Kneeling for a Review of The Man on the Embarrassed Road

Man on the Road: Tell an honest comedy story.

A Man on a Long Road is a sad story. Xu zhēng plays a rich boss, Li Chenggong, rich, tasteful and mistress; Wang plays the cow egg of a salaried migrant worker. He is straightforward, simple and broke. Originally, it was impossible for these two people with huge disparity between the rich and the poor to meet on the journey, but at this juncture of "Spring Festival travel rush fever", anything is possible. So they bumped into each other by mistake, and * * * staged an all-encompassing history of "Spring Festival travel rush craze". This is probably the most embarrassing way to return to China in history. I tried all the means of transportation. From the plane to the train, from the minibus to the tractor, from the coach to the go on road trip bus, the result of the bumps is that we will spend New Year's Eve in the desolate fields.

Although the whole story structure is exaggerated, it seems reasonable. The key is that there are no popular techniques in comedy movies, such as spoofing, parody, crossing, shanzhai, black humor and so on. Just tell a story simply and honestly. It should be said that this story depicts the plight of the rich and the poor today. At the beginning of the film, there is a scene in which migrant workers collectively ask for wages. With a stick and a broom, all I got was an iou from someone else, so Niu Dan embarked on the journey of debt collection.

In addition to asking for salary, hot issues such as the third party, poor traffic conditions, marital distrust, and the growing gap between the rich and the poor are all presented in the story. The most touching is the folk rescuer played by Zhang Xinyi. As soon as the shabby door was opened, a dozen orphans crowded into a simple little room to draw pictures. I think many people will burst into tears. This is also the real dilemma of many non-governmental public welfare organizations. Such a volunteer who rescues orphans has to beg on his knees in exchange for the child's treatment fee, and he also risks being suspected as a "liar" from time to time. This is also the real situation of many non-governmental public welfare people.

A good comedy is doomed to be tragic at heart, and The Man on the Embarrassed Road is no exception. Today is worth talking about, and one of the important reasons is its frankness. It does not deliberately show off its skills, nor does it have a pleasing bridge. Ye Weimin may be a director of Hong Kong films, so he can keep this simple artistic mentality. This kind of honest comedy is rare here. At present, the society is in a transitional period, and there are more contradictions in society, vulgarity and evil in life and ugliness and inferiority of human nature than ever before. In our real life and social news, there are a lot of comedy elements every day. Only with this frank attitude can you gain a kind of courage and insight different from ordinary people.

The demand for comedy in this era is self-evident. People expect these comedies to stab the absurdity of society like bayonets. However, due to the lack of honesty and sincerity in the film industry, many directors have lost the power to transcend this life. The social scenes around us that are seemingly funny but actually sad often pass easily. If we can't speak for people who are suffering in reality, if we dare not expose all kinds of strange phenomena in life, comedy will never show its real power.

Although "Men on Embarrassed Road" still has many imperfections, such as a too smooth ending, some comedy conflicts in details are still not enough. But the gesture of this film is at least honest and sober. With this gesture, it is possible to dig out the power that makes people feel extremely sad and happy where others are numb. How to make those women, children, the old and the weak who live at the bottom get some real laughter from the injured life has become a serious topic for all directors in China.