premiere | "wish you happiness!": "exposure therapy" in the face of unknown and uncertainty
2024-09-13
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the movie "wish you happiness!" is produced by yin lu, directed by kang bo, written by you xiaoying, and starred by xiao yang and song jia. ni dahong, wu yue, wu yufang, zhou yiran are invited to star, and ding jiali, liu dan, liu jun, and liu bater are special actors. it tells the story of a couple, luo yu (played by xiao yang) and bai hui (played by song jia), who are involved in a dispute over the ownership of the embryos of an elderly man who lost his only child (played by ni dahong) as a lawyer and a doctor during the cool-off period of divorce. as the end of the cool-off period of divorce is getting closer, the two gradually have a new understanding of themselves, marriage, and family...
on september 12, the film roadshow came to shanghai. producer yin lu, director kang bo, screenwriter you xiaoying and starring actors song jia, wu yue and wu yufang appeared in shanghai together to interact closely with the audience.
"wish you happiness!" poster
face the pain of life and find the answer to your own happiness
"wish you happiness!" is a film that directly faces the pain of life. in the film, four families are broken up by accidents, an elderly couple loses their child, and a middle-aged couple loses their child due to an accident and their marriage cannot continue. the frozen embryos left by the deceased become the hope of the living, but also become the shackles that prevent people from moving forward. in the film, the actors' performances are heart-wrenching, and sobs can be heard from the audience from time to time.
you xiaoying, who has served as a screenwriter for high-scoring films such as "my sister" and "love and family", talked about the starting point of this creation of family-themed works. she frankly admitted that it was because after three years of the epidemic, she realized the impermanence and unknown that life has to face. "the pain can be big or small, but it is bound to happen. when the pain is inevitable, how do we face it?" you xiaoying said that movies are a kind of "exposure therapy". "you keep getting closer and facing it, then it is possible. it's not about getting through it, but it's possible to move forward with it."
a group photo of the main creators of "wish you happiness!"
the three mothers in the film, song jia, wu yue, and wu yufang, appeared in shanghai to share their feelings from a female perspective. when the host asked song jia what she wanted to say to her children as the mother in the film, song jia still couldn't control her emotions and burst into tears on the spot, and was so sad that she was speechless. afterwards, she said that although she was not a mother, it was difficult for her to imagine the pain that a mother would experience after losing her child.
in the film, wu yue plays a mother who has been taking care of her daughter who is in a vegetative state for two years. during this period, she also had the thought of "giving up". "even my mother has times when she wants to give up on you." wu yue admits that she was filled with despair and pain when she was acting in this scene. "at my age, i understand what my mother said. it contains all her efforts and the despair she felt because of her love."
stills from "wish you happiness!"
you xiaoying added that this "desperate love" was the background color that supported the characters when she was writing the script. at the same time, she hopes to explore the boundaries of "motherhood" through the film. "the punishment of motherhood is actually a problem that every woman, or women who will face the hurdle of childbirth in the future, will inevitably face. we take this thing very seriously, so seriously that sometimes even we ourselves may not be able to bear it. how can we unload it, or how to bear it? when xia meiyu asked this question, i actually wanted to give everyone a way out."
wu yufang, a mother who went "crazy" after losing her son in the film, talked about her feelings about the performance experience. she said that she had never come into contact with such a special group of elderly people who had lost their only child before. "the emergence of this character reflects the society's attention to such a group. the society also needs to give more love and attention to this group."
director kang bo said after the screening, "every character in the story has a broken heart." he himself had thought about what he would do if he encountered such impermanence in life, but he had no answer, "because we have lacked education about fertility, death, and pain in the past." he hopes that after watching the movie, the audience can feel the energy inspired by the protagonists after experiencing trauma, and be inspired by the courage they convey. whether they choose to forget the past or go with the pain, they just need to find the answer to their own happiness.
stills from "wish you happiness!"
a complicated life is not a cream cake
as the "friends and family group" of the roadshow, many female guests shared their feelings after the screening.
after the screening, yang li, a talk show host, said that she would empathize with the movie when she thought about the mistakes she had made in her life or the loved ones she had lost late at night. although it is often said that "parting is not scary, what is important is to say goodbye without regrets", in fact, "there is no regretful farewell in the world, all partings are full of regrets."
zhong chuxi deeply empathized with a scene in the film. when luo yu (played by xiao yang) asked bai hui (played by song jia) at the civil affairs bureau, "will you still choose to get married if you know the result of divorce?", and bai hui answered "yes", she was a little emotional. she likes this attitude towards life of "seeing the unbearable result, but still having the courage to embrace this relationship".
fu shouer said that although she liked the movie, she felt uncomfortable because there was no bad man in the movie. the most painful marriage is when you know that the other person is a good person and you can't blame them. this is also what she admires most about the movie, "everyone is pitiful, everyone is miserable, everyone is trying their best to live, and everyone seems to have some responsibility."
in the film, bai hui, who finally left the "ruins" and rebuilt herself after three divorce cooling-off periods, made yang tianzhen feel a lot after the screening. "everyone has different ways of achieving happiness and different interpretations of happiness, but this can also be easily controlled by social consensus. when bai hui decided to divorce, she was loyal to herself. she chose to be herself, which was one step closer to happiness."
stills from "wish you happiness!"
as a film that directly faces the hardships of life, "wish you happiness!" is not so happy in the plot. yang tianzhen asked the producer yin lu on the spot whether she was worried that the overly heavy subject matter would be difficult to be accepted by the market. yin lu responded, "when we try something that has never appeared before, there are risks, but the market is like this step by step. "wish you happiness!" will have its own path and its own audience. all good movies are made on the basis of losing money first."
wu yue also said to her juniors at her alma mater, "pure sweetness is cream cake, but life always has some more complicated flavors, and the job of an actor is to tell everyone the true human nature."
the paper reporter chen chen
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