As a cutting-edge director, Dapeng was named as a "non-mainstream" director. Unlike mainstream directors, his films are often unexpected. Both Pancake Man and Dios Man make the audience feel a strong "bottom breath", and Dapeng, as a director, has also been labeled as "alternative". As a non-professional director, Dapeng's career experience is bumpy. From host to actor to director, from obscurity to national famous director, this is a miracle that ordinary people can do in this industry. What kind of director is Dapeng? I think the reunion can give us an answer. Dapeng is impressive. He attended the class reunion. Is this movie worth seeing?

Homecoming is a non-traditional work of Dapeng. He abandoned the exaggerated plot and eye-catching design, and only recorded a part of his life with a camera. In this process, we can use this work to analyze the inner world of a diaosi director. At present, the score of this film on Douban is 7.9, which is higher than 70% of drama films and family films. Scoring can't tell everything, but it shows that the overall quality of the film is good. In my opinion, the reunion completely overthrew the doubts brought by sewing machine band to Dapeng, and showed the audience that Dapeng attached importance to the cause of directing. The Reunions's predecessor was Dapeng's short film "Auspicious", which made Dapeng win the Golden Horse Award in one fell swoop and gave him greater courage to present the content to the audience.

The whole movie is divided into two parts. The first half is almost the original content of Auspicious, and the second half is the content inside and outside the camera when Dapeng filmed Auspicious. Also known as tidbits. According to Dapeng's idea, grandma wants to shoot the scene of the New Year. In order to create conflicts in feature films, he specially invited Liu Lu to play himself. Grandma was in a coma before filming and died soon after. I have to say that Dapeng has a keen sense of smell that directors should have. He decisively turned the camera to his uncle, and Liu Lu also turned to his uncle's daughter Lili and cousin Dapeng, who had not returned for ten years. Maybe he came to help the world, and the conflict in the film didn't end there. Just as Liu Lu played Lili, the real Lili suddenly went home. There are two lilies inside and outside the camera. One climbed into the mourning hall under the gaze of the camera, and the other person who should have been filial was blocked in front of the camera.

I think any audience will be shocked to see such a shot. Dapeng also said in the interview that he didn't expect Lili to go home. This extremely accidental opportunity at least raised the theme to a higher level. Through this video, we can use the lens to uncover the veil of "family reunion" and reveal the true performance of each family member. Lili in the camera is chatting happily with her family at the dinner table, while Lili outside the camera looks down at her mobile phone. Internal and external contrast reflects the different gap between actors and real people.

Through this comparison, the director also answered some audience's auspicious questions, such as why Liu Lu, as the protagonist, plays a plot, because she is not an insider, but others are her real family, and in turn, she can't bear the pressure from her family. Generally speaking, Homecoming is more like Dapeng's works. He wanted to put his camera at home and shoot a story with a script, but successive accidents gave him a brand-new story and helped him get a glimpse of an unprecedented film field. Maybe Dapeng can enter a new realm after this movie.