Film Name:飞驰人生2 / Pegasus 2
People live a life, everyone has regrets, the reason why there will be such regrets, it is precisely because everyone has the pursuit and challenge, all have ideals, desires, aspirations, ambitions that can be achieved through hard work. Sometimes that challenge, the pursuit of not just getting the approval of others, but that transcendence of their past selves, becomes the way in which the film 《Pegasus 2》 calls for emotional resonance.
In 《Pegasus 2》, this thorny road of aspiration belongs not only to young people like Li Xiaohai, who are eager to prove themselves, but also to middle-aged people like Zhang Chi (Shen Teng), a driving school instructor, Jixing, a down-on-his-luck mechanic, and the director of the old man Le Garage, who is on the verge of shutting down production.
Take Zhang Qi as an example, he used to be a famous racer in the industry. Unfortunately, although he ran a good time of 59 minutes and 58 seconds in the first part of Bayinbuluk Rally, he was seriously injured and his car was damaged and the “lead seal” was lost.He was seriously injured, his car was damaged, and the “seal” on the car was lost, so many people in the industry thought that he had tampered with his car and questioned the authenticity of the result. Now, after suffering both physical and reputational damage, the former champion driver has become an instructor at an ordinary driving school, far from the mainstream racing scene, and can only “use his talents” to tutor all sorts of zero-based students every day.
At the beginning of the film, Zhang Qi is close to the reality we are familiar with – he is like countless other people around us, maybe he used to be quite talented and successful at a certain point, but he is doing a job he is not interested in every day.He may have once been quite talented and accomplished at some point, but every day he is doing a job he is not interested in, living a life of reluctance and settling for less, “bowing down for the sake of five buckets of rice”.
For a young man like Li Xiaohai, whose family conditions are relatively favourable, his future may be full of more possibilities, but for a middle-aged man like Zhang Qi, time and experience may give him more wisdom to survive, but it would also kill his desire for ideals. Unless there is a major event that can give Zhang Qi the courage to face the past again, he may be able to seize the opportunity when the turning point occurs.
Just as in the film, Zhang Qi’s tearful and helpless hiss after finding the lost “seal” of his first race car, “I can do without the results and rankings, but I can’t do without my innocence! What has happened is not ‘in the past’, it’s just that I have ‘accepted it'”. The indifference of the organisers towards finding the “lead seal” further stimulated Zhang Qi, who temporarily decided to drive a half-finished car that had not been modified and was ready to be withdrawn from the race after the start, in order to prove himself.
Zhang Qi, such a senior with a lot of experience, is not easy to make some “temporary decisions”, their team “Sindi Machinery” has discussed many times according to the budget funds, how to arrange the team’s racing programme, in order to maximize the use and cost savings. Because of this, a person full of experience to abandon the so-called “rationality”, some of the decisions made on the spot is even more valuable. Of course, this is also a decision that Zhang Qi can make only when he is absolutely confident in his driving ability, and it is not a blind or arrogant decision.
Another touching point in 《Pegasus 2》 is the attitude towards competitive play. It is because of honour and profit that competitive matches are difficult to be absolutely fair. In the course of the race, Zhang Qi has also encountered the “Photoshop Era” team, which is very rich and powerful, and the secret plan. If the film arranges Zhang Qi to drive a half-finished car to the first place, it is obviously unrealistic. If Zhang Qi’s efforts are in vain, it is difficult to release the audience’s emotions by arranging an open-ended ending like in the first film.
In this case, the film, when Zhang Qi is crossing the line and the car is about to blow up, arranges for the young Zhang Qi of the first film to run side by side with the middle-aged Zhang Qi of the second film, and the two Zhangs are in the midst of the speeding In the end, the middle-aged Zhang Chi finished sixth with a time of 59 minutes and 57 seconds – a one-second advantage over the young Zhang Chi, who finished in 59 minutes and 58 seconds in the first film. The combination of Zhang Qi’s time and Li Xiaohai’s time of 59 minutes and 17 seconds resulted in the first place among all the teams, with “Sindi Machinery” defeating the four-year champion “Photocarbon Era”.
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