In China, because there is no formed art theater, if you don't want to become a pure artistic martyr, you can only go to foreign film festivals on the red carpet with bitterness and hatred on the one hand, and dress up to cater to mainland movie audiences on the other hand, and then experience the ice and fire of flowers and rotten tomatoes.

After Fan Bingbing took advantage of the film to close at the Tokyo Film Festival, her tongue-kissing plot in the film has also become the biggest hype point of the film, so much so that before watching the movie, many viewers thought that this was a female version of "Lan Yu".

This is like asking a young woman from a good family to dress up as a dust girl to seduce the audience, Song Zheng feels that this is a very sad thing.

In all fairness, "Guanyin Mountain" is really a heartfelt movie, and it is very heavy, this heaviness is different from tear bombs like "Tangshan Earthquake", it never gives the audience a chance to vent their emotions, and it is so heavy that it is desperate.

The characters in the film have been losing, losing their dignity, losing their jobs, losing their loved ones, losing their idols, and the reshaping of the golden body of the Guanyin statue in the dilapidated temple on the ruins of the earthquake is a metaphor for the reconstruction of a nation's faith, Chang Yueqin's heart gnawed by the pain of losing a child and the cruel youth of three young people are approaching, flowing with worldly warmth and tolerance, but all of this cannot stop the temptation of the kiss of death.

It's like a real-life version of a little match girl, if your life is reduced to a cold winter night, it is a very desperate thing to rely on matches to keep warm, because what a person experiences is nothing more than the disillusionment of hope after cycle.

At the end of the film, Chang Yueqin said: "Loneliness is temporary, but being together is eternal." ”

And this is eternity, which can only be achieved in heaven.

Nanfeng, Ding Bo, and Feilong lie on their backs on the train with confused faces, the train passes through the tunnel, the scene in the sunlight is distorted due to overexposure, and then the train enters the next tunnel, in the darkness, the light behind them gradually shrinks into a fleeting dot, and when the train is about to come out of the darkness to embrace the light, the film comes to an abrupt end.

This inescapable ending is, at best, the epitome of the lost youth of the Beat Generation, and at worst, the tragic fate of a nation that has lost its faith and is staggering forward in the dark.

Between matches and heaven, all you can expect is the reborn phoenix nirvana, and the film's way of caring for reality is shocking, and I also admire the courage of the creator.

After Song Zheng watched "Guanyin Mountain" in his previous life, his heart was filled with the same emotions as when he watched "Hongyan" and "Apple" before: it was a complicated, inexplicable, a little uncomfortable, a little aggrieved, a little unwilling to speak, just want to calm down and slowly reminisce.

That feeling is called being lost.

If you summarize the whole movie in one sentence, it is the little thing between one or three wage earners who failed the college entrance examination and the old lady of the landlady.

This movie does not have a too strong plot in terms of narrative, which is the biggest difference between "Guanyin Mountain" and "Red Face", "Apple", the latter two are a bit of a "bosom friend" body of strange social press releases, and the story of "Guanyin Mountain" is very life, very real, and those characters in it are real ordinary people, living around you.

In domestic films depicting young people, Song Zheng rarely sees such true stories, most of them are like "Du Lala's Promotion", the protagonist will always have no worries about food and clothing, even if he only has a salary of a few thousand a month, he can still live in a spacious and spacious place, wear brand-name clothes, and when he is angry, he can swipe his card to buy a car, and when he is bored, he will go abroad for a vacation.

Unreal, hypocritical, and contrived, what those movies present is a kind of obscenity with Chinese characteristics. Therefore, Song Zheng Zhong is very pleased that "Guanyin Mountain" can so realistically shoot the real life of most young people in China's current society.

The first half of the movie "Guanyin Mountain" has been showing the living conditions of Nanfeng and others played by Fan Bingbing, so at first, Song Zheng thought that this was a youth film about young people.

But in the middle of the section, when Chang Yueqin, a middle-aged child lost by Zhang Aijia, appeared, Song Zheng was puzzled: This is a story line that has nothing to do with Nanfeng, what is the purpose of joining, could it be that the director wants to express how Chang Yueqin and Nanfeng, two people who are completely different in age, living status and world view, change each other day and night?

After watching it again, when Nanfeng picked up the train to go to Guanyin Mountain, and then Chang Yueqin and Nanfeng looked at the ruins after the Wenchuan earthquake, Song Zheng vaguely felt the director's intention.

Seeing the end again, when the group worked together to renovate the dilapidated Guanyin Temple, at that moment, Song Zheng finally realized what "Guanyin Mountain" wanted to convey to the audience.

In the film, Song Zheng sees a strong contrast between the heaviness of loneliness and the fragility of life, all the characters in the film are suffering from this contrast, the loneliness of the three young people comes from youth, and the fragility of life comes from the rootlessness of youth.

The loneliness of the landlady is the sequelae left after experiencing the fragility of life, and the desperate situation of loneliness is to face the fragility of life. This is a pair of interdependent, but also contradictory contradictions, what people can do is only to bear it or not, can not bear it, it is the ruins of the soul, can bear it, in order to meet the reconstruction of the ruins of the heart.

In order to cover this theme, "Guanyin Mountain" uses a story that people are not unfamiliar with, the characters in the story are divided into two types, young and middle-aged and elderly, which are not only limited to different ages and different groups of people, but also bring the greatest difference in the perception of life due to their different experiences, especially when telling a lonely story about life and life confirmation, such a character relationship choice undoubtedly has a story and thought can be developed.

Just like the touching that "The Two of Us" brings to the audience, most of it comes from such a character relationship setting, one has a lot of life in his hands, but the other life is gradually leaving, the former brings the enthusiasm of life to the latter, and the latter leaves a love for life for the former.

Although Chang Yueqin, the latter set in "Guanyin Mountain", is a middle-aged person, she is indeed a middle-aged person with a great scar of life, and she is willing to approach death at any time to experience another unknowable world.

Several young people represented by the heroine Nanfeng are the first to be rejected by mainstream values, and at the same time have their own painful backgrounds, so they are self-reliant but constantly sharpened, and love each other but are still lonely.

The development of the story undoubtedly revolves around the interaction between them, how they go from rejection to recognition of each other, and fragile people are often more likely to be each other's support, just like in the film, Nanfeng will cry in Aunt Chang's arms, and will also appear in a happy posture when Aunt Chang gives up her life.

There are many places in the whole film that bring the audience the urge to cry, and this impulse to tears is very real, which is rarely seen in domestic films in recent years.

The movie spends a lot of ink to show the three young and arrogant youth scenes of Nanfeng, Ding Bo, and Feilong, three people riding motorcycles on the road and taking trains on the road, every time it is an aimless wandering of the heart.

In particular, the three people shuttled through caves on the train, exposed normally in the caves, and overexposed outside the caves, bringing an illusion like a dream during the day, with a handheld camera, the shaking lens confirms the inner turmoil of the protagonists.

But the main story of the film is not about youth.

The film also has a very designed scene, that is, the protagonists work with the monks on Guanyin Mountain to repair the temple destroyed by the earthquake, which is the reconstruction of all the people with scars from the external environment to the inner world.

After the reconstruction, whether the protagonists choose to leave or stay in this world, this is no longer the point, the focus is on the balance between the fragility of life and the heaviness of loneliness that everyone has realized.

The mood of the whole movie is extremely fluctuating, but the way of expression is really uneventful, and the movie has a full literary flavor, but it is sincere and unpretentious.

Song Zheng likes the three passages in the film very much, the first one is the passage where the three people of the south wind pick up the train and follow the train through the southwest mountains.

The three of them sit on the train, shuttling through those tunnels with the train, the picture is sometimes all black, sometimes white, and Nanfeng's hair is scattered with the wind.

There is nothing more striking than this, I believe that the director and screenwriter must have had such an experience, so they can shoot this scene that is easy to be petty bourgeoisie, pretend, and "wearing long hair and wandering along the railroad tracks", so real and unpretentious.

In the second paragraph, Chang Yueqin scolded her prospective daughter-in-law who came to Chang Yueqin with a cake on her son's birthday and death day, because she wanted to celebrate her boyfriend's birthday, she played a crazy move, which eventually led to the loss of a leg, and Chang Yueqin lost her son forever, which is a tragedy for both of them.

This scene is also the most intense emotional explosion in the whole film, Chang Yueqin faced her son's girlfriend, her daughter-in-law-to-be, and shouted loudly: "You came to my house with this cake, what do you want to do?

When Song Zheng was watching, he was afraid that the director would deal with it bloodily, for example, Chang Yueqin would hold the cake in the next shot and fall the girl's body.

This is indeed a very dramatic and conventional plot, but this is not what real people will do in real life, because it is impossible for a thrifty woman like Chang Yueqin to spoil things like this.

Fortunately, the director did not arrange the bridge in this way, Chang Yueqin held the cake, and did not fall on the other party, nor did she throw it to the ground.

This is also what Song Zheng thinks is excellent about "Guanyin Mountain": it does not deliberately create great sorrows and joys, nor does it have a bloody plot, and many details in the whole movie are real and moving.

Authenticity is what is most lacking in Chinese movies now.

The third section is the process of Chang Yueqin and Nanfeng and their group, after revisiting the old site of the earthquake, and working with the monks in the temple to repair the Guanyin Bodhisattva on Guanyin Mountain.

Seeing this passage of the earthquake also touched Song Zheng greatly, because this earthquake is a nightmare for all southwestern people, and many families have changed their life trajectories because of the earthquake, so when the real scenes of the earthquake at that time were reproduced on the big screen, Song Zheng's nose was sour again.

In the film, Chang Yueqin looks at this ruin with a compassionate eye, and there is the real pain of many people outside her body, and Chang Yueqin is suffering from Rusi all the time in her heart.

Therefore, at the end of the movie, a few people were arranged to rebuild the Guanyin Temple, Guanyin Mountain is a point of coordinates, this mountain called Guanyin, also experienced an earthquake with thousands of southwestern people, the temple fell, Guanyin was also destroyed, Nanfeng and Chang Yueqin rebuilt the Guanyin Temple together, in this process, they all began to try to gradually get out of their respective spiritual difficulties.

Of course, for ordinary audiences like Song Zheng, there is another curious mentality when watching this scene, that is, to see how Guanyin Bodhisattva did it.

Stepping on mud, sprinkling sawdust, painting, coupled with the light explanation of the temple monks, and the beautiful scenery of Guanyin Mountain, this scene is enough to make the audience's soul get a quiet comfort.

Of course, the earthquake has not happened yet, so these episodes have been re-deleted by Song Zheng, and some plots have been re-arranged, of course, the core content of the story will not change.

And while delicately describing the role of Chang Yueqin, he focused on portraying the role of Nanfeng, after all, this script was written for Fan Bingbing.

The biggest breakthrough in the original version of "Guanyin Mountain" is Fan Bingbing, who plays the south wind, Song Zheng has always expressed doubts about whether Fan Bingbing can play a 20-year-old college entrance examination student before watching the movie in his previous life, after all, when this movie started filming in his previous life, Fan Ye had already made three films.

However, after watching the movie, this feeling no longer exists, Fan Bingbing in the film wants to play a father who died early, his mother remarried, but his stepfather is an alcoholic, who has been drinking so much that he is hospitalized, out of sight and out of mind, she runs to another city to live alone and sing in a bar.

This is a character that has nothing to do with Fan Bingbing's own life experience, and this character itself does not have many major dramatic ups and downs to express, because she wants to show a person living in real society, so Fan Bingbing must show the life of the character Nanfeng like he is making a documentary.

Fan Bingbing's performance amazed Song Zheng, in the film, she negotiated with people for Feilong, sang from HIGH in a bar, and lived in a group at home, the details of those lives are so real on the big screen, so that Song Zheng almost has the feeling that Fan Bingbing is such a person, and she is living like this.

Maybe "Guanyin Mountain" is not the best movie that Fan Bingbing has acted in, but this is definitely the movie that impresses the audience the most, and she is so impressed that she feels that she is not acting alone from what she saw on the big screen in the past.

"Guanyin Mountain" once again proves two things: first, a good actor must shine after all, and second, when he meets the right director, a good actor can shine.

"Guanyin Mountain" abandons the drama of great sorrow and joy, and uses a technique similar to white description to show the living conditions of a certain group of young people at present; and uses the collision of the character of Chang Yueqin and the south wind to outline the integration and exchange of the two generations; and then uses Guanyin Mountain to point out the theme: the ruins in the real world can be rebuilt and renewed, but how should the ruins of the soul be rebuilt?

Chang Yueqin, who represents the older generation, finally chose to leave again, her figure disappeared in Guanyin Mountain, and was saved by Guanyin, who is merciful and compassionate, and saved the suffering of the world;

The two phases of movement and stillness, knowing that they are not born, wanting to cut off the sufferings of all sentient beings, and wanting all sentient beings to live in peace and happiness, this is the truth of "Guanyin Mountain", which wants to inform people.

The script has been given, and the rest of the things are not for Song Zheng to consider, the script is a good script, the story is a good story, and what is missing now is a person who uses the technique of a movie to present the story.

And this person, Fan Bingbing has already been found.

When he got up in the morning, Fan Bingbing hurriedly made a phone call and went out, but Fan's mother didn't stop shouting behind him.

Leaving home, Fan Bingbing drove to Wang Jinghua's house first, and as soon as he entered the door, he couldn't wait to ask: "Sister Hua!!Did he~~~ send it over!?"

Wang Jinghua looked at Fan Bingbing's eyes with a little strangeness, probably because she had experienced too many strange things this morning.

At six o'clock, Song Zheng suddenly came to the door, stayed for less than ten minutes, put down a file bag, said it was for Fan Bingbing, and then left.

Before Wang Jinghua could see what was in the file bag, Fan Bingbing followed closely and came to the door.

"Xiao Song brought a ~~~~~~~ in the morning"

Before Wang Jinghua finished speaking, Fan Bingbing saw the document bag on the sofa, rushed over directly, picked it up and hugged it in his arms, and smirked at Wang Jinghua.

Wang Jinghua was laughed inexplicably, but she was worried in her heart: "Soldiers! Xiao Song, who are he and you ~~~~~~?"

"Oh, it's nothing, Sister Hua! I'll tell you about this matter later, by the way, I still have something to discuss with you!" Fan Bingbing said, glanced at the clock hanging on the wall, and said, "There's no time, Sister Hua, I'll talk to you next time!"

After speaking, Fan Bingbing left in a hurry, Wang Jinghua watched, in a daze, from beginning to end, she didn't even finish a word.

What the hell is going on!?

Fan Bingbing went downstairs, and the mobile phone rang: "I've got it, yes, it's in my hand, uh~~~~~~ meet at the Western restaurant where we ate French snails last time, I'll go over first, hurry up!"

Fan Bingbing finished speaking quickly, started the car, and galloped away in the direction of the Western restaurant he had made.