What is "The Myth of Love" about?
"The Myth of Love", directed by post-90s director Shao Yihui, starring Xu Zheng, Ma Yili, Ni Hongjie, Wu Yue, etc., was released last Friday As soon as it was released, it received a lot of applause and the Douban score was as high as 8.3. The following is what I compiled for everyone in "The Myth of Love". It is for reference only. I hope it can help everyone.
What is "The Myth of Love" about Chapter 1
What is love? Just as there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, there are a thousand kinds of love in the eyes of a thousand people. Everyone's definition of love is completely different. A deep kiss is love, a hug is love, holding hands, a cup of milk tea, saying good night... In the eyes of different people, although love can bring a wonderful and romantic experience, it has different appearances.
Many love movies of the same type often fall into the dilemma of having to define love.
In contrast, the latest release of "The Myth of Love" is undoubtedly much more mature than many movies of the same type. It does not give a clear definition of love at the beginning of the story. Rather, it allows the audience to follow the male protagonist's perspective, return to life, return to reality, and explore together what is love in the various flavors of life?
The protagonist of the story is Lao Bai, a middle-aged, divorced and single "leftover man". When he was young, he worked as an art teacher in an elementary school and also had a serious job in a television station. However, as a middle-aged man, he lives a very free and easy life - he lives a life of a landlord, and works part-time as an art teacher, teaching sketching to grandfathers and ladies.
If the above are not enough to explain his free and easy life, then the following should give everyone an idea of ??the colorful middle-aged life - dating with the person you like, watching drama performances, going to coffee in your free time Have a cup of coffee in the hotel or visit your son’s roadside coffee shop. Every day, I carefully prepare a table of authentic local dishes. If you have nothing to do, play with the flowers and plants or pick up the tambourine and play a song... In short, Just live happily.
But in such a seemingly perfect middle-aged life, Lao Bai also began to have his own troubles and dilemmas. As the saying goes, three women make a drama, and Lao Bai's originally peaceful middle-aged life has undergone earth-shaking changes because of the entry of three women.
First of all, there is Miss Li. As Lao Bai's favorite, she is so beautiful that Lao Bai can willingly transform into a caring and warm man. But she is more than just a vase. Even though she is middle-aged, she is still struggling in the workplace. She is a typical strong woman who is engaged in advertising.
Next is Gloria, Lao Bai’s painting class student. As mentioned before, Lao Bai’s painting classes are taught by grandfathers and old ladies. This Gloria can be said to be Lao Bai’s student. Outliers among them.
Not only is she charming, but she is also a wealthy woman whose husband has disappeared. Rather than saying that she came to Lao Bai to learn painting, it would be better to say that she regarded Lao Bai as her peer as her confidante. While attending class, she chatted with Lao Bai about herself. emotional life.
Finally, there is Lao Bai’s ex-wife Beibei. Although she has been divorced for many years and she doesn’t care about her ex-husband on the surface, deep down in her heart, Beibei still regards Lao Bai as her own relative.
Any one of these three women can film several episodes of TV series, let alone under the same roof? What a coincidence, the three women actually met by chance, and it was at Lao Bai's house...
Lao Bai, who had tried his best to attack in turns, I have once again successfully made an appointment with my favorite, Miss Li, to come to my home for dinner in the evening, but what a coincidence, Gloria didn't come early or late, so she went to Lao Bai's house looking for a "tree hole" that night.
The meeting between Gloria and Miss Li already made Lao Bai feel bad, but a more dramatic scene happened immediately - his ex-wife Beibei happened to come to see Lao Bai that night. Give something away. Now, the three women, plus Lao Bai's good friend Lao Wu, who came to join in the fun, turned the candlelight dinner for two carefully prepared by Lao Bai into an unexpected party with a comedy color.
"Lao Bai has been with me for decades, and no one has ever ignored me. Now that we are separated, oh yo, we have become a hot commodity."
"We have food to eat. First come first served, right?”
“I don’t like competing with others for food.”
“Everyone’s words.” There is a deep meaning in all the words. In the lively atmosphere of insinuations and toasts, the simple dining table has become an invisible battlefield where women are unwilling to give in to each other. The fusion of reality and drama, the collision of emotion and life, the difference between ideal and reality... In the strong contrast, the audience's level of laughter was also completely maximized. Of course, such verbal exchanges did not eventually turn into a bloody scene of fighting and jealousy. The initial embarrassment and opposition can sometimes disappear due to an unexpected playful remark, just as life always brings unexpected pain and surprises to people.
Lao Bai, who is surrounded by three women, seems to be the biggest winner at the beginning of the story, but is this really the case? Whether it is Ms. Li, a strong woman who is single with a child, or Gloria, a wealthy woman who treats Lao Bai as a listener, or Lao Bai's ex-wife Beibei, although they are in a friendly relationship with Lao Bai on the surface, in fact, When they reach middle age, they can see the matter of love more clearly than anyone else, and they will never easily step into the romantic and fatal whirlpool of love.
After getting married, Lao Bai's ex-wife Beibei apparently had a husband who could cook and run the house, and she also had a well-behaved and sensible son. Together, the three of them built an enviable, happy family life. But in fact, Beibei, who was completely bound by the two roles of "wife" and "mother", did not get the happiness she really wanted in her heart, and eventually made the mistake of breaking up her marriage.
Many years later, even though Lao Bai's mother has been looking forward to Lao Bai and Beibei remarrying, Beibei has long understood that although Lao Bai is a good man, he is not a husband suitable for her. The strong hostility towards Miss Li and Gloria at the dinner table this time was just because he didn't want to lose face in front of others.
Although the well-informed rich woman Gloria seemed to be confiding her heart to Lao Bai and being a confidante, she let go generously after understanding that Lao Bai had someone in her heart. Romantic, passionate and transparent at the same time, she becomes friends with everyone at the end of the story.
The last thing I want to talk about is Miss Li, Lao Bai’s favorite object. She is independent and strong and firmly believes in her life creed: "If you can’t get the best, you are willing to find another way." Although on the surface, she She seems to not care about love. The first date with Lao Bai was originally just an emotional outlet for her, but deep down in her heart, she still yearns for love. But because she has been tempered by reality and learned to think rationally, she will not easily choose an insecure love again. This is one of the reasons why she always behaved very free and easy despite Lao Bai's intense pursuit.
Every character in the film has a different understanding of the eternal emotional theme of love.
In Miss Li's view, love is like her pair of high-heeled shoes with broken heels. It requires sacrifice and dedication on her part. However, she is no longer young and ignorant. Even if she is moved, Will you still carefully consider whether the effort is worth it?
In Gloria's view, love is like a painting that can be bought with money. You don't need to worry about it. Enjoying life is the first priority. In the current era of materialism and drifting with the crowd, it was Lao Bai who gave her a deeper understanding of love.
In Beibei's view, love is like the crucian carp soup carefully cooked by Lao Bai for her. It seems to lack a little bit of passion when she first tastes it, but when she looks back, it has changed. She chose passion and buried her marriage, but she also permanently lost the opportunity to reveal her inner world's desire for passion to Lao Bai.
In Lao Bai's view, love is like a prism, and everyone he comes into contact with is like one side of this prism. Even though he is middle-aged and still sincerely longs for love, he is so ordinary and so simple. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that he who seems free and carefree on the surface will also show frustration and annoyance after encountering emotional difficulties.
In Lao Wu's view, love can be desperate in youth, or still youthful in middle age. He used his seemingly long but short life to explain what romance is, and what romance is. In the end, the frustrated Lao Bai understood that love is not an unattainable myth.
By giving the above three women completely different and nuanced descriptions of the difficulties encountered by Lao Bai in the pursuit of love, "The Myth of Love" brings a story based on reality to the audience in front of the screen. A love story full of romance at the same time. And through the mouths of the characters in the story, the audience is told that there has never been a clear definition of love. Everyone has a different understanding and choice of love. The love in those fairy tales is always very different from reality.
Of course, as a love movie, if it is all about the realistic deconstruction of love without a trace of romance, then the movie would be too impersonal. Therefore, in addition to the main emotional line of Lao Bai, "The Myth of Love" also intersperses the emotional undercurrent of Lao Bai's good friend Lao Wu. This emotional hidden line not only enriches the meaning of the film's title "Myth of Love" and pays tribute to Federico Fellini, but also becomes the key to the turning point of Lao Bai's emotional life, making the film's plot, after unfolding the depiction of reality, Finally returns to pursue the romance of emotion. As for what kind of story this hidden line tells, you have to wait until you go into the theater to discover it yourself!
Another point that must be mentioned is that as a film with the story set in Shanghai, "The Myth of Love" can be said to have assembled a quite strong cast, including Ma Yili, Wu Yue , Ni Hongjie, Xu Zheng, who has repeatedly wanted to present a pure Shanghai flavor in the works he directed, and Zhou Yemang, who also has rich acting experience and graduated from the Shanghai Theater Academy. Under the affectionate performance of this group of actors who have special feelings for Shanghai, "The Myth of Love", a film in which most of the dialogue in the film is Wu Nong's soft words, is full of Shanghai's unique urban flavor and human warmth.
What is "The Myth of Love" about? 2
"The Myth of Love", directed by post-90s director Shao Yihui and starring Xu Zheng, Ma Yili, Ni Hongjie, Wu Yue, etc., received a lot of applause when it was released last Friday. The Douban score is as high as 8.3 points. Some people even believe that this is the top three Chinese film quality this year.
Many netizens wrote on Weibo: "The Myth of Love" is so good that only people living in the city of Shanghai can feel it. Some details in the film made old Shanghainese smile knowingly, and they praised the work with the common mantra "very effective" used by Shanghainese.
Xu Zheng’s role as Lao Bai is reminiscent of many of the “recalcitrant” characters in Beijing played by Ge You in the past. The film has designed two love lines: one is the emotional entanglement between Lao Bai and Miss Li played by Ma Yili, his ex-wife Beibei played by Wu Yue, and Gloria played by Ni Hongjie; the other is the emotional entanglement between Lao Wu played by Zhou Yemang in the film. He kept telling his love past. When he was young, he met the famous movie star Sophia Loren in Italy, and the two people with very different status had an affair. This past incident, in Laowu's emotional narration, gradually brought the audience's emotions into a state of confusion: Is what this guy said true?
Obviously, these two love lines correspond to the two states of reality and ideal. In reality, Lao Bai is surrounded by three women, bent on finding his own middle-aged love. He loves Miss Li the most, and he doesn't dislike Miss Li for having a mixed-race daughter who is still in elementary school. Ms. Li does not object to having an occasional physical relationship with Lao Bai, but this advertising practitioner who wears tens of thousands of yuan in high-heeled shoes still retains the "poetry and distance" of love in her heart. Lao Bai, an "affordable man", is obviously less Something about it made her excited. His ex-wife had an affair once when she was young. Lao Bai did not choose to forgive her and divorced her. Although his ex-wife wants to get back together, Lao Bai will not give her another chance. Gloria is hot and sexy, and she takes the initiative towards Lao Bai. Unfortunately, Lao Bai has no feelings for her. A drunken one-night incident made Lao Bai very upset and self-blame. He even went to the KTV to find Gloria to clarify and explain. , but was ridiculed by the young people present: What age are you in, and you are still so indifferent?
Xu Zheng, who plays Lao Bai, said that Lao Bai looks a bit silly, which is true. He has a house to rent and has no financial pressure, so he is not willing to give in to his painting career. He did not like any of the places where his friend Lao Wu helped him choose to hold his painting exhibition, until finally Miss Li and Gloria Together, they helped him choose No. 18, the top gallery on the Bund, and he was satisfied. No matter it is love or life, Lao Bai will not give in. This is the source of his tragedy.
In comparison, Lao Wu’s love story is like a castle in the air, and anyone with a little more rationality will know its absurdity. But the magic is that when Lao Wu used a very long shot to tell the details of his relationship with Sophia Loren, this became the most touching part of the whole film, "After she left, my Rome collapsed. "But the absurd thing is that Laowu died, but Sophia Loren was rescued.
One is Lao Bai who struggles to pursue love in reality, and the other is Lao Wu who lives in the myth of love. Which one is the truth of life? This is a big thought that the film brings to the audience.
At the end of the film, after watching Fellini's classic film "The Myth of Love", Ms. Li sent a dating text message to Lao Bai, which made people see the hope of this relationship, but for adults, There are no miracles in the world. According to normal emotional logic, Miss Li is afraid that she will not fall in love with Lao Bai. This bright tail was specially requested by the director Xu Zheng, the lead actor, to add it.
The biggest advantage of "The Myth of Love" is that it captures the true love psychology of these mature men and women living in the city. It is a love movie from a female perspective, and it stands up. . Society is developing, and people's thinking and attitudes towards emotions are also changing. "The Myth of Love" captures this change in time. What is "The Myth of Love" about? Chapter 3
The title "The Myth of Love" seems a bit tacky at first glance. After watching the movie, I realized that the title comes from the classic work of the same name by the film master Fellini. The film seemed to take on a new dimension.
The whole movie has a sense of life, with a group of characters with a strong Shanghai identity making jokes together. The female characters are all vivid and vivid, while the male characters are somewhat inferior in comparison. There are witticisms that make people laugh, and many lines are puns with subtext.
A netizen on Douban summarized it very insightfully: "The audience portrait of the movie should be based on Douban. It is a group of lonely middle-aged people who live in old shabby small towns in big cities and do not work. They talk about All they talk about is art, all they think about is having sex, drinking cheap wine and bragging about their past achievements, even the shoemakers on the street are talking about Armstrong and philosophy, they like to laugh at themselves but refuse to criticize, and occasionally they want a blowjob when exposed. I responded by eating and dozing off while watching Fellini, and then I would leave a positive comment on social networking sites after I finished watching it. It would be even more perfect if I added a cat.
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The love in the film really doesn’t look like a myth. It’s just the entanglement between the male protagonist Lao Bai and three women. It’s nothing more than watching movies, eating, helping the woman he likes to take care of the children, and repairing shoes. , drawing and sketching...
Three women, one is Mr. Bai’s ex-wife Beibei, who made the same mistake as all men in the world; one is Ms. Li who Mr. Bai wants to pursue, she has a high vision and once had a dream , but did not get out, reality has polished her heart, she is divorced and has a child, and her family is average; Gloria, a student of Mr. Bai, has money and leisure, but her husband disappears and she is playing in the world because of Lao Bai. , the three women were not very happy when they first met, but everyone tacitly maintained their dignity. Soon, the competence and authenticity of the Shanghai women made their friendship develop rapidly. In a Taiwanese drama, the scenes of taking turns answering questions and complaining about the same hatred and hatred made people feel extremely comfortable.
The creation of the three female characters broke through the single and stereotyped image of "middle-aged women" on the big screen. People see the diverse possibilities of the "middle-aged women" group on the screen and in life.
On the surface, Xu Zheng is the male protagonist, and three women surround him. Deeply, there are three women. It's a wild cat, and Xu Zheng is just passing by to take a bite of leftovers, but when you think about it, only Lao Wu's love is the most consistent with the myth; his ending is the most consistent with the myth; at the end, everyone watched the movie together in memory of him and clicked on the myth again.
This movie talks about several kinds of love and a myth, but it ends in a subtle mystery: men and women, old and young, a few friends gathered together and decided to watch Fellini's "The Myth of Love" As a memorial to Lao Wu, everyone looked listlessly and staggered around - the myth was indeed ugly, and the love was not touching. It was not as worth recalling as hand cream and snacks. Just when everyone returned from the illusory image to the realistic midnight snack, Miss Li secretly sent a WeChat message to Lao Bai and asked him to have coffee another day. In the WeChat message, the two of them watched love as a movie and compared the movie to life. , this is love, this is life.