In fact, the judges' responsibilities are to watch movies and then discuss.

Fifty-one movies were awarded in the preliminary round, and 9 movies were shortlisted for the feature films, all of which were the director's feature film debuts.

Of course, Chen Lin is most concerned about dramas, and he has no interest in documentaries.

However, no matter how uninterested you are, you have to participate in the activities you should participate in. After all, many directors want to get his guidance.

Therefore, as a judge, there is still some free time, but not much.

Fortunately, the commercial promotion ability of Xining Youth Film Festival is not too strong, there is no big brand sponsorship, and there is no red carpet link. Chen Lin also wants to experience the level of Chinese independent films up close.

No matter how you say it is, the Xining Youth Film Festival is still a film festival. There are still some requirements for judges. In addition to the most basic objective and fairness, the most important thing is to be strict and never reveal any inside information to the media.

Otherwise, the biggest gimmick will be gone, what else is there!

The reason why I gathered a group of judges this morning was to let each other know each other.

After they met, they dispersed.

Chen Lin did not have the idea of ​​having a close relationship with these people. As for Tang Wei, she is an actress after all.

...

In the afternoon, the first movie was screened.

Called "Happiness"

It is a feature film directed by Zhang Tao.

This is the first feature film watched by the judges of the Xining Youth Film Festival this year, and everyone attaches great importance to it.

On the one hand, director Zhang Tao has already become a little famous in the circle and is one of the new directors supported by the Central Academy of Drama. He wrote in 2012 and directed the short film "Yiping", and won the "Best Actress Award" of the 9th Image Exhibition of the Central Academy of Drama. He participated in director Zhao Jian's "Shan Haiguan" as the starring and executive director. The film won the "Best Screenwriter Award" of the 9th Image Exhibition of the Central Academy of Drama. He participated in director Zhao Jian's "Smelling Rose" as the starring and executive director;

On the other hand, the great success of "The Maze of Heart" last year made the entire domestic film critics and film producers look forward to the Xining Youth Film Festival very much.

These judges are also looking forward to it, after all, it is the first one!

Of course, Chen Lin had to go to the movie, but he was a little low-key to avoid being surrounded by reporters.

Haha, he still thought too much, really, there are not many reporters!

It is estimated that the film festivals I participated in before were all large film festivals, so he naturally thought that there would be many reporters in Xining Youth Film Festival and the media attention was quite high.

Unfortunately, few media outlets followed, and there were only a few reporters on the venue, and Wang Jiawei was still following.

Even with Wang Jiawei and Shen Lin in charge, many people still don’t know about the Xining Youth Film Festival.

This is a small screening hall, after all, there are only a few judges present and there is no need for too many people.

The whole story of "Happiness and Mourning" has a bit of cruel practical significance.

Lin Guo, an 86-year-old man in Zhangzhuang, southern Shandong, was a widow at the age of 35. He had four sons and two daughters, and four generations lived together.

Lin Guo lives alone in an old rural house, and his children are busy making a living and have no time to take care of Lin Guo.

As people reach old age, Lin Guo's physical condition gradually deteriorates.

Without telling Lin Guo's family, their children actively operated the entry of nursing homes, and gradually evolved from persuading her to going to nursing homes to forcing her to go to nursing homes.

The beds in the nursing home are tight, and the children are anxiously waiting for an elderly person to die in the nursing home, and then let Lin Guo replace the vacant.

Lin Guo fell and was injured and got laughing.

She began a short journey to her children's house to take turns to live. The arrival of Lin Guo disrupted the order of her children's life.

The night before going to the nursing home, Lin Guo committed suicide by taking rat poison with his family photo in his arms.

The children and grandchildren held her a grand funeral to "celebrate" Lin Guo's death.

At the funeral, Lin Guo's portrait was placed in the front row of the stage, and together with the fellow villagers, "witted" the most fashionable program at the moment - Jinge and Hot Dance.

The second daughter-in-law fell after a hard work;

Life begins again, but it seems that it is repeating yesterday's story again...

Chen Lin watched a movie from a pure evaluation for the first time. To be honest, he thought this movie was pretty good, at least he could finish the whole process, although he wanted to leave in the middle.

It is probably related to the solid story of "Happiness and Mourning" itself.

If a director wants to show off his style in his first work and tells the author's creative intentions in various ways, Chen Lin will probably leave directly.

Damn, are you looking for death by showing off these things in front of him?

He always pays attention to movies, so he should abandon all outer packaging and restore the movie itself, which is the story!

Zhang Tao did a pretty good job in this.

But there is one thing he is quite dissatisfied with. This story is particularly false, although Zhang Tao used a pseudo-documentary to show the movie, trying to explain to people that this story is very common.

All the directors born in the academy have been trying to describe how backward China is, which is really speechless!

It directly attributes the impact of urbanization to the loss of old age!

It's still the same today!

Thanks to a group of directors, especially Wang Jiawei, who believe that this film is very excellent, he says that he cares about the countryside, calm shots, and performances by non-professional actors.

Hoho!

After all, Wang Jiawei doesn’t understand the mainland. How many real film creators are really rooted in the countryside?

Simply put, the creator of "Happiness and Mourning" has too much argumentative ideas and always thinks that every plot must be based on the theme, either good or bad, so he puts too much effort and is seriously out of reality.

...

In the original time and space, "Happiness and Mourning" has not been released.

Although it won the best feature film at the Xining First Youth Film Festival and director Zhang Tao also won the best director, commercially, the results achieved by this film are zero!

Maybe the General Administration is unwilling to let such a movie be spread!

If Chen Lin came to shoot, he would focus more on the elderly's understanding of their children.

Otherwise, there is no need for such a movie to exist at all. Does it tell the story of the evil nature of human nature?

Maybe it's real, but there's absolutely no market!

Just like the criminal at the end of "Batman Dark Knight" never pressed the button on his hand, didn't Nolan know which button was more humane?

But why didn't he do that?

Because only then will it be accepted by the public, otherwise, Warner Bros.'s 160 million US dollars cost will be over, and "Batman Dark Knight" will not become a classic that is passed down by words!

Going back to the movie "Happiness and Mourning", although the depiction looks very realistic, is reality good?

The theme reveals traces of deliberate behavior, the script is too patterned, the camera language is dull and old-fashioned, and the performance of non-professional actors is very awkward. The whole film reveals a sense of scheming and artificiality. If it weren't for the passage at the funeral, the film basically had no highlights.
Chapter completed!