Auspicious As You Like It: A Mirror of Family Ethics in a Nested Structure

Abstract

"Auspicious As You Like It" is a New Year's Eve movie directed by Dapeng in 2021. Before this film, audiences still had the impression of Dapeng's works as comedies like "Pancake Man" and "Sewing Machine Band", but "Auspicious As You Like It" has completely overturned modern audiences' perception of his directorial works. The main reason why this literary film has left a deep impression on many people is that it uses a large number of nested narrative structures, combining drama and documentary, and cleverly exploiting the duality between real and fictional images, combining truth and fiction. This narrative structure and artistic form enriches the way of domestic film art creation at this stage and provides valuable experience for China's current film art creation.