On December 17, "Manslaughter 2" was raised a week in advance to meet the audience,
The box office on the first day was 99 million, and it broke 300 million in 3 days, and the film is steadily moving towards the 1 billion mark, which has the potential to detonate the annual box office.
The "Manslaughter" series can be seen as a sequel to the "Detective Chinatown" series, when "Detective Chinatown" took that kind of intrinsic reasoning route and became a box office dark horse in early 2016. In "Detective Chinatown 2", Chen Sicheng considered the audience, weakened the reasoning, and built the "Tang Detective Series" into a family movie.
And "Manslaughter" continues the style of the first part of "Detective Chinatown", carrying out reasoning and suspense to the end, which is a precise blow for a specific audience.
Chen Sicheng's layout has been very clear, in the future, he will focus on the "Tang Detective" series and take the popular and people-friendly route; and then train film and television newcomers to shoot the "Manslaughter" series, blowing a niche suspense wind, the two roads are linked and nourished, so that the "Tang Detective Universe" truly forms a network structure.
In "Manslaughter 2", Chen Sicheng continued to serve as a supervising producer, Xiao Yang continued to serve as a star, and Dai Mo, a newcomer director who had filmed the "Detective Chinatown" web series, continued the creative mode of the first part of the "Manslaughter" series.
In this work, the main creator also invited Ren Dahua, Wen Yongshan and other actors, giving everyone a great sense of freshness.
Among them, Ren Dahua played a police detective with a righteous heart, and Wen Yongshan played Xiao Yang's wife in the film, and she used "beauty" to conquer the audience in "Cold War 2", but she played a bitter mother in the film, and her acting skills were even more amazing than her appearance.
At the premiere of the film, some viewers asked Xiao Yang with ill will, in the first part of the "Manslaughter" series, he and Tan Zhuo played a husband and wife, and in "Manslaughter 2" he and Wen Yongshan played a husband and wife, so in real life, he would prefer to marry and live with which beautiful woman.
Xiao Yang suddenly tensed up, Wen Yongshan was funny on the side, and Tan Zhuo himself also forwarded the relevant news, which made people can't help but be funny.
However, "Manslaughter 2" itself is not so relaxed and lively.
The story of the film is very poignant, Xiao Yang and Wen Yongshan in the story of the child suffered from heart disease, need to transplant the heart, he spent an hour to raise 2 million yuan in surgery fees, but the transplanted heart was cut off by a magnate before the operation, Xiao Yang was furious, walked into the hospital with a gun, and a big drama was staged.
Many people go to see "Manslaughter 2" for suspense and crime themes, but with the advancement of the plot, what really touches the audience is not the plot reversal of a thousand turns, but the anger of the bottom characters, and the purest and simplest fatherly love behind the kidnapping.
When Xiao Yang held a gun and said with tears in his eyes: "We are honest and honest people, why are you always winning?" ”
This interrogation is like a scalpel that precisely peels away the surface of the film's suspense, revealing a profound reflection on class and equality.
At the end of the film, the child asks why the light of the fireflies cannot be seen under the lamp, and Xiao Yang laughs and replies: "Because their light is too weak, it can only be seen in dark places." ”
The strong emotions piled up throughout the film use this fairy tale metaphor to complete the sad and powerful writing.
And when the film ends and the words "tribute to the father" are typed at the end of the film, we understand that the whole film, whether it is a cold and sweaty confrontation scene or a tearful sensational scene, is to express high respect to the father.
If you think that's all there is to the film, you're dead wrong.
When the audience wept for the father-son emotion of the film, the Easter egg of the film gave us a gentle knife with a kind joke.
It turned out that Xiao Yang played a screenwriter, when his son was sick and his life was in danger, he wrote a story of hijacking with a pen, and the end of the story was the kidnappers killing the ring, which was Xiao Yang's PLAN A, and also a father's desperate and helpless cry.
In the script's PLAN B, he writes a big question mark.
Later, Xiao Yang personally interpreted the story of the hijacking of the hospital, but he used the courage of the moth to fight the fire against the magnates, save his son, and write a shocking PLAN B.
In the Easter egg of the film, Xiao Yang played a play-within-a-play, he took a toy pistol to perform a killing performance, and then Ren Dahua became the director of the crew, he shouted a card, the performance ended, and on the director board, it was written PLAN C.
I think that three plans, one written on paper, one written in reality, and one put into an Easter egg became the voiceover of the film.
The director's handling in this way is to give the audience a kind of psychological comfort: the story of the film is fictional, but the emotions are real.
This self-deconstruction method greatly dissolves the impact of the film, and also alludes to the eternal proposition that "life is like a drama like life".
"Manslaughter 2" is a suspense film at first glance, careful gaze is a family film, after you cry, but tell you that this is an entertainment film, this many reversals did not anger the audience, but made people laugh, I think the key is that the film's handling of tragedy is very clever.
Tragedy has three levels.
The first level is that good people are killed by bad people, so miserable.
Most movies follow this path.
This kind of primary tragedy is difficult to arouse empathy, because as long as the bad guys are dealt with, the tragedy becomes a happy ending.
The second level is that there are no bad guys, but the good guys themselves are flawed.
A lot of inspirational films are on this path.
This medium-level tragedy is very moving, but there are also direct ways to deal with it.
As long as the protagonist can accept his own flaws, the problem will be solved.
The third level, the highest level of tragedy, is that everyone is doing the most correct thing, but they are tricked by something called fate, and in the end they cannot break free from their sad fate.
The brilliance of "Manslaughter 2" lies in trying to move closer to this "Oedipal tragedy", at the end of the film, Xiao Yang is sacrificed, when you go to accountability, it seems that no one can ask, everyone is doing the "most correct thing" within their ability, and everyone is a "good person" in their own world.
Take the doctor, is he wrong? In the face of the director's hint, he had resisted out of work ethic, but the result was a mantis arm as a car;
Then the director said, is he wrong? When the mayor's secretary called, he had no capital to refuse, he might not be a saint, he was by no means a bad person, but he had made a choice to save himself.
Then he said the mayor's secretary, is he wrong, he is helping the mayor block the gun and carry the pot, and the dirty work he does is itself a kind of "professional ethics"
Finally speaking of the mayor, was he wrong? His son needed a heart transplant in a car accident, and the time was tight, so he had to make this decision for his son and snatched the heart used by Xiao Yang's family for transplantation.
Back to Xiao Yang, was he wrong? He is this heart to save his son's life, the heart is gone, he will find the person who stole the heart to settle the account, this is the most simple and simple logic of the people at the bottom.
A glance around reveals that everyone is not perfect, but everyone has their own grievances, and if you are in their place, you will make the same choice.
Such a story presented to the audience, not to stimulate a simple anger and a cheerful sense of revenge, but about the system of human nature and the heavy thinking of family affection, when this level of things is conveyed to the audience, whether the film is a suspense film or a family film becomes less important.
Of course, "Manslaughter 2" is not perfect, but such a heart-wrenching work is set in Southeast Asia, a father's love story that occurs abroad wants to stimulate the emotions of domestic audiences, somewhat scratching the itch of the boot, which is also the most criticized place.
But the flaws do not hide Yu, "Manslaughter 2" is a surprise at the end of the year, rich in nutrition, complete in variety, but the blood can go to the heart, it is worth watching.
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