Accidents, lust, murder, this movie is not at all calm
This year is a big year for crime film and television themes, there are many good works in web dramas and movies, and the name of "Calm Wind and Waves" is flat, but it is turbulent in the dark.
Everything in the world has a skin and bone phase. The same goes for movies.
In some movies, the skin phase is very grand, but the bone phase is soft.
In some movies, the skin phase seems to be ordinary and gentle, but the bone phase is full of edges and corners.
The bone phase of "Calm Wind and Waves" is undoubtedly full of edges and angles, and the main creative team admits that they did not expect that a fictional story created in 2018 will collide with reality when it is released in 2020.
In 2020, the phenomenon of "college entrance examination top package" in Shandong, Henan and other places was reported by the media, involving more than 200 people. When I saw the news,
Director Li Xiaofeng sighed.
The story of "Calm Wind and Waves" takes place in the soil of Chinese society in the 1990s. The 1990s was a decade of great enrichment Chinese material life, when material life suddenly became richer and desire was released. So this decade was also the most turbulent decade of spiritual and spiritual turmoil.
It has both a hedonistic side, a free and liberating side, and at the same time, it has a very dull and painful side. People's values and ethical relations are undergoing fractured changes, and new things are emerging in an endless stream, which can't help but make people think, when will people's desires be released?
And in such an age without faith, anything can happen. Murder set fire to gold belts, repair bridges and roads without corpses. The fall of the characters in the movie is not completed at one time, in this process, everyone has a force, each link seems to be accidental, but it is inevitable, so that everyone's fate plays the final collapse.
A 15-year-old college entrance examination guarantee buried the happy life of many people, focusing on the human analysis of a past homicide case, straight to the darkest place in the heart. All are evil, there are no real innocents, everyone needs repentance and redemption, too real and too cruel.
Love and hate, love and hatred, under the brewing of time, became more and more intense, and finally turned into a storm that could no longer be escaped.
I exchanged the quota for me, and also exchanged the life without wind and waves. Illuminate the path of light for me, and illuminate the dead end of hell. It is not only Song Hao's family that has been robbed of his life, but also Li Tang, a rich man, who is a person who is wrapped in power and money.
In the movie, Li Tang pointed to the original location of his demolished home on the ruins of the demolition and said nervously: "This is a wall, this wall was originally full of books, I have read all these books." After reading the book, Li Tang became a small businessman, and with the guilt of Zhang Yu and the superiority of life, he became the complete opposite of the teenager who read the book.
The collusion between officials and businessmen to make a fortune must be based on the silence of the fact that seeking wealth and killing people. It's a transaction. I know about your son, I hide it from you, and I will give you a promotion. When my son went to school, you should not make trouble, and later my son took the land and did the demolition, and you also opened more convenient doors for me.
In the early stage of Song Hao's juvenile film, the use of shadows was very clever, using photography techniques to allude to "the greatest pressure of teenagers." Since he has no work and social experience, the focus of his life will be on his family and school, and the impulse of the teenager Song Hao will come from this.
If these two worlds do not put pressure on him, this character has no weight. So the movie needs to find a motivation for the teenager's fault, and that motivation is also Song Hao's "pressure", and the college entrance examination guarantee quota is top packaged.
After that, he ran away from home and fell rapidly, which was left blank in the film, and only vaguely told him to work as a carver in the quarry for fifteen years, and then the narrative fast-forwarded from the 1990s to the 21st century.
The quarry is a relatively closed environment, carved stone carving is a work that allows people to focus on the space in front of them, silence, self-closure, is the method that Song Hao uses to punish himself. He was crushed to the bottom by his own guilt, and he was also crushed by life.
But because of kindness, this former top student can still sink his heart and be a worker in a down-to-earth manner. For Song Hao's soul, these fifteen years have passed like this, otherwise where could such a young man who was originally kind and did not have too many impurities go?
A kind teenager who has been bullied, after fifteen years, obsessed with the search for the truth, even avoidant, he does not want to face his past. When Song Hao, who returned to his hometown for mourning, was unexpectedly reunited with his female classmate Pan Xiaoshuang, who had a crush on him in high school, in the face of Pan Xiaoshuang's fierce pursuit, he initially refused desperately.
Pan Xiaowen's vitality is embodied in falling in love with a guilty person. She is a bright color in the whole gray tone, she is a flame, a hope, in the almost desperate life. She is passionate, autonomous, independent and generous and flexible.
Song Hao has a sense of strength, loneliness and vulnerability merge in this character, he is hateful, pitiful and extremely attractive, but his gray-headed face has an indescribable sexiness. In the foggy story, the warmth that appears at first glance is the most moving.
"The Sea, Hometown" with cross-editing, renders the atmosphere extremely sad. Zhang Yu's performance is even more painful, and his interpretation of the different stages and levels of the role truly stands up for this movie.
The whole story takes place in a small county scene, the ending song is sung by actor Zhang Yu, in the form of a cappella mixed with dialects, so that the audience feels that Zhang Yu is 100% integrated into this movie at this moment, completely incarnated into the male protagonist of the film Song Hao.
The love passage is a very eye-catching part of this movie. All the changes in Song Hao's body were brought about by Pan Xiaoshuang. Only when Pan Xiaoshuang brought temperature to Song Hao, Song Hao slowly smiled. Song Hao is not a really cold person, he is just that shell is very hard.
Pan Xiaoshuang was too fierce, she clicked and pressed the barrier to smash Song Hao's car window.
She is a glamorous poppy that blooms in the swamp of sin, and the burning is addictive. The two sit in a leaky broken car, there is a sense of fragmented beauty, even if happiness is only a moment of greed, they must race against the clock to love.
The shorter it is, the more moving it is. The story that goes straight to the darkness of human nature, under the interpretation of the two, has the romance of the last carnival and the atmosphere of the breath of escape.
Pan Xiaoshuang's preference and obsession with Song Hao was the only flickering light in the long rainy night, but the cruel thing was that this light was extinguished before it could be lit up.
A tragedy of life caused by an accidental murder, the warmth of the family is also arbitrarily torn apart by power, again and again, even the father's love is twisted, and the protagonist can only stand on the side of the weak, longing for the comfort of love.
Entangled in affection, love and friendship, he is like a trapped beast ready to erupt at any time. Those eyes contained strength, forbearance, tragedy, and everything that a life could accept.
One day in the middle of the mountain, the world has been a thousand years. In the fifteen years since Song Hao "disappeared", the outside world has undergone earth-shaking changes. Zhang Yu staged Song Hao's "soul" in many details, for example, returning to his hometown from the quarry, Zhang Yu's eyes were always confused, an expression that was confused about the situation.
When he was a minor, he was isolated from society before he entered society. Back in my hometown, I was too strange to understand what was happening in front of me.
The cruise scene is "a play that examines this era and examines our hearts." Song Jianfei's fifteen years of encounters: "In the past few years, I have looked down at the smiling faces, the left and right are all the back of the head, and the upward looks are monkey butts." The scene ends with a heated conversation between father and son on board.
The standard of a good father is responsibility and authority, but where is his real power? Is it brought about by money? Originally confident that he could control his destiny, he was now humble like a grain of dust. So when he caught a glimpse of Song Hao running away from home in the middle of the night, Song Jianfei did not stop him, thinking that he would let him go, how could a child bear such a thing.
The control of the patriarchal original family in the West is the Oedipus king of ancient Greece, in the East is the contemporary Nezha, the father loves his son is unquestionable, but both people have involuntary parts, Song Jianfei is like Tota Li Jing, although the father and son are independent individuals, but this is their inseparable tragedy.
The ending of the film is like the middle-aged Nezha self-murder "Daddy, the child's life is returned to you". The first half of the sentence "For your own good" and the sentence "Grasshopper on a rope" determine the inevitable tragic demise. The long-oppressed father shifted the pressure on his son, and the entanglement brought by class not only did not fade with time, but fermented into deeper malice and hatred, and finally collapsed.
The teenager's worship of his father, spent in one thing after another, and finally came to the time of killing his father, which really made people breathless.
The film has a calm, restrained temperament from beginning to end, and social metaphors and reflections are always filled with a layer of shadows. It's like thinking that time can dilute everything, but when that rainy night returns, everything is back to square one.
The red and blue light dispatching of the police car, the dark red coat, the bright red restaurant, and the amazing voice-activated light scene are the best scene scheduling candidates of the year. Neon and dark night high-contrast scenes, torrential rain, sea tides and the dust of the carving factory settled, car washes, stairs and flames, the face reflected in the glass of the toll booth.
The color grading of the film is very consistent with the temperament of the crime film, the image style is very textured, and the lens makes the lust and humid heat very beautiful. All the characters in the scene have no core, dangling around, but they are extremely real.
I have to say that the play is indeed performed by people, and a good actor will bring you something completely different. In just one short scene per scene, the concentration is very high.
The shooting method is slightly better, but the story is downwind.
The acting school gathering of all the evil people, such a tough group play, the story is disconnected, it is a pity that such a good cast has produced such a sandwich movie. The second half is contrived, blunt, and fragmented, in addition to the omission and jumping of the narrative, the motivation of the characters' behavior is also inexplicable, just like a marionette.
The script was not handled well, it was too dramatic, and many social reality problems such as collusion between officials and businessmen, forced demolition by real estate developers, naked officials, and the replacement of guaranteed places were included, and the two murder cases were used to collude, but there were not enough elaborate places in many details.
The name "Calm Wind and Waves" has a lot of meaning.
Like the calm sea on the surface, you can't see how many undercurrents it hides, and there are some people who live in the undercurrents that do not see the light. The turmoil of his youth affected his life, but no matter how indifferent people are, there will be some soft corners in their hearts, and there will always be some persistent faith, which will be taken out to sustain themselves in the most difficult moments.
The poet Ahuda Yemihai wrote: "To live is to build a boat and another dock at the same time." Set up that pier, long after the ship sank. ”
At the end of the film, when Song Hao wakes up, the smile of riding a motorcycle is a kind of man's relief and heroism, and it is the highlight moment of the bravery and frankness of the teenager becoming a warrior. That kind of southern coastal temperament, rushing to the face. The breath of the "Sea Breeze Boy" hides poetic realism.