In one scene, Mr. Bai, a painter played by Xú Zhēng, was temporarily called to be a hand model for an advertisement.
Miss Li, played by Ma Yili, sat in front of the monitor at first.
Only Mr. Bai’s hand was photographed in the camera. So later, she couldn’t help secretly looking away and turned her head to see him seriously painting.
Such a small body language, looking sideways, tells her throbbing mood.
After the filming, the two had a heart-to-heart conversation. Miss Li talked about her first half of life: she almost went to the best university and went to the United States for further study, but in the end, "I didn’t get the best, so I was willing to go another way."
Miss Bai asked her, is it going well?
She smiled and said in a relaxed tone, downhill, can it be bad?
In another scene, two people are standing on the roof of Miss Bai’s house.
Miss Li shows Miss Bai her mobile phone. It turned out that she set the sketch that Miss Bai drew for herself as a lock screen wallpaper.
Miss Li said that when I saw this painting, I was still a little sad. When I was young, I loved it most.
Laobai asked her, what about now?
Miss Li smiled again, don’t you think?
The golden sunset has put a layer of Phnom Penh on Miss Li’s face, which makes her smile look lonely and gentle.
Later, the director also said that many staff members wanted to fall in love after watching the play.
These two scenes happened to be set in the evening and both took place on the top floor. The last touch of the sky hangs over the outline of the two.
I believe this is not an accident, but a metaphor carefully designed by the director: this is the love of adults.
Therefore, even if it is selfish, I really want to recommend this Love Myth to more people.
This is indeed a very special love movie.
On the one hand, this movie is about the love of a group of adults, and it does invite a lot of big coffee: Xú Zhēng, Ma Yili, wuyue, Ni Hongjie, Zhou Yemang … With this group of people in town, even if it is just an old friend, it will definitely be wonderful.
But on the other hand, this film is also very "new". This is the first feature film by young director Shao Yihui, and it is also the first time that Xú Zhēng has cooperated with a post-90s female director as a producer.
In this film, we will see a younger and more feminine creator’s perspective.
Even Xu Zheng has "changed".
This time, the male role he played was indeed completely different from before:
He is no longer a "successful man" in the traditional sense, but a more grounded adult Shanghai man. He has his own dilemma: divorcing his wife, not understanding his son’s thoughts, and his career is high or low …
He tried to pursue Miss Li, who was independent and charming, but Miss Li was always at arm’s length and ambiguous.
How does the young director show the subtlety and ambiguity in this love relationship?
Use wechat.
After the date, Laobai tried to find something on WeChat to test Miss Li’s attitude. The other party only replied with two identical words, "Hmm".
But the first time there was no period, but the second time there was a period.
This has shown the attitude.
Seeing this, you must have smiled.
This is indeed a unique expression of our time, but few domestic films can capture it so naturally and lightly. This has already made people shine.
Of course, the "newness" of Love Myth is not only reflected here.
At first, you would think that this movie is just a love story between a "little man" and a "big woman" in Shanghai.
But looking back, things don’t seem so simple.
Teacher Bai, played by Xú Zhēng, is actually more like a thread in the story, stringing together the world around him and all the urban men and women around him.
The film also takes him as the perspective and goes deep into the world of three women.
Ma Yili plays Miss Li, a strong woman in the advertising industry and a typical Shanghai girl.
The name "Miss" itself carries a sense of distance. She is smart, fashionable and independent, but she also has a reserve and pride in her bones.
Wuyue’s ex-wife Beibei is a strong ex-wife.
Obviously, she will firmly grasp the "power of life and death" at home, and both husband and son need to be strictly controlled by her.
Unfortunately, she can’t tell the difference between love and affection. So although he has divorced his ex-husband, he still thinks he belongs to himself.
Gloria, played by Ni Hongjie, is a female student who came to learn painting.
She is a rich woman with "money and leisure, and her husband is missing", so her personality is simpler and freer, and her style is more arbitrary.
But the amorous feelings she released were not to "tease" anyone, but to please herself.
The first wonderful climax of Love Myth appeared when the three women met for the first time.
In this scene, Lao Bai just wanted to invite Miss Li to dinner, but Beibei and Gloria both appeared in his house by mistake, so the dinner became a battlefield without smoke.
In the audience’s expectation, this will be a social death dinner in the Luochang: similar to the mahjong game in Lust, Caution, it seems that women are fighting on the mahjong table, but in fact, their focus is all on Mr. Yi who is watching the cards.
But is Love Myth shot like this?
Look at their lines in this play:
Beibei said: A woman is incomplete without children in her life.
Gloria said: it is incomplete for a woman not to live for herself in her life.
Finally, Miss Li said: It is incomplete for a woman to have never earned a million dollars in her life.
It’s really a fight, it’s really a fight with each other, but you will find that it has nothing to do with Laobai.
On the contrary, what these three people are talking about is their own view of women, and how a woman can live completely and realize herself in life.
Men may be the process and the other half in this, but it is by no means the purpose and result.
Just from here, the real novelty of Love Myth came out.
This film breaks the male narrative thinking inherent in many romantic films.
Female characters are usually portrayed as objects stared at by desire; But in The Myth of Love, it bears the real expression of the creator.
It seems that all three female characters intersect because the leading actor is old and white, but in fact, they all represent a side of the contemporary female group. Through these roles, we see a cosmopolitan picture of contemporary women.
What they have in common is that they are very mature, independent and self-conscious. They have their own lives, and love can only rank second.
Life comes first, love comes second.
Obviously, what is behind this is a post-90s female directors’s interpretation and expression of adult love.
Adults have experienced more and had more. Therefore, they tend to see the relationship between the sexes very clearly and will not be so easily moved. Because they have seen everything.
Feelings are no longer pure for them, and there are always many concerns, weighing and considerations behind them. Their attitude is always more cautious, full of circuitous temptation, pushing and holding.
Most importantly, only adults will understand that "self" is always the most important. So they always show restraint in their feelings.
They need to carefully delimit the distance and rules in an intimate relationship to protect the complete and fragile "self".
This is a very realistic part of this movie. Each of us will feel the same way when we see these places.
However, as the director said, the romance lies in the fact that adults who used to have trouble crossing the sea are still willing to love someone, which is different from when they were young.
Behind this is the slogan of the film: Long live love, no matter how old you are.
Most romantic films only praise youth, young people’s courage and dedication.
However, The Myth of Love shows us that people of all ages have interest, desire and enthusiasm for life. Everyone can live a decent life and love again.
At this level, there is no limit to the audience of this film. What we see is actually an "all-age" love.
Another highlight of Love Myth is its "life stream" flavor.
As Xu Zheng said, this film captures "the details of life within two kilometers of Shanghai West District" very accurately.
Perhaps you have never seen such a Shanghai:
It depicts a modern city without landscape, and the location of the film also abandons those iconic high-rise buildings, but goes deep into alleys, attics, rooftops and cafes and shops on street corners. The film depicts a very romantic atmosphere of life.
You will see the protagonist riding a bicycle, walking under the buttonwood tree and passing by two blonde foreign girls.
Or he drinks coffee with friends, buys vegetables cheerfully, and cooks a big meal at home humming a ditty.
In fact, these are very small things in life, without a particularly strong purpose, but they can reflect a very lovely and valuable life interest.
The creator just captured the poetry. Therefore, there is always a light and pleasant atmosphere in this story, with a just right sense of humor, and it will never offend people.
There is a saying in The Story that a good work is a vivid metaphor, telling us that "life is like this".
In this movie, we can really feel this vitality, this unique breath of life.
Especially at the end of the film, the protagonists lazily gathered around the sofa, chatting while eating and watching an old movie called Love Myth.
At this time, in front of the screen, we also sank into our seats very relaxed and watched another new movie called Love Myth.
The projector’s light is aimed at the screen, and the actor’s eyes are fixed on us outside the screen.
At this moment, the border between virtual and reality has been broken, and we are immersed in the same story and the same life both on and off the screen.
And I was also hit by a magical sense of ritual.
As adults, perhaps we all know that there will be no more myths in life.
But there may be myths in love. More importantly, we should always believe in their existence.
On December 21st, the 150th Taotao viewing group, which is very ceremonial, brought you the advanced viewing of Love Myth in Beijing.
One thing that is also very ceremonial is that we specially made five colorful ticket stubs-just like the urban women with different personalities and charms in the movies.
The words on the ticket stub are from the lyrics of the theme song "Long live the woman" in the film promotion.
Therefore, every audience present can pick up a declaration of "independent women" of their own.
After the screening, Mr. Xú Zhēng, an old friend of our Taotao Cinema Group, and the film’s creators, including screenwriter/director Shao Yihui, starring wuyue, Ni Hongjie and Zhou Yemang, especially Justin and Wang Yinglu, also came to the scene to communicate with the audience.
Old friends were present, and this exchange can be said to be full of dry goods! ! !
Host Tao Taolin: "This is my second time to watch this movie. I really like it. It’s a unique movie. The second time I watched it, I found that the film had a special female perspective. Xú Zhēng has played many similar roles and stories before, but this film has a completely different perspective. I would like to ask Mr. Xú Zhēng, as the producer and leading star, and the screenwriter/director Shao Yihui, did you have any collision and discussion on the role at the beginning? "
Screenwriter/director Shao Yihui: "I wrote this script because I have lived in Shanghai for a long time. Lao Bai is the fusion of several friends in my life. When I cut the film myself, I found that he is actually the most like myself. His usual lifestyle is very similar to that of a housewife. What I want to set up most is, when a man does all the work of a housewife, how will he treat women? I believe he will understand and respect women more. Because he knows that it is not easy for a woman to be a housewife. Washing vegetables, buying food and cooking are actually very complicated and consuming, which requires great co-ordination ability. There is no difference between going to work in the company and fighting in the workplace. So we must respect this kind of labor. "
Xú Zhēng: "How did this story come from? Shao Yihui directs himself as a screenwriter and usually writes novels. She lived in Shanghai for six or seven years, and observed the life in the streets of Shanghai in detail, so she wrote this script and took it to the venture capital of FIRST. As soon as I saw it, I found the story wonderful. I was surprised after meeting the director. The director is so young, which gives me a feeling of little Zhang Ailing. What we can see in many movies now is a single type, such as big scenes, blasting and special effects, and the actors are also miserable. I thought, can we make a movie in the city, very relaxed, like Woody Allen? "
Taotaolinlin: "The movie really impressed me. The second time I watched it, it was more like a comedy, and the name "Love Myth" was also very interesting. On the one hand, it corresponded to Ferini’s movies. On the one hand, I also talked to others,’ Adults still believe in love, which is a myth in itself’. "
Audience: "I like this movie very much, and I like some ideas it outputs." Very humorous, especially black humor. Why is the English film "Love Myth" called B for Busy? "
Shao Yihui: "I’m glad you noticed this. Lao Bai’s English name in the film is Mr.b. I was also in a collision with the translation team at that time. We figured out a’ Mr. Busy for Nothing’. It’s equivalent to Mr. B being busy for something that has nothing, that is, working hard in vain. So the b in the title is also Busy’s B. Secondly, I also like the feeling of this sentence. "
Audience: "The movie begins by saying,’ Everyone is waiting in line for a candy. But maybe this candy won’t be sold while I wait.’ Do you want to know what this’ sugar’ means in the movie? "
Shao Yihui: "Sugar represents what each of us yearns for. Sometimes you give everything, and you don’t necessarily get something in return. It’s like waiting for you and not selling it. This poem appeared twice. One is the opening drama, in which is the original poem, which comes from a dramatist I like very much, Levin’s Requiem. This is indeed a tribute. The second time was Lao Bai’s circle of friends, which was slightly changed. I think this kind of emotion, life, is like a queue. Sometimes you line up and you don’t even know what you’re doing. I thought this place was for nucleic acid testing, but I found it was a selling point when I got there. I just want to express such a feeling. "
After the film, we also received enthusiastic feedback from the audience.
Among them, "urban fireworks", "comfortable and pleasant look and feel", "novel and unconventional", "full of literature" and "full of fun" and other high-frequency words they mentioned.
After watching "Love Myth", I actually have a strong feeling that this movie is really suitable for the Lunar New Year at the end of the year.
This is the real New Year movie: there are smiles and feelings, the love and troubles of secular men and women, and a sense of ritual in ordinary life.
After watching it, I walked out of the cinema, and it seemed that the cold winter night had become warmer.
So I can’t help shouting at the end, December 24, "Love Myth", I want to see it! !
