There is a group of film critics in China who usually don't see much of anything when they review other films.
But once a domestically produced movie with a main theme is released, it will be like giving it a shot.
All kinds of hatred and disparagement.
Gao Zhen is one of the best.
He rarely even writes movie reviews for other movies, but he has a "soft spot" for domestically produced movies with the main theme!
This time, he was also invited to attend the premiere of "Wreaths Under the Mountain".
After returning, Gao Zhen seemed a little excited.
It's not that he doesn't like the main theme, on the contrary, he will watch almost all movies with the main theme.
But love takes deep responsibility for itself.
Every time, he always leaves with expectation and returns disappointed.
Over time, he was even dubbed by many netizens as the number one villain in domestic theme movies!
But this time, he was very excited and cried uncontrollably several times while watching the movie.
After returning home, he rushed out a manuscript as soon as possible.
However, this time it was different from the past. This time he gave it unprecedented praise.
The domestic main theme movie, the number one anti-fan, actually became a fan!
The title of his film review is: Truth has great power!
“Why don’t you like previous domestic theme movies?
Our past main theme films always had an atmosphere permeating the air, as if the soldiers who went to the battlefield should not be human beings immediately. They should regard death as home, they should be fearless, and they should not be afraid of human emotions and desires.
.....After watching it, I felt like I was on the field tearing apart the Japanese and seizing the day. It felt like it was our recruitment advertisement.
In fact, what is the problem? It is still those two words "real"!
There must be soldiers who regard death as home, and there must be fearless warriors. There must be people with various advantages. But do people without any shortcomings exist?
Maybe it exists, but at least, it's hard for us to find it around us.
Our previous domestic theme movies always give people the feeling that all our characters must be positive, they have no obvious shortcomings, and their thoughts are extremely noble...
This is certainly true, because this is the theme we want to convey, but the problem is that such people are too unfamiliar to us.
We know people around us, and many of them are soldiers, firefighters, law enforcement officers, etc. But why is it so difficult for us to identify them after looking at them? Aren’t they all soldiers? No.
Are they all fire fighters? Aren’t they all law enforcement officers?
But why are there no connections between the people we see and know in movies?
I don’t know if you all feel that all heroes are carved out of the same mold. Their characteristics and advantages are almost the same, just like a symbol.
Let’s take a look at why I like “Garland Under the Mountain”. I would like to say that this movie is a blast!
In fact, if other characters are put aside and the movie only has Liang Sanxi as the only protagonist, have you noticed that the main theme of this movie is almost the same as that of previous movies?
Let's take a look at Liang Sanxi. He has the simplicity and kindness of countless migrant soldiers. Because he can't let go of his company, a company commander has been approved for family leave for a month and still doesn't go home.
She used pig money to pay off her debts and gave her only military coat as a dowry for her wife to remarry; Sanxi Niang: she raised a whole family of loyal men and all three sons were heroic!
Does it feel very familiar? In fact, we have never denied that there are heroes like Liang Sanxi who have almost no clear shortcomings.
But why do we feel unreal and false in other movies?
On the contrary, in the movie "Wreaths Under the Mountain", we have the same characters and the same heroes, but we feel that they are real?
The reason actually does not lie with Liang Sanxi!
But it was with Jin Kailai, then with Zhao Mengsheng, with Duan Yuguo, with Lei Zhen and so on.
Jin Kailai has the highest physical fitness and excellent ability to lead troops, but such a man with brute strength especially likes to "complain."
He never hides things he doesn't like in the army, and speaks out on the spot without mercy. Because of his offending character, he has not been promoted for many years, but because of this, he is deeply loved by the soldiers.
their trust.
Is Jin Kailai a hero? The answer is yes!
But this hero is not perfect. Not only that, he also has a mouth that is particularly easy to offend people.
But such a person makes us feel real, because he seems to be living around us.
His classic line in the play: Before the war, I appointed an official who was willing to die!
It is impossible to appear in those movies and TV shows that blindly promote positive energy!
Then there is the character Zhao Mengsheng. Is he a hero in this character? He is too!
He was not likable at first, drinking foreign wine, dancing, and playing with his camera. He came to work as an instructor in a grassroots company just to save the country and get transferred back to the city. He looked like a carefree young man, but he had a great background.
His powerful "lady" mother was behind the plan, but the 31-year-old Zhao Mengsheng was still a company-level cadre, which also illustrates the level of this instructor. Mud can't hold up the wall.
His wife at home complained, and his colleagues in the army despised him. Zhao Mengsheng's company career was very uncomfortable. If it hadn't been for that battle, Zhao Mengsheng might have returned to the city safely and continued to live the small life of a young master with his wife.
But in the end, he completed his transformation. Although he was not sent to blow up the bunker, he went to blow up the bunker himself. This bombing also brought back a first-class merit, and also brought back his dignity and honor as a soldier. He knew his shame and became brave!
I dare say you can't find such a character in the main theme movies of the past.
But such people are also real!
Duan Yuguo, he is a typical city soldier, full of literary and artistic bacteria, likes to read, write poems and make fun of things. He seems to be just a supporting character with a small role in this movie, but such a person is also real. I believe
Many people can find the right person around them.
There are many more roles, so I won’t list them all.
But what I want to say is that these talents make this movie real, because Liang Sanxi, Jin Kailai, Zhao Mengsheng, Duan Yuguo, etc. have different personalities and origins. Some of them come from cities and some from rural areas.
They had conflicts and disputes, but all this changed when the war came. They were no longer urban and rural people, nor children of ordinary people and children of high-ranking cadres. They only had one name, Hua Guo
(Harmony) Soldier!
We cannot expect everyone to be Liang Sanxi, because our soldiers are also human beings, not gods, nor can they be represented by a certain symbol. We have our own preferences, our own background, and our own characters, regardless of likes and dislikes.
But they are the real ones!
Therefore, the author of "Wreaths Under the Mountains" praised it because the truth has great power!
We have always said that our soldiers are the "cutest people", but for many young friends who were "born in the spring breeze and grew up on the Internet", the term "the cutest people" is already very unfamiliar."
