In fact, the judges' duty is to watch the movie and then discuss.

Fifty-one films were selected in the preliminary round, and in the feature film section, a total of 9 films were shortlisted, all of which were directorial feature film debuts.

Shen Lin's main focus is, of course, feature films, and he has no interest in documentaries.

However, no matter how uninterested you are, you have to participate in the activities you should attend, after all, many directors want to get his guidance.

So, there is still free time as a judge, but not much.

Fortunately, the commercial promotion ability of the Xining Youth Film Festival is not too strong, there is no big-name sponsorship, and there is no red carpet link, Shen Lin also wants to feel the level of Chinese independent films up close.

The Xining Youth Film Festival is also a film festival no matter how it is said, and there will still be some requirements for the judges, in addition to the most basic objective and fair, the most important thing is to be strict and never reveal the slightest inside story to the media.

Otherwise, the biggest gimmick is gone, what's the point!

The reason why a group of judges gathered together this morning was to get to know each other.

After they got to know each other, they dispersed.

Shen Lin didn't have the idea of having deep friendships with these people, as for Tang Wei, she was an actor after all.

……

In the afternoon, the first film was shown.

It's called "Happy Funeral"

It is the first feature film directed by Zhang Tao.

This is the first feature film watched by the judges of this year's Xining Youth Film Festival, and everyone attaches great importance to it.

In 2012, he wrote and directed the short film "Yiping", which won the "Best Actress Award" at the 9th Central Academy of Drama Film Festival, and in 2013, he participated in Zhao Jian's "Shanhaiguan" as the starring and executive director, which won the "Best Screenplay Award" at the 9th Central Academy of Drama Film Festival, and participated in Zhao Jian's "Sniffing the Rose" as the starring and executive director in 2014;

On the other hand, it was the great success of "Heart Labyrinth" last year that made the entire domestic film critics and film companies look forward to the Xining Youth Film Festival.

These judges are also looking forward to it, after all, it's the first one!

Of course, Shen Lin had to go to the movies, but he kept a low profile, so as not to be surrounded by reporters.

Heheda, he still thinks too much, and there are really few reporters!

It is estimated that the film festivals he participated in before are all large-scale film festivals, so he naturally thought that there were many press conferences at the Xining Youth Film Festival, and the media attention was not small.

It's a pity that there are really few media to follow up, and there are only a few reporters at the venue, and Wang Jiawei is still tracking.

Even with Wang Jiawei and Shen Lin in charge, many people still don't know about the Xining Youth Film Festival.

It's a small screening room, after all, there are only a few judges present, and it doesn't need too many people.

The whole story of "Happy Funeral" has a bit of cruel realism.

Lunan Zhangzhuang, 86-year-old Lin Guoshi, 35-year-old widow, has four sons and two daughters, and four generations are in the same house.

Lin Guo lived alone in his old house in the countryside, and his children were too busy to make ends meet.

In his twilight years, Lin Guo's physical condition gradually deteriorated.

Hiding from Lin Guo's family, the children actively operated the admission of the nursing home, from persuading her to go to the nursing home, and gradually evolving into forcing her to go to the nursing home.

The beds in the nursing home are tight, and the children are anxiously waiting for the death of an elderly person in the nursing home, and then let Lin Guoshi replace the vacancy.

Lin Guo's illness fell and was injured and he suffered from laughing disease.

She began a short journey to her children's homes to live in turns, and the arrival of Lin Guo's disrupted the order of her children's lives.

The night before going to the nursing home, Lin Guoshi committed suicide by eating rat poison with an old family photo in his arms.

The children and grandchildren held a vigorous funeral for her to "celebrate" Lin Guo's death.

At the funeral, Lin Guo's portrait was placed in the front row of the stage, and he "witnessed" the most fashionable program of the moment with his parents and fellow villagers - singing and dancing.

The second daughter-in-law fell down after a hard work;

Life starts anew, but it seems to be repeating yesterday's story again...

Shen Lin watched a movie for the first time from the perspective of pure evaluation, to be honest, he felt that this movie was okay, at least he could watch it all the way, although he wanted to leave halfway.

It is estimated that this also has something to do with the fact that the story of "Happy Funeral" itself is relatively solid.

If a director wants to show off his style in his first work, and tell all kinds of authors' creative intentions, Shen Lin is estimated to leave directly.

Why, do you want to die by selling these things in front of him?

He has always paid attention to the fact that movies should abandon all packaging and restore the movie itself, that is, the story!

Zhang Tao did a pretty good job of this.

But he was not satisfied with one thing, the story was particularly false, although Zhang Tao showed the film in a pseudo-documentary style in an attempt to show people that the story was common.

All academic-born directors have been trying to depict how backward China is, which is really speechless!

The lack of support for the elderly is directly attributed to the impact of urbanization!

To this day, it still is!

Thanks to a group of directors, especially Wang Jiawei, who thinks this film is very good, what do they say about the care for the countryside, calm shots, and the performances of non-professional actors.

Hehe!

After all, Wang Jiawei doesn't know the mainland, how many real film creators are really rooted in the countryside?

To put it simply, the creators of "Happy Funeral" are too argumentative essay ideas, always thinking that each plot should be deducted from the theme, and people are either good or bad, so they use too much force and are seriously out of reality.

……

In the original time and space, "Happy Funeral" was not released.

Although it won the Best Feature Film at this year's Xining First Youth Film Festival, and director Zhang Tao also won the Best Director, commercially, the film achieved zero results!

It's probably that the General Administration is not willing to let such a movie spread!

If Shen Lin is allowed to shoot, he will focus more on the understanding of the elderly for their children.

Otherwise, there is no need for such a movie to exist at all, to tell about the inherent evil of human nature?

It may be true, but there is absolutely no market!

It's like the last criminal in "The Dark Knight" never pressed the button in his hand, doesn't Nolan know that pressing that button is more human?

But why didn't he do that?

Because only then will it be accepted by the public, otherwise, the cost of Warner Bros. $160 million will be over, and "Batman: The Dark Knight" will not become a classic that has been passed on by everyone!

Back to the movie "Happy Funeral", although it seems to be very realistic, is truth good?

The subject matter shows traces of deliberateness, the script is too patterned, the lens language is dull and old-fashioned, the performances of non-professional actors are very embarrassing, and the whole film reveals a sense of scheming artificiality, if it weren't for the passage at the funeral, this film basically has no highlights.

In a word, bad reviews!