Huayu started as a lecturer at Beijing Film Academy

The movie opens in the male protagonist's home when he was a child. The father is drinking wine and teaching his son Dundun.

"Life, life is this thing..."

"Everything is unpredictable, everything is probability and chance, just like a small branch floating in a stream, tripped by a small stone, or trapped by a small whirlpool..."

In order to make the movie easier for foreigners to understand, not only did it have double subtitles in English and French, Gu Zhongyu also added English dubbing to the movie.

Many Chinese movies often have some special expressions or slang. These language habits are not easy for international audiences to understand, especially costume movies. After converting these dialogues into English dubbing, the audience can understand the movie content more intuitively and enjoy the movie better.

Although some viewers may think that the original dubbing is more in line with the traditional taste and artistic style of the film, "Ball Lightning" is a modern science fiction film, and the words in it do not have a strong Chinese cultural flavor, so the dubbing does not actually have any impact.

Of course, this also depends on the specific situation. Some Chinese-language movies need to maintain their original flavor and be presented in the original Chinese sound.

With the English dubbing, even foreigners who know nothing about Chinese can easily watch it. Although Asians are still a bit face-blind, Gu Zhongyu's facial features are relatively recognizable, so everyone watched it with gusto.

The entire first half of the movie "Ball Lightning" is full of suspense. There are not many special effects scenes, but the dialogue between the characters is very interesting. There are not only many philosophical dialogues, but also many scientific ones. The discussion was all centered around ball lightning, a logistics phenomenon that exists in real life, which gave many film critics and audiences a refreshing feeling.

In this day and age, science fiction movies like this are actually very rare.

This year is 2012. Superhero movies have not yet dominated the market, but there are already signs of it. The living space of other genres in Hollywood is beginning to be squeezed, and special effects are increasingly valued, thus neglecting plot and connotation.

In 2012, when the future and the possible doomsday of mankind are being discussed every day, science fiction movies seem a bit weak. A very important factor is that science fiction, as an element, has become generalized and even rampant in movies (especially commercial blockbusters).

Commercial blockbusters such as "The Dark Knight Rises", "The Amazing Spider-Man", "The Avengers" and even "The Bourne Supremacy" and "007: Skyfall" are full of science fiction content: "The Dark Knight Rises" is super handsome The Batmobile and Batplane, the agent that can change human DNA in "The Amazing Spider-Man", the super airship in "The Avengers", and the drug that can control people's minds and behaviors in "The Bourne Supremacy".

However, according to the strict standards of the IMDb website, these can only be regarded as fantasy/action movies, not standard science fiction movies.

The generalization of science fiction elements is nothing new. For example, most of the superhero movies that have proliferated in recent years contain science fiction elements. The generalization of science fiction elements, on the one hand, shows that science fiction movies have a huge influence, and science fiction has become one of the indispensable common techniques in movies; on the other hand, it also makes the audience become more and more numb to "science fiction elements", and many science fiction creative ideas They have all become clichés, seen everywhere, and have no new ideas.

The intensive presence of science fiction elements in "Star Wars" once excited the audience. Nowadays, science fiction concepts such as robots, death rays, space travel, superpowers, and alien invaders are difficult to excite the audience.

The sci-fi nature of commercial blockbusters has, to a certain extent, eliminated the unique charm of sci-fi movies, turning sci-fi elements into embellishments and gimmicks (such as Nolan’s Batman series). In this way, commercial films focusing on science fiction have to use science fiction elements and concepts to the extreme, constantly exaggerating and amplifying, and creating more exciting spectacles to attract audiences.

Contemporary science fiction commercial blockbusters are actually deficient in ideas and perspectives. They lack the sharpness, boldness, paranoia or even fantasy of the science fiction movies from the 1950s to the 1980s. Therefore, today's science fiction commercial films always seem to be uneven and difficult to chew and savor. Bizarre science fiction movies like "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Escape from New York," "The Thing" and "The Thing" are hard to see nowadays.

"Ball Lightning" gives people a completely different feeling. The movie shows Bunin's romance and nostalgia, sacrifice and sublimity, strong nationalistic self-esteem, views on industrialization, "Heard the Tao in the morning, dies at night" "It's okay" and no hesitation, these are things rarely seen in assembly-line science fiction films nowadays.

The background and tone of the movie are also slowly revealed. It is the childhood of the protagonist and the author. It is the eternal gray sky in North China, the matchbox-shaped residential buildings, the courtyards piled with debris, the simple life and... Warm memories, and old friends who have passed away but never seem to leave.

On top of this background are the frigid ice fields and vast winds of Siberia, the forgotten scientific research bases of the former Soviet Union, the warm stoves in the forest cabins, and the old scientists sitting by the fire with a wry smile chewing on the dreams of the Soviet Union and the collapse of the building. Sour. What echoes silently among all these images is the fate of man, the killer bees on the battlefield!

As the movie progresses to the desert base experiment, the mysterious phenomenon of ball lightning is gradually revealed.

Electrons as big as a ball, a macrocosm that exists independently of our world, and a quantum state between life and death, the wild imagination is even more amazing!

As guests, Shariz and Leo also went from being careless at the beginning to being fully focused on the movie later.

As actors, they are more professional and see the difference between this movie and Hollywood science fiction movies. They also agree with the exploration spirit of the male and female protagonists who can bet everything for the pursuit of knowledge.

Gu Zhongyu, who was sitting in the front, heard the constant exclamations and praises from the foreigners in the back row, and knew that this movie should be stable.

The movie ended with the first official date of the male and female protagonists after the initial success of the experiment. Lin Yun played the piano for the male protagonist. As the music progressed, Chen Guang stared at the lonely Lin Yun. The two sides finally looked at each other meaningfully, and the movie ended here...

The audience felt that it was not enough, but the subsequent subtitles told everyone that this was only the first part, and there would be a sequel later, and the Easter egg part at the end was also very surprising. I didn’t expect that there would be such a weird physical miracle in the world!

After the screening, thunderous applause rang out in the hall!

Feeling the atmosphere on the scene, Gu Zhongyu and Guo Fan finally smiled triumphantly, and Yang Mi couldn’t close her mouth with laughter. I didn’t expect that I would have a day to show off in Cannes. Finally, it didn’t take Gu Delai for nothing!

Amid the applause, Shariz even stood up and hugged him, and Xiao Lizi also congratulated them on the movie becoming famous in one battle.

In the crowd, Gao Yuanyuan and Fan Binbin looked at Gu Zhongyu with complicated expressions, showing both joy and reluctance. They also wanted to go up and hug Gu Zhongyu, but the aura of the international film queen, Shariz, was too strong, so they didn't dare to go up and compete with her.