"Neighbors" highlights: "Neighbors" (1981), a representative film of realistic aesthetics in the 1980s, is the most representative work of director Zheng Dongtian. It focuses on the life problems of ordinary people and has both practical significance and profound rational thinking.

, the aesthetic tendency it shows based on realism is called realistic aesthetics, let’s talk briefly.

A bold film idea.

From the perspective of the 1980s, the issues that this film focuses on are very forward-looking. In particular, it is bold to set the background and characters of the story in an architecture school and teachers. Moreover, the parents in the story are short-lived and trivial, seemingly everyday, and each of them is

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A detailed description of life.

This film focuses on the housing problem of employees (Tongzilou). Through the daily trivial matters of more than 20 characters in several families, it reflects the real disadvantages caused by crowded housing and poor kitchens on issues such as marriage, life, love, work, etc.

For example, grandparents and grandchildren live in the same room for three days, and the inconvenience in daily life and the warmth between relatives; for example, the building designed by the teacher who teaches architecture is spacious and bright, but he is squeezed into a tube building without a kitchen.

A happy-go-lucky life trajectory.

Take "The Bicycle Thief" as an example. The story focuses on a man who lost his bike and is looking for it. It switches between several scenes. There is no actual logical relationship between the scenes. Friends who meet the thief will chase him, and when he meets the thief, he will chase after him.

Thief..., just like real life, I don’t know which will come first, tomorrow or the accident.

The same is true for this film. The story rotates through the lives of several families. It seems like a coincidence, but in fact it is random. For example, everyone thought that they would finally have a public kitchen, but the house was allocated to the leader's relatives.

Real feelings.

You can see both selfishness and selfless dedication in people, which is the expression of human nature in the natural state.

For example, the contrast between Liu Lixing and Yuan Yifang's work, one is willing to continue to squeeze in the Tongzi Tower for everyone, and the other is calculating carefully for his own benefit. This contrast highlights the value of the light of human nature.

You can not only see the bumps and bruises between neighbors, but also feel the warmth like family.

For example, Captain Xi beat up Section Chief Bao angrily, Dr. Ming encouraged Liu Lixing, etc.

Natural sound.

It is said that director Zheng Dongtian grew up in a music conservatory and is very opposed to the indiscriminate use of music to sensationalize. It is not an exaggeration to describe his attitude towards music as cherishing words like gold.

In order to reproduce real life, the film uses natural original sound, which became a major feature of the film and caused quite a sensation at the time.