The movie "Manslaughter 2", which broke the box office of 500 million yuan in a week, became the last dark horse in 2021.
This film directed by Dai Mo, supervised by Chen Sichen, Xiao Yang, Ren Dahua, Wen Yongshan and other stars has received unanimous praise from the public. Because "Manslaughter 1" successfully went out of the circle, "Manslaughter 2" accumulated a lot of fans before the release. In fact, this movie is completely independent of "Manslaughter 1" in terms of content, which is a brand new story, but at the core, it collides with "Manslaughter 1" from time to time, presenting the delicate emotions of small people.
The protagonist in the movie is a desperate father and a child who needs to be saved, in the face of naked reality, the sadness of the little people is vividly reflected, and it has to be said that Xiao Yang's acting skills are innovative and peak, which can be called explosion.
Xiao Yang, who has a multi-layered identity in the entertainment industry, has always been identified by everyone as more suitable for comedy, until he starred in "Manslaughter 1" to re-establish his style of realistic performance, and this style was sublimated in "Manslaughter 2" and became more compact and delicate.
Xiao Yang's role in the movie truly reflects the "complexity of human nature", in life he belongs to the bottom of the characters, ordinary and small, living a boring life every day, but also because of a complete family and feel happy, and thousands of ordinary people around us. But when he is forced into a desperate situation, he can burst out with great power and plan a shocking plan that will surprise everyone. In front of outsiders, he is a fierce robber, in front of the child, he has become a compassionate and pitiful father, every time the identity is changed, it needs to have strong emotional support, and at the same time, it also needs rich and layered acting skills, objectively speaking, Xiao Yang's performance in this extreme style is close to full score.
There is a scene in which there are not too many lines and actions, most of which are expressed by the actors with eyes or facial expressions, Ren Dahua designed this scene for three days, and he mentioned in the interview that he read more things from Xiao Yang's eyes. Because of the mutual stimulation and collision between the actors, the most original and moving performance is inspired. In the realistic theme theme, what is valuable is the actor's sense of reality.
Of course, in addition to the eye-catching plot and superb acting skills, a good movie also needs to guide everyone to think more, and "Manslaughter 2" has obviously done it.
There is a big contradiction in this movie, that is, whether the male protagonist Lin Rilang is a good person in the end? In a desperate situation, he stood against the law for love and adventure, but throughout the story, he sold his property and gave up everything, and even forced himself to become fierce, and the final purpose was only to resist injustice and get back the "heart" that originally belonged to the child.
There is a line in the movie: "Some children are children, some children are not ordinary children", full of powerlessness in social injustice, even if ordinary people give everything they have, in the face of absolute power and status, they are like slugs. Therefore, when the father in the movie decides to give it a go and bet desperately, it will seem so tragic, which also presents a strong sense of sacrifice of the "Chinese father".
The word "firefly" appears many times in the movie and is given great significance, such as when a child asks, "Why don't the fireflies under the lights light up?" Father's answer was: "Because their light is so weak that they can only be seen in dark places." "The Lin Rilang family is like fireflies, insignificant when the wind and waves are calm, never seen, and when the surrounding environment changes, they will become living beings and erupt into great influence."
And the English title of this movie, "Fireflies In The Sun" ("Daytime Fireworks"), corresponds to it, and there are many introductions buried in the details, waiting for the audience to discover, even if you watch it a second time, the third time you feel that it is not fun.
"You don't know what a father will do for his children", this sentence expresses the most core emotion in the play - family affection, which is also the touching place of this movie. Many viewers saw that at the end, the emotions could not be dissipated for a long time, and when they looked up, they found that their faces were already covered with tears. Perhaps empathy is the biggest charm of the movie.