地久天长2019

剧情简介

The focus here has to be the performances, especially Wang Jingchun and Yong Mei's understated brilliance. The film’s pacing, slow but deliberate, is also a crucial element. This metaphor, like a slow-burning candle, or perhaps more aptly, a river that appears calm but holds powerful undercurrents. I want to emphasize that this film is more than just a family tragedy, it’s a portrait of an era. I need to start with some context for the viewer. I'll need to remember that there is no markdown. A thermos of hot water, some yellowed factory awards, and an old radio always playing vintage tunes; these everyday objects paint a warm picture of the 1980s. The Liu and Shen families were as close as brothers, their children born on the same day, destined to grow up together, making noise in the same courtyard. But fate cast a huge stone onto the calm water, and an accidental drowning in the countryside resulted in Liu's only son, Liu Xing, to be lost forever in that summer, freezing the relationship between the two families. There were no hysterical arguments, no dramatic revenge, but Mr. and Mrs. Liu chose to leave, and with the wounds of a thousand cuts, they retreated to a small fishing village on the Fujian coast, trying to piece back together their broken lives between the ebb and flow of the tides. They adopted a child, but they could never escape the shadow behind the name. Thirty years went by like sand through their fingers. When they stepped back onto their homeland, facing the old faces and streets that were now so different, the secret that had been locked up for half a lifetime was slowly revealed, layer by layer, with the return of the younger generation, to expose its cruel and tender core.

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观影点评

This isn’t just a movie to watch. I want them to feel like they are sitting on the bench of an old neighbor, listening to their sigh, which is thirty years long. Director Wang Xiaoshuai is exceptionally restrained this time, he did not bombard your tear ducts with sentimental music, but hid all the joys and sorrows in those long silences. Wang Jingchun and Yong Mei, these two actors, are simply divine, they play, on those faces wrinkled by the passage of time, what it means to be sorrowful but not hurt, what it means to depend on each other for survival. This pain isn't a scream, but a fine needle pricking into cotton; you usually don't see it, but as soon as you touch it, it's heart-wrenching. This is not only telling the grudges of two families, but it's more like a miniature of contemporary Chinese history. From the family planning policy to the layoffs, from going south to work to the craze of going abroad, those great tides of the times hit ordinary people, leaving only the bruises. The time and space leaps in the movie are very exquisite, like a broken mirror, the fragments reflect the lights and shadows of different eras, put together, and you will find that everyone is desperately practicing farewell in order to live. If you want to find a little bit of calm strength in the noisy world, look at this pearl wrapped in the grit of the times, it will make you understand that the so-called "So Long, My Son" is actually after all the vicissitudes of life: let's sit down and drink some tea. 【电影介绍】 一个装着热水的铝制饭盒,几张泛黄的工厂奖状,还有那台总是在播放老歌的收音机,这些琐碎的物件拼凑出了八十年代最温暖的底色。刘耀军和沈英明两家人曾好得像亲兄弟,他们的孩子同年同月同日生,本该在同一个大院里吵闹着长大,分享彼此的青春。可命运偏偏在最平静的水面上投下了一块巨石,一场郊外的意外溺水,让刘家的独子刘星永远留在了那个夏天,也让两家人的关系瞬间降到了冰点。 没有歇斯底里的争吵,也没有狗血的复仇,刘耀军夫妇选择了带着满身的伤痕远走他乡,躲进福建沿海的一个小渔村,在潮起潮落间试图缝补破碎的人生。他们领养了一个孩子,却始终无法摆脱那个名字背后的阴影,那个孩子越是叛逆,就越是提醒着他们那段无法弥补的过去。三十年的光阴如同指间沙,当他们再次踏上故土,面对那些已经老去的面孔和早已物是人非的街道,那个被尘封了半辈子的秘密,正随着年轻一代的回归,一点点剥开它残酷而又温柔的内核。 【观影点评】 看这部电影的时候,我感觉自己不像是在看戏,倒像是坐在老邻居家的板凳上,听他们叹了一口长达三十年的气。导演王小帅这次极其克制,他没有用煽情的配乐来轰炸你的泪腺,而是把所有的悲欢离合都藏在了那些漫长的沉默里。王景春和咏梅这两位演员的表现堪称教科书级别,他们在那张被岁月刻满褶皱的脸上,演出了什么叫哀而不伤,什么叫相依为命。那种痛不是尖叫,而是像一根细针扎进棉花里,平时看不见,可只要一碰,就是钻心的疼。 这不仅仅是在讲两个家庭的恩怨,它更像是一部微缩的中国当代史。从计划生育到下岗潮,从南下打工到出国热,那些宏大的时代浪潮拍打在普通人身上,留下的都是具体的淤青。电影的时空跳跃非常精妙,像是一块被打碎的镜子,碎片里映照出不同年代的光影,拼凑在一起才发现,原来每个人都在为了活着而拼命练习告别。如果你想在喧嚣的世界里找回一点沉静的力量,看看这颗裹着时代砂砾的珍珠,它会让你明白,所谓的“地久天长”,其实就是历经沧桑后,依然能在那张旧桌子前,坦然地坐下来喝一口茶。