Millennium director

"When asked why I came to the cinema to watch this movie, I was speechless for a moment."

"I have never thought about this question."

"It is not common for Chinese films to make me easily make the judgment "It's you!" and then buy tickets to watch without hesitation."

"But "Dear" is different. This is the most influential director and actor in China with both good reputation and box office. The combined force should not be underestimated."

"Not to mention that I am a die-hard fan of Huang Bo."

"Like "The Flowers of War" and "1942", "Dear" must be a sad movie from the beginning of the topic of "looking for children."

"There are four shots in the movie that left a deep impression on me."

"First, 5 minutes after the opening, in Shenzhen, where cars are coming and going, children wearing bright yellow clothes are lightly carried away by human traffickers."

"There is no resistance, no sound, and it is passed by from a distance."

"I am very grateful to Director Wu for his kindness at this time. He did not deal with it too much dramatization, but passed it by and put the children's faces in a simple way. The expression of his inability to resist human traffickers is complete. "

"Second, when the child was just found, Huang Bo was in the police station, crying so hard that he couldn't straighten his back, and was hysterical. "

"Although the two strange women behind him were already laughing and saying "you cried so ugly", well, I think, at that time, it was okay to cry no matter how ugly it was. "

"Third, after finding the child, Huang Bo went out to throw away the garbage, paused, turned around, opened the door, put the sleeping child on his shoulders, and went out again. This series of shots reminded me of Mrs. Zhang in my memory. "

"Fourth, on the streets of Shenzhen, Hao Lei rushed into the crowd of parents looking for their children, hugged her former son, and was beaten and scolded by angry parents. "

"These parents regard finding their children and fighting against human trafficking as their lives, so they naturally know the process of the case very well. They must know that Hao Lei is not the human trafficker himself, But compared to the hatred and complaints they have suppressed for many years, Hao Lei is already very close to the existence of the perpetrator. "

"This group of parents who "encourage" most of the time in the film, at this time and in this situation, losing their minds is the most rational thing to do."

"Even if the village girl Li Hongqin played by Hao Lei is not the main culprit, buying and selling are indeed the same crime."

"But one thing should be certain, no matter how simple and kind Li Hongqin is, she is destined to be not a good person with her hurtful ignorance, and there is no room for negotiation."

"Without buying and selling, there will be no market, and there will not be so many abducted children."

"Searching for children is a journey with no exit."

"These four sets of shots are very close to the topic of searching for children that I came into contact with back then. It can be seen that the crew of "Dear" has done enough homework."

"In a narrow sense To be honest, compared with restoring the massacre and famine, talking seriously about fighting against human trafficking may have greater practical significance. "

"After this movie, adults should pay more attention to the situation of children, and more people will participate in fighting against human trafficking and pay attention to "Baby Go Home". "

"I didn't expect "Dear" to be such a movie. It is different from any of Wu Yuan's works in recent years. "

"Remove the faces of all the big names, and then do some "plain and unpretentious" processing on the camera language, and it can immediately be changed into a semi-documentary newsreel. "

"No one is the protagonist of the drama here. Everyone can face the camera alone, and everyone is the protagonist of the story. "

"The Chinese film industry needs such a good movie!"

Looking at this long Weibo review, Wu Yuan sighed with emotion.

What is the significance of making the movie "Dear"?

It's here!

This will not be a big hit in the broad sense, nor will it become a box office champion.

But Wu Yuan still made this movie without hesitation, just because he wanted to make this movie, without any external factors interfering.

After making metaphysical art films and popcorn commercial films for many years, Wu Yuan wanted to make such a social-themed film.

Because the real world needs real heroes.

The heroes in superhero movies cannot save the real world.

But the movie "Dear" can help countless abducted families intentionally or unintentionally.

Whether it is to give them encouragement, or to let the public pay more attention to this sad group, and let more people pay attention to and attach importance to this social problem, this is more meaningful than the box office of the movie.

As for making money, there is already the Xianxia universe in the era of light and shadow. Now the Xianxia movie universe is booming. The third movie has just been finished and the fourth movie is being filmed. There is no shortage of opportunities to make money.

In addition to the stable income of the Guangying movie chain and the rapidly expanding Guangying Kuaibo.

To put it bluntly, even if Wu Yuan retires immediately, he will not be able to spend all the money he earns in his lifetime.

So he is now making movies more to pursue the realization of self-worth, rather than for box office, word of mouth and other things.

When he first entered the industry, he was quite vain and wanted to win the three major European awards while they were still valuable.

Now he doesn't think about these things at all. Even if he is reborn again, he will not deliberately shoot art films for the sake of winning awards. He will only shoot when he really wants to.

Including the new movie "Ready Player One" he plans to shoot next, he also wants to shoot this movie because he wants to shoot a new Chinese science fiction blockbuster.

He didn't choose "Ready Player One" because he wanted to make a high-grossing movie.

This causal logic must be made clear.

So, although "Dear" has only grossed more than 200 million yuan in a week, and the final box office is estimated to stay at around 300 to 400 million yuan, there are many voices on the Internet that say he is "outdated", but Wu Yuan doesn't care at all.

Just like Zhang Yimou is often considered by netizens to be over because of the poor box office of the art films he made.

If they really care about these voices and comments, they really don't deserve to be regarded as master directors.

Although Wu Yuan's title of "master director" may be a bit watery, his temperament has really been cultivated.

Not just him.

In fact, Huang Bo, Tan Zhuo, Zhang Yi and other leading actors of "Dear" have never cared about the box office of this movie. They only care about the word-of-mouth evaluation of this movie and whether the audience can feel the meaning and value of the movie after watching it.

Realistic movies have plain plots, but they are more inspirational than dramatic ups and downs.

Compared to seeing superheroes in an exaggerated world, it is more meaningful to be inspired by real and tangible good people in a simple world.

It is unfair to put this film on the average line of most Chinese-language films.

As long as this film can gain positive and positive word of mouth and can really touch the audience, that is enough.

This is the meaning of the existence of realistic films. (End of this chapter)