In 2010, a film "Let the Bullets Fly" was released that was difficult for the audience to define and classify.
Released in 2010, "Let the Bullets Fly" is director Jiang Wen's fourth film work. It is currently the best work of Jiang Wen's film rating second only to "The Devil Is Coming" (the Devil Came 9.2 points to make the bullet fly 8.9 points). After 11 years, this film is still endlessly evocative. Under the same situation as the level of domestic film stream of consciousness and acting flow, this work can be called a superior work of both film and television performance and ideological connotation.
"Let the Bullets Fly" is full of old drama bones, Jiang Wen, Zhou Runfa, Ge You, Feng Xiaogang and other outstanding actors, the whole play in the form of black humor, the expression of human nature is described quite thoroughly, and even the universal herd psychology that exists in the people is vividly described.
When I watched this film in the cinema that year, the whole audience was bursting into laughter. But after careful tasting, each character in the film is so just right, and the plot lines reflect contemporary reality, which cannot hide Jiang Wen's ambition and self-deprecation.
There are a lot of funny shots in the film, starting with a smoke-sprayed train running by nine horses, and in the beautiful natural scenery, the combination of horses and modern trains is really different, especially eye-catching.
"Let the bullets fly for a while"
This is also one of the central sentences of the whole film.
At the beginning of the film, Jiang Wen slammed several shots, and there was no movement under the mountain. The younger brother asked: Didn't hit? Jiang Wenxiaori: Let the bullets fly for a while. Yes, before hitting or not hitting the target, let the bullet fly for a while, which is why Jiang Wen let the little brother play an exclamation point, but he hit a question mark.
The same is true of the rhythm of the whole film, the front is fast and fast, and in the end it slows down. Jiang Wenzema repeatedly instigated the people to walk out of their houses, and in order to wait for the final group to rise, Jiang Wen even ambushed the bamboo forest for 3 days.
Reform is something that needs to wait, allow mistakes to be made, and let the bullets fly for a while. The steps are too big and it's easy to pull the egg.
Jiang Wen once revealed his heroic dream in "Sunny Day", and when it came to "Let the Bullets Fly", he finally became a true hero in the movie. In Jiang Wen's worldview, the hero is the first. Heroes change society, heroes make history. The biggest sadness is that no hero has appeared, so Zhang Mazi has not taken the money enough, he also has to get rid of Huang Silang, give the people a fairness, and give the goose city a peace.
"Old third, go to Shanghai or Pudong, Pudong or Shanghai?"
"Shanghai is Pudong, and Pudong is Shanghai."
In the last line of the film, Jiang Wen finally breaks through the window paper, stirring reality and imagination into a pot of muddy water. Jiang Wen once quoted a sentence from Shu Ping to illustrate his own view of reality - "Strong imagination brings reality" . In Let the Bullets Fly, he tells a story of all the revolutions of the twentieth century in China, a story with the most absurd shell but the richest core.