Film Name: 朱同在三年级丢失了超能力 / 漫漫长日/Day Dreaming
I went to see a really fun film yesterday, it’s currently low in scheduling and box office, not many people are paying attention to it, and it doesn’t seem to matter if you don’t talk about it ……
But the film was so much fun that I couldn’t remain indifferent, so I must solemnly recommend this ‘Day Dreaming’, and I hope you don’t miss it.
This is a rare film that can be appreciated by both the young and the old: it crams an hour and a half with a child’s imagination and an all-ages sense of humour, relying on childish fun, memories and sentiment to keep the audience entertained; in addition to this joy and fun, it also quietly reveals the cruel side of the fading of childhood with gentle words.
It’s also a film that holds up both positively and negatively; of course Zhu Tong doesn’t have superpowers, but who’s to say he’s lost them? Anyway, I think not only his, but also my superpowers are still there!
[WARM TIP: Spoilers will follow below].
Day Dreaming looks like a children’s film, but in fact, it is more suitable for adults to watch, because Zhu Tong’s state of ‘withdrawal’ and ‘heart flow’, even though it is common in children, only adults who have experienced childhood can truly understand it. Only adults who have experienced childhood can truly understand.
The film tells the story of Zhu Tong, a third-grade student on loan from primary school, who spends a day without a purpose – a lack of purpose that magnifies all of Zhu Tong’s qualities.
Zhu Tong this child, the small brain seems to be missing a string, always losing things, thinking out of the box, good intentions to do bad things, to use the current Internet buzzword, it is ‘congenital poor students saint body’.
Poor academic performance, often late, do this thing and forget the last thing, accidentally make a fool of themselves or get into trouble …… can imagine how Zhu Tong will be teachers ‘care’.
In this case, another child may be at a loss, but Zhu Tong is different, he has a lot of ‘superpowers’ that can help.
He can steal the test paper that needs parents’ signature after getting a low score, steal it from the birdman as he wishes, find aliens to take away the maths teacher, let the god of the pit take the new message paper, perform the art of diversion in order to look for his classmates, and become invisible when he is bumped into by the headmaster and teachers. ……
See, from a materialist point of view, Zhu Tong does not have any superpowers: if you don’t want to hand in your papers/take them with you, you can find a chance to ‘lose’ them; aliens, diversionary arts and so on are just fantasies; as for invisibility, if I close my eyes and can’t see you, won’t you not be able to see me as well?
Zhu Tong is a master of ‘materialism’, any difficulties can be solved by his supernatural powers.
However, on this day, when the reality of the materialistic world crushed his head, Zhu Tong realised that almost all of his superpowers had failed, and this process of constant frustration and disappointment was the pain of forced growth and maturity when he was young.
But Zhu Tong is not an ordinary person, he still believes that there are superpowers exist: although his own is not quite work, summoned aliens can not beat teacher Niu, but I see other people on the body of superpowers are still very good use ah?
Liu Shiyao, a good kid who excels in both academics and character, is a flower, and even her diary radiates holy light when she opens it;
He Na, the ‘cool girl’, was originally a weed, but after a little bit of contact, she becomes an extraordinary person who can blow bubbles, disappear, go up to the sky, and write the word ‘good’ on her hand for good luck;
Zhang Qiu has a secret base is a ‘review of the book’, no shadow to go without a trace, said to be flying to escape from the world are not too much;
The most powerful is still the Director of the Teaching Department Li, he has the eyes and ears of the wind, otherwise every student in the school secrets and said the words, how could he know?
From the perspective of our insipid grown-ups, Zhu Tong’s ideas are all nonsense, of course; he’s just deifying himself while deifying others, and believing in other people’s superpowers because they can’t be disproved.
And from the point of view of a mature adult, the film is wrapped in a laughable tragedy.
Take the three troubled students in the film –
Zhu Tong is usually brought up by his grandma and grandpa, his mother is sickly, and his father is not around. In other words, the boy lacks discipline, so he has developed the habit of self-indulgence and self-explanation, which is also known as ‘superpower’;
He Na’s parents were called, but the person who came was an aunt who was not close to her, so it is clear that she is already fatherless and motherless. She obviously has the ability to be a good student, but she has to be a bad child who goes through her classmates’ things, as if this is more pleasurable;
Zhang Qiu’s father doesn’t know what education is, and what he understands by ‘discipline’ is to throw the child to the school and to beat and kick her. Thanks to him, Zhang Qiu at a young age already has the temperament of a ‘hobnailed meat’.
Behind every troubled student, there is a troubled family.
The film makes this clear, but does not take it as a key point at all. From beginning to end, the film expresses and conveys a kind of optimism, positivity and upward mood.
Even though he has lost his powers, Zhu Tong still maintains his innocence and simplicity of ‘believing in what others say’, for example, he wishes Zhang Qiu’s dreams come true, ‘I hope your father gets eaten by a tiger in the zoo’.
The audience will smile and think that this is childish talk, but only Zhu Tong himself thinks that he is sincerely wishing his classmates to realise their dreams.
The film is full of all sorts of ‘funerals’, but these transformations are all good and positive, because nothing is ever qualified or suspected in Zhu Tong’s eyes; he just fails and fails again and again in his obliviousness and concentration, and then looks forward to a good thing to happen.
Just like he was randomly slapped by the physical education teacher, and then participated in the radio gymnastics qualifier rehearsal – in fact, the school just randomly picked some third and fourth grade students to hold up the sign and shake the paper flower, far from the point that it is not necessary to be anyone, but this does not in any way prevent Zhu Tong from brainstorming his own won the championship, and climbed to the peak of his life.
Just because of this one good thing, Zhu Tong’s day of chicken and trouble is a good day.
In the end, Zhu Tong is just an ordinary unlucky kid who matures late, but his mindset and behaviour make him seem less ordinary. I really like the seriousness with which he keeps picking out the green paper flowers at the end of the day.
I can’t help but think of my own childhood, when I was a kid, and how I was always wandering, thinking, and wondering, though mostly meaningless, a state of being that I can never get back when I grow up.
Maturity means discipline, meaning represents purpose ……
So, is it bad to be Jutong? I’m sure there are always people who still have more or less of their childhood superpowers – you haven’t lost yours, have you?
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