As a romance film, the release cycle of "The Wonders of Immortality" is somewhat awkward. Just squeezed together with the two blockbuster works of "Dune" and "Heavenly Book", such a small volume looks really inconspicuous.
If you insist on finding a reason to watch this work, Wang Chuanjun is probably the only reason. At the beginning, he put the leukemia patient Lü Huiyi in place, and since then Wang Chuanjun has become synonymous with attention.
If you just look at the title, it is easy to think of "The Wonders of Benjamin Barton", although the level and volume of the two works are not too comparable, "The Wonders of Immortality" still fiercely made things up.
The protagonist, Guo Xiaolu, was originally a mediocre Mune teenager.
He should have had the same experience as his peers, but in the same day he experienced two things that he will never forget - an encounter with his little friend Su Lingfang and the unexpected death of his father.
The reason was that there were important guests at home, the famous overseas Chinese chemist couple took their daughter back to China, and Guo Xiaolu, who was particularly excited, asked Guo Xiaolu to go to the laboratory to ask his father to go home for dinner.
Guo Xiaolu of Mune ventured into the laboratory, and with a loud bang his father unfortunately passed away, and he was taken to the hospital.
By the time he woke up again, it was autumn, and soon the family noticed that the child had changed: the optic nerve had slowed down and he couldn't do anything too quickly; such as walking and running, and if he was in a hurry, he would fall.
Don't look at the opening film so exciting, its upper limit is destined not to be too high. The reason is actually not unfamiliar, shooting too complicated and lacking in trade-offs.
01
Set
Simply put, this story covers the fantasy life of the protagonist Guo Xiaolu, from his childhood relationship with Su Lingfang to his college studies, followed by internships and overseas experiences in stem cell research.
At first glance, it is quite scientific, but the actual look and feel is destined to be very fantastic, and it is difficult to adjust.
First take a look at Guo Xiaolu's small partner who has been in contact with it, pro-Plum Bamboo Horse Su Lingfang, just appeared on the scene and threw Guo Xiaolu's head with a stone, did the stupid thing that guo Xiaolu took himself to the train to find his parents, and gave the violin to Guo Xiaolu when he left.
Little friend Wang Qingwei, who bullied Guo Xiaolu as a child, became a good buddy when he grew up, first became a soldier and then was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy, and gradually became estranged from Guo Xiaolu while entangled with Su Lingfang's love.
Wang Xiaomo, Guo Xiaolu's brother in college, Professor Ding's adopted son, usually responsible for watching the morgue, loves rock and roll in his spare time, and also formed a rock band with the same mixed temperament as him.
Ding Mengmeng, Professor Ding's daughter, and Guo Xiaolu studied stem cells in the Czech Republic together, and the cool girl with a very personal personality gradually warmed up her feelings for Guo Xiaolu.
In terms of this personality and emotional context, it really makes people see the taste of a medical version of "To Youth".
However, as the plot progressed, this perception was quickly refreshed. Although Guo Xiaolu of Mune has successively met these small partners with very different personalities, he has always shown a sense of wandering.
After entering the university, he has always been in a state of half-baking and half-pushing and half-giving in his communication with Wang Xiaomo, Wang Xiaomo used his self-cooked to eat this little brother of Mu Ne, and Guo Xiaolu always deliberately avoided it.
Wang Qingwei, who is also a brother and is obviously familiar with him since childhood, is more familiar.
When he met Su Lingfang again, he was overwhelmed by Su Lingfang's enthusiastic and unrestrained personality, and the two people who were originally pro-Mei Zhuma evolved into a modern version of the Tang monk and the king of the daughter country.
Although the interpersonal relationship is not very complicated, it is enough to make Guo Xiaolu anxious. In addition to the innate woodenness, he also has a resistance hidden in the obedience.
This is simply a low-grade version of "Happy Lazzaro", an honest person who is outside of many interpersonal relationships, and knows everyone but is not very familiar.
02
Choice
The biggest problem why "The Wonders of Immortality" will present a strange look and feel is that the script is not divided into priority and priority.
The distinction from the protagonist to the supporting characters and even the establishment of the core of the film has this problem.
The problem of ambiguous positioning of the protagonist's supporting roles is concentrated in Su Lingfang and Ding Mengmeng, the first half of the film is dominated by the hazy ambiguity of Su Lingfang and Guo Xiaolu, Wang Xiaomo and Wang Qingwei with limited roles are obviously supporting roles, and the distribution of roles is still reasonable.
The second half of the film is mainly based on the research of Guo Xiaolu and Ding Mengmeng, during which Ding Mengmeng has a pair of emotional lines.
In fact, adding a side line is not indispensable, but Ding Mengmeng's role is almost the same as Su Lingfang, in the end who is the female one and who is the female second? This account is really not very clear.
If a movie is to make a core that is worth thinking about repeatedly, it obviously needs a set of settings that can stand up to scrutiny. In other words, the core of the movie should match the settings.
And this is another big problem of this film, the first half of the film focuses on the emotional entanglement of Guo Xiaolu and Su Lingfang, which is in line with the definition of a love film.
However, the second half of the paragraph is dominated by Guo Xiaolu and Ding Mengmeng studying stem cells in the Czech Republic, and in this plot, the relationship is not the focus, the research process and the discussion of the definition of life are the main purpose.
In this way, the first half of the film and the second half of the film are contradictory, and I do not deny that there can be medical elements in the love film, but the two must not appear in a state of duality.
03
Cass
If you have to pick out such a playful existence in this regrettable work, I am afraid that in the first half of Wang Xiaomo pulling Guo Xiaolu to play rock and roll.
Two people from the draft, one using acting skills to interpret the honest people's half-understanding of rock and roll and the slight rejection of strange groups, plus a conservative philosophy of not interfering with each other;
Although the acting skills are not too good, he uses the crazy energy and stubborn attitude of the singer to show the daily life.
From this point of view, although Wang Xiaokun's acting skills are not much comparable to Wang Chuanjun, they are also relatively low in the whole set of cards.
However, Wang Xiaokun's grassroots casualness matches Wang Chuanjun's low-key temperament, and even if this chemical reaction is less than a touch of shengdou qingqing, the overall effect can still be self-consistent.
Combined with the characteristics of honest people, compared with "I am not a medicine god" and "The Wonder of Immortality", although Wang Chuanjun's acting skills have not ushered in an upgrade, there is nothing wrong with it.
Guo Xiaolu, an honest man with the same low-key personality, has less of a fluke of Shengdou Xiaomin and more of a low-key silence than Lu Beneficiary, a leukemia patient.
Either from memories or from an injured obstacle, this type of character is generally worth playing, even if it is picked up a few times.
However, to say a thousand ways and ten thousand, or the old saying: the drama can not be picked up casually, rather than trapping the beast in the crotch of the script, why not pick a few good books to sculpt it?