Chapter 0558: The Miracle of Millet
The movie does not give the final ending, but ends at the scene where Xiaomi stands in front of the obstetrics and gynecology department. For Xiaomi's fate, everyone can judge according to their own values, and this open-ended ending leaves the audience room for deeper thinking.
Yang Chen, the beautiful teacher played by Yang Xintong, is the only one who does not look at this matter from the commanding heights of morality, she is Xiaomi's homeroom teacher, and the only one who understands her inner world and troubles. She is like a fighter, going toe-to-toe with people who represent tradition and justice again and again. She wanted to protect the little girl from the pressure of the school, parents, the media and even the so-called underage protection organizations. Many people don't seem to understand what she is doing, even Xiaomi's parents don't understand, and they feel that what she does is irrational and will affect Xiaomi's future future. But in the eyes of this teacher, the future is far less important than Xiaomi's traumatized heart, which is not a big deal, but after all kinds of people participate, it becomes a big event that shocks the whole city. The people involved may be well-intentioned, but they ignore the psychological capacity of an underage girl. Under tremendous pressure, under the pressure of school parents and even the media, in the strange and even contemptuous eyes of teachers and classmates, Xiaomi once chose to kill herself, but fortunately, her teacher found out in time, which avoided the tragedy.
In the end, her teacher Yang Chen couldn't resist the invisible hand after all, and she was expelled for repeatedly violating the school's resolution on this matter. With this sole umbrella collapsing, Xiaomi's end is undoubted, and she succumbs to the pressure of her parents and school and chooses to obey.
The reason why this story is shocking and moving is that almost every viewer has found that they are one of the people who persecuted Xiaomi, that society has formed inherent values, and that they are just small people in the crowd, and they can't get out of this big dye vat. So much so that everyone has become snobbish, vulgar, and everything is result-oriented, and the dignity and emotional world of the child, not yet an illusory future looks important.
With the end of the tragedy of Yang Chen, who represents the "surname", the great victory on behalf of the secular side makes the audience feel extremely ironic, and they, as bystanders, can certainly feel that in this story, only Yang Chen is the one who really cares about Xiaomi and really loves Xiaomi. Including Xiaomi's parents, they have fallen into the dead end of "utilitarianism", blindly worrying about what will happen to their daughters in the future, and neglecting to protect the emotions and dignity of their children.
This movie is like a bloody scalpel, dissecting the weakness of the surname to the fullest, although it is not explicitly stated, but the words are full of criticism and irony of the "utilitarian" values in today's society, so that everyone's gradually numb heart was stabbed hard, although it hurts, but at least it wakes up. , as we all know, word-of-mouth is an important surname for a movie, and the big production "Let the Bullets Fly", which created the box office myth back then, relied on the audience's excellent word-of-mouth to lead to a cycle of good surnames, and finally created a box office success of nearly 700 million. The first batch of viewers who watched "Xiaomi's Troubles" are mostly celebrities, everyone has their own fans, and they are quite touched after watching it, so they all evaluated this movie through Weibo for the first time and recommended friends to watch it.
After the second group of people watched it, they came out to hype up how profound this movie is, which is smooth and good-looking, and makes people reflect, so more people are flocking to the cinema, unlike most movies that are watched by couples, this movie has a very wide audience, and some people are dragging their families to watch, and many people are lined up at the entrance of many movie theaters, such a grand occasion is only like "Avatar" Such an epic large-scale production can only enjoy the treatment, but no one thought that a domestic small-scale film actually created such a miracle!
The heads of major theaters across the country didn't expect this movie to be so popular, and even more powerful than the blockbusters composed of some luxury star lineups in the same period, so the theater side rearranged the release plan, and "Xiaomi's Troubles" got more screenings and time.
With the popularity of this movie, it has sparked a big discussion in the whole society. Because there are too many topics in this movie, school education issues, family education issues, minor early love issues, media orientation issues, social values, etc., etc., there are too many things worth discussing, so whether it is in the market or on the Internet, there are many people who express their opinions!
The popularity of the film sparked a national debate, which in turn promoted the popularity of the film. "Xiaomi's Troubles" easily broke 200 million at the box office in one week after its release! It has created a new record for domestic small-budget films! This number continues to grow, and after three weeks, the box office of "Xiaomi's Troubles" actually exceeded a terrifying 530 million!
This small production, which costs only 10 million, has created such a miracle, which really makes everyone feel incredible! Even the director Pan Yunjia himself felt incredible!
The little sister Pan Yunjia suddenly became a hot gold medal director in the film industry, and her first debut entered the box office club of 100 million yuan, and it was not 120 million, but a record-breaking 530 million, so far the box office of Chinese films can exceed 500 million, only "Let the Bullets Fly", "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins", "Tangshan Earthquake", "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" and other big productions.
But the above movies are all big productions with an investment of more than 100 million, and the total investment of "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" is more than 300 million, and in terms of input-output ratio alone, the profitability is far less than that of "Xiaomi's Troubles".
Star Entertainment's first movie was extraordinary, and the company was immediately excited. The Internet has a very high evaluation of this movie, known as the most public conscience, the most socially responsible and noble artistic aesthetics of the Chinese film ever, Star Entertainment did not disappoint, and the brand image of Star Production, which must be a boutique, is even stronger.
The official Weibo strongly supports "The Troubles of Millet", and calls on filmmakers and directors to shoot more works that dig into people's surnames and shock the soul, instead of blindly pursuing visual stimulation, blindly pursuing grand scenes and star lineups!
This movie has no grand scenes, no dazzling visual effects, and no big-name superstars in the circle, but it has created a box office of more than 500 million, which is even more shocking than "33 Days of Broken Love", which created a box office miracle for small-budget movies in 2011! The box office of that movie exceeded 300 million is already shocking, and the box office of "Xiaomi's Troubles" is almost twice that of "33 Days of Broken Love".
Of course, the artistic connotation of "33 Days of Broken Love" is far from being comparable to "Xiaomi's Troubles". Such a film with profound artistic connotation, and commercial success, acclaimed and acclaimed, is also extremely rare in the entire history of film. The two heroines in the film, Xu Jiao and Yang Xintong, are very good, Xu Jiao's acting skills have been influenced by the star, and she has made great progress compared to "Yangtze River No. 7", interpreting the innocence, innocence, remorse, hesitation, and helplessness of the girl Xiaomi's feelings vividly, so that the audience can not help themselves with the emotional ups and downs of her fate.
Yang Xintong, who plays the beautiful teacher Yang Chen, plays extremely well in this movie, and is more mature than when she played the female killer queen in "Romantic Career", and the teacher's bravery, strength, kindness and spirit of insisting on her beliefs are moving.
The two heroines, one big and one young, hold up the whole movie, and their respective tragic fates are also the reason why the audience is deep thinking. Why did the well-meaning attention of all kinds of people force these two kind-hearted girls into a desperate situation? They are not wrong, and the crowd can't say that they are wrong, everyone is doing what they think is right, why did they ruin the lives of two young girls? Everyone is not wrong, but who is wrong?
Everything that happened later proved that Yang Xintong lived up to her outstanding performance in this film, won a lot at major film festivals, and even won the Huabiao Award and the Venice Film Festival, and was recognized at home and abroad. In the Chinese Golden Rooster Awards, Taiwan Bay Golden Horse Awards, Hong Kong Film Awards, Cannes Film Festival and other major film awards ceremonies, he was also nominated for the actress, but he lost to his sister Jin Yufei, who is also a company. However, the Huabiao Award and the Venice Film Festival double queen awards have made this new generation of post-90s girls soar to the sky, since this movie, she obviously has the qualifications to be compared with Jin Yufei, and has become the second place among the four major actresses of Star Entertainment.
Star Entertainment has achieved "Xiaomi's Troubles", and "Xiaomi's Troubles" has achieved Pan Yunjia and Yang Xintong, these two beauties have become the best partners of the year.
As an investor, Star Entertainment naturally makes a lot of money, and the name of the producer and producer of every movie of Star Entertainment is Meng Xinghui, and he, the boss, is of course extremely satisfied with the excellent results achieved by its directors. Frankly speaking, Meng Xinghui expected that "The Troubles of Millet" would have a wide range of topics, and it was also a literary film with a fairly high artistic standard, generally speaking, the box office of literary movies would not be too high, so Meng Xinghui's estimated maximum box office value was 100 million. A small-budget literary film produced by tens of millions of dollars, reaching a box office of 100 million, is already the ultimate that everyone can expect.
But "The Troubles of Millet" surprised everyone, and also surprised Meng Xinghui.
(To be continued)