China News Agency, Beijing, April 5 (Reporter Gao Kai) It surpassed the Hollywood blockbuster "Godzilla vs. King Kong" as the daily box office champion in 6 hours after its release. While securing the box office champion during the Ching Ming holiday in advance, it broke 7 film history records including the box office record of Chinese film history Ching Ming archives.
"My Sister" unexpectedly became the biggest box office surprise for the theaters during this Qingming holiday, and at the same time, this novel, low-cost family love movie also sparked heated discussions outside the theaters.
"My Sister" is written by You Xiaoying, the best screenwriter of the Hong Kong Film Awards, and directed by Yin Ruoxin, a new generation female director, starring "post-00" actor Zhang Zifeng.
At the beginning of the film, my sister faces a cruel setting. My parents are killed in a car accident, and my younger brother, who is 20 years apart, needs to be raised.
Under the surface, my sister has been wronged since she was a child because of her family’s patriarchal concept. Not only did she pretend to be disabled in her childhood to help her parents get the qualifications for the second child, she was also tampered with by her parents because she should graduate early and get married to support her family as a girl. Volunteer for college entrance examination.
For this younger brother who suddenly wants to raise by herself, compared to family motherhood, what the sister holds is more of the pain and resentment brought to her by her native family.
Compared with the dramatic ups and downs of the plot, "My Sister" in front of the audience is more focused on the source of the complex emotions of the characters and the collision in front of reality.
The narration of the film and the performance of the actors are really excellent, and the reason why it has attracted attention and heated discussion is that it accurately hit a major pain point in society-gender equality, what is the female self?
In the face of great changes, the older sister, who has been hurt by her native family because of the dross thought, should she take up the responsibility of raising her younger brother?
My ideals and future, past injuries, worldly vision, pressure from relatives, all these made my sister's choice difficult and full of pain.
Sociologist Li Yinhe commented that "My Sister" is a "profound work that reveals social ethics and its changes." She posted an article on Weibo saying, "The film revolves around whether the heroine sister is pursuing personal career development or The difficult choice of raising younger brothers is gradually unfolding. The logic behind it is that the personal values and outlook on life faced by people in the process of China's modernization have a fierce impact on the traditional family-based values and outlook on life."
She pointed out, "At present, the traditional gender order of male superiority and female inferiority is undergoing profound changes, and a modern new order of equal personality between men and women is taking shape. Through a series of dramatic conflicts, the film reveals to us this profound change in China. "
While winning the box office and resonating with many audiences, "My Sister" also caused some doubts to a certain extent.
At the end of the film, although he found an adoptive family for his younger brother, the creator did not let her sister simply choose to leave, but gave an open ending.
There are comments on the Internet that the sister did not make a choice to make herself perfect. This is a compromise with the old concept. As a result, the previous discussion loses its substantive significance.
In this regard, You Xiaoying previously stated that the open ending is because "I want everyone to see everything my sister has experienced. As for the ending, everyone will have their own answer."
In fact, another important factor that impresses people's hearts in "My Sister" lies in the accurate depiction of people's complex emotions. The two-way closeness of the siblings who lost their parents in the subsequent getting along with each other, was originally hurt and resentful. The elder sister's experience of family affection in the entanglement, all the complicated and subtle are presented to the audience delicately and accurately by the creator.
This makes the elder sister's swing further affect people's hearts and resonate with the audience.
It is precisely because of this that the open ending of the film was described by Li Yinhe as a "brilliant stroke."
In real life, there is no so-called "perfect choice", and the road of life cannot be "confirmed" outside of the matter. "My Sister" is about the changing world conditions and complicated human hearts.
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