After solving Yu Xinliang's murder case, Lao Huang was also idle, but he never went to the barber shop again. He found another shop, where he went for haircuts and shaves. Lao Huang was a little afraid of seeing her and didn't know how to face her.

A few days before the Chinese New Year, Lao Huang's daughter made a phone call and said that she had official business and could not come back to accompany him this year. Lao Huang felt a little sad in his heart, but he also understood that even if his daughter came back to stay for a few days, what could he do?

On the morning of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, after Lao Huang got up, he looked at the calendar, which had long been written in red pen: "Go and see less than at night." He stood at the window, stared at the sky for a long time, and came out into the street. He didn't know what to buy to please him, so he bought a lot of fireworks, not with a ring, but the kind that could breathe flames.

At nine o'clock in the evening, it was dark, and Lao Huang walked towards the barbershop. Because it was the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, there were almost no people on the road, and it was very deserted. Along the way, Lao Huang was a little hesitant, and even doubted whether he had the courage to walk into the store and spend Chinese New Year's Eve with her. Lao Huang hated steel slag a little, why did he put such a thing in his own hands.

Walking more than ten meters away from the barber shop, Lao Huang saw a long lantern hanging outside the humble shop, red and gorgeous, swaying in the wind. Under the dark night sky, a hut with red lanterns is particularly dazzling.

Seeing this scene, many viewers remembered Ken Takakura's movie "The Yellow Handkerchief of Happiness", in which the heroine Mitsueda hung yellow handkerchiefs on the flagpole at the door of her house, waiting for her husband Yusaku to return, and finally Mitsueda waited for Yusaku;

The camera pans back to the city below the hillside, where the lights are bright, and fireworks rise into the sky from time to time, and then the camera pans back to the barber shop, which seems to be two worlds, and the barber shop seems to be isolated from the world, especially lonely.

As the music plays, the camera slowly pulls up, pulls up to the sky, and pulls higher and higher, the smaller and smaller barbershops get farther and farther away, smaller and smaller, and finally disappear completely; the camera slowly pulls out of the clouds and into space, presenting the audience with a lonely earth; the camera is still advancing, slowly pulling out of the solar system, shuttling in the sea of stars.

The audience knew that the movie was about to end, but the audience was silent, and they didn't even dare to breathe, listening intently to the beautiful notes of "Ode to Joy", as if thousands of rainbows were emerging one after another.

After the camera was pulled into the air, Jia Zhangke was stunned, and he realized that Zhang Ran had completed the sublimation through this lens, rising from personal loneliness to human loneliness, and when the final lens moved forward in the universe, it even rose to the loneliness of life, in the vast universe, all life is lonely.

This was originally a scene that made people feel desperate, but instead of feeling hopeless, the audience felt warm in their hearts, only to feel a warm current flowing into their hearts, and then flowing all over their bodies, making the whole person warm.

Jia Zhangke knows very well that this is Zhang Ran's purpose with "Ode to Joy"!

"Ode to Joy" is the main part of the fourth movement of Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony", Beethoven is a poor, crippled and lonely, born miserable, the world has never given him joy, but in the last years of his life, he composed the "Ninth Symphony", dedicated joy to the world, and forged the joy of the world with his own suffering.

Now Zhang Ran has transplanted this great feeling to "One Man Lights Up", trying to use joy to soothe the characters in the movie and use joy to soothe all moviegoers. At the end of the film, Zhang Ran presents the compassion of a great artist and the ambition to soothe the suffering of the world.

Jia Zhangke glanced up at Zhang Ran not far away, sighed slightly, and thought unwillingly, as a director, Zhang Ran really left us far behind!

In the passionate melody of "Ode to Joy", the subtitles slowly crossed, Director: Zhang Ran, Screenwriter: Zhang Ran, Starring: Li Xuejian, Zhang Ran, Zhang Jingchu......

Looking at the crossed subtitles, Zhang Yimou stood up and applauded vigorously, this is the best Chinese movie he has seen recently, no, the best movie, the actors' performances, Zhang Ran's adaptation, the scheduling of shots, the processing of space, the use of light and color, everything is so perfect, it is simply a perfect work!

Jia Zhangke is also applauding, and the movie begins with darkness and ends with darkness, forming a complete circle. This circle can be a city, an earth, or the universe, and the people in this circle are all lonely, and Zhang Ran told everyone through the movie that loneliness is not terrible, we are hopeful, it is really a great movie!

Other directors are also applauding, a movie like this is a mountain-like existence, and he can only look up to it for the rest of his life.

The lights turned on, the screen disappeared completely, and the audience stood up, clapped vigorously, and began to shout the names of Zhang Ran and their main creators. The media reporters all noticed that although today's applause was very warm, it was much sparse compared with Zhang Ran's previous movies, and they all nodded thoughtfully and began to think about how to write tomorrow's news.

In the applause and screams, Zhang Ran took the crew members to the stage to express their feelings about the movie and tell interesting stories about the filming.

The reporters in the audience frantically pressed the shutter, and the flashing lights kept flashing.

Zhang Yimou and they didn't leave in a hurry, they were invited to the conference room of the theater, Zhang Ran invited them over today, because he wanted to chat with them and exchange their views.

Half an hour later, Zhang Ran walked in, smiled and asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, how do you feel?" Tell me your opinions, I am especially looking forward to your opinions. ”

Zhang Yimou turned his head to look at Zhang Ran, nodded seriously, and said, "I like this movie very much, it can be said to be perfect." If you have to find fault, I think there is a plot that should not be deleted, that is, after the steel slag was arrested, he took the money to the counterfeit certificate dealer to buy the so-called A-level State Council amnesty order, Lao Huang and the police came to arrest the fake certificate dealer, so they took Xiao Xiao back to the bureau and then released her. I think this plot is particularly interesting and should be kept!"

Zhang Ran filmed the scene where he bought a fake certificate, and he liked that scene a lot, but when he edited it, he took it out: "I think adding that scene will seem too real, I hope to leave a little space for the audience to think, my brother is dead, my lover is arrested, what is my life like when I am young." In the end, when Lao Huang came to the barber shop and saw the lanterns hanging full, the audience's hearts would be touched even deeper. ”

Zhang Yimou thought about it, felt that it made sense, and continued: "The first half of the movie is relatively dull, especially if it is smaller than that line, ordinary people may not be able to stand it. Of course, these dullness are accumulating strength to prepare for the later explosion, so the final explosiveness of the movie is particularly strong. However, for the audience, the previous scene is really too uncomfortable, and after the movie is released, there will definitely be a lot of audience scolding;

Zhang Ran had already prepared for this, and said disapprehantly: "Experimental works, it's normal to be scolded, and I was ready to be scolded when I was filming!" Zhang Ran smiled at Zhang Yimou, looked at Jia Zhangke, and asked, "Old Jia, what do you think?"

Jia Zhangke groaned: "I think you are in a bit of a hurry to shoot, in a hurry to show the multi-part montage, a little too hard." The state and details of the characters in the front of the movie are quite interesting and vivid. The latter part is a bit too dramatic, the steel slag they made a bomb, and Lao Huang and they just happened to find this piece, which is too dramatic and loses the texture of life. ”

Zhang Ran smiled: "Okay, you don't save face for me at all!"

Jia Zhangke also smiled: "I know that you came to us to show off, but I won't let you get your wish!"

Zhang Ran laughed: "It's over, it's over, it's been recognized!" After laughing, he asked, "Do you have any other questions?"

Jia Zhangke said helplessly: "I thought about it for a long time, and I found such a little fault! Other places are very good, I especially like the end of the movie, I didn't expect you to end with "Ode to Joy", it's really a stroke of genius!"

Zheng Dongtian agreed: "At the beginning of the movie, I was thinking about how to close the opening so well that the ending would not look anticlimactic! At the end of the movie, when "Ode to Joy" sounded, I immediately remembered Du Fu's sentence 'There are thousands of mansions in Ande, and the poor people in the world are happy', this kind of realm is really not something that ordinary people can achieve, and this ending is really amazing!"

Zhang Yimou also felt the same way: "At the beginning of the movie, it was about personal loneliness, and when the music sounded, it was sublimated and rose to the height of human beings, and even all life, and the whole realm was different!"

At the same time that Zhang Ran was communicating with the directors, all the places related to the movie on the Internet were discussing "One Man Puts on the Lights".

"This movie is fantastic! It's very intriguing, and the plot is gripping, starting with a case. In the end, it seems that the case is solved, but it is not so straightforwardly described, while making people clarify the logic of the case, it also interprets the emotional entanglement!

"The movie is so exciting, Jing Chu's performance is particularly outstanding, there is a degree of relaxation, there is no trace, it is simply less than the acting, it is like a real dumb. This is a real masterpiece among domestic films in recent years, highly recommended!"

However, unlike the support of fans, the evaluation of "One Man Puts on the Lights" by ordinary audiences is very different, and the polarization is very obvious, those who like it are very liked, those who are disgusted are very disgusted, and there are almost no intermediate views.

""One Person's Lights Up is the movie I looked forward to, but I was very disappointed after watching it. I know that the director wants to express a lot of things, life, life, loneliness, but you must at least shoot it well! I really don't want to say that this is the bad movie of the year, but it is really bad!"

"Bad movie! Incorrigible bad movie! I looked forward to it for more than a year, and I walked into the cinema for the first time, but I was choked with ashes on my face. I really don't understand what Zhang Ran is doing, do you have to pretend to be forced to make a movie? Look at other people's Ang Lee's movies, are they so pretending to be forced? They all went to school in the United States, why is the gap so big? There is a difference between Zhang Ran and Ang Lee by 10 Zhang Yimou!"

"How to say it, in terms of conception, the movie is more profound than Zhang Ran's previous movies, but the rhythm of the first half is very uncomfortable, especially Zhang Jingchu's scene is too torturous, but it's good to get through this paragraph, the more exciting the movie is, there is amazing richness, it's really exciting!"

"It's really beyond imagination, the whole story is exciting, I can hardly breathe from beginning to end! Characters! Humanity! Great praise! The actors' acting skills are very high! The director's shooting techniques are amazing! Looking forward to the next work!"

As an experimental film, it is normal for "One Man to Put on the Lights" to be controversial, and it is not normal if there is no controversy. However, any film with commercial intentions is too controversial among the audience, which means that it is difficult for the movie to achieve particularly good results at the box office, even Zhang Ran's film is no exception.