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Note: This article contains serious spoilers
The most unexpected "rollover" in the Spring Festival stall was turned over in the hands of Han Han, the director who can drive the most racing cars.
In addition to the most anticipated super blockbuster "Chosin Lake Watergate Bridge", "Four Seas" was firmly in the second place at the box office on the first day of the New Year. Han Han has continuously competed in the Spring Festival slot, although "Korean humor" is not always the biggest winner, but there is laughter and expression, texture and feelings, and different audiences can find their own high points in their films, which is a director with stable output and reassurance.
Poster of "Four Seas"
But this time, Douban scored 5.6, and "Four Seas" became the lowest-rated and only "failed" movie in Han Han's directorial career.
"Four Seas" is not a bad review, the audience that likes him still has it, but this movie is indeed unfriendly to most of the audience, and this unfriendliness is not the kind of aesthetic obscurity, or the high coldness of the expression of the issue, but Han Han's narrative gives a kind of anti-genre anti-climactic narrative from beginning to end. In other slots, this movie may have another room for fun, but in the Spring Festival, a time when the people of the whole country have never needed "positive energy", "Four Seas" will make people "doubt life".
Some people say that "Four Seas" is Han Han's youth pain literature, some people say that "Four Seas" is a funeral film, and from a textual point of view, "Four Seas" is indeed a film full of "anti-bones". It is anti-cinema genre in form, anti-climactic narrative in rhythm, and anti-chicken soup in terms of issues.
Stills from "Four Seas"
In the stage of watching the trailer, the author once thought that "Four Seas" was a motorcycle version of "Flying Life", and the theme of teenagers plus motorcycles was naturally a period of explosive burning years. And the island style and various partners, coupled with Han Han's previous films almost have the elements of road movies, it is easy to imagine "Four Seas" as a motorcycle teenager Liu Haoran, riding on the motorcycle, meeting the beloved girl Liu Haocun, and making friends with Yin Zheng, Zhang Youhao and other young people, with the support of shen Teng, a father who is unreliable on the surface but still hot and upright in his heart, overcoming many difficulties and finally galloping to find the story of self and glory.
Liu Haoran as Wu Renyao
However, even though the genre elements of this film are complete, and basically unfold the lives of these characters in such a framework, Han Han tells this story a "thin piece". All the stories that seem to be full of spirit turned out to be "accidents". Disassembled into paragraphs, each paragraph of the narrative is directly poured with cold water when the climax is coming.
For example, Liu Haoran first showed his driving skills in the first motorcycle race, more than one opponent, over a heavy obstacle, seeing the finish line in front of him, the beloved girl for his eyes shine, about to cross the line, the reverse pig teammate directly cut off the heroic teenager's championship journey.
Yin Zheng as Zhou Huange
Another example is Zhou Huange, played by Yin Zheng, who is a happy but unreliable second-rate big brother, he set up a motorcycle team with his little brothers, the little brothers are not good at cooking, and he has not shown any driving skills at all because of his leg injury, and he opened the first nightclub on the island seems to have unlimited scenery, and he looked back and found that it was a pit sister pit friend who owed a bunch of loan sharks. After drinking a big wine with Liu Haoran, who was full of heartfelt words, the sky was wide with bold words, and the soul of the middle two who "men are teenagers to death" burned fiercely, and their lives came to an abrupt end in the blink of an eye.
In order to help his sweetheart repay the loan shark, Liu Haoran blocked all his wealth and "went out" again, and the professional senior player played by Chen Xiaochun was a competitor on the one hand, and a talent on the other hand. There is also warmth in the wonderful excitement of the mountain road cornering, and the coach-level racing object makes people think that the wild player Xiao Liu is going to harvest a good master to embark on a higher career development path, and as a result, after a turn, it is the ruthless traffic police who will stop the game abruptly, and the master will take him to "see the world" The task will not end with the payment of the ticket.
Shen Teng (right) as Wu Renteng
Not to mention that the father recognized the wrong son as soon as he appeared on the scene, the male protagonist confessed the scumbag lyrics released by the first song on the street KTV, or the vignette of the first "open room" after leaving because "no morning" did not even enter the room. Huang Xiaoming, a big celebrity who thought he had made friends, found that he was just a frustrated person in another world who was difficult to protect himself; the spiritual idol he had worshipped for many years was ultimately just a famous fishing person who wanted to regain his attention by relying on a stand-in; the beloved girl desperately wanted to give a gift, paying the price of her life in the mouth of the perpetrator "I don't know what it is", the teenager desperately made a desperate leap, and the best ending was to "do it well as if it wasn't done".
Therefore, when the motorcycle flew over the Pearl River challenge, it gave people a strong premonition, which was doomed to not succeed, because in the process of the whole movie, from the big events to the small cutscenes, the director was "punching" everyone in the face again and again.
But the leap of the gallop, still makes people's blood boil, that kind of doomed to be nameless, only for their own love and for the people they love to do their best, may be the most precious part of the young heart.
Ke Shouliang's flight to the Yellow River is really a legend of revealing age. But small-town youth and nostalgic wind are very han han. Or the father-son relationship that runs through, or still indulges in buddy righteousness, or chases speed and passion, or likes a pure face of harmless first love girls, or is full of harmonic stems that can be split into countless cold jokes, Han Han seems to have been shooting the same movie, but "Flying Life" is the youthful dream of middle-aged people, and "Four Seas" is the vicissitudes of teenagers.
Motorcycles have clutches, life has sorrows and joys, "four seas" have not been leveled, and "four seas" have no home. Many times, young people want to go outside to see the world, and Han Han tells a sad story that he thought he was going to embrace the world and finally read the prosperity but had no return.
Han Han on the set of "Four Seas"
The whole movie is rambling, and the clues you think are always broken when they are talked about, such as father-son love, such as the team, such as motorcycle dreams, and even such as love, every part of the line that you think is the main line will be broken and disappeared. This is also the reason why many people watch this movie, obviously the plot can be seen clearly, but they see a kind of "unknown" meaning. However, this is actually another movie that has been "spoilers" for a long time, and a bedside copy of "Maggie's Gift" exposes the theme buried in this story cleanly - two low-level love men and women, for each other,Pay their most precious things, in exchange for what they think is a gift that makes each other good, but they do not know that such a gift has long lost its meaning.
Zweig said, "She was too young to know all the gifts of fate, and she had already secretly marked the price." ”
Therefore, the disassembly of the text of "Four Seas" is a whole collection of anti-chicken soup encyclopedias, which is actually quite interesting. However, in the Spring Festival file, so from beginning to end all-round "offending the audience", the big New Year's Day, can only say that Director Han Han, or the "seven red lights illuminate my future" rebellious teenager ah.
Editor-in-Charge: Zhang Zhe
Proofreader: Shi Gong