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In December 2021, a series of new domestic films were released, among which the best results were "Manslaughter 2" starring Chen Sicheng, director Dai Mo, Xiao Yang, Ren Dahua, Wen Yongshan, Chen Yuzheng, Song Yang, Li Zhiting, Wang Haoze and so on.
At present, the box office in the 4 days of release is close to 400 million, although the box office performance is not as amazing as the first one, but there is no doubt that it is still a fairly successful suspense crime film, of course, many viewers still have a lot of controversy about this movie, but I personally think that "Manslaughter 2" is quite good.
Moreover, in the two film series that Chen Sicheng currently holds, the overall completion of "Manslaughter 2" is obviously stronger than chen Sicheng's own director's "Tang Detective 3", although the box office of "Tang Detective 3" is much higher than that of "Manslaughter 2", but the impact of this film is obviously more far-reaching, if you can continue to shoot This series is expected to continue to succeed.
Why is "Tang Detective 3" so polarized? We'll see from Manslaughter 2
Chen Sicheng's "Tang Detective" series is also unique among domestic commercial suspense films (there are many literary and artistic suspense films, but commercial reasoning films are really few). Plus the first one is quite stunning, and the second, although controversial, is not rotten enough to be looked at. "Tang Detective 3" because of the preparation of the first two films, the brand's play out, coupled with the "epidemic" backlog of movie-watching emotions, its box office ceiling was originally very high.
"Tang Detective 3" in the early stage of the box office performance we have all seen, but the film reputation is seriously torn, which is reflected in the box office, and finally led to a good reputation of "Hello Li Huanying" came to a perfect counterattack, as for "Tang Detective 3" in the end what is the problem, the film was released when there was a lot of debate, in my opinion and the first two "Tang Detective" comparison to understand.
The biggest problem of "Tang Detective 3" is the imbalance between the two major elements of this series of movies, what are the two major elements that can succeed in the "Tang Detective" series? The answer is the element of reasoning + the element of comedy.
Liu Haoran played by the genius stuttering teenager Qin Feng is responsible for the silly and reasoning part, in addition to the promotion of reasoning, the film narrative has a large number of more catered reasoning structure, in this regard, the reasoning part of "Tang Detective 1" is obviously far better than "Tang Detective 2", this role setting also has a kernel is that Although Qin Feng is a genius, but because of his childhood experience has been wandering on the edge of blackening, a blackened genius reasoning teenager.
Tang Ren, played by Wang Baoqiang, is responsible for funny, although many of the laugh points are and and exaggerated comedy conflicts. But with the clever convergence caused by the yin and yang of some characters, it eventually contributed a lot of good comedy jokes. For example, in "Tang Detective 1", the scene where the three parties meet at Tong Liya's landlord, and later the "hospital gun battle scene" where several parties converge, the old song pushes this comedic effect to the peak when it sounds, and he also has two important roles.
First, this role is a "mechanical séance", whenever Qin Feng and other detectives have no way to solve the reasoning and plot, Tang Ren either hits by mistake, or slightly "feudal superstition" to open the crux of the reasoning and plot, so that the plot can be handled smoothly.
The second is that Tang Ren has always been the support to prevent the blackening of the genius teenager Qin Feng, and his personality is completely opposite to Qin Feng, greasy, lustful, regards wealth as fate, and his words and deeds are completely out of tune. But he didn't pay attention to a lot of things, in fact, in time to pull Qin Feng back from the edge of blackening.
Therefore, the reasoning elements + comedy elements of the first two parts of "Tang Detective", and then other dramatic conflicts, etc. are quite brilliant (the first part is far better than the second part), as for the so-called "depth" in the "Tang Detective" series, I will not talk about it. In this way, the reason why "Tang Detective 3" has a torn reputation is very simple.
"Tang Detective 3" is a serious imbalance between the two elements of comedy + reasoning. The reasoning above is really too weak, as the netizens at the time commented: as long as you have watched a few episodes of the Japanese animation "Conan", Masami Nagasawa basically guessed that she was the murderer when she appeared.
The second comedy element is also very embarrassing, the first two Tang Ren's various misplays and collisions, as well as the dramatic coincidence jokes caused by yin and yang errors. In "Tang Detective 3", only Tang Ren is left to say meat paragraphs anytime and anywhere, and the scene of hospital coincidence caused by yin and yang errors is also diluted because of the controversy of "beating nurses". As for the strong dramatic conflict between the first two old songs with "divine strokes", the treatment of the third part cannot be said to be too bad, but the gap is also obvious compared with the first two.
The "Tang Detective" series is a very successful series of films in the domestic film market, and the third one is piled up in terms of various capitals and forces, and Chen Sicheng is also very greedy in order to cater to various capitals. In addition to the original comedic elements and reasoning elements, there are Japanese romance film elements and Japanese family ethics drama elements of the trial, these with crazy advertising implants, so-called depth and metaphorical filling, and finally ended with Jackson's "Heal the world" completely incompatible with the temperament of the entire movie, resulting in a sense of indifference to the movie.
What's so good about Manslaughter 2? It doesn't have the problem of "Tang Detective 3", and it is even better than "Tang Detective 2".
While the box office is good, while the word of mouth is torn? Is Manslaughter 2 a bad movie?
Let's take a look at "Manslaughter 2" and we will find that it is a lot better. "Manslaughter 1" is still quite successful, "Manslaughter 2" continues the completion of this setting is good, if strictly speaking, there is no serious problem of "Tang Detective 2" that has also been continued, the question is what is the core of "Manslaughter 2"?
First, the same suspense elements, but "Tang Detective" is the reasoning of the detective, "Manslaughter" is more grounded, using the reversal commonly used in suspense films, and the protagonist settings are related to film and television practitioners.
"Manslaughter 1" has multiple reversals, and the suspense elements can be said to be very in place. The suspense elements and reversals of "Manslaughter 2" are actually not as much as the first one, but it is still quite good, and the male protagonist Lin Rilang (played by Xiao Yang) hijacked the hospital as soon as he appeared and began to set up a bad person for the male protagonist.
The police then surrounded the hospital, and the actress Li Anqi (played by Chen Yucheng) is an ambitious journalist. So according to the previous past, and then set up a man who had once molested her, the ambitious Li Anqi ran to the hospital to investigate, he took the initiative to enter the hospital, Lin Rilang told his story under the lens, his child had a heart attack to change the heart, which is the first reversal for others.
The second reversal is that Hayashi is saying that his child's heart was robbed, just when everyone was sympathizing. As a result, the police chief Dangkan (played by Yin Ziwei) then said that they found the script at Lin Rilang's house, which was just Lin Rilang making up a story, and as a result, the police action failed, and Lin Rilang was shot and did not die.
The third big reversal is also the arrival of the city secretary general Satin (played by Lee Ji-ting), who finds the health director and the health director commits suicide, and comes to the scene to know the police's actions and secrets, and at the same time brings the heart has agreed to operate on Lin Rilang's son, etc.
As for the fourth big reversal and the big one in the final ending, there are no spoilers here.
Second, unlike the comedic elements of "Tang Detective", another element of "Manslaughter" is always the family and affection of small people. Especially after the accident of the children of weak families in the real society, the kind of affection and sacrifice that the parents broke out like pebbles hitting stones, but also radiant.
The plot in "Manslaughter 1" revolves around the eldest daughter being insulted by the mayor's son, and then running to threaten the mother and daughter, only to be beaten to death by the mother and daughter and locked in the coffin, followed by the father to do everything for the mother and daughter, and then played and confronted the police chief who was also the mother, and finally the coffin was unveiled No one saw that the father won, but because of the riot and the process, the younger daughter changed her grades, began to lie, and Li Weimin's faith, etc., chose to turn herself in.
"Manslaughter 2" is a blow to the family by parents who first pooled money for their sick son. The parents borrowed everything they could borrow, sold the house, and even borrowed usury at the last moment. Until the child's heart was robbed, the father Lin Rilang finally broke out and hijacked the hospital, using public opinion to force the heart to take back to save the child, and the final reversal is like this, behind which is family affection.
Behind these two elements is also mixed with a core expression, "Tang Detective" series is a discussion about the good and evil of human nature, each time the film opening quotes can be seen, but this aspect of the film is getting worse and worse, "Tang Detective 3" is even more unable to stand in all aspects. The "Manslaughter" series is a discussion of realism problems that arise when small people fight against social power.
"Manslaughter 2" involves a lot of practical problems, first of all, it must be the robbery of the poor for medical resources under the power, and behind this is still the opportunity for the poor to smash the pot and sell the iron to the family, and the result is that people snatch it away in one sentence, and the poor have no way, can they only go to the desperate risk?
This also involves multiple practical issues such as medical issues, media public opinion guidance, individual humanity and group phenomena.
The core of the "Manslaughter" series is actually more resonant with the audience, and the metaphors and details of the two films are quite good. The only regret is that the well-known reasons cannot be placed in the background at home, and if it can be placed in the country, the significance will be more profound.
"Manslaughter 2" is just embarrassing blowing? These 2 points of this movie are very rare
At this time, many people may think that there are still many problems in this movie, such as the performance of some settings and plot details, there are many problems, and this depends on what angle to start from. The film has flaws, but the problem is not what many viewers perceive as "loopholes."
We need to understand which group the audience of this movie is, so that we can better understand the advantages and disadvantages of this movie. The direction of "Manslaughter 2" is not "suspense", the film is clearly divided into several parts, the small suspense of each part is quickly revealed, and the previous hint is even more obvious, the film is clearly for a wider range of ordinary people to see, trying to use a simpler way so that most people can understand his plot without much brain.
What the film wants to do is to let ordinary viewers get empathy from their own lives and emotions: parental love, privilege, the chain of corrupt interests behind public power, medical care, the self-interest of various professional groups. But because the environment has been expressed in a stroke, it has not grasped a point to go deeper.
On the other hand, the film was a bit out of time, and I think it was shot a little late. If this film had been filmed 5 years ago, the topic of shooting in 10 years would have a strong social resonance, and the primary emotional needs of the domestic public have shifted, and the audience has been disconnected from the topic expressed in the film.
But no matter what, it is good to be able to shoot it after all, or I hope that "Manslaughter 2" is more and more realistic movies, and it is getting better and better!