Original title: Comments on People’s Art: Have you been hit in the heart?
Since the summer, the domestic film market seems to have started the mode of "resonance with the same frequency" with the hot weather. According to statistics, the total box office of this year’s summer file has exceeded 10 billion. Explosive films appeared one after another, and the audience’s enthusiasm for watching movies continued to rise. At present, there is another blockbuster new film "Enthusiasm", which won many praises after its premiere at the closing ceremony of Shanghai International Film Festival.
"Enthusiasm" tells the story of Ding Lei, a street dance coach, and Chen Shuo, who loves street dance, overcoming all kinds of difficulties and leading the dance troupe "exclamation mark" to win the national competition. The film successfully portrays Ding Lei and Chen Shuo, a pair of "one body and two sides", although one is a middle-aged man who has gone through life and become somewhat slick and sophisticated, and the other is a young man who is sincere and never gives up no matter what setbacks he encounters. But both of them have the same deep love for street dance, and they gambled on their youth for their dreams.
The film’s grasp of the theme of "little people chasing dreams" can be said to be very in place, the rhythm is smooth, the smiles and tears are very clever, and many familiar "stalks" are added to detonate the emotions of the viewers at the right time. At the same time, as a heavy part of the film, the elements of street dance are also eye-catching. In addition to the starring roles of "Qingdao Dance King" and "All-round Dancer", the participation of many professional street dance dancers also ensures the professionalism and visibility of the dance part. The scene of boiling blood makes the audience feel like they are in the street dance competition, which fully shows the director’s scheduling ability and the visual effect is enough to reach the benchmark level of domestic genre films.
At the same time, Enthusiasm is a film of Xian Yi, young and old, with no movie threshold. Even the audience who know nothing about street dance can easily empathize with the core of the story. After all, everyone used to be "Chen Shuo", and with the growth of age, many people have become "Ding Lei". Besides the two main characters, the group image of the film is also excellent, and the supporting actors who only appeared for a few minutes are lifelike. Whether it is the members of the "exclamation point" dance troupe, the proprietress who runs a restaurant, the wage earners in a car wash shop, the frustrated middle-aged people who rely on driving to supplement their families, etc., these ordinary people everywhere give the audience a strong sense of substitution, and almost everyone can find their own shadow in the film.
As an inspirational work, it is commendable that "Enthusiasm" does not force "chicken blood", and a line of Chen Shuo’s mother in the film "can’t be" is particularly touching in this crazy "involution" era. By portraying those people who have to give up for various reasons on the road of chasing dreams, the film makes people feel that it is also a success to take one’s life seriously as long as the flame of dreams in one’s heart is not extinguished.
It is true that some viewers feel that the main story line of Enthusiasm is still the classic routine of "poor boy attacking rich second generation", which inevitably lacks new ideas. Moreover, the hero’s cool-style mode of winning the final victory is too idealistic. However, movies are the art of dreaming, and it is a beautiful thing to walk into the cinema to feel a hearty and "warm" dream in the hot summer days. (author:Bai Xiao)