The next day, "Platform" premiered. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoCompared with the previous day's "Durian Piaopiao", it is obvious that the treatment given by the organizers is completely different in terms of the scale of the theater or the number of screenings.

Wang Dalun followed Lao Jia, Yu Liwei and the two producers, Ichiyama Shozo and Jacob, to stand at the door of the theater and greet guests with a smile. That's right, it's to welcome guests, in addition to the audience watching the movie, there are more than 20 filmmakers who are invited, and these are all the God of Wealth!

Among the 20 films shortlisted this time, the most eye-catching film is that in addition to the American film "When Night Falls", which has a high demand for the Golden Lion Award, has not yet premiered, and "Platform", which has naturally attracted the attention of the majority of media, and a lot of long guns and sprints have come.

When Chen Guo brought Qin Hailu and them, he looked at the reporters surrounding the door, and the long crowd of ticket buyers lined up in front of the ticket hall, with an obvious bitter expression on his face. Obviously, he has little confidence in whether his film will win an award.

"Director Jia, congratulations, congratulations!"

"Director Chen, Xiao Qin, welcome, welcome!"

Lao Jia rarely wore a straight suit today, and Wang Dalun also helped Wang Dalun take care of his hair, and the excited expression on his face was difficult to suppress. In the theater that can accommodate 300 people, except for the guest seats set aside for the first few cards, it is almost full. Even the tickets for the next show have already been sold out quite a bit.

Compared with the cold reception of "Xiao Wu" in Berlin, it can now be described as a big hit. What's more important is that "Platform" has always been his first film in his mind, and he also told Wang Dalun that "Platform" is a stone in his heart, and he can't start a new job without completing it.

"You're so busy here, and we don't have much hope. Qin Hailu leaned over to him and whispered. In addition to sighing, the girl's eyes flashed with envy.

It's no wonder that this girl was photographed by a big director for the first time she filmed to play the female lead, and then she came to the Venice Film Festival again, and at the opening dinner, she saw all kinds of big stars that could only be seen in movies before, which was undoubtedly full of fantasy. But yesterday's cold premiere really made her see the reality clearly.

"Actually, you played very well. Wang Dalun smiled and said, after watching the premiere yesterday, Chen Guo took her to be interviewed by reporters, and didn't bother to say hello when she left.

Qin Hailu pursed her lips and didn't say a word, she just saw her performance on the screen yesterday, to be honest, she was still very proud in her heart. Recalling the bits and pieces of filming, and even going to that kind of place to observe for half a month in order to play a good role, only I know the taste, but thinking about it now, everything is worth it, maybe in time the movies she made will be as popular as "Platform".

When the time came, the process of the premiere was basically the same, the main creators lined up in front of the screen, and the host introduced and simply answered a few questions from reporters. Compared with Lao Jia, who is a little stammering, Wang Dalun, who has participated in three film festivals, seems to be very familiar.

Back in your seat, the lights dimmed and the screen lit up.

Wang Dalun only watched the first half of the whole movie, and it is said that he made a lot of revisions when the whole film was edited.

The film began in 1979 with a condolence performance by the county art troupe, in the commune auditorium, performing and singing "The Train Runs to Shaoshan", exaggerated movements, and exemplary lines. This performance seems to make a footnote to the Mao era that has ended, one era has passed, and another unknown era is coming. At the end of the performance, in the old-fashioned shuttle, the head of the troupe was counting the number of people, and several so-called protagonists appeared one by one by shouting "to", under the dim light, most of them only heard their voices, and did not see their people, they were a group of ordinary people who could be submerged by history at any time, and a "to" was enough to show that they once existed.

In the early stages of a film shot in a long shot or panorama, the camera is fixed, there is little movement, monotony, dullness, or there is a kind of tranquility, a kind of dead silence before dawn. At the beginning of reform and opening up, the surface of the undercurrent was undisturbed. Later in the film, the camera comes alive unconsciously, which also seems to indicate that the world has been completely disturbed and tranquility has become out of place.

The days are very ordinary, so ordinary that they are like the lives of most ordinary people. However, behind the seemingly insipid, with the restructuring and contracting of the art troupe, Yin Ruijuan did not choose to go south and north with the troupe, and stayed in the county alone. Cui Mingming, Zhang Jun, and Zhong Ping embarked on the road of performing in the cave together. The tractor jolted slowly out of the county town where they had lived for many years, they sat with their backs, watching the scene behind them go away a little bit, I think they walked out of Fenyang with full of enthusiasm and infinite longing, maybe Cui Mingliang also had a wisp of lovelorn pain and a stubborn heart. In the first performance, in Qijiazhuang, to celebrate the electrification of the village, the village cadres said on the stage: "**************, always follow the Communist Party", at this time it has become so out of rhythm, and the audience responded to the village cadres' "always defend the Party and the Central Committee" with a commotion. From the moment they stepped out of Fenyang County and fended for their own livelihood, this world was no longer the same world as before, and everything was quietly but profoundly changing.

Year after year, the convoy of performances has changed from tractors to east winds, the repertoire has changed from "Field of Hope" to "Little Girl Under the Streetlight"; traditional musical instruments have been replaced by electroacoustic equipment; the troupe has also absurdly changed its name to the Shenzhen Perak Rouzi Orchestra, and has repeatedly changed its name, so that when the troupe director introduces his troupe, he can't even tell the name; Er Yong has become a "rock star" who has returned from visiting the United States, and has absorbed the "pink double jiao" Mimi and Miss Haha...... A group of young, passionate souls tossed and turned in the soot-filled land of Shanxi.

When the melody of "Platform" first appeared, the car broke down in the dry riverbed, the driver and the regiment commander got out of the car to check, Cui Mingliang climbed into the cab, bored and found a tape to insert into the car tape recorder, and the familiar melody floated out.

Long platforms, long waits

The long train carried my fleeting love

The hustle and bustle of the platform waits lonely

There is only the love of departure, and there is no love of my return

Oh lonely platform

Oh, lonely waiting

……

There was a roar of the train in the distance, Cui Mingliang was the first to react, jumped out of the cab and ran to the train while shouting, the young man shouted and jumped off the car, followed by him, and ran wildly like a madman. By the time they climbed onto the railway bridge out of breath, the train had already gone away with the sound of a whistle, and looking at the train in the distance, their faces were filled with excitement, longing, or a hint of loss and loss.

The era of "Platform" was a decade of reform and opening up, and a decade of unprecedented emancipation of the mind. The film does not deliberately highlight the magnificent background of the times, does not pile up the changes of the years, but everywhere is ingenious and quietly makes people feel the heartbeat of the times, and cuts to the pulse of history: Cui Mingming's mother helped them sew bell bottoms, the Indian movie "The Wanderer" shown in the cinema, the three of them listened to Teresa Teng's "Wine and Coffee" on the radio at Zhang Jun's house, the news of the front line of the Sino-Vietnamese War in Fakhashan was broadcast in the barbershop, and the American drama "Garrison's Expendables", which was only halfway broadcast that year, After Zhong Ping's first perm, the four-speaker tape recorder carried by the Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the CPC Central Committee for Liu Shao Qi's rehabilitation and Zhang Jun's return from visiting relatives in Guangzhou, the military parade for the 35th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the loud voice of Qin Ji Wei, commander of the Beijing Military Region, the album "87 Mania", and the melody of "Longing" at the end of the film, the youthful face was only slightly vicissitudes, but an era has ended forever.

"Platform" rarely has eye-catching drama, ordinary as you and my youth. Cui Mingliang and Yin Ruijuan went from confession to hazy love and then to breakup, Cui Mingliang always tilted his head, his heart rolled, but he was always cynical; Zhong Ping resolutely ran away, Zhang Jun pulled his male duck and roared "Genghis Khan" all night, and then in the shot, he quietly grew long hair, grew a beard, held a cigarette, and always stared into the distance alone. The film did not deliberately exaggerate the intense emotional conflict, did not use the story to romance the young years, and did not deliberately create a tragic atmosphere, and it is even difficult to say who is the protagonist of the story. That generation went with the flow of time, and also faced all kinds of changes that came quietly in society; that generation was wandering between reality and ideals, and the ideals were far away, such as Ulaanbaatar, and the reality was very close, as close as the life and death contract in the hands of Cui Mingliang's cousin; that generation did not want to go with the flow but was so non-stop.

When the passion of youth is exhausted by ten years of displacement, when the young dream is besieged by the desolation that cannot go around and around, they return to silence in confusion, not a choice, because they have no right to choose at all, it seems that they are walking every step of the way, in fact, the shadow of the times affects and even determines people's lives everywhere, Zhang Jun Zhongping, who was determined for life, fell apart because of a unique prostitution incident of that era. Every episode in the life of a little person is often accompanied by the occurrence of national events on the radio, the times are tumbling, and personal destiny has not stopped in the torrent.

Er Yong opened a small shop, Zhang Jun picked up a pair of scissors and cut off the long hair full of acacia, but he was still at a loss. At the end of the film, the camera freezes on a sunny afternoon, in a staff dormitory, it seems to be the dialogue between Chow Yun-fat and Ye Qianwen in "Bloody Heroes" from the video hall downstairs:

"Wait a minute, I'll take you somewhere else. ”

"Why?"

"A cleaner environment will be a little better for your eyes. ”

"Okay, I want to move to the beach, I want to be able to see the sky and hear the waves. ”

"You pack your things, I'll be there soon. ”

Heroes and beauties can say that they can go, but you and my youth cannot escape the shackles. In the still shot, Cui Mingliang lay on the sofa and fell asleep, while Yin Ruijuan on the side teased the child while taking care of the kettle. The water boiled and the shrill bee whining grew louder and louder, finally masking all the noise around it......

At the beginning, there were completely different choices, one chose to travel far away, and the other chose to settle down, but ten years later, they all went to the same end, but who can say that Yin Ruijuan has no dreams - "She is actually very high-spirited, and she has secretly taken the provincial song test."

The dreams and passions of the past, the yearning and perseverance of the past, have been crushed by the wheel of history in the past ten years, and they have returned to the platform where they set off with a body of dust. The platform is the place of departure and the place of return, and there is only the ideal of departure, but there is no return of youth.

Lao Jia uses his quiet and slow long lens to record the true colors of life. tells an epic that belongs to the little people, even if it is a group of small people, they are still swaying with their dedication to ideals and the passion of youth, but even if they are persistent and passionate, they still can't stop the fading of youth and the disillusionment of ideals.

The film is three hours and ten minutes long, and almost no one leaves halfway through. When a long list of credits began to scroll on the screen, the lights came on, and a group of people seemed to be suddenly exposed to the theater, frozen in various expressions, as if a world was changed in an instant.

......After a few seconds, some people began to stand up and applaud, and then the audience stood up and slapped vigorously.

Lao Jia seemed a little overwhelmed, but Wang Dalun next to him quickly pulled him up and turned around and waved to the audience behind. "Platform" was a hit before it was broadcast, and after watching the whole movie, the audience, including the media, film critics and film companies, felt that they were not disappointed. After watching the movie for three hours and ten minutes, everyone did not feel depressed, but were excited one by one.

As a film spanning ten years, "Platform" does not have the grandeur of a grand theme, but shows the sense of historical changes of the country and individuals from the perspective of a group of ordinary young people, and of course, delicate and sincere love, which is undoubtedly very much in line with the appetite of Westerners. Lao Jia was very excited, this kind of treatment was not available in "Xiao Wu".

Later, the staff moved a few chairs in front of the stage and faced interviews with more than a dozen media from France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

The host is very experienced, and he made an opening remark with a unique Italian speech, listening to the translated meaning, he first talked about his personal feelings, and used a lot of words such as shock and epic.

During the question time, the media threw more questions to the small Oriental who sat in the center and did not look amazing, of course, there were also questions about Wang Dalun, and one of the reporters actually remembered "East Palace and West Palace", and specially asked him to talk about the different feelings of acting in these two movies.

The first two premieres were all sold out, and the comments on the next day were also very enthusiastic, and some media even asserted that "Platform" is very likely to become the second consecutive year that a Chinese film will win the Golden Lion after last year's "No One is Missing".

Another French film critic said this in the newspaper: "The respect and understanding of life shown in the film shows ordinary people, and some ordinary little people are portrayed as important history." History is no longer about the great people, but about the little people who are running for their dreams and lives. Only then can they truly appreciate the transformation of history, which constitutes a true commentary on history. It can be said that this film is an epic of those little people. (To be continued.) )