tearjerker director

Chapter 1644 The world stopped for such a wonderful second
As a die-hard fan of Li Yi and a film critic, Chen Jingning, who is already a married woman, for some reason, burst into tears at this moment and leaned in the arms of her husband Liu Fei.

"Why are you still crying?" Liu Fei said with concern for his wife.

"It happened so suddenly that I wanted to cry!" said Chen Jingning.

"It seems that you are deeply touched by this story. Is it the kiss?" Liu Fei asked.

"Yes! Don't you think it's special and touching? The world stopped for such a wonderful second." Chen Jingning said.

"Is this romantic? It feels a bit like an American movie." Liu Fei said, touching his chin.

"You have this feeling too? Indeed, but I am still very moved. You have to admit that although this routine is not new, when the emotions are brewing enough, it is something you never get tired of watching!" Chen Jingning said.

"That's true!"

The first special screening is over.

Film critics were eager to get back and write their reviews as soon as possible.

There is so much to write about in this movie.

With Li Yi's "The Sad One" before, his "Source Code" this time can be said to be more hardcore than the previous one. Although it is not as emotionally profound, it is equally good.

After returning, Chen Jingning sat in front of the computer. Liu Fei considerately made a cup of coffee for her and placed it in front of her!
"Have you figured out what to write so quickly?" Liu Fei asked curiously.

In fact, after Chen Jingning married him, her output of works was greatly reduced. Because she had to take care of her husband and children, and cook for her family, she often devoted more energy and time to her family.

But occasionally, when she comes across a movie that particularly touches her, she will still write about it.

"Yes, there are a lot of things I want to write! What about you?" Chen Jingning asked.

"Me? I'm fine. However, Li Yi is worthy of being Li Yi. A bad director is a bad director. He is going to set a new standard! There are several explosion scenes in the movie. If you don't tell me, you can't tell that it is actually the same scene, just shot from different angles." Liu Fei said with a smile.

"You want to write a technical film review?" Chen Jingning asked in surprise.

"No, no, no, I want to write about the ethics of movies!" Liu Fei spread his hands.

"That's perfect, what I want to write about is emotions!" Chen Jingning said after taking a sip of coffee.

"Then you take your time writing, and I will go and organize the information." Liu Fei said.

The couple writes film reviews purely out of passion and because they have no shortage of money.

Chen Jingning put down the coffee cup and opened the document.

After thinking about it, I started writing.

"After watching Director Li Yi's new film Source Code in the cinema, I was not that fond of science fiction movies at first, with the exception of The Heartbreakers. However, in my opinion, The Heartbreakers cannot be considered true science fiction.

This time I watched "Source Code" with my husband, and after watching it, I couldn't help but cry.

Liu Fei likes this movie very much. He said that it is a very special hard science fiction movie. Director Li Yi has set a benchmark for domestic science fiction film directors to achieve great things with little money!

But please forgive me, I didn't see the science and horror in this movie. What stands out in my mind now is "If you knew there was only one minute left in your life, what would you do?"

And the 268 yuan that came afterwards, and the smiling faces and wet kisses of the people who stopped.

In fact, some of the structures of "Source Code" are very familiar Hollywood-style heroic scenes: in the last minute of life, the choice is to save the world, to hold back tears and make a fake call to father and ask "Sir, how are you doing recently", to bet that the talk show host can't make everyone in the car laugh, so the provoked comedian tries hard to turn everyone in the car around to smile at him, and to kiss the girl he sees again and again after waking up.

Quite an old fashioned tactic, isn't it?

The same is true for "Source Code", but what makes me cry is still the most clichéd routine, the world stops in such a wonderful second.

So much sadness, impatience and anxiety came from the financial crisis of the businessmen, from the psychology exam that the college students were about to take, from the hurried life of the lady serving coffee, from the day-to-day work of the train conductor, from the cynicism of the comedian. Everyone had something that they were worried about and looking at negatively the second before, but at the last minute they stopped at the joke about the name, they turned around, leaned down, and all looked at the person telling the joke with smiling faces.

The girl who said "I listened to your advice" finally waited for the coffee time with the "new" history teacher and a "repeated" kiss.

That picture suddenly brought tears to my eyes.

There is so much sadness and stress in the world to deal with, but "everything will be fine."

At this time, I was crying and my husband asked me why I was crying. I said the movie was very touching, but he expressed doubts!

In fact, sometimes you will never understand if you think about things and people at the same time. The world of men and their thinking are different from the world of us girls!

This is normal. In the eyes of many people, this scene is very cliché and even lowers the rating of the movie, but I was still moved.

I am glad that I have such tear glands, such emotions, and such nerves that can be made to cry.

I am also glad that I have this kind of thinking and perspective on the world.

Whenever I encounter a moment that I want to keep forever, I ask myself: If I could stay in this moment forever, would you be willing?

But often my choice is: although this moment is beautiful enough, I still don’t want it to stop forever.

Now it seems that I am so unsatisfied. I chose not to stay only because I thought there would be better things in the future. But what is better? Sometimes, grasping the good things is already the best.

It's like I used to think that mutual love without practical significance is what should be abandoned, but now I realize that if the premise already exists, it is worth cherishing.

I always feel satisfied after I lose something. I understand this truth, but I am often hindered by it. I think of the sunset when I came back from the airport, purple mixed with pink, and the smell of marigolds; I think of countless evenings, moments with a strong breath of life, which are ordinary but become precious after losing.

In this last minute of the world, I hope there will be someone when I am about to stop.

He made me feel like I should just stop here and not go any further, so I stopped, always.

Fortunately, I met someone who made me stop!

And you? "

Strictly speaking, this review by Chen Jingning is not so much a review as it is a review after watching a movie.

As the saying goes, the husband sings and the wife follows, and the same is true vice versa.

Liu Fei quickly took out his own film review.

"In fact, I was interested in going to the cinema for science fiction movies only after I saw that it was directed by Li Yi. I still remember Li Yi's previous low-budget science fiction film "Moon".

When watching this movie, I couldn't help but compare it with "Moon". In fact, the overall feeling of the two films is basically similar: a male protagonist who is unaware of the truth, a very special assistant, a closed environment and a few limited scenes.

These characteristics ensure its low cost, but they do not prevent the director from spreading the plot and deepening the connotation. The basic plot of the film is about a former armed police soldier who participated in a project called Source Code and entered the last 8 minutes of the life of history teacher Li Zheng. Before a train bombing occurs, he must find the criminal for the police to prevent him from causing further damage.

He "traveled through time" many times and finally found the culprit, but also learned the truth about the source code project (this is questionable). Finally, after completing the mission, he asked not to travel back and enjoy the last 8 minutes of his life.

But he himself did not expect that he did not travel back through time. However, Life is Not 8 Minutes is roughly like this, but the content of the film is not just that. Here are some of the highlights that I personally think!
First of all, the time-travel experience gave me the same feeling as the game reloading. I believe that people who play a lot of games should feel the same way. The movie is very immersive. Sitting in the cinema is like sitting in a large game simulation cabin. Every time a mission fails, I reload the file and try every possible way to complete the mission, and solve the branch family and love missions!

This is also where I personally think that this film surpasses "Moon" in terms of narrative mode. If "Moon" is about jumping lightly on the moon and accidentally discovering a secret underground, then this film is like a gamer playing a game only to find out if this thing is really a game?
Although a compact and immersive plot is suitable for science fiction films, this approach does not necessarily lead to a good science fiction film, a good soft science fiction film, or a good soft science fiction film that is thought-provoking.

In fact, the key is not the plot, not the picture, not the star, not the scale, but whether it is humane. To be pretentious, it is still a question of human nature.

In "Moon", the entire Earth is filled with cloned human life on the Moon, but fortunately there is a robot who never wants to see the protagonist get hurt.

The originally coldest machine has become the warmest character in the film. The post-industrial era has turned machines into humans and humans into machines at the same time, which is an absurd contrast.

The film still has a human touch, and Captain He Qing is the robot. When everyone uses Lin Yunbin as a tool for the plan, in He Qing's eyes, he is an independent soul with his own thoughts, feelings and his own world.

But who would take this seriously besides her? The professor? The other participants in the plan would at most think that they could save this hero from the fate of death and then continue to serve the motherland with half a body and three quarters of the brain, which was already the greatest kindness to him!
As for the rest, everything went according to their arrangements.

But I'm sorry, humans are not guinea pigs for experiments. Even if there is not much left of the body, the spirit is still intact. This also determines that various science fiction films about memory transplantation or body changes must have one thing in common - the integrity of the brain.

He Qing's original duty was to act with Lin Yunbin and arrange tasks, but her conscience, or perhaps humanity, made her respect his opinion. The moment she pressed the stop button at the end was also the moment that moved me the most.

Just like the male protagonist of "Moon" - the first male protagonist who appeared, Lin Yunbin himself is also a major carrier of human nature. In addition to family affection and love, his humanity also includes an attitude of responsibility towards others.

He found the criminal, but did not disarm the bomb. Although the purpose of the source code project has been achieved, even if he knows that this is a memory of the past and reality may not be changed, he must live up to his efforts and save the people on the train and the surrounding citizens! Just like a real player needs more than one ending, they need a perfect ending.

The attitude of being responsible towards strangers who have only interacted with you for a few 8 minutes in life also reflects the faces of some utilitarians in reality: they claim to be philanthropic, but in fact they either sacrifice some people for the so-called collective, or seek benefits for themselves under the guise of the so-called savior!

After finding the criminal, the professor asked the relevant departments for more funding. The human color of this film is still reflected through contrast.

Of course, it has to be said that only Li Yi’s movies dare to be shot like this!
When talking about human nature, we cannot avoid talking about ethics. The film "Moon" mainly discusses the human rights of cloned people, while this film can be understood as the human rights of vegetative people. If we dig deeper, the director is still asking: When a normal person loses his normal body, should he still be respected?

When we respect people, what rights of people are we respecting?

The protagonist in this film is seriously injured and only his brain has some functions left, but he can still produce complete thoughts.

In this case, using machines to maintain his vital signs in order to utilize his body's special characteristics to participate in the source code project, what is he being viewed as? A guinea pig, or a mind-implanted machine?
Personally, I prefer to treat him as a human computer, and then let him complete the game goals in this computer, although this game is very.

After the criminal was found, the professor asked his men to format his memory and prepare for other tasks in the future. How is this different from deleting a game after completing it and switching to the next one? As the first participant of the source code project, the male protagonist himself died in a vegetative state due to his sacrifice during the mission, but who can guarantee that the memories of future participants of this project will not be rewritten?

Maybe when he was doing the future missions, he was set up with an identity that was more conducive to completing the missions rather than investigating his own life experience. Yes, the biggest difference is that the player is the host, and how to play and what to play are decided by a person who is like God to him, and when making the decision, the player's feelings are not considered at all. In modern civilized society, freedom of thought is a very important aspect, and it is sacred and inviolable no matter where it is.

The question is, when a person's body is failing, should his spiritual freedom still be respected? Current technology may not be able to directly control the spirit without the body, but what about the future? The director has infiltrated his ethical view that spiritual and ideological freedom should be respected under any circumstances in the film, and I strongly agree with this. "

(End of this chapter)