director of the millennium

"When asked why I came to the cinema to watch this movie, I was speechless for a moment."

"I haven't thought about it at all."

"It's not often that Chinese films allow me to make a judgment so easily. "The decision is yours!" "Then I bought a ticket to see it without any hesitation."

"But "Dear" is different. This is the most influential director and actor in the country who have both good reputation and box office. The synergy produced by this combination should not be underestimated."

"Not to mention that I am still a huge fan of Huang Bo."

"Similar to "Jinling Thirteen Girls" and "1942", "Dear" must be a sad movie starting from the topic of "finding a child"."

"In the movie, I have four memorable scenes."

"First, in the first five minutes of the show, in Shenzhen, where cars were bustling with traffic, children wearing bright yellow clothes were gently picked up by human traffickers."

"There was no resistance, no sound was heard, and it passed by in one stroke from afar."

"I'm very grateful to Director Wu for his kindness at this time. He didn't deal with it in a more dramatic way. He expressed the children's helplessness in the face of human trafficking in a single stroke."

"Second, Huang Bo was in the police station just after finding the child, crying until he couldn't stand up and was hysterical."

"Although the two strange women behind me were already laughing and saying, "You're so ugly crying," well, I felt that at that time, no matter how ugly you cried, you should do it."

"Third, after retrieving the child, Huang Bo went out to throw away the garbage, paused, turned around, opened the door, put the sleeping child on his shoulders, and went out again. This sequence of shots reminded me of Mrs. Zhang in my memory."

"Fourth, on the streets of Shenzhen, Hao Lei rushed into the crowd of parents looking for her son, hugged her former son, and was beaten and scolded by the angry parents."

"These parents regard finding their children and fighting abduction as their life, so they are naturally familiar with the case process. They must know that Hao Lei is not the trafficker herself, but compared to the hatred and complaints they have suppressed for many years, Hao Lei is already very close to the perpetrator. exist."

"For these parents who "encourage" most of the time in the film, in this situation, losing their minds is the most sensible thing to do."

"Even though the village girl Li Hongqin played by Hao Lei is not the main culprit, buying and selling are indeed the same crime."

"But one thing should be certain. No matter how simple and kind-hearted Li Hongqin is, her hurtful ignorance is destined to be a bad person, and there is no room for negotiation."

"Without buying and selling, there would be no market and there would not be so many abducted children."

"Looking for a child is a journey without an exit."

"These four sets of shots are very relevant to the topic of finding a child that I was exposed to back then. It can be seen that the crew of "Dear" has really done enough homework."

"In a narrow sense, compared to restoring massacres and famines, it may be of greater practical significance to seriously talk about the fight against trafficking."

"After this movie, adults should pay more attention to the situation of children, and more people will participate in the fight against trafficking and pay attention to "Baby Come Home"."

"I didn't expect 'Dear' to be such a movie. It is different from any of Wu Yuan's recent works."

"Remove the big-shot face and make some "unpretentious" processing in the lens language, and it can be immediately transformed into a semi-documentary style newsreel."

"No one is the protagonist at the core of the drama here. Everyone can face the camera alone. Everyone is the protagonist in the story."

"The Chinese film industry needs such good movies!"

After reading this long Weibo film review, Wu Yuan let out a long sigh with emotion.

What's the point of making the movie "Dear"?
right here! This is not going to be a blockbuster in a broad sense, nor is it likely to be a box office hit.

But Wu Yuan still made this movie without hesitation, just because he wanted to make this movie without any external factors interfering.

After making metaphysical literary films and popcorn commercial films for many years, Wu Yuan just wanted to make such a social-themed film.

Because the real world needs real heroes.

Heroes in superhero movies cannot save the real world.

But the movie "Dear" can help countless abducted families intentionally or unintentionally.

Whether it is to encourage them, or to make the public pay more attention to this sad group, and to make more people pay attention to and pay attention to this social issue, this is something more meaningful than the movie box office.

As for making money, there is already the Xianxia universe in the Light and Shadow Era. Now the Xianxia movie universe is booming. The third movie has just been completed and the fourth movie is being shot. There is no shortage of opportunities to make money.

Coupled with the stable income of the optical cinema line and the rapid expansion of the optical cinema line.

To put it bluntly, even if Wu Yuan retires immediately, he will never be able to spend all the money he earns in his lifetime.

Therefore, he is now making movies more to pursue self-realization, rather than for things like box office and reputation.

When he first entered the industry in the early years, his vanity was relatively high, and he wanted to win prizes at the three major European awards while they were still valuable.

But now he won't think about this at all. Even if he is reborn again, he will not deliberately make literary films for the sake of winning awards. He will only make them when he really wants to.

Including the new movie "Ready Player One" that he plans to shoot next, he also wanted to make this movie because he wanted to make a new Chinese science fiction blockbuster.

Rather than wanting to make a high-grossing movie, he chose "Ready Player One".

This causal logic must be clarified.

Therefore, although the box office of "Dear" was only over 2 million in one week after its release, the final box office is estimated to only be around to million. There are many voices on the Internet who bad-mouth him and think that his "treasure sword has become old", but Wu Yuan didn't care at all.

Just like Zhang Yimou, netizens often think that his time has passed because of the poor box office performance of his artistic films.

If they really care about these voices and comments, then they really don't deserve to be regarded as master directors.

Although Wu Yuan's title of "Master Director" may be a bit watery, his temperament has really been cultivated.

It's not just him.

In fact, the starring actors of "Dear" such as Huang Bo, Tan Zhuo, and Zhang Yi have never cared about the box office of this movie. They only care about the reputation of the movie and the audience after watching the movie. Whether you can feel the meaning and value from the movie.

The plots of realistic movies are plain, but they are more inspirational than the dramatic ups and downs.

Rather than witnessing superheroes in an exaggerated world, it’s more meaningful to be inspired by real and tangible good people in a simple world.

It is unfair to put this film on the average of most Chinese-language films.

As long as the movie can get a positive reputation and really make the audience feel something, that's enough.

This is the meaning of reality-themed movies. (End of chapter)