The Man Caught By The Light: The Speculation About Love

Ren Ming

"People captured by light", the setting of the film attracted my curiosity: a white light suddenly fell on the earth, some people disappeared It is said that all the people who are captured by light have true love. Do those who stay still have love? This question is interesting because it tells us a situation in life: at a certain moment in life, maybe we all need to face the problem of value judgment about ourselves and what we have. The film shows us this judgment process through various characters. The director is ingenious, sincere, and all kinds of emotional truths are woven together, which makes the whole film very texture.

Wu literature and Zhang Yan are a middle-aged couple who have gradually lost their passion in the daily necessities of life. Their daughter, who is in middle school, is tired of their estrangement and politeness. In front of the hypothesis of "white light catches the lovers", she bravely asks her father: don't you love me? Why didn't we both disappear together? Huang Bo's martial arts actor answers his daughter awkwardly and laughingly: it's kinship between us. When I first saw the film, I was moved by my daughter's affection for her father. At the moment, I realized the courage and difficulty of transforming the burning love into family affection.

Li Nan and he Xiaofen, who are waiting for her husband Hu Jianmin to go through the divorce procedures, find out that Hu Jianmin has suddenly disappeared. They go to find out the truth of his disappearance. Layers of cocoon peeling, the two found Hu Jianmin's emotional world and the truth of his disappearance. In this drama of exploring "men's true love", Li Nan, a professional woman, expresses the feeling of "I really don't know what Hu Jianmin thinks of you" in the face of he Xiaofen's "obsession". Hu min praised her independence as a strong woman. Li Nan's emotion did not know how many women's voice. And her final awakening, "I can finally stop feeling guilty, and I don't have to ask myself where I'm not doing well, because men like Hu Jianmin love everyone, and no one loves them"; women struggling to be recognized by men - even professional women - finally see the truth of love, which is undoubtedly of great enlightenment to the audience in front of the screen.

The rich girl who stole her family's Hukou and wanted to marry her boyfriend found that her parents who quarreled all day long disappeared together with her boyfriend when the white light came. She was disappointed and let her boyfriend die in the quarrel. Boys jump to prove their love, girls suddenly repent and realize that love that can die for each other does not need God's judgment. This scene expresses the burning of love to young people with the intensity of young people. The feeling can be felt, and the danger is also real. The film sets the parents who quarrel all day long to "have love", and the young people who can give their lives to each other as "no love". According to the judgment of "white light", the whole film has a lot of tension on "what is love": love may be based on the basic respect for life; the love that is always dying may have the intensity of love, but it may not be true love.

The street punk chopsticks think that TV host Zhou Hao killed his friend Qin Shan. He goes to report to the police. The police find that the real situation is that Qin Shan disappeared at the moment of the white light. Chopsticks can't accept this fact The man who works in the Academy of Social Sciences found that Bai Guang took away all the people who loved each other. "I really love my wife, that is, she doesn't love me." he choked his wife in a rage and surrendered to the police station These are people who don't have the courage to love or face the truth of love. Zhao Peng, who works in the art museum, finally and his wife can face up to the fact that they no longer love each other after the white light. What new facts will this fact bring about is unknown

We still need to talk about Huiwu literature and Zhang Yan. Huang Bo plays a middle-aged man's character of "having a thief's heart but not a thief's courage", a good face, the struggle between cheating and loyalty, and the helplessness of the public opinion which is specious but accepted without judgment. At the end of the film, his confession to Xiao Han, a young colleague who worships and adores himself, shows an intellectual with conscience's analysis of himself and his frankness to others: "when I was waiting for you, what I felt in my heart was panic. This was not love, was it?" (to the effect). If everyone has such an introspective and responsible attitude towards love, today's world may not have so many tragedies of love and non love.

Dong Runnian, a writer and director, is amazing. The film not only has a profound plot and a wide range of characters, but also attaches great importance to the treatment of "white light" sci-fi scenes and the realism of daily life. After dinner, the martial arts family took a stroll in the street, and the thick night and shadowy figures were looming on the screen; the sudden gas explosion reminded us that those who had been captured by light had suddenly disappeared in the process of life The material nature of life and the tension of soul jumping are fixed by this detail, which is extremely rare and precious among Chinese directors. Song Chunli, who hasn't appeared on the big screen for a long time, has contributed to her commendable acting skills. Huang Bo is as good as ever. Equally good are the many actors who appear in the film.

"The man caught by light" scored 7.7 in cat's eye and 7.1 in Douban on the fifth day of its release, which surprised me. Maybe in this era - in any era, the question about love is a topic to be selected, not a required question. It is just like in the beginning and middle of the film, the director intersperses the images of all living beings who are asked this question in front of the spotlight: some people laugh at them, others talk about them, others are silent In the final analysis, love is only a question to be answered in life, but not life itself.

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