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Nice View (奇迹·笨小孩)

Nice View (奇迹·笨小孩) is a 2022 Chinese drama film directed by Wen Muye (文牧野) and starring Jackson Yee (易烊千玺) as Jing Hao, a 20-year-old man in Shenzhen who struggles to raise money for his young sister's heart surgery by starting an electronics parts business. It was released in mainland China on 1 February 2022, the first day of the Chinese New Year holiday, and grossed about RMB 1.38 billion, ranking third among the five live-action films of that holiday season.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Director and lead	Wen Muye, his second feature after Dying to Survive (2018); Jackson Yee as Jing Hao²
Release	1 February 2022, mainland China, as a Chinese New Year film; 106 minutes¹
Setting	Shenzhen in 2013³^•⁴
Premise	Jing Hao must raise 350,000 yuan within a year and a half for his sister Jing Tong's congenital heart surgery, and founds the Haojing Electronics Components factory to dismantle parts from defective phones³
Box office	RMB 1.38 billion in China; worldwide gross reported at $211.0 million by Box Office Mojo and $216.1 million by The Numbers²^•⁵^•⁶
Major awards	Huabiao Award for Outstanding Film; Hundred Flowers Awards for Best Director (Wen Muye) and Best Newcomer (Halin Chen); Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress (Qi Xi)⁷^•¹
Filming	Shenzhen and Dongguan, Guangdong, May to October 2021¹

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Plot and characters

Jing Hao, orphaned after their mother's death, lives in Shenzhen with his younger sister Jing Tong (陈哈琳, Chen Halin), a primary-school girl who inherited their mother's congenital heart disease and needs surgery soon.³^•⁸ A college dropout who works as a phone repair technician, Jing Hao gets a chance at a better life, suffers a heavy setback, and, under the double pressure of time and money, decides to gamble everything.⁸^•⁹ He founds the Haojing Electronics Components factory to dismantle parts from defective phones and sell them to a phone company, a deal that requires a yield rate above 85 percent and promises 800,000 yuan in four months, though the buyer provides no staff, premises, equipment, or deposit.³

He assembles a team of ordinary workers of different ages and backgrounds, called the "miracle squad" (奇迹小队) in the film's promotion, and ultimately raises the surgery money and finds new hope for his own life.⁴^•¹ The supporting cast includes Tian Yu as Liang Yongcheng, Qi Xi as Wang Chunmei, Zhang Yu, Gong Lei, Xu Juncong, Wang Ning, Huang Yao, and Gong Jinguo, with special appearances by Wang Chuanjun, Zhang Yu, and Yang Xinming.⁸

Production

Wen Muye, born in 1985 in Changchun, graduated from Northeast Normal University in 2008 and studied film at the Beijing Film Academy; he became known with Dying to Survive (2018), which won prizes at the Golden Horse, Golden Rooster, and Hundred Flowers Awards.¹⁰ The screenplay is credited to Wen Muye, Zhou Chucen, Xiu Mengdi, Han Xiaohan, and Zhong Wei.⁵

To reconstruct the period setting, the crew conducted research in Shenzhen before shooting, visiting the Sanhe labor market, the Huaqiangbei electronics district, and local factories, and using real figures such as the "Sanhe masters" and window-cleaning "city spidermen" as references for the characters.¹¹ Filming ran from May to October 2021 in Shenzhen and Dongguan.¹ The promotional theme song, "Haishi Ben Xiaohai" (还是笨小孩), was performed by Andy Lau, Lin Qiao, Gao Feng, and Jackson Yee.¹

Box office and reception

Released on the first day of the 2022 Chinese New Year holiday, the film earned RMB 1.38 billion, placing third among the holiday's five live-action releases behind The Battle at Lake Changjin II (RMB 4.06 billion) and the comedy Too Cool to Kill (RMB 2.62 billion).² By 8 February 2022 its cumulative total had reached 785 million yuan with a Douban score of 7.4.¹² Later aggregate figures put worldwide gross at $211,019,042 (Box Office Mojo) and $216,089,324 (The Numbers, in a later update), with China accounting for nearly all of it.⁵^•⁶

Reviewers praised Jackson Yee's lead performance as his best since Better Days (2019), while noting that the film lacks the dramatic weight of Dying to Survive and follows a formulaic small-person struggle narrative.²^•¹³ A Wenhui Daily review argued that the film deliberately grounds Jing Hao's motivation in family bonds rather than ambition, softening the "success studies" tone of typical entrepreneurship stories, and that Shenzhen's mirrored cityscape of CBD towers and urban villages supplies the story's realist foundation; the same review criticized the easily granted kindnesses around the hero for making his predicament feel individualized rather than systemic.¹⁴

Critical interpretation

Scholarship has read the film as part of China's "main melody" (主旋律) tradition, films that embody official ideology and are produced in a marketised context. Yang Xiao, a researcher writing in Asian Studies Review, analyzes the film's construction of "China speed," the social pace generated by decades of rapid growth, through the deadlines, overtime, and multitasking that drive Jing Hao's career.¹⁵ Lee Boram of Seoul National University, writing in Cross-Cultural Studies, argues that the film presents "miracle" not as individual perseverance but as the product of state-engineered arrangements of time, space, and subjectivity: the story's three moments (2013, the start of regulatory crackdowns; 2019, the end of pre-pandemic stability; 2022, renewed uncertainty) form a politically curated sequence, and the closing message that "everyone is a creator of miracles" ties inspiration to institutional support from central and local authorities.⁴

Awards

The film received 30 wins and 51 nominations overall according to IMDb's awards listing.⁷ At the 35th Golden Rooster Awards it was nominated for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography, with Qi Xi winning Best Supporting Actress.⁷^•¹ At the 36th Hundred Flowers Awards Wen Muye won Best Director and Halin Chen won Best Newcomer.⁷ The film won the Huabiao Award for Outstanding Film and the Changchun Film Festival's Golden Angel Award for Outstanding Films, and its screenwriters won the Golden Screenwriters' Night award for Best Original Screenplay.⁷

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Films and standalone screen works › Individual films by title and year › Comedy and romantic films (individual works) › Comedies of 2021 to 2022

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 21, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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