In 2000, Xintu Film Company and Guangxi Film Studio jointly produced.
Starring: Zhao Benshan Angel
Fu Li Biao Xue Jian
Director: Zhang Yimou
Synopsis: Retired worker Lao Zhao secretly loves a fat woman. He wanted to marry her home, but the fat woman asked for 50 thousand yuan as the wedding fee the first time they met. Lao Zhao promised in person, but asked for money because of financial difficulties behind him.
Apprentice Fu Xiao gave Lao Zhao an idea to transform an old carriage behind the factory into a place where men and women in love "meet". So the newly renovated old carriage was named "Happy Hour Cabin" and opened smoothly. In desperation, Lao Zhao had to bite the bullet and get married. To this end, he lied to the fat woman that he was the general manager of Happy Hour Hotel.
One day, Lao Zhao met the blind girl left by the fat woman's ex-husband in the fat woman's house. The fat woman dislikes her very much and wants to get rid of this burden. She wanted to put the blind girl in Lao Zhao's hotel, but Lao Zhao couldn't ride a tiger, and his desire for marriage made him arrange the blind girl to work in the "happy time cabin".
When Lao Zhao took the blind girl to the cabin to "go to work", the old carriage was already suspended in mid-air. Lao Zhao had to send the blind girl back to the fat woman's house, but there was no place for the blind girl in the fat woman's house. Looking at the homeless blind girl, Lao Zhao moved with compassion and took her back to his home. According to the skills of the blind girl, with the help of Fu Xiao and other workers, Lao Zhao built a castle in the air "massage room" for the blind girl in the abandoned factory to help her restore her confidence in life.
Lao Zhao, the blind girl, all the workers, these kind and lovely people, together will carefully continue this ridiculous but vivid and touching scam. ...
Comments on this film:
Where is happiness?
Happy Hour shows the social differentiation of contemporary China cities and the living conditions of ordinary people. In the film, Zhao Benshan plays the laid-off old worker whose state-owned factory is empty. Although living in poverty, he devoted his fatherly care to the helpless orphan girl played by Angel. This is the true feelings between the poor.
Many plots and details of the film, such as massage table and counterfeit money, are typical of contemporary life and can't have happened before the 1990s. For example, "Zhao Benshan" specially made a very exaggerated massage bed for "Angel" and asked her to be a masseur in a "hotel". Comedy or farce doesn't make people feel superficial at all. The gap between the rich and the poor is already obvious. What is even sadder is that the tip he and his kind workers gave to the "angel" turned out to be counterfeit banknotes-kraft paper. This kind of "deception" shows the embarrassment and love of the workers to the fullest. Another detail is also branded with the times, that is, Angel's father abandoned the blind girl. Where have you been? Shenzhen. This is a symbol of people's pursuit of wealth in contemporary life. So "Angel" and "Zhao Benshan" became the outcasts of the times.
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