Whether Or not Antoine killed his mother, the director said he deliberately did not give an answer
New director, debut, 2 million Hong Kong dollar budget, shooting cycle of 16 days, the final Hong Kong Film Awards 16 nominations, won the best supporting actor and new director, "A Thought of Ignorance" as a whole is very successful.
However, the rare theme and true news adaptation, the portrayal of illness and demons, does cause a lot of obstacles to the general audience, want to go to the theater to watch must be very frustrated, the film has been released in the mainland on April 7, to the deadline, the film was only 4.6 million box office in 4 days of release, continuing the poor results of the introduction of pure Hong Kong films.
Having said that, "A Thought of Ignorance" is indeed a good film, and the negative reviews on the Internet are mostly out of the category of "it is a bad film" to discuss the problem of film editing or theme expression, which is quite valuable for a debut work.
After all, in today's Chinese film social responsibility is extremely lacking, such a film depicting the living conditions of bipolar psychopaths and low-level civilians is too rare, not to mention the degree of completion is not low.
The film's script was praised by Zeng Zhiwei as a "good script once in a decade", and also successfully attracted Yu Wenle, Jin Yanling and other film stars to join in. There are even many fans who comment that it is "comparable to the masterpiece of "Manchester by the Sea"" and "better than "Deeper Than the Sea" in terms of personal resonance and 'closeness'". The Beijing News reporter interviewed the film director Huang Jin through email, and he also made a clarification of the details in the film.
Huang Jin, born in 1988, has a promising future.
<h1>origin</h1>
<h1>Met Zeng Zhiwei</h1>
Speaking of his acquaintance with Tsang Chi Wai, Huang Jin revealed that his last short film was the project "Macau Street" commissioned by the Asia Pacific Film Festival, and Tsang Chi Wai was the executive producer, "He also liked my other short film "Good Take". I think every day a lot of people show him the script, and my last short film gave him confidence, so he would watch it when he knew I had a script for a feature film. ”
The 35-year-old new director and best supporting actor
<h1>screenplay</h1>
<h1>All stories are alive</h1>
"A Thought of Ignorance" is based on real social news adaptation, Huang Jin said, "The actor also read a lot of information before the performance, we also prepared a brief history of the role for each role, recorded the education and experience from his birth to his growing up, just like Zeng Zhiwei's role is a Container Truck driver in China and Hong Kong, we also found a lot of drivers to do interviews, to understand the situation they faced in different eras, how to affect their livelihood, how they look at their families and careers, and then put into the brief history of the role, these are their preparations before the performance." The performances that the audience sees on the screen are just the tip of the iceberg, in fact, more character backgrounds and stories are behind to support their performances, and everything is real and alive. ”
Strong atmosphere of reality.
<h1>Casting</h1>
<h1>Why do actors get paid zero</h1>
Yu Wenle did not collect remuneration to star this time, Huang Jin revealed that this has nothing to do with himself, the most important thing is that the script and story make him like it, he also feels very interesting, "If the film can make some changes for the city, put some of what we want to say to the audience, he will feel that this is a more important thing than money." ”
<h1>Jin Yanling Qua Ah Le</h1>
Jin Yanling also praised him, "Of course, I have a high evaluation of them (referring to Yu Wenle and Zeng Zhiwei), especially Yu Wenle, I am very happy, he has this opportunity for us to see the other side of him, I often feel that the actor is like an unpolished gem, encountering a different role will make him shine differently."
Jin Yanling and Yu Wenle's rivalry is very painful.
<h1>Zeng Zhiwei played the man weak</h1>
What makes Zeng Zhiwei's performance precious and touching many people is that he played a "weak man", which is rare in Chinese films and even in the world. Because usually the men in the movie are heroes, very capable and unswerving, which is the expectation of society for men, but in fact, every man in life has a weak time, facing the pressure brought by the gender role stereotype of society, many men have accumulated a lot of grievances, or hidden the weak, uncertain side. Zhiwei's performance is to help the men speak their minds, he admits his weakness and overwhelmed, but everyone has seen the growth of this role, he attaches great importance to and cherishes the relationship with his son, so he continues to learn and dominate his life again, which is very touching.
I don't know how to be a husband, and I don't know how to make old beans.
<h1>Yu Wenle cut himself open</h1>
Yu Wenle's performance is another style, because he uses a lot of his own experience and emotions to perform, so he also said in previous reports that this performance made him very consuming and hurtful, and I also think that there are very few stories that can let everyone see this version, this state of Yu Wenle, not invented or taught by me, because this is all part of him. This time, for this work, he is willing to let everyone see his very insecure, weak, and sensitive side, which is definitely not easy. He had to be honest with himself and trust the team and the story to do that, and I'm grateful for that.
<h1>Title: Originally we were in love</h1>
Ignorance is something that cannot be seen, a thought is a thought, but a thought gives birth to a thousand thoughts, and there will be a next thought after a thought, and a thought cannot be seen clearly, and it may be that we have been going in the wrong direction. The play is also similar to the meaning, when we get along, there are some of the most important things that we do not see, we will hurt each other, but we are originally in love.
<h1>Original intention</h1>
We made this film because we wanted to use the film to see what we did not find and see clearly in our lives, and then show it clearly to the audience, and maybe we will learn a lot of things. In addition, the emotionally ill characters, in fact, are very similar to us, it is worth our thinking, if you use a movie to take the audience to feel these, it will be more impactful than we watch the news, that is what I hope to do.
The Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development of Hong Kong, Mr. So Kam-leung (first from right), visits the filming of the film "A Thought of Ignorance". - Why don't you give more money?
<h1>Shoot the dilemma</h1>
The most difficult thing is that we have no funds, no time, we only have 2 million Hong Kong dollars, a lot of choices and processing to think about for a long time, make a lot of decisions. A lot of the processing of this movie is also relatively simple, simple is not a bad meaning, we (need) to think about some important things before implementing. Therefore, "A Thought of Ignorance" will be more different than other movies, we did not use special techniques when we filmed, I like that the audience has more space to think.
The specific cause of Jin Yanling's death is a mystery
<h1>Did the mother kill him? </h1>
It's not that everyone can't understand it, I want the audience to think about it, in fact, Ah Le himself doesn't know which version it is, whether it was an accident, or whether he really wanted to kill his mother, so it was better for him. This is the very dramatic part of this character, different audiences will see different ideas, I think this is a blank, is the more interesting part of the movie.
<h1>Open-ended ending</h1>
Maybe the movie doesn't have a definite ending, but the ending is on our own. The environment in which fathers and sons live in the film is caused by each of us, and how they end up is how we get along with others.
<h1>regretful</h1>
There must be some regrets, if there are more resources, I hope I can give the actors more space to perform, let the staff to play.
<h1>Next</h1>
The next scene is to make a genre film, and different types of films will reach different types of audiences and will make the information we want to tell everyone go further.
(Dictation: Huang Jin)
Written by Beijing News reporter An Ying