It's almost New Year's Day, the movie always has to look, and we're going to clear the mines for everyone.
For example, the Douban score of "Manslaughter 2" has fallen below the passing line, 5.9 points.
As someone who has been close enough to have become unlucky, I just want to say: Manslaughter 2 is worth it.
The astonishment of "Manslaughter" in 19 years is still vivid, and I thought that "Manslaughter 2" would inherit a series of foreshadowings left by "Manslaughter", but in fact, the two have nothing to do with each other.
Lin Rilang is a poor screenwriter, because his son Xiao Worm suffered from heart disease, heart transplantation is the only way, but when Lin Ri Lang borrowed usurious loans to collect the operation fee at the last moment, the heart source that should have been scheduled for the worm was robbed by high officials.
So there is a scene at the beginning of the film where Lin Zhilang hijacks the hospital with a gun, and the story begins here.
From the story itself, it is not difficult to see that "Manslaughter 2" still expresses a story similar to "Manslaughter" that "small people rely on wisdom to resist power", and even the fatherly love expressed is exactly the same.
But whether it is the story itself or the fatherly love that it wants to convey, "Manslaughter 2" can be said to be poorly completed.
As far as a suspense film is concerned, there are too many "forced" stories and human settings.
In fact, the beginning of the film is very exciting, Lin Zhilang hijacked the hospital, confronted the police played by Ren Dahua, and asked the reporter to come in, Lin Zhilang asked his son where his son's heart went in front of the live camera.
The whole segment is very tightly paced, and several hooks are placed to make the audience look forward to the progress that follows.
Here entered the scene of the female reporter Anqi, she at this time of the persona is a quite clever, for the news heat can be desperate for the fierce role.
As soon as she saw that it was Lin Rilang who hijacked the hospital, she thought of the scene two days before the male protagonist came to the studio to borrow money from her, and as a result, she was tripped and fell on her, and immediately released this clip, saying that Lin Rilang molested her, and at the same time went to the scene herself, wanting to grab the news heat.
After arriving at the scene, he ignored Ren Dahua's obstruction and forcefully said that he was the best choice to enter the hijacking hospital.
It is also through her lens that the antecedent cause of Lin Zhilang's confession of the matter is completed - that is, the son is ill, the source of the heart that originally belonged to the son is robbed, and the director of the Municipal Health Bureau who claims to have robbed his son's heart.
This recollection with father and son is really filmed like some kind of public service advertisement film...
But it was not a big problem to move me, anyway, all the hostages in the hospital and the people watching the live broadcast outside the hospital were moved.
After listening to Lin Zhilang's memories, the female reporter seemed to be immediately moved, wanted to investigate the truth for Lin Zhilang, handed over the scene to two subordinates, and went alone to find clues.
She approached the head of the Organ Donation Department to learn about the recent new dirty transplants, but apparently the officials didn't give it, so the female reporter kept her eyes on the business card so that the office door was not completely locked, and sneaked back to the office after the director left work.
Coincidentally, the director's computer did not have a password, and the female reporter saw the transplant records without any obstacles, but was faked, showing that the heart was transplanted to Lin Zhilang's son.
At this time, the female reporter was discovered by the director who returned to the office, and the director immediately strangled the female reporter in order to extinguish the mouth.
But the problem is... Aren't the records in the computer fake? The female reporter found nothing at all, and the action of extinguishing her mouth was not three hundred and two silver here?
What is even more coincidental is that just when the female reporter was about to be strangled to death, the police officer sent by Ren Dahua to investigate the clues also found out here and saved the female reporter.
More coincidentally, the two found a voice recorder from the director and hammered the organ trade.
The point is that the evidence that can make several high-ranking officials get off the horse is not encrypted, and the director still carries it with him, coincidentally, really coincidentally.
On the other side of the hospital, the police sent snipers to infiltrate the hospital from the ventilation duct, originally pinching a handful of sweat for Lin Zhilang, and the result was... The ceiling of the hospital collapsed and the sniper fell.
Why does the ceiling collapse? Because the two subordinates left by the female reporter controlled the unmanned vehicle that went in to see the situation, they put a "Chainsaw Horror" grimace mask outside, which scared the sniper.
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Maybe "Manslaughter 2" is not a family film or a suspense film, this is simply a comedy...
When Lin Zhilang finally searched for the ringing of the phone to find the culprit, he found that it was the mayor who stole the heart, in order to operate on his son who was in a car accident.
Yes, downstairs there was shooting and hijacking and the ceiling collapsed, the second floor was undergoing heart-changing surgery, and the mayor was waiting outside the door.
Perhaps the film does try to reverse twice, one is that the mayor's secretary sends the heart, but the box is completely empty, and the other is that Lin Zhilang sacrificed himself to exchange his heart for his son.
But the foreshadowing at the beginning of the film is too obvious, the beginning of the story points out that the mayor came to power and gave Lin Rilang a shot of drawing blood, and Lin Rilang asked the attending physician "I only need one (matching is not successful) result"...
Guessing the direction of the story, the plot is boring.
The plot is all by coincidence, and the existence of other supporting characters is flat and has no effect on the plot advancement.
For example, this little couple, in the whole film is very nervous moment, suddenly someone saw the scars on the girl's face, suspected the man's domestic violence against her, who knew that the boy opened his clothes and cried: "She beat me Wow!" ”
Drama, real drama.
At the same time, a character was arranged, because the relatives were not saved, and they wanted to attack the attending physician with a knife, but were interrupted by Lin Zhilang's robbery of the doctor.
But because the ceiling fell, the doctor stepped forward to protect the pregnant woman, and he found that the doctor was actually a good doctor, so he said at the end: "I was going to kill you that day..."
This plot does nothing but show that the attending physician is a good doctor – something that is reflected in many other places.
Or is it actually the doctor who almost killed the good doctor by mistake is the real point of the title of manslaughter?
The human setting is forced, the plot is forced, and the reversal is forced, so in the end, the story itself and what the film wants to express can no longer convince me.
Seeing Xiao Yang's sad face and the supporting characters crying bitterly, I sat in the seat of the theater with only a cold face outside the matter, completely unable to move.
Because it has been played out so much that I have decided in my heart: this story is fake.
This also makes Lin Zhilang's family line appear sloppy and pale, all supported by the warm fragments of his time with his son and the last suicide note written to his son.
Don't ask, just ask, "You never know what a father can do for his own child." ”
But the emotions that the film wants to convey can be very strong.
A father in order to save his son, but by reality forced into a desperate situation, because of injustice, because of class, because of the corruption of officials and officials, even Lin Rilang in the play has been lucky enough, in reality, perhaps from the beginning, there is a heart-adapted information ordinary people will not know.
This should be a very worthy topic to discuss, but "Manslaughter 2" narrows this issue to a figurative person, and the effect presented is not the confrontation of two classes, but the confrontation of two people, and everything else is a tool person, resulting in the embarrassing situation that cool films are not like cool films, suspense films are not like suspense films, and reality films are not like reality films.
And the characters in it do not have any arc, how the beginning of the position, the final position is still how, but any character has a little growth, or a little digging, the effect may be different.
Maybe Manslaughter 2 really wants to explore something, but this little bit of depth is also eliminated in the buggy, forced gag plot.
If you want to see a movie recently, "Love Myth" is good, and we will talk about this one in a few days.