How does "Chinese Partner" view Chinese-style success?

In general, the entire film has done a good job of grasping the context of the times, revealing the characters' personalities, and restoring historical details. The free and open atmosphere on campus in the 1980s, the yearning of young students for the West, the impassioned debates, and even the impact of Cui Jian's rock music are all things we have experienced and deeply resonate with us. In the 1990s, faced with the struggle between ideals and reality, they were both disappointed and nostalgic for the system, yearning for and fearful of the trend of going overseas; after being forced to go overseas to start a business, they experienced all kinds of bitterness in trying to survive in the cracks, and were unable to survive in the face of tyrannical public power. Those who have worked in private enterprises have a deep understanding of the unlearned flattery and tact. After a company grows and expands, it faces conflicts in business philosophies and disputes over interests among shareholders. This is also a constant confusion for most small and medium-sized enterprises. These all bear the deep imprint of our era.

The growth process of the three protagonists is also a true portrayal of the generation born in the 1960s.

Cheng Dongqing, a country boy, was unremarkable in school and looked down upon at work. He was forced to have no choice but to go overseas to run a school. With hard work, endurance, perseverance and compromise, he had a successful career but was still confused. . Because his real dream is not to become famous, but to truly become a "city man" psychologically. Therefore, no matter how brilliant his new dream is, he cannot find the feeling of "success" because his idol Meng Xiaojun still feels like a "city man" in his heart. I don't agree with him and think that his wealth comes from chance and luck. Only in the end, in front of the "Meng Xiaojun Laboratory", he felt Meng Xiaojun's sincere eyes and showed a proud smile. Only then did he truly appreciate the taste of "success". There are many people like this in reality. They are unhappy when they have no money. They are still unhappy when they have money because they cannot find the feeling of being recognized.

Meng Xiaojun, from a scholarly family, is proud and arrogant, but cannot bear the frustration of being looked down upon by others. The success he pursues is not only material wealth, but more importantly, psychological superiority. So he desperately wanted to encourage the listing, so he wanted to go back to the cafe to see the waiter who had been moldy there all his life, so he burst into tears when he saw his name in the laboratory where he was fired. He was happy in school, not because he had money, but because he was surrounded by others and was always the center of the crowd. He wanted to go to the United States, perhaps because he couldn’t bear to repeat the tragic experiences of his father’s generation (when his grandfather and father gave him dictionaries respectively, the scene of the girl playing the piano, one was a live bullet, and the other was a dummy bullet on the piano cover, this shot was handled very well! ), I was very happy when I arrived in the United States, not because I had money, but because I was superior to other international students. Later, I became unhappy, not because I had no money, but because I felt lonely because I was marginalized. What he represents may be the so-called "Chinese Dream".

So both of them are psychological "turtles", and Wang Yang is the "turtle" of Think in American way. When you were young, you were bohemian, playing with life, and fully enjoying the joy of freedom. In middle age, you were forced to pursue money in life. Although you had to join other people, you still retained inner peace, valued friendship, and were not greedy for merit. You found the true meaning of life in the ordinary. Don't be surprised by favor or disgrace, and don't change your dignity. In his view, staying away from power (don’t play mahjong with your mother-in-law), living a simple life (don’t sleep with women who have more ideas than you), and maintaining true friendships among friends (don’t start a company with your best friend) are the greatest successes. . Maybe this is the "success" that Peter Chan wants us to truly understand. ——In fact, I also felt the director’s effort in this role in the film.

No matter whether the "success" of the three people really brings them happiness, or whether there are more of their peers who have not achieved "success" in a certain sense, as people born in the 1960s, They have always been influenced by the free air, tasted the bitterness and sweetness of chasing dreams, and also endured the loss and pain of reality. Their bodies are still filled with the light of idealism, and their last dreams for the future remain in their spirits.