Is there anyone like me who has to try every movie made by these two people? I have to say that time is really a...knife~ Recently, the new movie "Catching Dolls" starring Shen Teng and Ma Li has been very popular. After one week of release, it has grossed 1.7 billion yuan, dominating the entire summer season. The movie still continues the "Xihong City Universe" of Happy Twist. It tells the story of a wealthy couple (Shen Teng and Ma Li) who pretended to be poor for more than ten years in order to train their son to be the successor of the family business. For this purpose, they spent huge sums of money and mobilized a large amount of manpower and material resources to turn the environment around their son into a living scene of the poor. It can be called the contemporary Chinese version of "The Truman Show", an education version of suffering. The movie is full of jokes, but the subject matter is suffocating. The original name of the movie was not "Catching Dolls" but "Capital Heirs", but the name was too explicit and failed to pass review. The meaning of the title "Catching Dolls" is actually even more terrifying if you think about it carefully. We will explain the specific reasons later. Shen Teng plays the role of Ma Chenggang, a wealthy father. His name is taken from the top chicken soup literature of his father's generation - "How the Steel Was Tempered". It is precisely because his father achieved success through experiencing the hardships of life that he hopes that his son can also experience the hardships of life and then inherit his family business. So the child's name was Ma Jiye. In fact, Ma Jiye also has an older brother, Ma Dajun, who grew up in a wealthy environment but did not become successful, so Ma Chenggang and his later wife Chunlan (Ma Li) gave birth to Ma Jiye. It's like training a new small account after your big account has failed. Rich people can be so willful. From Dongmei in "Charlotte's Troubles", Xiazhu in "The Richest Man in Xihong City", to Chunlan in "Catching Dolls", the four seasons are almost complete. It is said that in order to help his son Cheng Gang, Ma Chenggang spared no expense to create a virtual world. Behind the seemingly poor life, he hired top domestic education experts at a high price to develop a full-time talent training plan for his child. He also has a private doctor who checks his physical indicators every day, and top chefs who customize daily meals. Everyone holds meetings every day to review the day's educational achievements... However, in Ma Jieye's perspective, he is just a poor child living in an old and dilapidated house. Seeing that everyone in his family was studying, Ma Jiye asked his father: Dad, what is the point of studying? Ma Chenggang: Reading more can change a person's destiny Ma Jiye: How come our family loves reading so much, but we are still so poor? But later he discovered something strange. Although his family was so poor, he was able to achieve all-round development in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor, and was so outstanding. For example, when the lady next to him was blow-drying her hair, she would explain to him the principles of the hair dryer. When he went out to buy vegetables, the stall owners were all foreigners who helped him practice spoken English with a pure London accent. Everything around him was helping him improve his grades imperceptibly. When Ma Jiye broke someone else's things and had to pay for it, Ma Chenggang's approach was also magical. He booked a stadium and invited two top teams to play a game, and of course the audience was full. After the game, the stadium was closed, and he and his son went to pick up the huge amount of mineral water bottles thrown by the audience and sell them for money. This made Ma Jiye believe that there was a creator in this world and that there was a mysterious force controlling everyone's life. Later, as Xiao Ma grew up, he finally learned the truth. When he said "Hello, Teacher Li" to the education expert who played his beloved grandmother who had passed away, it represented the complete collapse of his life in the past 18 years. Then he turned to his mother and father and said, "Which teacher are you? There is no introduction on the wall." It is hard to imagine what it would be like if someone told you one day that your life experiences in the past 18 years were fake, your parents’ identities were fake, and all your relatives, friends, and classmates were fake. What is even more difficult to imagine is that Ma Jiye's revenge and resistance to all this was to hand in a blank paper in the college entrance examination. When I saw this scene, my first reaction was how could this kid make fun of the college entrance examination, and then I was stunned. Damn it, I seemed to have been marinated in it. The strength of Chinese education lies in the fact that when you see a blank paper, you will still feel that you should change your way of resistance and should not joke with your own life. The success of Chinese education lies in the fact that even if you were allowed to travel back to your childhood, you would only think about counterattacking and becoming a top student, rather than using the thinking of future people to achieve great things. After watching the movie, the miserable education of poor families, the elite education of rich families, the repressive education and guilt education of East Asian families were all silenced at this moment. After Ma Jiye learned the truth, Ma Chenggang's words touched people deeply:
It is true. When you want to manipulate others, you actually become the one being manipulated. Why is the movie called "Catch Dolls"? Anyone who has played the game knows that it is purely based on luck. Ordinary people buy a few coins, and whether they can catch a doll depends entirely on luck, while rich people can buy the entire claw machine and catch as many dolls as they want. If one fails, try again, and if two fails, try again, until they get what they want. Just like at the end of the movie, when the couple was watching their son's competition on TV, Ma Chenggang asked Chunlan if she wanted to have another child? It seems that he felt that the trumpet was useless and planned to open a smaller one. Finally, let’s play the lines from the movie “Catching Dolls” and see which line touched you?
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