1905 movie network news Directed by Wang Rui, a professor of the director department of Beijing Film Academy, it won the best artistic contribution award in the main competition unit of Tokyo International Film Festival in 2019 and was released nationwide on July 31 as the opening film of the Belt and Road Film Week of Shanghai International Film Festival in 2020.
As the only China film shortlisted for the main competition in Tokyo Film Festival and won an important prize, this film tells the life dilemma of an ordinary Mongolian herdsman couple because of their different life pursuits. The wife Sarula yearns for a better life, but her husband Chao Ketu believes that the better life is not in the grassland but in the distance. The wrong track of their thoughts has filled a happy family with differences and twists and turns, and the choice and compromise under constant thinking has also opened up a new understanding of life and love for the couple.
As the first wave of new films released in the post-epidemic era, the film has injected the most sincere warmth into the China film market with solid content quality. What are the unique charms of this work? Four highlights will bring you back to the most pristine touch of the screen in 2020.
Aspect 1: Endless feelings, artistic persistence in the epidemic era.
It is reported that it took more than ten years before and after the film to meet with you. The director of the film, Mr. Wang Rui, is not only one of the sixth generation directors with 30 years of directing experience, but also the director of the director department of Beijing Film Academy. Director Wang Xiaoshuai, a classmate of Wang Rui’s, once said after watching the movie that he couldn’t imagine that Wang Rui had the patience to study such a film when he was so busy in teaching. Director Wang’s persistence for ten years stems not only from his feelings in artistic creation, but also from his commitment to his dead wife.
In 2005, when the director was chatting with his wife, he said that he had never made a movie he really wanted to make. It happened that his wife and screenwriter Chen Ping had been friends for many years, so his wife recommended Chen Ping to Wang Rui. In the same year, the script writing outline was completed, but it coincided with a turning point in the commercialization of China films, which experienced twists and turns from fund-raising to filming. Until now, Wang Rui finally finished Under the White Clouds and fulfilled his promise with his dead wife. In today’s film market, which emphasizes traffic and high box office, this sentiment is persistent and moving.
Director Wang Rui also mentioned in the interview: "This work hopes to be level and in line with life when shooting. When shooting, it was calm, there was no interference, and there was no pressure to make money and win prizes. The process of shooting is still bitter, but I am very happy and very happy to bring you such a work. "
Aspect 2: honorary reputation, the success of Class A film festivals has attracted countless praises.
The performance of Under the White Clouds in various international A-class film festivals is remarkable. Not only won the best artistic contribution award in the main competition unit of Tokyo International Film Festival in 2019, but also the film was selected as the opening film in the "Belt and Road Film Week" of Shanghai International Film Festival in 2020. At the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2019, Zhang Ziyi, the chairman of the jury, once said that he liked the story of the couple’s video call very much; The famous Japanese director Ryuichi Hiroki also mentioned in his award speech: "This is a movie that allows people to fully think about their state in life."
In the previous screening, the film was able to meet many audiences in advance and was well received by the industry. Director Wang Xiaoshuai praised: "For this film, the scheduling of many scenes is very difficult, but the work done by director Wang Rui is very beautiful and shocking. We must do Amway for him!" Actor Gaowa Siqin directly called it a new benchmark for domestic films: "This film is so wonderful, accurate and profound! I think it can be regarded as NO.1 in China films in recent ten years. "
Aspect 3: the beautiful picture, the strong scenery on the screen lingers for the grassland.
The beautiful scenery of the grassland, the enthusiasm and boldness of herdsmen riding and grazing, the long tune and Humai have become the most touching accompaniment — — The four seasons in hulun buir grassland are all captured in the lens. The dribs and drabs of modern herdsmen’s life are also presented in the most authentic and simple form. Every frame in the film can be directly used as wallpaper, and this film, which combines extraordinary beauty and the sound of nature, is also like an "extreme grassland award", which is painted at the beginning, bringing an impressive sound and painting experience to the audience.
In order to capture the magnificent scenery of the four seasons in hulun buir grassland, director Wang Rui "stationed" on the grassland for one year, although it was bitter and sweet: "The season spans a lot, and the film has been filmed for a long time. It is a touching thing that a group of people only do this one thing in one year."
This obsession with art and beauty deeply touched the director Tian Zhuangzhuang: "I am very shocked, and the effect of this film is so good and very touching. Wang Rui is not a Mongolian, but he can completely enter Mongolian life, which makes us very excited. It is very difficult to master all the beauty, scene scheduling, climate and emotions in this play, and the actor scheduling is very beautiful! " The so-called infinite scenery is at a dangerous peak. It is precisely because of an unchanging initial heart for art and a tireless pursuit of beauty that "Under the White Clouds" has a master photography and returned to the unprecedented moving face of the grassland.
Aspect 4: Perfect integration, artistic masterpieces adapt to universal thinking.
Under the White Clouds, represented by a family story of a contemporary ordinary herder, shows the living situation of grassland people under the changing times. Mongolian herder Chaoketu yearns for the outside world because he is tired of boring and monotonous grassland life. However, his wife Sarula thinks that a good life is to stay at sunrise and sunset with her husband on the grassland, unwilling to change the current living conditions. Both husband and wife can’t convince each other, and their living conditions are also in trouble.
Although the protagonist in the film is a herdsman couple facing choice and compromise, it actually reflects the general public in modern society. In fact, there is a shadow of "Chaoketu" or "Sarura" in each of us. How to find a balance between desire and reality and how to make a choice between distant dreams and family responsibilities is an unavoidable problem in everyone’s life. The director adopted an open ending in the film, hoping to convey this thought to more audiences.
Movies don’t need to export specific values, and good works must be thought-provoking, guiding people to think deeply and draw their own conclusions. Therefore, Under the White Clouds is always a work with a stronger sense of reality than nationality. It reveals not only the fate of a prairie couple, but also the hope that the audience can "see themselves in the movies" and find their own life answers.