Horror thrillers to see more but also to change the taste, today to talk about the spy film "Lyceum Theatre".
Film director Lou Ye, I believe that many people have seen his "Clouds Made of Rain in the Wind", or "Purple Butterfly", compared with the former, "Lyceum Theatre" focuses on the whole black and white beauty, still very literary.
The film still maintains a sense of dangling camera in the shooting method, and the unaccustomed friends may be dizzy after watching it...
But fortunately, the cast is strong, I have to look at it, starring Gong Li, Zhao Youting, Zhang Songwen, Oda Cerang, Wang Chuanjun... Wait a minute.
Emperor Gong has always filmed and picked scripts, and Wang Chuanjun is a rising star of strength, and the audience is full of confidence in this film before watching the movie!
"Lyceum Theatre" premiered at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, but was withdrawn after a short-lived event on December 7 of the same year.
Two years later, "Lyceum Theatre" returned and suddenly released, which surprised the audience.
The story takes place in Shanghai in 1941, the situation is chaotic, and the well-known actress Yu Yan, who has retired for many years, returns to Shanghai, ostensibly to star in the drama "Saturday", but in fact it is not...
The opening paragraph makes people wonder, some people think that Yu Yan returned to save her ex-husband, or purely to work for her adoptive father, or to gather intelligence for the Allies, so it seems that this movie is more like a one-man show by Gong Li.
Spy war movies will certainly not be only one person, watching this kind of movie must learn to reason and explore, the audience has to listen carefully to every sentence, watch every scene, because they are the foreshadowing of the next plot, but also the key to exploring the mysterious.
Yu Yan's ex-husband, Ni Zeren, made a windfall in the war and did business with the Japanese, but the Japanese played a game of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, framing Ni Zeren and being imprisoned, Ni Zeren, a Kuomintang.
Mo Zhiyin, played by Wang Chuanjun, is very sensitive, ostensibly seeing him as a theater producer, but in fact a traitor, he initially thought that Yu Yan might have returned to save her ex-husband.
The most interesting thing in the plot is the relationship between Bai Yunsheng and Yu Yan, Bai Yuncao is a secret agent of the Kuomintang, because she studied drama during her study in Japan, she has a special affection for Yan, as a crazy obsessive fan, she has a special affection for Yan.
I am not good at evaluating the feelings of Yu Yan and Bai Yunsheng. Bai Yunsheng is the only person in the movie who does not wear a mask, a very simple person, and was fanned by Huang Xiangli after watching the movie.
Compared with Bai Yunsheng, Yu Yan, played by Gong Li, is more stoic and very cautious in doing things, but Yu Yan is just a chess piece.
Yu's adoptive father, Hubert, was an Allied spy, and because Yu was similar to the deceased wife of the Japanese officer Saburo Furutani, Hubert used Yui to obtain intelligence from the other side.
Humentt's ultimate plan was not revealed to anyone, and Yu did not know that all his movements were being monitored by Thor, and even his allies did not trust each other.
But don't forget that this is a literary version of "Color Ring", the movie has Furutani Saburo's feelings for his deceased wife, because he has been immersed in sadness, resulting in himself not fully engaged in what he is doing, the Kaji principle is the other extreme, loyal to his country, to the end.
In addition, we must also talk about Tan Na, played by Zhao Youting, who is very literary and weak, and he has love for Yan, but Tan Na is only a pawn.
The performance of each actor is also a play in the play, Gong Li's tension is very strong, personally very fond of the role of Yu Yan, and there is no great righteousness and awe-inspiring generosity, some are old feelings for her husband, and her emotional connection with others, she is patriotic and loves people.
Here you can see the multi-faceted nature of an actor, Yu Yan is a product of the times with a shadow, and eventually she dies, dies in a dating bar...
The whole movie of "Lyceum Theatre" is very beautiful, as if turning on the time machine, from the stage to the backstage, everyone switches between virtual and reality, and likes the guns and bullets in the second half of the film, each scene is like a large close-up. The game of love and position made me feel as if I had watched the literary version of "Color Ring".
The rest is not too much, the atmosphere of the film is very strong, you can see the texture of light and shadow, the director made a turbulent era into poetry and dreamy, the war is merciless, blowing everyone's emotions to pieces.
Finally, I would like to say that Lou Ye really likes rain, and Shanghai is an isolated island, and people's hearts are even more so.