最能表現(xiàn)中國人世俗生活與精神世界的電影。導(dǎo)演在俯仰之間，洞察中國人生命的特質(zhì)。
紅紅綠綠的七月歌臺，那些個看不見的“好兄弟”們。代表著古老而早熟的中國人對陰陽兩個世界的看法—世俗的生，超脫的死，再因愛而輪回。人生苦短，不過是一臺大戲。臺上唱的也好，臺下看的也好，他唱罷你登場，不須急，無法替，一切早有安排，一切早已看破。
一切早已看破，假戲仍要真做。

生命、友情、愛情、奮斗等等主題的融合，音樂、歌舞、幻想、游戲等等手法的雜糅，兩位主角真實不矯飾的演繹，和對逝去年代情調(diào)的追憶，以及導(dǎo)演對華族民間文化秉持的態(tài)度，讓我覺得這是一部不錯的片子，歌舞的地方與民間風(fēng)格真是很獨特。那些如今聽來似已過時的歌曲，我覺得卻是老百姓心底真摯的聲音。
主題曲很好聽。老老的調(diào)子，卻溫暖著人心。。

我覺得是部 歌舞+生活劇
情節(jié)正常 甚至可以說有點俗套，具有強烈的地方氣息，
歌曲很出彩，都是經(jīng)典，加上服裝舞美，把歌臺這個情景展現(xiàn)的很動人。
因為是生活劇，所以 感覺有點小，小生活，小人物，不磅礴但是貼近。
有些情節(jié)還帶有魔幻色彩啊~覺得蠻土蠻搞笑~
一切的一切，如果你不懂閩南語，那么感覺會大打折扣
所以不懂的童鞋，3星是我給你們的建議評分。

=================這是我自言自語的分割線===================
我自己的評分是五星，無關(guān)緊要
但我非常非常喜歡這部片子。

一個星加給老歌
我小時候是聽著這些歌長大的
越長大 越覺得它們好聽
聽著他們，
我想起了小時候的夜晚，海邊，星星，大背心，竹椅大蒲扇，有微風(fēng)~
想起了廈門，多云的下午，長發(fā)女孩們在蜿蜒的小上坡上慢行，粗藍(lán)白色的棉布長裙~

一個星加給閩南語。
一開場的閩南語其實有點出乎我意料，我原以為臺詞會是新加坡式英語普通話閩南語混合，但整個片子卻保持了以閩南話為主體。請原諒我小小的盲目優(yōu)越感作祟。
這一點臺灣現(xiàn)在都少有片子采用。

新加坡在這方面的文化保存做的真是蠻好~

而在大陸，閩南地區(qū)缺少這樣的氛圍和自我認(rèn)同。
我很想自私的喊喊：為什么人家新加坡有地道的閩南語電影 而我們沒有？？

PS：小木瓜在臺上好漂亮~~發(fā)現(xiàn)南邊的女孩很多是大牙 哈~~

里面每首歌我都會唱，要拉我老媽來唱！

去年曾經(jīng)慕陳子謙之名去看了《4：30》和《15》，總是給人一頭霧水的感覺。雖然影片很新加坡，但給人的感覺是情節(jié)很散，大概陳子謙的影片不是以情節(jié)吸引人的吧。
看這部《881》主要是因為Fonkie Monkies制作發(fā)行的OST在新加坡非常受歡迎，再加上導(dǎo)演是陳子謙，所以千方百計找這部電影看。無奈大陸不引進(jìn)，只有求助于emule和thunder了。終于看完了之后感覺相比之前兩部，這部881稍微有了點明確的主題，但情節(jié)依舊不吸引人——吸引人的是配樂。
好吧，我承認(rèn)我還是更傾向于梁智強一些。

在這個常吃papaya的國度里，這樣滿懷樸素心愿的木瓜姐妹，那樣的萬種風(fēng)情、歡歌悲曲，為新加坡的七月歌臺文化做了經(jīng)典印象。
一人一半，感情不散。獨夜無伴守?zé)粝?，清風(fēng)對面吹，十七八歲未出嫁，想著少年家……
如此“聲樂”，能不“溺于”？。
金曲吐一首，多少歌臺夢。

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.