"Galaxy Tutorial" is the second collaboration between Deng Chao and Yu Baimei after "The Breakup Master" and "Bad Angel". The first two collaborative films were not recognized by the public due to their almost identical nonsensical style and forced comedy style, and their Douban scores were both below the passing line.

This time, "Galaxy Tutorial" has completely changed the two's previous style, using a warm narrative style to tell the story of a father and son who depend on each other and strive to break the constraints of the outside world. The camera constantly intersperses between reality and memories, accompanied by nostalgic songs, slowly unfolding a picture of the old days for the audience.

Today, I will analyze the deep fatherly love that this serious realism-themed movie conveys to the audience from the three aspects of the film’s story content, performance techniques, and emotional expression. At the same time, I will also objectively treat its shortcomings. .

01. Analysis from the content of the story: Father and son, dependent on each other, achieving each other

"Galaxy Tutorial" mainly tells the story of Ma Haowen and Ma Fei's father and son working together in the 1980s and 1990s. A story that spans a long time and finally gains love and growth.

Father Ma Haowen once had a bright future, but he was framed and imprisoned, missing his son Ma Fei for 7 years. By the time he returned to society, his son had become a rebellious poor student, and he had become a despised ex-prisoner. Ma Haowen was unwilling to bow to reality and was determined to tutor his son so that he could get his life back on track.

In the years after losing his father, Ma Fei was bullied and ridiculed by his peers many times. Although my mother and stepfather are rich, they are busy with business and have no time to take care of themselves. Ma Fei's lonely and sensitive heart was beaten to pieces by real life, and he could only seek solace in martial arts novels.

The return of his father allowed Ma Fei to find support again. Ma Fei saw with his own eyes that his father used knowledge to defeat those who once laughed at him and successfully found a suitable job. His admiration for his father was rekindled in his heart. Unlike his mother who urged him to study hard, his father was willing to fulfill all his wishes. Not only did he allow him not to hand in his homework, but he also worked hard to make money to buy him a computer.

For his son Ma Fei, his father's existence is a firm supporter on his growth path. Ma Haowen's education method is not limited to book knowledge, but enlightens him from all aspects of life, making Ma Fei aware of the fun of knowledge. Under the influence of Ma Haowen, Ma Fei no longer studies rote books, but actively thinks, including book knowledge and the tests of life.

For his father Ma Haowen, his son is the only hope left in his life. Because of his imprisonment, he lost the honor of his life and the wife he once loved, leaving only his son who depended on each other for life. Because of this, he trained Ma Fei very carefully. In the end, Ma Fei not only achieved a counterattack from a poor student to an excellent student, but also followed his inner pursuit and successfully became an astronaut. At that time, Ma Haowen's rehabilitation case also took a turn for the better, and his honor was finally restored.

In "Galaxy Tutorial", the father and son who depend on each other not only refer to their dependence on each other in material life, but also their mutual dependence and mutual achievement in the spiritual world. In the father-son relationship between Ma Haowen and Ma Fei, the father is the son's supporter and the son is the father's hope. The two went through the most difficult moments in life hand in hand, and smiled at each other after the trouble was over. With that, the sorrow and torture of the past life disappeared.

02. Analysis from the perspective of expression techniques: highly saturated emotions and characters are the product of the director’s efforts to convey sensationalism

The director has great ambitions for this movie and is trying to make this movie a foothold The deeper themes bring the deepest emotional resonance to the audience. Yu Baimei said bluntly about this, "This is something that we Chinese have experienced together, and it is our life memory. What we have to do is to wake it up again. Without too much explanation, the audience will be able to think of themselves after seeing these scenes." Time I’ve experienced.”

Because the story takes place in the 1980s and 1990s, the crew visited more than 200 cities across the country in an effort to restore the scene to the greatest extent possible. The hard work put in by the crew was finally shown on the screen. Some retro scenes and nostalgic music in the movie brought back memories of the past for many viewers and touched the hearts of the audience.

The so-called "the moon waxes and wanes, and the water overflows" was too eager to impress the audience, resulting in the film's character emotions and narrative elements being too full, and in the end not only failed to impress The audience, on the contrary, made the audience confused. On the other hand, due to the changes of the times, today’s movie audiences generally do not have a good impression of forcefully sensational stories. In the end, the film’s Douban score was only 6.3.

Judging from the ratings, although "Galaxy Tutorial" is not an excellent work, it is a great improvement for the collaboration between directors Deng Chao and Yu Baimei. Compared with the previous nonsensical comedy style that passed the line, this movie focuses on depicting the forbearance and resistance of ordinary people in real life in the face of blows.

In general, although this movie is occasionally suspected of being sensationalistic, it does make people clearly feel the director's deep sincerity.

03. Analysis from the perspective of emotional expression: Although the story is old-fashioned, father’s love will never go out of style

The director has high hopes for this movie and attempts to make it less than 150 minutes long. The movie talks about the love between father and son, the education system, the development of the spaceship accident, and the exaggeration of patriotism. In the end, all aspects are not explained thoroughly enough.

Because it strives to exaggerate the greatness of father's love and highlight the difficulty and uniqueness of the father, other characters in the film are too stereotyped, such as the stern mother, the vulgar stepfather, the principal who blindly pursues the enrollment rate, etc... Although the comparison between the father and these characters helps to enhance the positive image of the father, it distorts the entire movie. The image that is not relevant to life prevents the audience from fully immersing themselves in the movie.

If I could summarize this movie in just one sentence, it would be: the father’s tolerance and love allow his son to achieve a counterattack from a poor student to a eugenic. However, the logic behind the movie's story is not self-consistent. The transformation of Ma Fei's image from a poor student to a eugenic is too easy and difficult for the audience to accept.

Due to various reasons, the ratings of this movie have been declining, from a very good initial reputation to a passing rating. However, if we put aside all other elements and only focus on the father-son feelings that the director is trying to convey to us, we can still gain a certain amount of emotion from this movie.

Although the story is old-fashioned and the protagonist's transformation from weak to strong is a common selling point of all inspirational movies, what is certain is that father's love in real life is indeed always there and accompanies us. Growing along the way.

If you don’t want to get too much inspiration from this movie and just want to feel the retro feelings and the deep love between father and son, then the healing movie "Galaxy Tutorial" is a good choice.