Xiao Yang, Chen Sicheng in the cooperation of "Manslaughter 2" quickly after the launch of the eye-catching box office results, depending on the reputation advantage of the previous work, this film is naturally more concerned.
So in just 4 days, "Manslaughter 2" won more than 300 million at the box office. Among the many films released in December, "Manslaughter 2" is undoubtedly the real box office king.
However, what is surprising is that the Douban score of this film is only 6 points, and more than 70% of the audience has given three stars and below. Naturally, watching a work cannot be only about the box office, after all, the audience's reputation directly explains the quality of the work.
For example, Chen Sicheng's "Detective Chinatown" series, to the third part of the lack of word of mouth, although the box office results are eye-catching, but under such a reputation disadvantage to continue to launch a sequel, I am afraid that the audience will not pay the bill.
Although "Manslaughter 2" has a polarization of word-of-mouth, the quality presented by the film is not like the previous film sequels, which is a big gap from the first one. "Manslaughter 2" tells a whole new story that makes some viewers feel no sense of connection, but in fact this work is more meaningful than the first one.
The strength of the lineup + high-quality creators, the advantages of "Manslaughter 2" are more obvious
"Manslaughter 2" is a dark horse film at the end of the year? Nature is inseparable from its strong lineup. From the perspective of actor configuration, Xiao Yang belongs to the return of the original class, to a certain extent, it can bring some familiarity, although in "Manslaughter 2" with Xiao Yang to play the husband and wife became Wen Yongshan, but with Xiao Yang's opponents is mostly the film emperor Ren Dahua.
The main creative team did not have director Ke Wenli, and there were certain changes in style, but it did not affect the overall level of the film. Director Dai Mo has also cooperated with Chen Sicheng in the web drama of "Detective Chinatown" and is also very familiar with the suspense theme.
Chen Sicheng's works launched in recent years are mostly suspense-based, and the theme of "Manslaughter 2" is not unfamiliar to Chen Sicheng. The first "Manslaughter" is adapted from the Indian film "Manslaughter", and the original work also launched a second one, but the storyline of "Manslaughter 2" was not adapted according to this work, but instead chose another American film "Imminent".
Domestic films that remake classics have always been controversial, and a large part of these works will have the phenomenon of word-of-mouth. But the remake itself is not the original sin, and the success of "Manslaughter" has proved that after the localization of the high-quality work, it can tell the story clearly, logically, and still retain the audience.
"Manslaughter 2" also proves this point, although this film is a remake, it does not develop according to the story of the original work, but tells a completely different ending according to different national conditions and different social faces.
Compared with the first part, the advantages of "Manslaughter 2" are actually more obvious, and it is as meticulous and specific as possible for the exposure of the dark side of society, the presentation of father-son love, and the contradiction between doctors and patients.
After understanding the core of "Manslaughter 2", you can understand where the film is good
The reason why "Manslaughter 2" got such a just-passed score of 6 points is inseparable from the fact that the film itself is a sequel. It is also named after manslaughter, but the story told by "Manslaughter 2" has nothing to do with the first part, followed by the case of "Manslaughter 2" itself is not so bizarre, which does not meet the audience's expectations for a suspense work.
After all, most suspense films often throw out a special case first, and then solve the puzzle around the case, but "Manslaughter 2" chooses to take the father-son relationship that the public is most familiar with as the starting point, which naturally falls into the cliché in the eyes of some viewers.
But in fact, the real point of "Manslaughter 2" is at its core, only by understanding what the content of this film is to convey, can we understand where the film is good.
The concept of manslaughter that "Manslaughter 2" wants to convey to the audience, as director Dai Mo said, the definition of a person is actually a kind of manslaughter. In the film, every thing Lin Rilang does will cause different repercussions, and people from the process of questioning to identifying and then questioning are subverting Lin Rilang's image again and again.
As for what kind of person Lin Zhilang is, everyone has different opinions, but in the film, when all the viewers evaluate Lin Zhilang as a person, they only pass on one thing, which is obviously one-sided. However, under the influence of public opinion, Lin Rilang has died at the level of social cognition.
This time, the concept of manslaughter is no longer that victims like Lin Rilang and his family mistakenly killed the person who controlled the right to speak, but every spectator became the person who killed Lin Rilang by mistake. This kind of role transformation, the switching of perspective, is not only for the audience to regret for the protagonist, but also for an extra layer of reflection.
Therefore, only by understanding the core of "Manslaughter 2" will you know where this film is good. As a sequel, Manslaughter 2's explanation of the concept of manslaughter is also deeper and broader.