tearjerker director

Soon the media also reported the co-production film "Happy Family".

"Li Yi's production must be a high-quality product, with the original taste and original formula. The movie "Happy Family" is a tragicomedy with tears in the laughter!"——Hua Guo Film Report.

""Happy Family" bursts into laughter and tears in just a moment!" - Penguin Entertainment.

"The bitter history of family love in "Happy Family", I cried with a smile, the iconic tear-jerking film directed by Li Yi, highly recommended!" - "Watching Movies"

Wait, wait, it can almost be said that the praise of water.

Of course, this must also be related to the fact that the quality of the movie "Happy Family" itself is indeed good. In addition to this movie, Huaying can be said to be very supportive, and Li Yi's own reputation and reputation, so it has created, Hardly any bad reviews.

At the same time, film critics began to interpret the film from different angles.

A well-known Hong Kong film critic wrote: "I never thought that because of this film, I would end up crying. As a monster who walks in the city and enjoys loneliness, we should all learn to bear loneliness alone, and then put the tears away." All tuned high.

What makes a life whose instinct is to survive, but would rather go against his own instinct and choose to commit suicide? ——This is what I thought when I saw the first scene of "Happy Family"-the movie started with the scene where the hero Shang Wan was crying and stuffing a lot of sleeping pills into his mouth.Only after I saw the back did I realize that it was loneliness.

Yes, loneliness is the reason why many people choose to leave this world, no relatives, no lover, no friends... But when Shang Wan’s single photo at the end of the movie showed his family (if you want to know why, go to the movie), Only then did Shang Wan know, and I also learned that parting does not mean non-existence, and loneliness does not mean loneliness. It is just that we forget or do not feel it. In fact, emotions are always around us, but in an invisible form.However, you can't say that if you can't see it, it doesn't exist. Isn't air the best example?
In fact, what makes people lonely nowadays is often not loneliness, but being in the noisy crowd, but they can't feel the emotional surround and spiritual communication.Blaming society for indifference?But isn't society made up of individuals like you and me?Do we have to realize and feel that they are actually around us at the moment of parting?So please cherish the people and feelings around you, talk to your relatives, lovers, and friends more, from which you can feel everyone's love, because people will always leave, but memories will follow you all your life.

Maybe you and I are destined to be alone, but you and I will not be alone.

Closer to home, in this movie, director Li Yi once again taught everyone a lesson. It turns out that the plot of the movie can be very simple, and the story can also be familiar.

But how to tell a story well, and through whom, is an art.I have always felt that this is the essence of a good movie.

I once read a sentence: People nowadays are trying to make the language of communication simple and clear.However, once this happens, the language of communication loses its meaning, because the semantics are not clear, so there is the necessity and possibility of communication.

There are actually two meanings in this. One is that human thought itself is dynamic, and human words cannot fully represent a person’s current emotions or opinions. Behavior becomes reasonable and manageable.

Second, the current human beings are becoming more and more unwilling or unsociable, maybe they are busy, or they don’t want to take the time to get to know new people and new things.

This is why there are always various misunderstandings between people, which leads to various contradictions and regrets.

People always try to hide their unknown side as much as possible, and selectively show their relatively good side.

Therefore, from a human point of view, once the semantics are clearly expressed and the misunderstandings are cleared up, then things will become clear.However, this is actually not durable enough to shock people at the film level.

Therefore, there is ghost culture in the movie.

Ghost is a fictional cultural symbol of human beings. Its most intuitive explanation is the spiritual residue in the world after death.

Eastern culture attaches great importance to ghosts, and heaven and hell often enshrine the mourning of the living for the dead. This is actually a kind of regret that can never be fulfilled.

Including supporting parents, chasing dreams, longing for love, anger at deceit, etc. When people are alive, they have the opportunity to fulfill all kinds of regrets, but once they leave this world, all things are for naught.

This gives the film the best way of expression, the symbol of film and television, always let us have emotional resonance, not just a glass of plain water.

Therefore, creating conflicts is the best way.

There used to be regrets, those words that were never spoken, those efforts that were not put into practice, those people who were never in love with each other, all reproduced on the screen in a form that spanned life and death.

This "Happy Family" is the process in which the four ghosts fulfill their dreams through the protagonist, and at the same time let him bravely pursue love and discover the beauty of life.

Are all ghost movies roughly similar? Ghosts represent established facts, and their appearance is nothing more than fulfilling the long-cherished wishes of the living or the dead.It's just that some endings are tragic and some endings are beautiful.

Human beings like to be vague like this, and always need to use other things to express their truest thoughts.

In fact, there were quite a few ghost films in Hong Kong films in the past, but it is a pity that when ghosts are mentioned, everyone seems to think of horror and horror.

Of course, there are also happy ghosts, but most of these movies are pure entertainment.

The entertainment elements of "Happy Family" are also very rich.

Here I have to mention four ghosts, namely "Crybaby", "Uncle Smoker", "Drunkard Old Man", and "Greedy Kid".

The four seemingly unrelated ghosts, who have nothing to do with Shang Wan, finally entangled the male lead.

But Shang Wan is a senior good-for-nothing who grew up in an orphanage with no friends and no income.He tried to die several times, but was always inexplicably rescued. The last time he attempted suicide, these four ghosts ushered in.

They all just want Shangwan to help realize one of their dreams.

In fact, the setting of the dream-fulfilling link itself is very ordinary. Generally speaking, the audience will think about the meaning behind the dream-fulfilling. As a ghost, if you have an unfulfilled wish, it is usually a regret in life, so this is a touching story.

But the director took a different approach. He never told the reason why the four ghosts realized their dreams.In order to cover up, two methods were adopted:
1. Ghosts cannot take the initiative to say some reasons, unless Shang Wan asks.During the process of realizing the dream, Shang Wan never cared about the purpose of the four ghosts to realize the dream, but just wanted to finish this matter as soon as possible.

Including the drinking grandfather who said he was looking for a camera, he took him to search the camera shops all over the city without thinking, and finally asked, the camera was not in the store.

Including the process of Shang Wan helping the smoking uncle find a car, and finding a luxury car without prior knowledge. In fact, the uncle only wanted a taxi.

2. The branch line of the heroine Xiuxiu is indispensable.In the process of realizing all the above dreams, there is a direct relationship with Yanxiu and the hospital where she works.

Including the old friend of the drinking grandpa and the sick friend of the old friend, who is actually Xiuxiu's father.

Including the troubles caused by the delicious kid, Shangwan and Xiuxiu have a chance to get along.

Including the assist from Uncle Smoking, Xiuxiu fell in love with Shang Wan.

Of course, the real core of this film is actually none of these, not the so-called fulfillment of dreams, nor love, but family!

Shang Wan, who lost the meaning of life at the beginning, grew up in an orphanage precisely because he lacked the care of his parents since he was a child. Every time on Children’s Day, a group of people would come to pretend to ask for his health, but after that, no one remembered his name, nor did he No friends come to my house as guests.

Shang Wan is lonely. The room he rents is actually very big, but it used to be messy and without any warm look.

And when the four ghosts lived in his house, when they went home and took off their shoes at the door, it looked like a family coming home for a reunion.

Everyone eats together and watches TV at one time.When he came home and saw four ghosts sitting in the house, he actually had a little longing for home in his heart.

He was thinking, it would be great if they were all human beings, even if they looked annoying, but for him who has been alone for so many years, this is unintentionally precious!
The family is like this, it is the driving force for a person to live, and it is also the spiritual factor for a family to support.

However, when we really face our relatives, we often fail to find the goodness of our family members.

Just like when Shang Wan was haunted by four ghosts in the hospital, and he was carrying four ghosts on his back, and he went home exhausted, that is a common scene in many families.

When there is no family, we long for the company of our loved ones.When I have family members, I am always upset and can't stand everyone's disturbance and torture.

Therefore, every family has more or less contradictions and misunderstandings.

For example, Xiuxiu, her affection for her father is caused by the lack of affection in the relationship between father and daughter since childhood.Although her father tried her best to make up for it, Xiuxiu couldn't really let go of her grudge.Even I don't want my father to die.

The most length of the film is actually interpreting the meaning of family.

For example, a middle-aged man thinks that his wife is having an affair and wants to abandon him, so he abandons himself.In fact, the wife bears the pressure herself, but she just doesn't want him to bear it.As I said before, the misunderstandings of the living can be solved, but once the yin and yang are separated, the misunderstandings and regrets will last forever.

The death of Xiuxiu's father gave her a big blow, and Shangwan also fulfilled the requirements of the four ghosts, but because of changes in the relationship with Xiuxiu, both of them fell into a trough.

However, in the end Xiuxiu discovered the gift her father left her, and understood that her father would always love her.When Shangwan committed suicide in the car, he thought of Xiuxiu, and finally rekindled his enthusiasm for life.

In fact, to some extent, this is still an interpretation of the importance of family members.

For the male protagonist, the four ghosts have left, and his life has returned to what it was before. At this moment, he is actually more eager to have a family.

But he is an orphan, so what should we do?How to get rid of loneliness?

So Xiuxiu appeared!
Her appearance is actually the key to the hero's escape from loneliness.

As for Xiuxiu, although she kept saying that she would not forgive her father, she also hoped that her father would survive, but he still left.

Two people who have lost their families in the same way, at that moment, come together, start a family again, and make each other their own family!
At this time, we seem to have forgotten the meaning of the dream of the four ghosts, and we have already attributed everything to the emotional pavement for Xiuxiu to discover the meaning of family members, because Xiuxiu's words sublimated the emotion of the whole film again.

Xiuxiu ate the kimbap made by Shang Wan, and asked: Usually, don’t you put spinach in kimbap?How would you put water celery?

Shang Wan blurted out: That is my mother. My mother said that water celery is good for blood, so water celery has been used instead of spinach.

After saying this, Shang Wan finally came to his senses.

It turned out that these four ghosts were none other than his grandfather, father, mother and elder brother.

During a trip when I was young, my father drove a taxi, and my grandfather borrowed a neighbor’s camera to take pictures, but there was a serious car accident on the road, and everyone except Shang Wan died on the spot.

The lost camera was secretly put away by the police who handled the case at that time, which is why the drinking grandfather went to find the boss of the police station to get the camera back.

The smoking uncle finally found a taxi, took Shang Wan to the beach for a drive, and taught Shang Wan to swim and drive.

And the delicious little ghost, originally Shang Wan's older brother, always wanted to take care of his younger brother. He originally saved money to take his younger brother to the movies, but was robbed by hooligans.

As for the crying aunt, in fact, she just wants to cook a meal for the child and eat together as a family.When Shang Wan was young, she saw her mother holding her son's hand to buy vegetables together in the vegetable market, and she thought that when Shang Wan grew up, she could also hold his hand and buy vegetables together.

In fact, the four ghosts have been helping Shangwan all the time. The so-called realization of the dream is actually mainly to let Shangwan regain hope in life and help him and the nurse Xiuxiu get together.

The reason for such a misunderstanding is actually the foreshadowing planted before. Ghosts will not take the initiative to say the answer, but Shang Wan never asked.

We have always been like this, we may feel tired because of our family, but they are also the ones who cheer!
Perhaps this setting itself is not just to make the plot more logical, this setting actually has its own special meaning.

Because most of the time, we don't take the initiative to speak out, but we need people to ask before we can answer.

In the last scene, all the previous foreshadowing was lightly mentioned, so the emotion that was self-evident to the family came up.Through the process of running back and forth, Shang Wan's memory of his family is aroused, allowing Shang Wan to find himself.

I think this is what makes this film different from ordinary ghost-fulfilling movies. It is not sensational everywhere, but it scratches the hearts of the audience.

This is the case with family members. Whether they live or die, they will always be by their loved ones' side and will never leave.

This is probably the meaning of life, simple and beautiful.

In the end, I have been a little tangled, is this a comedy?
In my opinion, of course yes!Maybe this is the real comedy. How many tragedies are behind the movies that we don't close our mouths when we watch them?

Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many comedians who ended up suffering from depression and committed suicide.

Therefore, in comedy, there is only a difference between understanding the silence at the time and understanding the silence after laughing at the time.Never completely happy, if ever, it must be fake.

Li Yi's comedy is that he laughed from ear to ear at the time, and then cried like a dog.

And this "Happy Family" made people burst into tears at that time! "