After two years, "Manslaughter 2" returns to the year-end Lunar New Year file again, while continuing the criminal framework and the core of family affection, it tells a new story: Lin Zhilang's son Worm needs his heart to survive, but the heart that treats the worm suddenly disappears.
Therefore, in order to seek the truth, Lin Zhilang hijacked the hospital and dug out the dark chain of service to the powerful, from the hospital to the health department to the police and the government.
Compared with the previous game, "Manslaughter 2" can arouse the emotional resonance of ordinary people. On the one hand, the view of small people against the powerful is more directly expressed; on the other hand, the father-son relationship is handled more delicately and resonantly.
The two films in the Manslaughter series both start from different angles and express the theme concept of "manslaughter". "Manslaughter 1" is Li Weijie's mistake to kill others, and "Manslaughter 2" is Lin Rilang who let others kill himself by mistake. Lin Zhilang and Li Weijie are small people, and they both choose to protect their families in their own way when they suffer from the injustice of fate, because in this world, the only thing they can really have is not their own fate, but their families.
At the same time, "Manslaughter 2" also enriches the theme meaning of "manslaughter" in content. Although the heart transplant of the worm was successful in the end, the worm had been killed twice by mistake before that. The first was the high cost of surgery, and the second was when the heart was brutally snatched.
If it weren't for Lin Zhilang letting go, the little worm would have already fallen victim to the high-level transaction. From this point of view, the theme expression of "Manslaughter 2" is actually very sharp.
Many details in the film have a narrative space that can be interpreted. Below, the behind-the-scenes jun will combine the theme, Easter eggs and details of the movie to sort out it specifically.
The FanDom complex is one of the most eye-catching elements of Manslaughter 1, and the feature of Manslaughter 2 has also been retained. In "Manslaughter 1", Li Weijie is a small shop owner who likes to watch movies and read more than 1,000 films; in "Manslaughter 2", Lin Zhilang is a film screenwriter who is good at making up stories and has a full of fandom complexes.
Both films have important narrative imagery throughneath. Manslaughter 1 is a sheep and Manslaughter 2 is a firefly.
The English title of "Manslaughter 1" is "Sheep Without a Shepherd", which literally translates to "sheep without shepherds", which can be extended to the meaning of a leaderless and rabble-rouser.
The sheep is precisely the key prop in the movie. Whether it is a sheep that is killed or a sheep in a coffin, the sheep appear in the movie as a scapegoat. Li Weijie, on the other hand, jumped out of the routine and became a sheep that actively chose his own destiny. Therefore, after the victory is exonerated, he will take the initiative to choose to turn himself in.
The English name of Manslaughter 2 is "Fireflies In The Sun", which literally translates to "fireflies in the sun". This English name not only echoes the firefly scene in the movie, but also metaphorically refers to the ordinary people represented by the Lin Rilang family.
Fireflies disappear in daylight but emit shimmer in the dark. When the wind and waves are calm, they are invisible beings, but in extreme circumstances, they can explode with great influence. Even if it is weak, it can illuminate the darkness.
There are three plans in the film, namely PlanA, PlanB, and PlanC.
PlanA ended with Lin Rilang saving himself and surviving. The ending of PlanB is that Lin Rilang exchanged his life for his son's life.
Whether it is PlanA or PlanB, Lin Richang will find ways to mobilize the enthusiasm of the media and the masses, guide the police to thoroughly investigate the hospital, pick up the "high-level" covered by the discharge party, and give everyone a truth. Therefore, whether using PlanA or PlanB, Lin Rilang's ultimate goal was achieved, and he won. However, PlanB is the worst ending.
The PlanC that appears in the Easter egg at the end is Lin Zhilang's beautiful imagination of real life, but it did not happen. Lin Rilang took blood once during his son's hospitalization and did matching tests for organ donation. This means that before Lin Zhilang decided to take the risk alone, he was already preparing PlanB synchronously.
When Anqi Li first appeared, her makeup was exquisite, and she did whatever it took to break the news. But when she kept the bottom line of the media people and exposed the truth regardless of life and death, she stood in the heavy rain, her makeup washed away but her heart was open.
Through close-range live broadcasting, Angel allowed onlookers to follow up on the hijacking scene in real time. With the continuous reversal of the case, the crowd of onlookers was excited and produced a strong centripetal force.
At the end of the film, the public anger is aroused, and the crowd shouts "the mayor step down", which not only highlights the influence of public opinion on power and the rule of law, but also echoes some scenes in "Manslaughter 1".
For the Manslaughter series, rain has always been a very important element in the film. Heavy rain washes the earth, which means that the truth is coming.
In "Manslaughter 1", Li Weijie's family flipped against the wind in the heavy rain; in "Manslaughter 2", Li Anqi revealed the inside story in the heavy rain, and Lin Rilang ended his PlanB with death in the heavy rain.
"Manslaughter 1" has a lot of lines out of the loop, and some of the lines in "Manslaughter 2" pay special tribute to the previous game.
For example, the sentence "Some children are children, some children are animals" in "Manslaughter 1", which directly hit the audience's pain points, evolved into "some children are children, and some children are not ordinary children" in "Manslaughter 2". Su Cha in "Manslaughter 1" violated Ping Ping and was a "beast"; although Long Dan's son in "Manslaughter 2" did not directly participate in the incident, he was "not an ordinary child" due to his special status.
In the previous work, Li Weijie once said, "I have no ability, I can't give you a better life, the only thing I can do is to stand in front of you." This line successfully expresses the helplessness of a low-level father. Lin Rilang in "Manslaughter 2" replaced it with the line "You don't know what a father can do for his children", telling a father's desperate gamble.
In "Manslaughter 1", the confrontation scene between Tan Zhuo and Chen Chong is impressive, and there are also two "confrontations" in "Manslaughter 2". One is the window confrontation between Lin Rilang and the police officer Zhang Zhengyi, and the other is the confrontation between Lin Zhilang and Long Dan on the second floor after the truth is revealed.
As a screenwriter, Lin Rilang, because he could not raise the cost of his son's surgery, was once spat upon by hostages after hijacking the hospital: "Aren't you screenwriters all very profitable?" At this point, another hostage immediately asked, "Do you know how many screenwriters NewMan has?" This dialogue, which can be regarded as the screenwriter borrowing the mouth of the supporting role, complained about the embarrassing position of the low-level screenwriter in the industry.
Most significantly, the Manslaughter series has adopted similar suggestive passages in advancing key plots.
In "Manslaughter 1", when the La Yun couple asked Li Weijie if Su Cha was still alive, Li Weijie did not speak, but just nodded and folded his hands to explain the result.
In "Manslaughter 2", when Lin Zhilang pressed Dama whether his heart was available, Dama did not speak, but only nodded silently with a dark look. This "silence is better than sound" implication setting not only makes the truth of the film heavier, but also reinforces the complexity of human nature.
An excellent film and television work is by no means just an entertainment attribute. It will tell the story brilliantly at the same time, with themes, Easter eggs, details to induce the audience to make more in-depth thinking.
And "Manslaughter 2" obviously has this function. Not only does it have temperature and depth, but it can also use characters and details to engrave the story into the hearts of the audience.
If you haven't seen it yet, the man behind the scenes suggests that you can go into the theater and see this meaningful movie. If you have seen it, then the king behind the scenes suggests that you can go to the second brush like me. I believe that after the second brush, you will get more moviegoers like me.