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Among the films released in China in 2024, the domestic film with the highest Douban score is "Stop and Go". Its final box office just exceeded 100 million yuan. The Douban score was 7.9 before the film was removed from theaters. After it was released on streaming media, the current score is 8.0.

The concept of "life-stream movies" became a popular term when the young director Shao Yihui and Xu Zheng collaborated on "Love Mythology". This life-stream is obviously a reference to all genres that are out of touch with life, whether it is a weird imagination or a boring imagination, all distorted content. To be honest, from this perspective, many slightly dull art films may be considered life-stream, such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang and Hirokazu Kore-eda.

The emotions are accurate, the expressions are fluent, and the value is hidden.

Good so-called "lifestyle" movies need these basic qualities. The lifestyle movies I can think of in recent years are "Waiting Alone" directed by Wu Shixian a long time ago. That may be Xia Yu's best performance after "Sunny Days". The expression of Hutong and Beijing's fireworks is very easy to bring a sense of identity; similarly, "Love Mythology"'s expression of Shanghai is limited to a few streets, but the temperament is very unique, the incision is very small, and the temperament is very full. Then there is this year's "lost pearl": "Go and Stop".

"Stop and Go" has a more "legendary" feel in its storytelling. Compared with "Waiting Alone" and "Love Myth", it is slightly exaggerated and has a more obvious sense of conflict, especially Gao Yuanyuan's performance and the obsessive-compulsive "stop and go" of the real motor vehicle at the end, which seems superfluous. It is more in line with small town life. The most moving expression, I think, is the warmth and alienation of a typical Chinese family. The home that Hu Ge returned to is warm, but this family also has many problems, and everyone's choices are also very good, and no one points it out.

Just like the theme of "Stop and Go", Jin Jing, who made herself dark, is even more outstanding than Hu Ge, who has an epiphany. Her restrained and unpretentious understanding of the theme of the movie obviously complements her mature views on marriage and childbirth in real life. She is indeed part of the stream of life.

In this era, a precise capture is of course great, but more often, an open expression is more important. Don’t always think about teaching people success, and don’t always think about teaching people the value of lying down. In short, when you yourself don’t understand, you can’t always think about "teaching others how to be a person" - a person walks, a person stops, a person walks and stops, you have to learn to respect a person's choice. The flow of life is a river basin, you can't subjectively think of it as too narrow, and tell people: flowing to the sea and never returning. How to chat then? (Jiang Nannan)