Let's start with a diagram.
This is the movie box office data.
"Manslaughter 2" broke 340 million in 3 days of release.
What concept?
Two years ago, the first part of the "Manslaughter" series grossed 225 million yuan in the first weekend.
Not only surpassing itself, but also refreshing the box office results of the best first weekend three days of the films released at the same time in five years.
Today, I'm going to take a good look at this film—
Manslaughter 2
1
The poster has this sentence:
"For those who love, fight again."
This "re" explains the main thrust of the story in advance.
The first "Manslaughter" is adapted from the Indian movie "Manslaughter and Concealment of Heaven", And Li Weijie, played by Xiao Yang, launched a desperate struggle with the police in order to protect his daughter.
"Manslaughter 2" is adapted from "Imminent" and inherits a similar setting to challenge authority for the sake of the family.
The father has no fixed income, the mother has a meager income, and the son has been diagnosed with a heart attack and needs surgery for a heart change.
What to do?
Of course, the ruin of the family must also be cured.
Ask for hospitals, ask for insurance, ask for relatives and friends.
But even if the house is sold, it is still not enough to pay for the operation.
Luckily, my son's heart match was found, and the organ was on the way.
Unfortunately, if you can't pay the money, the heart will take its turn.
Father gritted his teeth, found a loan shark, and put the money together.
He rushed to the doctor, but was told that "the heart is gone."
It turned out that someone had used their privilege to transfer the heart.
The son was racing against death, and this might be his last chance.
The father calculated and planned a big drama of hijacking the emergency room.
Lin Rilang, played by Xiao Yang, is the father who was forced to a dead end.
Although the directors are different and the stories are different, Xiao Yang has been retained as the soul of the "Manslaughter" series.
His temperament and superb acting skills have injected soul into this low-level little person who fought a battle.
Wait for a movie emperor nomination.
2
I don't know if you noticed when you watched the movie-
Manslaughter 2 has three threads that drive the plot forward.
The bright line is a firefly, and the dark line is a tangible gun and an invisible "gun".
The son asked, "Why doesn't [the fireflies] turn on in the light?" ”
Lin Zhilang replied: "Because its light is too weak, it can only be seen in the dark." ”
For fireflies, producer Chen Sicheng explained it like this:
"In the face of difficulties, the light of human nature can be truly revealed."
In fact, in the face of the darkness that can swallow everything, even if the fireflies try their best to shine, it is just a drop in the bucket.
But its glow is not useless.
It gives people in the same situation a little courage to resist, and these encouragements will one day be like a tower of sand, bringing real light to the world.
Look at the dark line again --
There are two tangible guns.
The first grasp is in the hands of the protagonist Lin Rilang, called "the bottom line".
The first part of the film uses several suggestive shots to make everyone mistakenly think that Lin Zhilang is desperate and snatches the police gun from the traffic police who checked the fine.
Subsequently, the police officer Zhang Zhengyi also verbally confirmed this.
So the known information that "he has a gun" has created a psychological blind spot for the audience.
This led to the subsequent shooting of the undercover police officer by Lin Zhilang, which became particularly credible and shocking.
But when the truth was revealed, this gun became a symbol of Lin Richang's bottom line.
Guns are fake, killing people are fake, even the malice of being a robber is fake.
Only Father's love is true.
The second tangible gun, the one that killed Lin Rilang, is called "Reality."
The confrontation between ordinary people and those in power is tantamount to ephemeral shaking a tree.
An ordinary father, for the sake of his son, kidnapped innocent people in the emergency room and desperately challenged those in power.
If he can get the heart and retire without paying any price, then this is a fairy tale.
The last gunshot is the bell that really rings the bell of reality.
Since Lin Zhilang has embarked on a road that cannot be turned back, don't expect the days to continue as usual.
Reality is always harsher than imagination.
In addition to the two visible guns, there are three invisible "guns".
The invisible gun first appeared in the middle of a play between father and son.
"Sudden, sudden"
The branches are loaded into guns to see who "gets shot" first and falls.
In order to make his son happy, the father pretended to be shot and collapsed to the ground, and the son instantly showed a satisfied and excited smile.
This is a "gun" that is not lethal, but can promote the relationship between father and son.
The second invisible gun changed meaning and became a major turning point in the family's transition from harmony to misfortune.
On the court, the son struggled to win the game, and the father had a tacit understanding to celebrate the victory with his hands against the gun.
As everyone knows, fate really "fired a shot" at his son, and the time bomb of heart hypertrophy was accurately hit.
The son fell to the ground in response.
The third appearance of the invisible gun was at the same time as the visible gun that killed Lin Zhilang.
The visible gun aimed at Lin Rilang's eyebrows, while the invisible gun crushed the entire family.
My son's illness seems to have been solved through heart transplantation, but the series of problems that will arise after that have not ended -
After learning the truth, the son's ambivalence, the cost of the next rejection drug, the interest generated by the father's loan shark, how the mother took the child to live without a house and no savings...
Behind the family problems, a series of social problems are involved.
Perhaps some viewers will ask, this "Manslaughter 2", who exactly "manslaughtered"?
From a small perspective, Lin Zhilang's death is essentially a kind of manslaughter.
A kind and dedicated father, who lived diligently and earnestly, was forced to go to the end of the road and unfortunately died.
In a big way, this is also a manslaughter for thousands of ordinary people in the same situation.
Why should what should belong to you be forcibly usurped, doomed to become an ant without power and power, and be a bright and upright person but deserve to be oppressed by class?
This is a manslaughter that should not be rationalized, but is tacitly accepted by society.
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