With "Manslaughter 1" in front of the jade, "Manslaughter 2" landed in theaters on December 17 with high expectations.
Since its release, "Manslaughter 2" has always been at the top of the daily box office list, and four days after its release, that is, at 09:57 on December 21, it exceeded 400 million at the box office.
1, "main line": uncomplicated but unconventional father's love
The storyline of Manslaughter 2 is actually not complicated.
This was originally a happy family of three, as a screenwriter "Lin Zhilang" honest duty, although the script has not sold a good price, he still worked hard to live, until one day, his originally well-behaved and lively son was diagnosed with heart disease.
Yes, as in the first part, Xiao Yang once again plays a father, and is still a father who is desperate for his children and bursts out of extraordinary strength in desperate situations.
Although many people say that "Manslaughter 2" is topped with a "manslaughter" name, which has nothing to do with the first part, in fact, this theme is the same, as the slogan says: "For the people you love, fight again." ”
Of course, there are differences.
In "Manslaughter 1", the "Li Weijie" family is passively caught in a predicament; in "Manslaughter 2", "Lin Richang" gives people the first feeling of actively creating a chaos.
The son urgently needed to exchange for a heart, and it was difficult to wait for the right heart, but the matching heart was snatched away halfway.
In order to recover the transplanted heart that originally belonged to his son, he embarked on the dangerous road of taking hostages in the hospital, so as to ask the police to retrieve the heart within 8 hours and operate on his son.
"Manslaughter 2" is also adapted from other films, and the protagonist in the original "Imminent" kidnapped the hostages because he could not afford the high surgical fees and demanded that the hospital immediately operate on his son.
And "Manslaughter 2" explores not only the dilemma of money, although "Lin Zhilang" is also exhausted, he has not been defeated, nor has he embarked on the road of crime, he has raised a high amount of surgical expenses through underground money banks.
The real "last straw that crushed the camel" is power and injustice, and what if the organs of the poor wait in line are snatched away by rich and powerful people?
2. "Transformation": Expected but still surprising
Although the main line of "Manslaughter 2" still tells the story of a father who fights for his children, this game is not something that Lin Rilang can complete alone.
Among the hostages he took were the director, the attending doctor and some patients.
The dean represents the stubborn powerful class, a nasty face from beginning to end, and there is nothing worth saying.
The attending doctor, Dama, already knew lin rilang's story and was very sympathetic to him, and he was expected to help lin rilang.
In contrast, the changing attitudes of these hijacked patients are a testament to the power of fatherly love.
In terms of identity, this group of patients was originally just a group of ordinary people, who were accidentally involved in the hijacking and became hostages, but at the same time, they also represented a part of the public, or the part that was closest to the truth.
At first, their attitude towards Lin Zhilang was undoubtedly afraid, resistant, and mixed with some hatred.
Later, as the truth was revealed step by step, the hostages were touched by Lin Rilang's story, and even helped him control the dean who tried to resist, and after being released, he also took the initiative to help Lin Rilang say good things.
Seriously, at the moment when she saw the dean's knife stabbed into Lin Rilang's abdomen, Sister Rice once thought that the other hostages would come forward to subdue Lin Richang together, and then escaped and broke the game. However, everyone eventually sided with Lin Zhilang.
What made them give up escaping and choose to become "accomplices" of the robbers? In addition to the fact that they are also ordinary people, it will be easier to empathize, but also because they see the soft side of a father's heart, and believe that Lin Rilang will not hurt them at all.
In addition to the subtle swings of the public, there are many reversals in the film, but the most exciting and memorable part should be the last "big reversal".
The director of the health bureau who seems to be afraid of suicide is not actually behind the scenes, the real boss, Mayor Long Dan, has always been in the hospital, and when Lin Zhilang confronted the police, the heart he was looking for was on the top floor of the hospital and was put into the body of another child.
Realizing that his heart could never be found again, Lin Zhilang did not give up, and he asked Mayor Long Dan to help him finish the ending of the play.
So, at the end of the film, Lin Rilang walked out of the hospital with Long Dan hostage and was shot in the head by a sniper from the police.
Until this moment, everyone knew that the gun was a fake gun, Lin Zhilang was deliberately looking for death, he had already made a match, ready to transplant his heart to his son, this is his PlanB.
It was also at this moment that Sister Rice finally understood this sentence: "You don't know what a father can do for his own children." ”
Lin Zhilang's volta is actually expected, if he successfully gets the heart and retreats without paying any price, then this is a fairy tale, which is neither in line with the core values of socialism nor realistic.
Therefore, this desperate gamble was doomed to be a "dead end" from the beginning. As an ordinary person, Lin Zhilang may have anticipated his defeat from the beginning; but as a father, he successfully saved his son, which was a victory completed by his father with death.
In fact, leaving aside the layers of reversals, what really touched the audience was the power of the small people's explosion, and the purest and simplest father's love behind it.
3, "family affection": the warmth of small roles runs through the whole process
"Manslaughter 2" is a suspense film at first glance, and if you look closely, the core is still family affection.
The film takes the small people in life as the protagonists, showing the power of the small characters to burst out for love; and several supporting characters in the film also confirm the existence of fatherly love and affection from different levels.
There is a scene in the movie that impresses Sister Rice very deeply.
Among the hostages was a couple whose wife was pregnant and whose bellies were as big as a basket. Pregnant women suddenly suffered from labor pains (originally thought they were going to give birth, but later found out that it was just pain), and in the corridor, Lin Zhilang asked the husband: "Do you like boys or girls?" The husband replied: Whether it is a boy or a girl, as long as it is healthy.
If placed in daily life, in fact, this dialogue is very common, this answer is also the voice of most parents, and it is also the appeal of every father in this movie.
It was such a simple wish that became the reason for Lin Rilang to sacrifice his life.
At the same time, the other father in the movie, Mayor Long Dan, committed a vicious act for this reason.
As the biggest boss in the play, the mayor's behavior is shameful, but there is also the warmth of being a father.
His son was in a car accident and needed a heart transplant, and the time was tight, so he had to make this decision for his son and snatched the heart that originally belonged to the worm.
Of course, no reason is enough to justify making a mistake, but when it comes to loving children, they're all the same.
Another father worth mentioning is the old policeman "Zhang Zhengyi" played by Ren Dahua.
Zhang Zhengyi's line is actually not much related to the main line, but his appearance is accompanied by the denial of his daughter - he opposes her daughter marrying a foreign boyfriend.
After experiencing this hijacking incident, the originally tough and stubborn father was also impressed, and at the end of the film, Zhang Zhengyi took the initiative to reconcile with his daughter.
By the way, here to praise the acting skills of Xiao Yang and Ren Dahua, this window confrontation between the two is undoubtedly a small climax in the film.
Sister Rice privately thinks that just watching the two people playing a show can be worth the ticket price.
At the end of the film, a firefly flies to Lin Rilang's hand.
The next second, the son Xiao Worm asked Lin Zhilang: "Why don't the fireflies light up under the light?" ”
Lin Rilang replied, "Because its light is too faint, it can only be seen in the dark." ”
This line is the finishing touch of "Manslaughter 2". The firefly is undoubtedly a symbol of light, and the light that belongs to the little insect is bought by the father's love and dedication.
Author: Large cup of cold extract
Editor-in-Charge: Seven Dreams