I'm not Pan Jinlian, the story of Qiu Ju 24 years later?

The film "I am not Pan Jinlian" directed by Xiaogang Feng held the final release conference last night, which will be released on September 30th. It is reported that I am not Pan Jinlian tells the story of a rural woman named Li Xuelian who was called "Pan Jinlian" by her ex-husband. In order to make it clear that "I am not Pan Jinlian", she embarked on the road of clearing her name. In the past ten years, from my hometown to Beijing, I have been dealing with all kinds of people and experienced the warmth and coldness of the world.

This story reminds many netizens of Zhang Yimou 1992' s film The Story of Autumn Chrysanthemum. The Story of Autumn Chrysanthemum once became a classic film of Zhang Yimou with its profound and true content, simple and rude photography style and superb acting skills, and was deeply loved by fans. In the preview of "I'm not Pan Jinlian", as soon as the story of "Qiuju" and "Xuelian" going to Beijing to go to court respectively surfaced, the audience will naturally think of Zhang's works.

The short film has been exposed before, and the first thing that makes people shine is the unique painting style in the short film. The exposed fragments all present the plot in the form of a round hole in the dark, and the whole picture is compressed to a very small size, even a little tired to watch.

According to Luo Pan, photography director of the film "I am not Pan Jinlian", the whole film will be presented in this framework. The film was shot in Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province, making full use of the local traditional Huizhou architecture, while the circular frame draws lessons from the effect of China's traditional round fan painting, and at the same time, it looks like the audience is peeking at the lives of the characters in the play.

Speaking of voyeurism, it really has something to do with The Story of Autumn Chrysanthemum. Zhang Yimou's "The Story of Qiu Ju" captured the real social feelings of that era by "sneak shot", including Qiu Ju's scurrying in the street and various passers-by after entering the city, and showed the audience the landscape of China county in the early 1990s. The difference between Zhang Yimou's "sneak shot" and Xiaogang Feng's "voyeurism" is that one is purposeful realism and the other is accidental effect.

In addition, there are obvious differences in tone and photographic style between the two films. In order to create a real visual effect, just like what happened around us, many shots in The Story of Qiu Ju Twenty-four Years ago have a sense of non-design documentary, interspersed characters with New Year pictures, western posters and other fragments, showing people's pursuit and confusion when western culture just flooded into China society at that time. And I'm not Pan Jinlian, from a photographic point of view, should deliberately create a well-designed traditional style of China. In addition to the circular frame, the characters in Jiangnan Water Town, A Leaf Boat and Panorama all have some expressionist aesthetic characteristics than the Story of Autumn Chrysanthemum.

Then why do so many people say that I am not Pan Jinlian, but the 2.0 version of Qiu Ju Tale? It must be largely because of the plot. In recent years, there is no film about rural life, especially the spiritual world of rural women in China film industry. A little similarity in the plot will remind people of a movie in the 1980s and 1990s. However, it is reported that "I am not Pan Jinlian" is a Feng-style comedy with serious jokes and will be presented to the audience in the form of black humor.

I'm afraid the most worrying thing is the casting of actors. Gong Li, an actor in The Story of Autumn Chrysanthemum, destroyed her image in the film, which brought an absolutely exquisite performance to the film. For example, in the following scene, she is integrated into the big environment of film shooting, and there are almost no traces of stars;

In addition, she has a good grasp of the emotions and social status of the characters in the film, showing the subtle feelings of a peasant woman in different plots. All these are great challenges for Fan Bingbing, who is incomparable in beauty. The hole-shaped border greatly deepens the difficulty of the performance.

Liu Zhenyun, the screenwriter and original author of I am not Pan Jinlian, was born in rural Henan. He is highly sensitive to the evolution of rural areas in China in the process of modernization, and he is very good at writing novels with rural themes. At the same time, most of the fifth-generation directors in China are from rural areas, or they have a plot that is difficult to give up rural culture, so it is often easier to direct films with rural background. After personal tailor's low reputation, Xiaogang Feng finally returned to his own style "Tangshan Earthquake" and "1942", which is another attempt by the fifth-generation directors of China to touch China, which is gradually disappearing in the changing times.