The movie "The Piano of Steel" is a romantic love poem about a small person under the crushing influence of the big era.
This story is actually very simple. It tells the story of the protagonist Chen Guilin, whose marriage collapsed. In order to fight for the custody of his daughter and realize his musical dream, after struggling to find a piano for his daughter, he finally chose to call on everyone to do it himself. The story of building a "steel" piano for him.
The background of this story is set at the end of the last century. The Northeast heavy industry base is showing transfer and overall decline. The former "iron rice bowl" steel plants are also facing the crisis of being replaced, closed down, and demolished one by one. In this In this environment, countless people in the Northeast are facing bankruptcy and unemployment. People who used to go out early and come home late have suddenly become idle. They have some skills, formed a band, picked up a microphone, and went to weddings and funerals with machetes. Walking into the slaughterhouse, picking up a tool box to open and repair locks, and continuing to work...
This kind of living situation is faced with countless difficulties, but in this movie, it is painted in an extremely " "Romantic". From beginning to end, the film does not deliberately sing about the pain of people's hearts being incompatible with reality and dreams. It spreads beautiful music everywhere, and the "persistence" in people's hearts has not been affected by this rough and cruel reality. Disruption: Shuxian, who has no guarantee of marriage, still follows Chen Guilin wholeheartedly; "Kuaishou" who has difficulty opening and repairing locks still cannot use his expertise and sticks to his heart; Wang Kangmei, who has no ability, still insists on "AUO supremacy"; Chen Guilin, who had just divorced his wife and lost his career, was still looking for a piano for his daughter...
This kind of "persistence" appears extremely elegant and noble in the film's plain and simple filter. , even a little romantic, watching the uncontrollable tide of the times rush towards us, although people are hesitant, lonely, and doing things they have never done in the past few decades, but from now on In this meaningless "persistence", we can still feel the traces of "simple romantic" feelings.
Although "The Piano" maintained a high reputation as "the hope of domestic films" at that time, although it did not deliberately follow the route of embarrassing realism and forcing reflection, even in this kind of heart-wrenching situation The story shows a unique romantic feeling, but during the movie's release, its too plain and restrained style caused it to be completely ignored by the box office and film schedule. This can be said to be a tragedy for the domestic film market, and it is also a tragedy. It's helpless. Now that it ranks on Douban's top 250 movies with such a high score, it can be regarded as the lowest comfort.