Although "If You Are the One" is still a so-called "Feng Xiaogang New Year's Comedy", the iconic elements of those "Feng Xiaogang Comedy Movies" are still there, but these are no longer the focus of this film. Anger can produce not only poets but also comedy directors. As a successful film director, Feng Xiaogang's anger and criticism of reality in his early films has been transformed into a gentle ridicule of himself and this generation in "If You Are the One".
As a peak in Feng Xiaogang's film career, the double victory of "Assembly" in terms of box office and word of mouth is of great significance to director Feng Xiaogang. Feng Xiaogang indignantly mentioned in his book "I Dedicate My Youth to You" that after a series of realistic TV dramas such as "The Back of the Moon" and "Chicken Feather in One Place" were shot or castrated. , he turned to the New Year comedy line that entertained the public with laughter and scolding. After successive box office successes, as a successful director who gained the right to speak, Feng Xiaogang not only matured in his film skills, but also gradually moved closer to the direction of "successful people" in terms of mentality and vision. Fang Y Fang", "Endless", "See You Never Die" is the spokesperson of the urban "rogue" in movies such as "Fang B". (It must be noted that the "hooligan" here is a definition of people who have lost their identity in the urban population, rather than a moral or judicial judgment in the traditional sense.)
But a Feng Xiaogang who appears as a successful person will still It is embarrassing to discover that financial success does not offset the willful indifference of mainstream society. Until he gained the final recognition of the mainstream society with "Assembly", when he turned around and faced the New Year's comedy on which he became famous, an embarrassing situation came forward - he was not angry enough anymore As for not being able to laugh and scold like he did back then.
So "If You Are the One" mildly made a lot of jokes, but basically they all happened in some confined spaces and no longer had contact with the outside world. When the roles played by Ge You and Shu Qi needed a larger environment to reveal their hearts, the director sent them to Hokkaido. The benefit of this, in addition to possible advertising sponsorships, is to provide an unrealistic, subtly but deliberately removed background environment of all traces of real life.
"If You Are the One" is a comedy on the surface, but it is a drama ethics film at heart. A middle-aged man and a young woman met in the form of marriage, and discovered the secrets of each other's past, which eventually evolved into "two hearts of despair" and fled to Hokkaido together. In this journey of the same bed and different dreams, the middle-aged man seeks the promise of the future, while the young woman wants to break free from the shackles of the past.
Although this story is loose, it reflects, intentionally or unintentionally, the moral and existential anxiety that prevails among the current urban groups—how to find a balance between reality and ideals at a time when traditional moral constraints are extremely lacking?
Of course, Feng Xiaogang's films never give answers, he is only responsible for providing warmth. If someone is stupid enough to go into a movie theater to find answers to the puzzles in their lives, we'll just have to pretend we can't see it.
Qin Fen, a middle-aged anxious man played by Ge You, entered a church half-truth in Hokkaido to make a confession. In fact, neither the pastor nor the audience could understand what Qin Fen was nagging about, but he was able to enjoy it himself. For director Feng Xiaogang, "If You Are the One" is such a movie. It's good if it can scratch the audience's feet, but it doesn't matter if it can't be scratched. The important thing is that director Feng Xiaogang used "If You Are the One" to do a slightly sad combing of his middle-aged feelings.
Although we can still hear the expected humorous dialogue in the movie, for the audience, there is a hint of melancholy behind the laughter. Perhaps in order to dilute the faint melancholy that pervades the whole film, the beginning and end of the film are abruptly joined by Fan Wei's role. In particular, at the end of the film, the prospect of the stock market booming is not only redundant, but also cheap.
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