What's a movie with an old man in the lead?

< shaver> 93 year old Beijing shaving master

Cheap Chinese 80's and 90's movie about a group of 70 and 80 year olds who are worried about their future

Touching! 80's 90's Beijing vibe

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Synopsis

Shaving is an ancient occupation in Chinese folklore, with excellent craftsmanship and a long history. Nowadays, although there are hair salons everywhere, the craft has not been lost. In the hutongs of Beijing, an old man still walks the streets, serving his old customers for decades. Seeing that the old customers are getting fewer and fewer, shaving master Jing began to feel lonely, and could not help but worry about his own future. Mr. Jing's greatest wish was to leave this world in a clean and honorable way, without disturbing his children or causing them any trouble. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots, and then you'll be able to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots, and then you'll be able to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots.

But Mr. Jing is not willing to tell his old friends what he is thinking, it's his secret. The first thing he did was to give the old man a shave, and then he observed the arrangement. The first thing he did was to take a picture of himself, which he hadn't done for many years, and he still didn't have a picture of himself to use as his last portrait. So he began to prepare himself quietly. He found that it was not easy to take a satisfactory photo of himself, and a decent Chinese mountain suit, as well as a 500-word biography to be used at the funeral home's farewell ceremony. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots.

The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was a long time ago that I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was a long time ago that I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was a long time ago that I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was a long time ago that I was in the middle of a long journey, and I was in the middle of a long journey. While chatting or playing mahjong ...... one morning, Mr. Mi passed away after a long illness; another day, Mr. Zhao was picked up by his son. To moncler outlet online feel more and more lonely. One day, he suddenly collapsed in the street, life as a soul out of the shell away from him, but everything is not yet arranged.

Director's Notes

The master is a 93-year-old man who has been shaving heads for more than eighty years, and still lives in a large courtyard in the hutongs of Beijing, where he lives the most ordinary and uneventful life in the city, often shaving heads and chatting with his old clients, and then going home to fiddle with his old clock, which is slowed down by five minutes every day. He hoped that everyone (including himself) would come into the world cleanly, and he also hoped that people would leave the world cleanly and neatly....... The movie "The Shaving Master" describes the quiet and ordinary life of such an old man in the form of record and narration.

"The Shaving Man" is a very oriental, very Chinese, very Beijing, and very hutong movie. At first glance, it seems to be about the dull and trivial life of an old man, but in fact, it shows the long human history and great changes of old Beijing through the little bits and pieces of Mr. Jing and the surrounding characters. As a director, I didn't simply judge the so-called life, morality, and Beijing's unique humanities, customs, and landscapes subjectively and objectively, but rather, I tried to let all these themes come out as naturally as possible through the recordings of Jing's trivial life, so that many of the thematic ideas were y embedded in the subconscious of the film, wrapped up in, contained within, and not exposed on the surface of the film. For example, in the movie, Mr. Mi died, but his black cat followed Mr. Jing unknowingly. In the East, black cat means ghost. As a matter of fact, for an old man like Jing, who would dare to say that the ghost of death is not staring at them all the time, but although Jing knows it, he is calm, and continues to live his life as usual. moncler outlet online Another thing that appeared many times in the movie, somewhat intentionally, is the word "demolition", which is actually not difficult for most people to understand. The word "demolition" is not only used to tear down the old houses and walls of Beijing, but also in the lives of people in the city. "Demolition" is happening every day, this "demolition" has lost many ancient buildings, this "demolition" so that how much traditional culture loss, how many old human feelings are lost! ...... times in the development of society in progress, although we have so much love, but also can not avoid endless thoughts and regrets.

In order not to lose the film's documentary style, I boldly used the ninety-three-year-old non-professional actor Jing Kui to play the role of the film's grandfather (if I'm not wrong, this is probably the world's oldest non-professional actor to take on the lead role in a movie). The other supporting roles were chosen from old people's homes or miscellaneous homes in Beijing's hutongs, such as the 83-year-old widowed elderly man who is illiterate, and the sister-in-law of Zhao's neighbor, a laid-off trolley bus driver, and so on. The actors are not required to perform, nor are they required to memorize their lines, as long as they understand the general meaning, they are allowed to play on their own. All of this is an effort to achieve the film's pursuit of the original ......

Film Review

Close-up shots of an old man's face coated with soap, a hand with a knife accompanied by the sound of stabbing and la-la-la shaving the old man's face whiskers. The whole process is clean and dynamic, and at the end, the old man lifts his face, glowing, and looks right into the camera, letting out a long breath and spitting out two words with a Beijing flavor: "Comfortable!"

The opening of a movie is often the tone of the entire movie. Having been turned off by the didactic openings of many Chinese movies, I was happy to see "The Shaving Man" open so refreshingly, and that such a movie was bound to move toward simplicity and pristineness. But when I put pen to paper to write this piece of writing, I suddenly realized that there was no way to start, underneath the seemingly single line of the old man's life, there were so many rich things that made me cry, make me laugh, make me think, and make me move. The Tsinghua students in the audience, like me, sometimes easily let out a laugh, sometimes blurred with tears, sometimes sighing and lamenting, you can tell from their performance on the spot that they followed the pulse of the movie and moved ......