Chapter 1,242 Never extinguish the fire of dreams and hope in your heart at any time!
Although "Harmony" is not a big production, its influence is no weaker than those big productions.
Coupled with the gimmick of the mother-son chapter of "The Gift of Room No. 7" and the sentimental bonus of Li Yi's old fans, this movie has attracted countless pairs of eyes and people's attention since it was officially announced to start filming.
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Feelings, sometimes, really have nothing to say.
For die-hard Li Yi fans like Chu Xixi and Lu Xinguang, in fact, even if the filming of "Harmony" is slightly worse, for them, it is enough to cherish the memory of the beautiful past.
What's more, the filming of "Harmony" is not bad.
There is also a filter of emotion, so it is natural that this movie will be praised in various ways.
Of course, in fact, the reputation of "Harmony" cannot be compared with Li Yi's past top-notch high-scoring movies, but it can definitely be regarded as a work with excellent reputation.
As a long-time fan and film critic of Li Yi, Chen Jingning won the first place in the long-form film review this time.
As a mother, she also has a deeper feeling for this film.
"As an old fan of Director Gou, I didn't start paying attention to him from "The Gift of Room No. 7", but I have watched this film many times. Maybe it was because of my own relationship. I didn't have a good relationship with my father back then.
Harmony, so I felt even more emotional when watching this movie.
As for "Harmony", I have to say that Director Dog once again touched my tears. Because I am a single-parent family and my mother left me early, so, especially as a mother, the feeling cannot be expressed in words.
expressive.
Since the beginning of the filming of "Harmony", I think many movie fans have known that a movie directed by a dog will be very exciting, but the charm of a movie directed by a dog is that even if you are prepared for it, you still watch the movie "Harmony".
》I couldn’t control my emotions after that.
Especially when the old professor Wen Yu faces death with a smile, I believe that a burst of sadness will well up in the heart of any audience;
In her early years, she killed her husband and her mistress out of a moment of anger. What she brought to herself was a lifetime of imprisonment, and what she brought to her children was an indelible stain - she had a murderer mother!
When she saw that her daughter finally accepted her, she felt comforted. Just when she thought Director Dog would give her a happy ending, things took a turn for the worse. She could have been paroled for medical treatment, but she refused!
Still remember she asked her daughter earlier, what if I die?
The daughter at that time replied: "You will be relieved if you die!"
But when she really faced death, she would rather suffer it silently. Maybe at that moment, death would be her real relief?
The title of the film "Harmony" makes us see "harmony", and we can easily think of the word commonly used in chorus. The film also shows harmony in the art of singing, and its main line is the success of a group of female prisoners
The story of forming a special choir and achieving success in performance.
The story is very simple. Such a story, if performed in an ordinary way, can easily become a formality. Because in real life we have seen so many choirs, and behind the success of every choir, there is a difficult story.
But few people pay attention to these!
In order to write the particularity of "Harmony", director Li Yi put a lot of thought into it. First of all, the film does not magnify the purpose and significance of forming a choir to the realization of the female prisoners' self-worth, or through good prison conditions.
The main purpose is to give herself a chance to reduce her sentence, but it is narrowed down to satisfy a small wish of the heroine Zhenhui, that is: to take her son Xiaoyu to spend a day outside the prison. Zhenhui’s purpose of forming a choir is that simple.
Her motherly wish soon gained support from the inmates and the prison management, and finally evolved into a warm and loving act of love. Secondly, the film deliberately gave each of these female prisoners an unbearable memory.
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Jeonghye fought hard when her husband was being beaten and accidentally threw her husband onto the glass platform to death. Yumi fought back when her stepfather was brutally beating her and accidentally beat her stepfather to death. Former professional wrestler Yeon-mi accidentally beat her stepfather to death with her leg.
Accidentally killing others. Wen Yu drove her husband and lover to death because she couldn't stand their adultery. And because of these special experiences, their relatives were more or less estranged from them.
Some people may say, is this too much of a coincidence? Why do the prisoners here seem so excusable?
But the author wants to tell you that in fact, the real born evil people, especially women, have been to women’s prisons to participate in activities, and have also learned about the criminal experiences of some prisoners. To put it bluntly, in fact, this is the truth.
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The film revolves around the regulations in Hong Kong that require female prisoners serving their babies to give birth and take care of their children to serve their sentence. After the lactation period is over, they must send their children out of prison.
It is precisely this kind of bitterness and helplessness that Zhenhui faces. The beginning of the film shows Zhenhui giving birth to Xiangyu in prison. As a mother, she experienced such a special moment of giving birth in prison, and at the same time
He must accept the fate of being separated from his son after 18 months.
When her son was born, it was the day when the countdown clock for her separation from her child rang. And the time that belonged to their mother and son was only a short year and a half. It can be imagined that when the bell of separation from her beloved son is getting closer and closer,
Mothers in the world will have trouble sleeping and eating, and they will be so desperate.
Therefore, when the Director of Correctional Services promised her that if the choir was successful, she could enjoy a day of freedom with her son outside the prison. This woman, who had no talent in singing and could make her son cry when she sang, had no idea what a choir could do.
The mother of the organization resolutely embarked on the difficult but happy road of organizing a prison choir.
Just like Wenyu said to her in the film: her son is her only spiritual support!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Before her son left, and after her son left, Zhenhui’s pillar of survival has always been her son!
The whole film actually has only one main thread, and that is family love!
In fact, this film does not have a real protagonist, but is an ensemble film.
Every character in it is very three-dimensional.
Yumi is the youngest and most beautiful one, but her experience is also the worst!
While watching the movie, I heard someone wondering why Yumi was so resistant to her mother.
But in my opinion, she has reason to resent her mother.
When she was caught off guard and killed someone because she resisted her stepfather's violence, the first moment her mother found out, she was not concerned about her, but complained, blaming her!
I can even imagine that for Yumi, her hatred for her mother may not be as much as her hatred for her stepfather.
The deepest and most painful injuries are to those we love most.
In the end, Yumi forgave her mother. I think it was also because she perhaps understood that her mother had always protected her, but sometimes, her mother could not protect her perfectly!
The role of a wrestler is very interesting, and perhaps it proves that there is always a fat man in everyone's circle of friends.
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She will be a heartless friend. As a wrestler, the reason why she was imprisoned is ridiculous, but she is such a careless and heartless guy. In the end, she met the prince charming that she longed for.
At that time, I felt extremely sad and chose to ask him where the bathroom was!
Sister Hua!
It can be said that she is the real eldest sister of the small group. She always acts very fierce and powerful.
Because she knows the environment requires her to do this.
But she also has the softest place in her heart, and that is her family!
She was imprisoned to protect her family. When a pair of daughters appeared in front of her, even someone like her who usually looked like a big sister became as weak as a child!
Kong Na, she can be said to be the most unreal character in the entire film.
I think many prisoners serving their sentences would hope to meet such an instructor, right?
Finally, let’s talk about Wenyu!
Why put her last?
Because in my opinion, this character is really the most unforgettable character in the entire film.
Wenyu in the film is a very well-shaped mother image.
She is the oldest among the inmates, has been in prison the longest, has the deepest life experience, the richest experience in dealing with things, and always has the demeanor of an elder.
For example, when celebrating Xiaoyu's first birthday, Xiaoyu grabbed Zhou and actually grabbed a pair of handcuffs, which surprised everyone. It was Wenyu who broke the embarrassment first and said with a smile that Xiaoyu would be a justice in the future, thus making everyone stunned.
I am full of expectations for Xiaoyu’s future.
After Director Fang, the prison manager, angrily tore up the photos taken by everyone to celebrate Xiaoyu's first birthday, Wenyu analyzed Director Fang's jealousy of not having a child with Zhenhui and skillfully resolved Zhenhui's feelings.
Hui’s psychological shadow.
After the new inmates came in, Wen Yu tactfully persuaded the old inmates to be lenient and leave a good example to their children.
Yumi had a dispute with Zhenhui and she hit the wall and was injured. After returning to the cell, the ignorant Xiaoyu ran over and hugged her head. Everyone was afraid that this girl who was prejudiced against children would take bad actions, but Wenyu treated Yumi
Shout loudly: Xiaoyu helped you blow it because you had a headache! This relieved the tense atmosphere.
When Xiaoyu was not used to listening to her mother's singing and kept crying, it was Wenyu who took the initiative to step forward, hugged Xiaoyu, and sang sweet songs to him to help the child fall asleep.
When visiting Yumi who was injured due to a fight with other female prisoners, Wenyu understood Yumi very well and said to Zhenhui, "I can't forgive myself, living day by day is like being tortured", which touched Yumi's heart.
The softest part deep down made her burst into tears.
It was her series of actions in treating Yumi as her own daughter that melted the ice and snow accumulated in Yumi's heart.
It was she, when Zhenhui couldn't bear the huge loss and emptiness after Xiaoyu left, she told Zhenhui to face it calmly, "Only when you laugh will your children laugh. The person you should meet will always meet at a certain moment."
See you again", thus rekindling Zhenhui's hope of life.
However, her daughter did not understand her behavior and was always very indifferent to her. She even said in front of her, "I will make you live like hell." The inmates often received letters or packages from relatives and friends.
, only Wenyu always couldn't get the love from her daughter. She wrote countless letters to her daughter, but they all fell into the sea. She called her daughter but was hung up abruptly by her daughter. While she was comforting this person and caring about that, she herself
He had to endure the huge pain of being disowned by his relatives, and finally reconciled with his daughter.
The film makes good use of the artistic expression technique of contrast, through horizontal and vertical contrast, to reveal the theme of true love in the world that the film wants to express.
From a horizontal perspective, there is the contrast between the cold and serious Director Fang and the passionate prison guard Kong Na, the warm and generous director, the contrast between inmates with different personalities and experiences, and the powerful law enforcers.
There is a contrast between the innocent child Xiaoyu and the worried mother Zhenhui, the contrast between the actors on the stage and the audience in the audience, and the contrast between the role transpositions.
For example, Wenyu and Yumi, the former is a mother and the latter is a daughter. The former is a daughter outside prison who refuses to communicate with the mother in prison, and the latter is a mother outside prison who cannot be forgiven by her daughter in prison.
From a vertical perspective, there is a contrast between Xiaoyu spending time with his mother day and night in prison but turning a blind eye to his biological mother a few years later;
When Yumi was in prison, she mocked Zhenhui for giving birth to a child in prison, but then she got up and fought with other female prisoners because they pushed Xiaoyu down;
There is a contrast between Wenyu first refusing to join the choir and then taking the conducting job seriously;
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! There is a contrast between the disorganized and often quarreled and scolded choir at the beginning of its establishment, and the contrast between the close relationship and like a family since then, and they walked out of the prison gate to participate in the National Women's Chorus Competition;
There is a contrast between Zhenhui’s ability to sing the crying children until they fall asleep;
There is a contrast between Yumi ignoring no one when she was imprisoned and singing loudly later;
Zhenhui and Yumei once had a fierce dispute over the birth of a child in prison, and then Yumei took the initiative to teach Zhenhui to sing;
The contrast between Director Youfang's lack of support and understanding towards the choir at the beginning and his smile and applause at the end of their performance; etc.
These contrasts echo and set off each other, well completing the plot and leaving a deeper mark in the hearts of the audience.
There is nothing greater than grief. However, under the influence of Wen Yu, these female prisoners embraced the optimistic concept of "Since this is the case, why not live with a smile" and achieved a change in life. Zhenhui did not feel sad in her busy life
, because she found her goal. Wenyu did not feel sad when she was dying because she was forgiven by her relatives.
The other female prisoners were not sad, also because they allowed their relatives to see their good performance. When the female prisoners in the choir sang with openness and devotion, they had forgotten their special status as prisoners and would be waiting for them.
Their own death or long prison sentence was forgotten. At that moment, they were happy and happy!
What kind of chorus performance will make us cry? What kind of chorus can touch our hearts? The movie "Harmony" places the climax in the Hong Kong Women's Chorus Competition. After hard training, the long journey
After waiting and being searched under suspicion because the audience had lost their jewelry, the dazzling female prisoners’ choir took to the stage at the last moment. The moment these prisoners saw their relatives sitting under the stage, the prisoners’ relatives saw
Those prisoners standing on the stage who were destined to return to their cells or even go to the execution ground were still singing and commanding with devotion. Who could hold back the tears that burst out from their eyes?
At that moment, we not only heard the beautiful harmony coming from the stage, but also felt the wonderful harmony composed of family affection on and off the stage. They had broken away from the conventions of art and realized a great leap in the realm of truth, goodness and beauty in life.
Thanks to "Harmony", it makes us understand the greatness of maternal love and the preciousness of family and friendship; it makes us know that we should never extinguish the fire of dreams and hopes in our hearts at any time!"
