How beautiful is perfection： Although the film is not perfect, it has unique value.

1905 movie network news　It’s an interesting movie. Jiang Wu, in the shadow of Jiang Wen, has always had a weak sense of existence. Angel is shrouded by the aura of Chen Jianbin, which rarely appears on the big screen. However, it is precisely these two actors who have little box office appeal, but they co-starred in a complex work with low topic and weak entertainment, which seems to wander between business and art, full of comedy, violence and romance, promoting the positive energy of family and love, but a little dark.

　

First, the magic of realism

"How Beautiful Is Perfect" is naturally a realistic film. It starts from the present life of a couple and gradually spreads to its complex social network, presenting us with the life dilemma of a lower class. The tone, lens and editing of the film are quite simple, and the problems existing in life are discussed in a down-to-earth manner. But at the same time, "How Beautiful Is Perfect" has some magical colors. The setting of "double stories" derived from the story structure makes a real story happen in two spaces, thus this "crossing" gives the film a certain magical temperament and has the possibility of jumping out of the surface and paying attention to the essence.

Therefore, "How Beautiful is Perfect" depicts the real world in color, while black and white symbolizes the space through which it passes, and makes a straightforward spatial expression. Then, in two different spaces, with the same number of roles and identities, two different life stories are told for the audience. The ultimate goal of the film is to make the protagonist in the film make a choice in life through the different plots, and at the same time throw the difficult problem of choice to the audience and torture the audience’s value and feelings.

Second, think perfectly, but do not do well.

In fact, there is a lot of room for such a setting as "How Beautiful is Perfect". At the beginning of the film, a moral problem was thrown for the audience. Then he entered the ordinary but fantastic day of the hero Jiang Wu, laid out the subsequent stories, and formally entered the stage of different life dramas. Through the time and space, Jiang Wu transformed herself into a different identity and a different life. After a short period of maladjustment, he quickly merged into the recognition and enjoyment of his new identity and freely shuttled between two spaces.

"How Beautiful Is Perfect" is such a linear cross-space narrative. Thanks to Jiang Wu’s acting skills, it can well support the subtle changes in the character’s heart and expression. And the complex situation surrounding his affection, love and friendship has also brought some absurd colors. However, it is a pity that this kind of film is very suitable for incorporating the genre factor of black humor, but this film is rare, and the serious narrative way also makes the story itself not very interesting.

The most easily criticized part of How Beautiful is Perfect is that the content of the story itself is too weak. Although it revolves around a male protagonist, it seeks to comprehensively describe the relationship grid around him, so parents, wives and friends go into battle in unison. On the surface, it is all, but in fact, it has not been well explored from any angle, and it seems that there are some problems. In addition, the proposition of straight male cancer seems to put women in a very passive position, housewives can’t have children, and beautiful goddesses can’t find true love. These settings are also considered carefully and inappropriate.

Third, men’s reproductive/survival anxiety

At the beginning of "How Beautiful is Perfect", Tianle, an auto repair project, received a medical confirmation from a doctor about her reproductive ability in the hospital. But it is such an ability to have seven or eight children that makes Cheng Tianle always in an embarrassing situation of "no queen", and the cause of the whole story begins. Later, Cheng Tianle found that his wife, who had always claimed to be healthy, was unable to have children, so he was furious and called it a "liar". It can be seen that the story of "How Beautiful is Perfect" starts from a man’s reproductive anxiety, which leads to the crisis of his whole middle age.

It is in the dilemma of "no queen" and reproduction that Cheng Tianle can "dream a dream", find a key to crossing and come and go freely in two spaces. In the black-and-white world, he became the president, with a mansion and a luxury car. The goddess of youth became her daughter-in-law and was pregnant with her own children. Everything you can’t have in the real world has become a reality in the illusion of black and white.

On the one hand, diaosi, on the other hand, is rich. The leader in front has become the younger brother behind, and the friend has become a stranger. Various changes in social relations have actually become a projection of Cheng Tianle’s inner desires and the best platform to understand the inner desires of a middle-aged man at the bottom of contemporary China. In him, we can actually see the brand of current social values on everyone, and the superficial things of money worship and material desire are flooding our daily lives. In our patriarchal society, many of these materialized pressures are placed on men. There are few successful people, and most ordinary middle-aged men can only be anxious and miserable in the troubles of lack of money, the decline of wife’s color, the disobedience of children and the beauty of their first love. Just like Shen Teng in China, Xú Zhēng in China and so on.

This phenomenon, which has no solution in reality, always needs to be solved by finding an outlet in How Beautiful Perfect is, so the director finally let Cheng Tianle choose his family and parents and return to a more traditional value orientation. However, there is something wrong with the setting of this ending. The way of reconciliation between him and his wife and the final choice between him and his wife in the black and white world are also debatable. On the whole, "How Beautiful is Perfect" not only guarantees a value standpoint, but also does not fully consider the construction of a more complete value system.

Fourth, the genre expansion of domestic films

As a film, How Beautiful Is Perfect is naturally imperfect. The director has a good idea, but in the narrative of the story, the presentation of details, and even the value transfer and characterization, there are some problems of swallowing water, which makes people unable to see the particularly exciting points.

However, from another perspective, the number of domestic realistic movies has increased in recent years, and the thinking about real life and middle-aged anxiety has become deeper. Moreover, the realistic writing of fantasy love based on time and space travel actually provides a reference for many domestic movies, that is, how to creatively solve a real realistic problem in the image, which is a value of How Beautiful is Perfect.