2021 is a more brilliant year for Chinese films.
In the case of the decline of the world's film market, Chinese films have achieved a reverse decline and jumped to the annual crown.
Although the Chinese film itself has also suffered a lot of damage, and the number of movies has also decreased a lot, there are still some good films worth watching in 2021.
The first is "Yang Ming Liwan", directed by Liu Xunzimo and produced by Han Han.
Perhaps no one would have thought that the angry Liu Xunzimo in "Never Expected" and "Report Boss" actually made a script killing suspense comedy.
After all, the boss of their company is called Beast Yi Xiaoxing, and he has made two theatrical movies in a row, one is "Never Expected: Journey to the West" and the other is "The King of Bathing", both of which belong to the big collection of movies.
However, in "Fame and Fame", there is no trace of that stitching, but there is a unique sense of logic, meticulous reasoning, and reasonable plot.
In addition, what is even more surprising is that the acting skills of Wanhe Tianyi's group of screenwriters, especially Qi Leshan, played by Zhang Benyu, show the true colors of the roles between their hands and feet.
This kind of testing of the waters of "Fame and Fame" is a good thing for the wanhe Tianyi group, who come from the internet, familiar with what young people like, and they should also shine in the movie.
The second is the animated film "Lion Boy" directed by Sun Haipeng.
"Lion Boy" is the core of the Chinese school's coat + youth film.
When domestic animation fully embraced Japanese and American industrial animation, the emergence of "Lion Boy" made the Chinese animation aesthetics see the hope of rebirth.
"The Lion Boy" integrates Chinese folk culture and traditional aesthetic ideas into animation creation, and draws a lot of elements from traditional Chinese art and music, so that it has a distinct national style.
In addition, "The Lion Boy" also uses a method of breaking and reassembling, so that the almost forgotten art style of lion dance has been revived in the modern context.
On this basis, "Lion Boy" added the concept of youth, but the youth in the film is different from other domestic youth films, but more vigorous.
In the movie, there are sentient beings who should have youth, there is a burning that youth should have, there is no salty, not light, extremely diaphragmy pretentious words, and there is no illogical beating, scolding, crying, and laughing.
What we see is a group of like-minded teenagers, weeping and suffering, but happily pursuing their dreams, and the vitality of knowing the measure and understanding the scale.
In terms of animation film language and narrative techniques, "Lion Boy" has also achieved a medium level.
The apparent significance of the lion dance makes the animation vivid, but it is not a formalistic Chinese style, but an excellent work that integrates body, god and rhyme.
The narrative technique uses realism, emphasizes real performance, pays attention to reality, so it will move so many audiences, because the details are distorted, the artistic image will be distorted, and the imagination and fiction will not be able to stand.
This is "Lion Boy", although the plot is very routine, but it makes people see the head.
Even if the lion dance doesn't really lead people to success, it does give people a breath, a breath of active life, and this spirit is often the most important thing that many animations overlook.
After all, running head is also called ideal or dream, the more bitter the more should have a head, people have a head, there is nothing, no good days without a head have no taste.
The third is "Changjin Lake" directed by Chen Kaige, Xu Ke and Lin Chaoxian, starring Wu Jing and Yi Qianxi.
"Chosin Lake" is more symbolic for Chinese films, surpassing "Wolf Warrior 2" with a box office of 5.7 billion and ascending to the top of the chinese film history championship.
And "Chosin Lake" continues the national self-confidence in the "Wolf Warrior" series, and the transmission of this value is a blank in the previous domestic films, and it is also a kind of progress.
Because the previous Chinese films were basically the games of the elite, they used the film as a carrier to convey their ideas and coerce the people's thoughts, and now the film has returned to the original form, that is, to do what the people like to hear.
The fourth is Chen Musheng's posthumous work "Anger and Serious Case" starring Nicholas Tse and Zhen Zidan.
Chen Musheng's sudden death was a huge blow to Hong Kong cinema because he was the best director of his generation to make a police film.
The style of "Fury And Serious Cases" continues Chen Musheng's sharpness, and the plot embeds a joker story, and also shows the utilitarianism in Hong Kong flavor to the fullest.
There are handsome men, beautiful women, big scenes, thrilling actions, and unclear good and evil in the film, and all the elements that the audience wants to see can be found in "Fury And Serious Cases", and Chen Musheng has achieved an organic combination.
The fifth is "On the Cliff", directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Yu Hewei and Zhang Yi.
"On the Cliff" is Zhang Yimou's highest-grossing film in the mainland, and it is also a new attempt by him, the theme of espionage, zhang Yimou has not made before.
Although it is a brand new attempt, Zhang Yimou's use of color can still be seen from "On the Cliff", which is his best play and his famous skill.
In the film, Zhang Yimou uses color to reveal to the audience how dawn came about.
For most of the film, there are only two colors, white snow, which symbolizes white terror, and night, which represents the nameless sacrifice of black, and these two shades are exchanged for Utra.
For example, the most intense, pure, and thorough catharsis in the film is a heavy sadness and parting in the endless white world.
So, what is Utra? Day is Utra, white is Utra, night is the process of waiting for Utra's arrival, and black is the necessary means to welcome Utra.
The sixth is "Hello, Li Huanying" directed by Jia Ling and starring Shen Teng.
Is "Hello, Lee Huan Ying" a good movie? From a technical point of view, it is definitely not, because the movie is full of too many childish techniques and starting and ending.
From the perspective of the movie box office, "Hello, Lee Huan Ying" is not a good movie, because it stains the light of "Detective Chinatown 3" too bad, more than the top is less than the bottom.
But emotionally, "Hello, Li Huanying" is a good movie, because the emotions in the film are real, and the audience can resonate, and can understand and like it.
The seventh is the "White Snake 2: Green Snake Robbery" by the light chasing team.
To put it simply, there is a difference of more than six jets Li's "Legend of the White Snake" between "The Robbery of the Green Snake" and Xu Ke's "Green Snake".
However, because this year's Chinese films are not good overall, "White Snake 2: Green Snake Robbery" has become a good movie due to the background of peers.
"Green Snake Robbery" is essentially a Ji film, and it is more obvious than Xu Ke's "Green Snake".
If Xiaoqing does not jump without a pool, it is that she does not want to forget Xiao Bai, Xiao Bai gave up her life to save Xiao Qing, it is her obsession with Xiao Qing, Xiao Qing splicing the bone pliers, is the sublimation of revolutionary feelings between them.
Xiao Qing thought that she was learning, Xiao Qing thought she was hating, in fact, it was all love for Xiao Bai, and this love she understood in the end, which was consistent with the vague but sober xiao Qing in Xu Ke's "Green Snake".
The eighth is "My Sister" starring Zhang Zifeng, and the ninth is "Lyceum Grand Theatre" directed by Lou Ye and starring Gong Li.
Ten is a group of heroes to participate in the documentary "1950 They Are Young", let us see that "we advocate peace, we do not want war, but we will never surrender." ”
It is precisely because of this fearless spirit and the future they desperately hope for that we have a peaceful life now and the rapid development of Chinese films.
The future of domestic films, with their efforts, with our efforts, will be more blossoming, encouraged together, for our dream of a big country.