's family became enemies with Shen Yingming's family, and they lost their feelings for the place where they lived. So, Wang Jingchun and his wife adopted a child (played by Wang Yuan) at an orphanage, left this sad place, and went to live in a small fishing village in Fujian where no one knew them.
This son was rebellious and rebellious. After a long run away from home, he brought a group of troubled teenagers home, and his father, Wang Jingchun, could only feel helpless.
During this process, the middle-aged man played by Wang Jingchun cheated once. The object of his cheating was the girl who had been secretly in love with him (the sister of the family planning committee). The girl was pregnant during their relationship, but they did not leave the child for various reasons. .
After that, there were many changes in the lives of Wang Jingchun and his wife, and these changes also showed a series of great changes in the times: for example, the "strike hard", a worker was convicted and sentenced to prison for listening to the "Voice of Extravagance" in the West; system reform This led to the wave of layoffs in factories, and the happy collective time of the past was gone forever; the real estate boom, some people became rich because of this, and the gap between the rich and the poor quickly appeared;
More than 20 years later, at the beginning of the 21st century, Wang Jingchun and his wife were old. They returned to their hometown from a small fishing village in Fujian, and they smiled and lost their feud with their original enemy, Shen Yingming.
The red dust is rolling, the earth is long and the sky is long . The film is 3 hours long, and the 3-hour film is part of the history of modernization in China. It shows the ups and downs of the two families in this wave of modernization, and also shows people's confusion when facing a series of changes in family, homeland, and society.
Although the values and worldviews of the East and the West are different, in the face of family, friendship, and homeland, the true things in the heart of human beings are the same. Reasons that resonate.
The main feature of the film is "tear jerking". Many audiences born in the 1980s saw familiar scenes and events in the film and thought of these real historical processes that happened to them, and couldn't help crying. Actor Wang Jingchun said: He was moved to tears after seeing the script. Qi Xi, the actor who played Wang Jingchun's derailment object, said: It has been two years since the filming ended, and even today, she still sheds tears when she thinks of this story.
And Wang Yuan's performance in the movie was unexpectedly good. His original character was a good boy, but in this movie, he successfully played the role of a rebellious, rebellious, and cool adolescent boy.
Also congratulations to Director Wang Xiaoshuai. The Berlin Film Festival is one of the three major film festivals in the world, and its gold content has always been high. Director Wang Xiaoshuai has gained a lot at the Berlin Film Festival.
In 2001, his "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle" won the Silver Bear Award at the 51st Berlin Film Festival; in 2008, his "Left and Right" won the Silver Bear Award for Best Screenplay at the 58th Berlin Film Festival. After "Long Time" won the best actor, director Wang Xiaoshuai has become the domestic director who has won the most at the Berlin Film Festival.
There is also good news for the audience: "Long Time" has been approved by the film authority and obtained the dragon logo. It is estimated that it will be released in China in the near future. At that time, everyone can enjoy high-level performance in the cinema. domestic drama.
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