The Lunar New Year is just around the corner, but until then, this movie really shouldn't be ignored. At the moment when the commercial atmosphere of the film market is strong, if a romance film or a network is ignored, it is forgivable, but at the moment when the action actors are broken and the director "dislikes" the director, the action movie should be cherished. In particular, such a film has two points of fragrance, eight points of jianghu qi, very wrapped in personal feelings and feelings of home and country, Zhao Wenzhuo starred in the action movie "Tattoo".
The story of "Tattoo" takes place in Longyan Town, a major salt industry in the southwest before the War of Resistance Against Japan. It tells the story of the member of the Green Dragon Society, the tattooist Ah Chang (Zhao Wenzhuo), who was designed by the Japanese secret agents to take the initiative to protect his daughter from clearing her grievances, but did not want to fall into a bigger conspiracy, and finally fought a battle.
The beauty of "Tattoo" is that it retains the protagonist's jianghu atmosphere!
If there is the best CP with the same action movie, it is "jianghu"! In the era of warlord division, gangs are also subtly deteriorating, less jianghu qi, more warlord qi. The same is true of the Green Dragon Society, although the rules retain the inheritance, including the "carved bones" in the "tattoo" culture, full of blood, but the personnel structure and temperament have gradually been assimilated, and the feeling between the brothers is "breathable", such as the inexplicable interaction between his wife and his eldest brother Chilong after Ah Chang's long absence.
Fortunately, in Ah Chang's body, including his two brothers Yin Yang Ren and Rotten Dragon, this kind of jianghu qi is like a tattoo, which cannot be washed away. Rotten dragons are like this, yin and yang people are even worse, when the dilemma of loyalty and righteousness is chosen, they and Ah Chang's "two-way rush", liver and gallbladder, good brothers do not need to say much.
Including the 2-point fragrant tattoo shot in the film, it can also show Ah Chang's freedom as a person, casual but there is a bottom line, and the ambiguity and teasing with Western women are full, and the "love enemy" Marco is jealous and full of little boys. It is completely different from the Oriental female Ying Ji (Xu Dongdong), although Xiang Yan is a clear position.
The display of this kind of jianghu man, the feeling transmitted to the editor, is a kind of action movie temperament that returns to the basics, and it is also a kind of compensation for the lack of male hormones today. In terms of vision, it has a sense of invigorating in classic martial arts films, the collision of action scenes and xiangyan, the long-lost jianghu qi comes out, especially like "New Dragon Gate Inn", and through the presentation of the jianghu, it traces the bloodiness and principles that the hero should have.
This tattoo artist is not too cold, and the line of affection sublimates the emotional core
The film grasps a tangled point very well, that is, Ah Chang has become "a person in the jianghu and can't help himself" because he was framed or his daughter became "people in the jianghu, involuntarily", but because of his own persistence, he also hopes that "my life is up to me", how to make the right choice in these two dilemmas, that is, to protect his daughter and be loyal and righteous, this is the biggest problem.
This is also a highlight of the film's brilliance, the film's preparation for narrative and emotion is not weak because of the action movie, on the contrary, through the front of the padding, the middle of the many interludes to supplement, so that the entire emotional line becomes extremely plump, the relationship between father and daughter from rupture to compound, and even in the face of danger, the clever cooperation, are completed without traces, water to water.
This emotional core of first suppressing and then rising will make many viewers useful. When I watched the movie, I remembered that it was a bit like "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", "Lonely Agent" or even "Justice", but the difference is that Ah Chang and Lan Er are father and daughter. Therefore, Ah Chang's protection has no accidents, all the secret protection, obscurity has become the right, passers-by protection has been upgraded to blood line maintenance, for this emotion to do enough thick support.
It is precisely because of this father-daughter relationship that Ah Chang has the answer that he thinks is correct, even if the consequences are serious, but he has found a balance.
Secondly, such a film is also very much in line with a social norm nowadays, that is, how left-behind children face their fathers who have not returned home for a long time, and how the strange father-daughter relationship warms up. I believe that many fathers will appear helpless, and children will be sincerely afraid, although they cannot experience the experience of the rivers and lakes together as in the film, but they can reshape their family affection in the play.
Finally, the point, the action scenes!
As the first echelon of action drama stars in China, Zhao Wenzhuo is as stable as ever in this regard, in addition to the sense of punching to flesh, the feeling given by the picture does not have any trace of chivalry romantic color, simply put, it is a knife and knife fatal. The wonderful action scenes also appeared in several famous scenes, Zhao Wenzhuo vs. the martial monk Yilong (playing Mr. Zhang in the film) and the final final battle, in which Zhao Wenzhuo's short sword defeated the Japanese saber in the gunfire. The idea of the two men's different tattoo concepts reflects in the details Japan's ambition to mix with the fish before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War.
It is worth mentioning that this small actor who plays Lan Er, presumably many viewers should look familiar, she is Pupu in "The Hidden Corner". However, it should be noted that this movie should have been filmed earlier than "The Hidden Corner", which was originally planned to be released in 2020, but it was shelved because of the epidemic. It is obviously not a wise move to choose to release the film at the moment, but it may also be a spirit that the filmmakers and the film want to convey together, that is, the courage to know that they cannot do it.
In fact, many filmmakers "died" of this sad feeling, and finally compromised to the market, but the editor feels that the performance of "Tattoo" in all aspects is remarkable, and it is really a bit unjust to achieve the current results. As an audience, we should also give a little confidence to domestic action movies.