Douban 8.4! A rare domestic film makes a "bathhouse" so interesting.

If you see the word "bathing", it is estimated that many viewers will have a naked picture in their minds. Maybe someone will stay for a while and a woman will appear in the field of vision. But the movie "Bath", as a China person, watching "Bath" several times will purify your mind, wash your soul and feel touching affection.

The bathhouse was taken on 1999. The whole film describes the changes of a family taking a bath in Beijing in a realistic way. It is a typical China traditional family ethics drama, and the scene is basically concentrated in a bathhouse facing demolition in Beijing. The scenes of women in the film are lacking, focusing on the changes of father and son's feelings and the conflict between old and new cultures. At the same time, it also highlights social hotspots, family care and support for the elderly, urban demolition and development.

The film focuses on Lao Liu, the eldest son Daming and the second son Erming. They have worked hard in the bathhouse all their lives. Daming, the eldest son, left home for many years. One day, Daming suddenly came back. It turned out that he hurried back after receiving Er Ming's postcard, thinking that his father had died of illness, and his second son Er Ming was mentally retarded and had been doing odd jobs in the bathhouse.

Facing Daming's safe father, his foolish brother who knows nothing and the bathhouse that is about to be demolished, Daming just wants to come back early. Just as Daming was about to leave, Lao Liu suddenly fell ill. Daming stayed and began to take care of his father. He began to understand his father and was gradually moved.

In this film, Lao Liu is the embodiment of old Beijing culture. Old Beijing in the bathhouse is not just a habit of soaking in a big pool. People rest, bathe, cupping, reading newspapers, listening to the radio, playing cricket, playing chess and all kinds of discussions all start here. It can be seen that people get along well with each other, the bathhouse occupies an important position in their hearts, and it also shows a rich and cordial human touch.

Although Er Ming has mental retardation, he is completely normal in the bathhouse. No one discriminates against him and lives happily by his own labor. Lao Wu and another old man came here to play cricket to relieve boredom. Zhang He's wife quarreled and came here to take refuge. Miao Zhuang can only sing "My Sun" under the tap, and the glib He Zheng also comes here to avoid debt. Just like the cinema in Paradise Cinema, the bathhouse has become a space for people to have fun and rest. As a group activity scene, the bathhouse is also missed by many people.

However, after the reform and opening up, the culture of old Beijing has been strongly impacted, and the eldest son is the representative of modern civilization, just like those who want to tear down the bathhouse, which makes Liu very unhappy. Although the relationship between Lao Liu Tou and his son Daming has always been bad, there is a touching detail under the camera, which makes us feel the silent affection between father and son. In this shot, Daming insists on taking a bath with cold water. His father turned on the hot water without saying anything after seeing it. The director expressed bluntly that love is deep in the heart and shallow in the layer.

Daming has been developing in Shenzhen and has a good job, but he doesn't go home. Even his wife didn't take it home to show it to his father. In the eyes of ordinary people, Daming is successful. Daming always looks numb when he returns to the bathhouse. In Daming's modern world, I lost my brother the first time I took him out, and my father sent him to a mental hospital after he left. Afraid of rejection, I have been hiding the truth about my family from my wife. ...

The notice of tearing down the bathhouse shows that the new culture formally challenges the old culture. The sudden death of Lao Liu means that no matter how persistent the old culture is, it will be replaced.

In order to sublimate the theme, the director specially inserted two episodes, water shortage in Shaanxi and holy lake in Tibet.

There is a folk custom in Shaanxi that a girl should take a bath the night before she gets married. Bathing here is not just a bath, but a new image. After all, Shaanxi is extremely short of water. In order to give her daughter a bath, the whole family had to exchange the only food for water. In order to take the last bath before she died, grandma took her granddaughter on the road to the holy lake. The belief in life has not been given up because of the difficulty of the road. The holy lake can not only wash human body, but also wash human soul.

The director is different from others, such as Jia and Wang Xiaoshuai. Since 1997 "Spicy Love Soup", JASON ZHANG has closely combined the artistic elements and commercial elements of movies.

About old Beijing, about two generations, and about the sadness of the changes of the times, Zhang Yang described the changes of the social environment with China's restrained and implicit lens. Compared with Xiaogang Feng's nostalgia with beauty filter in Youth, Zhang Yang is more sincere.