Warm Hug came to the New Year's Eve with a luxurious cast. Chang Yuan, the director and starring, is an old man in Mahua FunAge and the grandson of famous crosstalk artist Chang Baohua. He has performed many sketches on many big stages such as the Spring Festival Evening, and also appeared in Mahua FunAge's representative comedy "goodbye mr. loser", which has accumulated rich experience in comedy performance. Li Qin, his CP partner in Warm Hug, is the most popular first-line Hua Dan, and his performances in Joy of Life and other major dramas are amazing.
In addition, Shen Teng, Mary, Allen, Qiao Shan and other comedians gathered together. Let's jump out of the story first. Just from the composition of the cast and their extensive experience in comedy performances, this film is too out of place with its douban score of 5.7.
Warm Hug's story itself, although adapted from the Korean musical Plan Man, has obviously undergone a lot of localization transformation full of Mahua FunAge style, and every joke is deeply embedded in the story and develops with it.
For example, Bao Bao, the male host, ordered a hearse for his own suicide. From the very beginning, the phrase "the deceased was myself", to the moment when the male host and the female host rode home in a hearse singing all the way, to the moment when the driver took Bao Bao's portrait as a signature photo, and finally, when the male host sang a contest, the driver expressed his wishes for the portrait by putting incense on it ... From the beginning to the end, it was a comic point full of great contrast, and it was a popcorn chip that was well versed in Mahua FunAge style.
Most of the low-scoring comments on the Internet struggle with Warm Hug's "low-level jokes" and "unprofessional scenes", but the author thinks that it is unnecessary to watch comedies from the perspective of documentaries. What the audience on New Year's Eve needs more is the ability to forget all the troubles without twists and turns. This can also explain why in 218, Bigan's philosophical New Year's Eve literary film "The Last Night of the Earth" had a box office of only 28 million, while the box office in Warm Hug has already broken 55 million.
Peisi Chen once said that the core of great comedies is tragedy. Warm Hug also appears quite mature in the choice of conception. An obsessive-compulsive disorder patient who can't get out of the shadow of childhood because of the lack of family ties, and a frustrated girl who is trapped by love and unable to pursue her life and dreams. The meeting of these two people is a journey of healing each other. Even though the film makes the career of psychological counseling a little alienated, it is undeniable that we can all see the efforts made by men and women in the process of getting close to each other. Whether it's the basin of foot washing water that Bao Bao encountered when he was trying to save himself, or his attempt to hug the red and white villains together while he was warming his home in Song Dynasty, and the super sweet picture that Chang Yuan Li Qin finally embraced at the final scene, it can bring full healing to the audience at the end of this absurd year.
Warm Hug has also made great efforts in supporting other films. Li Qin's relaxed and excellent original music alone is enough to show the film's sincerity in sharing happiness with the audience. It can be said that Warm Hug is better than A Little Red Flower next door in creating the atmosphere.
In recent years, the voice of netizens' doubts about Douban has intensified, and professional comment groups and comments have also appeared more and more frequently. In the low-scoring comments below Warm Hug, there are a large number of typical comment techniques such as "registering Douban for the first time" and "speaking of special registration". Coupled with the huge popularity of the starring actor next door and the obviously distorted rating segment, people can't help but doubt the objectivity of online comments.
In short, although Warm Hug is not outstanding, if you are willing to believe your eyes, it will certainly bring you intensive happiness and comprehensive healing.