881

生命、友情、爱情、奋斗等等主题的融合，音乐、歌舞、幻想、游戏等等手法的杂糅，两位主角真实不矫饰的演绎，和对逝去年代情调的追忆，以及导演对华族民间文化秉持的态度，让我觉得这是一部不错的片子，歌舞的地方与民间风格真是很独特。那些如今听来似已过时的歌曲，我觉得却是老百姓心底真挚的声音。
主题曲很好听。老老的调子，却温暖着人心。。

最能表现中国人世俗生活与精神世界的电影。导演在俯仰之间，洞察中国人生命的特质。
红红绿绿的七月歌台，那些个看不见的“好兄弟”们。代表着古老而早熟的中国人对阴阳两个世界的看法—世俗的生，超脱的死，再因爱而轮回。人生苦短，不过是一台大戏。台上唱的也好，台下看的也好，他唱罢你登场，不须急，无法替，一切早有安排，一切早已看破。
一切早已看破，假戏仍要真做。

我是在新光地下超市里面看到有木瓜在卖，上面标着papaya，不自觉地念出来觉得很像881，才猛地想起来自己曾在2007年看过这个电影的。

很喜欢这种风格。东南亚虽然小，可是电影精神还在。里面的歌曲真的都很好听。

同时记起了2007年底那段日子，在温莎大道看这本《881》和《老男孩》的日子。真怀念。

Music
It is a musical, in the movie there are lots of Hokkien songs and Chen Jinlang’s famous songs. It is a movie full of local music and local feeling. It combined old songs and new songs together but audience won’t feel strange. Then the content of songs is all about sadness and with dolorous music, like ailment, separate, destiny. The lyrics are also reflection of Papaya sister’s own destiny.

Stage and costume design
Then design of stage and costume in this movie is flowery, give audience pleasure to eyes. For example of the last competition between Papaya sister and Durian sister, they changed many enchanting dresses on a glorious stage but sing some sadness songs with happy tune. This design emphasized the contrast between stage and true life. Reflect worldliness and flashy taste in those years.

Uncanny and funny factors
At the beginning of movie, director use funny cartoon and voice over give a brief introduction of the sister’s childhood. Then use main actor Guanyin’s voice over explain the whole story. There are many weird scenes in the movie, like the part of the queen of singing. It seems totally ridiculous there’s such queen, made audience feel funny. Then it happened many times when competition there is flash fire between two sisters like old fashion kung fu movies always did.
This is a typical method to represent a tragicomedy.

Actor and actress
The director had used many real Getai singers. Like MC Lin li、Wang lei and brother of Chen Jin-lang. One of the main actresses Ling Ling Liu is used to be a Getai singer. The “small papaya” Mindee Ong and “big papaya” Yann Yann Yeo are both singer. There is also a blind singer singing in front of the temple is a real exist person. He just actor his real life before he is famous by a sing competition show——Super Star. We can still remember the sad song he was singing as it is so impressive.
Because most of them are familiar with the Getai or have the similar experience as the one they act, so their performances are natural and easily touch audience’s heart.

Different languages
Singapore is a multinational country which has 4 official languages. They always mixed different languages together and everyone can understand several languages. This character represent clearly in this film. The aunt speaks Fujianese, dummy and sister use Mandarin, some one use Cantonese and English too. The most important part is three women in the temple “daxiaoren”( hit the baddies). Aunt used several languages to curse, this cause a funny effect.

Signification
This is a movie based on Singapore’s traditional Ghost day singing show. Brigs the idea of friendship, love, family, struggle and so on, especially the Hokkien spirit which is never give up. Expect this, movie bring out another profound meaning as death. “Small papaya” is a role who count for her own life and struggle to the destiny, she is the epitome of everyone. Everybody in the world should face the problem of death, no one can escape, so what we could do is just cherish what we own now and live with hope. The canniness of the director is he put those significations in the plot, move audience gradually.

去年曾经慕陈子谦之名去看了《4：30》和《15》，总是给人一头雾水的感觉。虽然影片很新加坡，但给人的感觉是情节很散，大概陈子谦的影片不是以情节吸引人的吧。
看这部《881》主要是因为Fonkie Monkies制作发行的OST在新加坡非常受欢迎，再加上导演是陈子谦，所以千方百计找这部电影看。无奈大陆不引进，只有求助于emule和thunder了。终于看完了之后感觉相比之前两部，这部881稍微有了点明确的主题，但情节依旧不吸引人——吸引人的是配乐。
好吧，我承认我还是更倾向于梁智强一些。

    纸醉金迷，艳光四射，伴随自己成长的歌声，童年萦绕在记忆里的斑斓，如同幻想的万花筒，在屏幕上绽放成一段穿越时光的旅行。

    这是对童年片断的沉溺，这是对逝去想象力的迷醉，大木瓜与小木瓜的亲情和感情，朦胧的少女情怀，天马行空的歌技比武，光怪陆离登场的人物，这是陈子谦眼中的两生花，这是属于新加坡土地的绿野仙踪，再加入了现实的元素后，魔幻童话不再仅仅属于孩子，他属于那一代人的集团回忆。