In 2019, an unpromising small-budget crime suspense film turned out as a dark horse, grossing 1.33 billion at the box office. It's manslaughter.
Because of the successful localization adaptation and the full-fledged acting skills, "Manslaughter" has a double harvest at the box office, creating many records for domestic remakes.
After waiting for two years, at the end of the year, its sequel finally came—
Manslaughter 2
The film retains the lead actor Xiao Yang and other creative teams, supervised by Chen Sicheng, although called "Manslaughter 2", but the film is still a remake, adapted from Denzel Washington's "Imminent".
However, with the pearl jade of the first remake of "Manslaughter" in front, for "Manslaughter 2", the audience's jealousy of the "remake" label will definitely be alleviated a lot.
But what is "Manslaughter 2", worth a movie ticket, Tomato Jun will come to everyone today to pick a pickpocket.
Recently, "Manslaughter 2" released the latest trailer, and the story of the entire movie has gradually become clear.
Xiao Yang's father, Lin Rilang, has a happy family, his wife Ah Ling (played by Wen Yongshan) is beautiful and virtuous, and his son Xiao Worm (played by Wang Haoze) is cute and sensible.
However, in the son's narration praising his father, the picture appears frightening. The little worm said that his father was gentle and kind and amiable, but Lin Zhilang in the picture was killing innocents with an automatic rifle.
Police then surrounded the location of Lin's crime, which turned out to be a hospital.
In the following scenes, we seem to know the truth of the matter.
The worm needs to change his heart because of illness, lin Rilang has a hard time finding a suitable match for his son, but the heart is missing.
As an ordinary person, Lin Rilang could not find this heart on his own.
But the worm lying on the hospital bed is in urgent need of treatment, if it exceeds the time, not only will the heart necrosis and failure, the worm will also lose its life.
In desperation, Lin Rilang carried out a crazy plan, he hijacked a hospital and told the police that they had to retrieve their hearts within an hour, or they would shoot and kill the hostages.
Inside the hospital, Lin Richang and the police, doctors and patients fought with wits and courage, but behind this missing heart, there seems to be a bigger and darker force calling out.
Because Lin Zhilang once shouted to the doctor, "Why give my child's heart to others, what do you rely on?" ”
In the process of Lin Zhilang hijacking the hospital to find the heart, many more things happened.
Some people jump off buildings, some people die, some people are like birds of fright, some people are worried.
"No matter how dark the truth is, you're going to be desperate to get him out, right?"
So what is the truth? Only wait for everyone to go to the theater to find out for themselves.
As far as the look and feel of the trailer is concerned, the entire "Manslaughter 2" still maintains a high standard.
On the one hand, it is because although we only see Xiao Yang on the screen, the core of the main creative team of the first film has not changed.
The director of the first part, Ke Wenli, and the director of "Manslaughter 2", Dai Mo, both directed the web drama "Detective Chinatown".
The difference is that in the web drama they are responsible for different chapters, and Dai Mo is responsible for "The Name of the Rose".
The web drama of "Tang Detective" has proved to be a successful work of domestic suspense web dramas, and on the basis of the accumulated experience of web dramas, director Dai Mo directs feature films of the same type, which is still worth looking forward to.
In the tidbits, Dai Mo is also really moving in order to shoot the real effect.
There is a scene in the film where the police and the ventilation duct fall to the ground, and then encounter Xiao Yang in the hospital.
In order to shoot this shot, the actor fell from the ceiling and injured the bridge of his nose when he came down.
Another shot is of a person falling and the ventilation pipe breaks. When the pipe was about to hit the disabled person next to her, Dr. Ma, played by Song Yang, rushed up to protect her.
At first, the shots of the pipe smashing people were shot with coercion, but the real impact could not be captured.
Later, Dr. Ma decided to really try it, and sure enough, the effect was much better, so he really let the pipe fall down and hit himself hard.
Everyone feels this power.
One shot at a time, the crew of "Manslaughter 2" has the most sincere creative attitude, just rush this attitude, and the film will not pull the crotch.
On the other hand, compared with Chen Chong and Tan Zhuo in "Manslaughter", several actors in "Manslaughter 2" are still excellent in acting.
First of all, of course, is the male protagonist Xiao Yang, after the transformation from a comedian, Xiao Yang has completely pulled out his own acting skills package.
Like this kind of emotional expression of the face-threatening big close-up and the rhythm control in the acting process, Xiao Yang has done a very good job.
In the current scene of the trailer, Xiao Yang's performance is still excellent and attractive.
In just three shots, we almost saw the transformation of the role of Lin Zhilang, and we also saw my blood veins.
In the first scene, Lin Rilang, in the role of a father, asks Dr. Ma why he gave his child's heart to someone else.
In this shot, we see more of Lin Zhilang's helplessness as a father, and as a patient's panic and inability to bear the loss of the heart.
The second shot, although he is holding a gun, still has a very sad expression, which is a portrayal of Lin Rilang being "forced to Liangshan" and the reason why he began to plan to hijack the hospital.
The third shot is to answer the question of whether Dr. Ma dares to kill, "You don't know what a father can do for his children."
This expression, serious, cold, firm, makes people afraid.
At this time, Lin Rilang had already made up his mind to use this method to seek justice for his son.
As the main backbone of "Manslaughter 2", with Xiao Yang in it, the basic disk of this movie is there.
In addition to Xiao Yang, this time and he played the old drama bone Ren Dahua, a ragged shirt, ragged clothes, although seeing Ren Dahua always has a sense of watching TVB, but the moment Ren Dahua appeared, Tomato Jun still felt happy.
If Xiao Yang and Ren Dahua represent justice, then Xiao Yang must be the one who looks for light in the dark, and the old criminal policeman played by Ren Dahua is the "external force" who helps him outside.
In the trailer, Xiao Yang and Ren Dahua have a direct confrontation, and the two have a look together that is a drama tension.
The actor plot is all right, we look at the kernel.
In fact, "Manslaughter 2" and "Manslaughter" have many similarities, and through these similarities, it is not difficult to get a glimpse of what the core of "Manslaughter 2" is.
In the first part, the father played by Xiao Yang has a happy family, in order to protect his daughter and to fight against the dark police station, especially the criminal's mother, Chen Chong, Xiao Yang does not hesitate to risk his life.
In the second part, Xiao Yang still came up with such a crazy plan in order to save his son's life and maintain the integrity of the family.
Under the blessing of commercial elements such as crime, brain-burning, reality, and suspense, we see a father who, because of unfair treatment, recklessly takes risks, and uses his own intelligence and actions to resolve the crisis.
From the story of this process, the two "Manslaughter" are similar.
Even if the environment, characters, rhythm, and events may be different, as long as the core contradictions are the same, the audience can harvest similar viewing pleasures, and from this point of view, "Manslaughter 2" can indeed be called the sequel to "Manslaughter".
Compared with the first part, Xiao Yang rebelled against more things this time, it may be an unfair medical system, it may be a judicial moth that aids abuse, or it may be a bigger conspiracy.
On this level, the core of the two Manslaughter is actually extremely similar. I think in addition to commercial considerations, this is also the reason why the creators named this film "Manslaughter 2".
In both films, Xiao Yang plays a tragic, but also full of justice and creative spirit of the father.
The more shrewd and powerful Xiao Yang's character is, the more profound the irony in the film.
Finally, it is also the sublimation of "Manslaughter", the justice achieved by criminal means, is it justice?
This question is worth thinking about for each of us.
"Manslaughter 2" will be officially released on December 17, if you like the first work, then the second part must be your appetite. By then our cinema will not be seen or scattered!
(Movie Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Department: Miao Miao)