The king of forbidden films, the man who has been lying on the hard disk for many years.
Back.
When "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind" was released, it was a small step for Lou Ye to step into the theater.
Now this film was fixed three years ago, withdrawn and finalized, and is also known as Lou Ye's transformation from a literary film to a commercial film.
Will it be a big step for him to go to the masses?
Lyceum Theatre
Saturday Fiction
Saying that this new film is a commercial espionage war is not accurate enough.
It is complex in type and not well collated.
The collection of secret agent assassination, performing arts entertainment, national hatred and family hatred, personal lust of commercial films, literary and artistic films, strange love films, everything accounts for a role.
But one thing is for sure —
This is a big heroine drama.
The screenplay is adapted from Hongying's novel "The Death of Shanghai", which tells the story of the star actor Yu Yan on the eve of the outbreak of pearl harbor, and the sudden return of the star actor Yu Wei to Shanghai, where all forces were divided.
On the surface, it is to find an old lover and director Tan Na (zhao Youting) to cooperate in a new drama.
Rumor has it that she actually came to save her ex-husband who was arrested.
The heroine, Yu Yan, has a very complicated life.
Orphaned since childhood, he was raised by his adoptive father to become a talent.
On the surface is a popular star, but privately he is a spy who affects the situation of the entire international battlefield.
Such a powerful and delicate character, only Gong Huang can hold it.
The opening of the film silently lays the groundwork for Yu's status and personality:
Just arrived in Shanghai was surrounded by reporters and fans, she was always a cold face, quickly got into the car, and at the same time took the newspaper peddled by the newsboy outside the window -
The headline in the newspaper was herself.
But in fact, it is not only the fans who care about her.
The forces of various countries entrenched in the Shanghai Concession were watching her every move, and even the phone in her hotel room was monitored in real time.
Fortunately, she only made one phone call, and it was indeed for director Tan Na.
Tan Na was pleasantly surprised by her return.
When the two got along, she did not quit, and he and his drama had been waiting for her to return.
Reunion, he did not settle the account after the autumn, Yu Yan said "you will not blame me" he chose to forgive.
Affectionate eyes never left her.
Late at night, a gray-haired foreign man sneaked into Yu Yan's hotel room:
foster father.
I haven't seen him for three years, and the father and daughter hold hands warmly, but they talk about cold topics.
He brought her a new assignment.
This time, the target is the Japanese secret agent Saburo Furutani (played by Oda Cejō). He came to Shanghai to hand over a new codebook to the Japanese military.
Meanwhile, look for his missing wife.
Yu Yan happened to look like his wife, and her adoptive father asked her to use it to get close to Furuya to get the latest code to interpret the Japanese battle plan.
In addition, there are some unclear positions of eyeliner approaching her:
A girl who claims to be a fan of the film, Bai Yunsheng (Huang Xiangli), always pesters Yu Yan and begs her to take her to rehearsals and learn acting.
There is also Tan Na's friend, Mo Zhiyin (Wang Chuanjun). A traitor who secretly served the Japanese, he also closely monitored Yu Yan in the name of investing in drama.
At this point, with Yu Yan as the center, a large network of staggered situations was slowly unfolding.
Well, there are enough forces and characters to appear.
The audience here has not yet figured out who is who, which country it represents, and is in a daze...
Lou Ye's trademark handheld lens shook again.
Before waiting for the bed play, the "boat play" came first, and the waves were terrifying.
Uncle Meat only bought a front row seasickness seat last night, and Lou Ye almost sent me away with the momentum of the camera.
Or high paste giant shaking picture quality
To make matters worse.
The café set acting on the stage always switches seamlessly with the café scene where the two people talk about love in reality, and the nesting dolls in the play are stacked, adding chaos to the narrative again.
It can be said that the first hour was slow-paced, the plot was rambling, and it was very unfriendly to the audience.
The elements of commercial spy movies are weaker, and some netizens even feel that "like the national script killing of dog blood".
So this piece is not good to watch, right?
emmm...... Nor is it.
Maybe Uncle Meat has a little more preference for Lou Ye.
Even if most people don't accept this film, I still feel that it has its own subtle design and hides a lot of the director's skills and emotions.
Commercial espionage warfare is obviously not what Lou Ye is good at.
He is adept at exploring personal emotions in a certain era context with the help of anecdotes.
It seems very big and very virtual.
The attention, however, is small and very real.
Erasing the strange feelings, the spies who are pregnant with ghosts under special historical events are no different from Lou Ye's previous creative motifs.
It's all about pulling desire back and forth.
In the film, Yu Yan and different men and women have intimate "lust" shots.
Holding the camera, with a secret personalization.
No one is as obsessed with holding the camera as he is, and the last time "Stormy Clouds" was shaken to the point of not being able to do it.
The bumpy shots show the pathology and madness of the characters under the strange situation.
At the same time, in the eyes of our audience, there is a sense of voyeurism.
Many people say that Gong Li and Zhao Youting have no chemical reaction to CP, like mother-son love.
In a sense, this handheld shot fills the emotional tension between them with a sense of formal secrecy.
They don't fit enough, not because of the actual age difference.
Gong Li, who is only wrapped in Qi bangs, scarves, and coats, can still see the traces of time, but the afterglow is still there.
And Zhao Youting? It is amazing that under the lens, he actually showed his eye sockets, which made the handsome man tired.
To put it bluntly, the old and young in appearance are completed through makeup and light and shadow.
However, the aura of this kind of virtuality cannot be changed for a while.
Gong Huang's aura was two meters eight meters, and Yu Yan was also a fierce horn that circled around all sides, and the tip of the knife licked blood, and the blood groove was worth a full grid.
Like the phoenix man who loves vanity in "To Youth", Zhao Youting played a weak man this time.
Tan Na is affectionate and very gentle.
But the shoulder can not carry the hand can not be lifted, in turn need to be protected.
And this kind of weakness is not only inferior in combat effectiveness, but also emotionally fragile.
Tan Na's setting is an infatuated man who loves Yu Yan with all his heart. However, Zhao Youting only performed the "sweetness" of an idol drama most of the time, but he could not feel the "infatuation" of this kind of long-lasting love.
The first time they were reunited, he couldn't help but want to kiss Yu Yan, and Yu Yan turned a blind eye and passed by.
He stayed where he was, like a wronged little daughter-in-law.
The only time she protected Yuyo, she only used herself as a human shield to block out the japanese who asked for a photo, and looked less like her man, more like her assistant or bodyguard.
There are only routine actions, and there is no "fire" in the eyes to protect the lover.
After the Japanese left, he cried, not like a distressed little boy, but more like a little boy who was afraid.
Yu Yan comforted him with a kiss and hugged him into his arms, and a tear fell at the right time to ignite the CP image of the Mandarin Duck in the chaotic world.
The aura of the actor himself and the energy given by the role have widened the distance between Gong Li and Zhao Youting.
Fortunately, there was a hand-held camera that was amazing and dragged back a little bit of them.
The rehearsal of that play-within-a-play.
When the heroine played by Yu Yan killed someone, she happened to be seen by the male protagonist played by Tan Na, who helped insert the knife into the enemy's body and pulled the heroine all the way to run.
The camera follows their backs and shakes chaotically.
Sweeping over the hand that was being held, it was the male protagonist who led the female protagonist to escape from the end of the world.
The frequency of shaking of the handheld camera, just like you and I followed closely behind in the first scene, the chaotic breathing of the chaotic lover, seems to be "seen" with the camera.
You can sense at once that their fate is bound together in that moment.
However, on the day of the real performance, Yu Yan temporarily released the plane.
Tan Na broke down: she didn't come back for me at all.
Is Yu Yan sincere to Tan Na or is he acting on the spot?
Uncle Meat will not spoil, you go into the cinema yourself to see.
Again, the film has another thing worth savoring, black and white image + low lighting.
Lou Ye said that looking for information from that year, most of them were black and white photos, so black and white images were used.
Not a few minutes, it's the whole film.
The audacity to this point is his fault.
Of course, without color distraction, black and white are more refined, and the level of manipulation of light and shadow is more tested.
When Furutani Saburo passed on the latest intelligence code to the Japanese military, the dense password projection on his face was more conspicuous, splitting his originally beautiful face. It is as vicious as a scar, implying the poison of war on people's hearts.
There is also another emotional line of Yu Wei, which is also more textured in black and white light and shadow + low lighting.
One of the most amazing characters in this film is the young girl who is close to The Vio, Bai Yun.
Compared with Zhao Youting, the tension between this female second and Yu Wei is not too strong.
When they first met, she graciously lit a cigarette for Yu Yan and said:
I know people who can help you get your ex-husband out.
Saying these extremely greasy words, but not greasy at all.
She was young and had a bob head.
There was also that earnestness, which dissolved some of Yu Yan's defenses at once.
Yu Yan took her back to the hotel to drink, and found that her comb was a small knife——
Sure enough, she was also a female agent.
After being drugged, she spoke in a daze about childhood, loneliness, and love for Viola.
Yu Wei left her overnight, in black and white, and the skin exposed after the white cloud clothes faded off the qipao was whiter.
Lou Ye likes low lighting, and even deliberately leaves a few seconds of complete darkness.
We are impatient and speculative in our temporary "blindness", participating in their dark emotional and desire game.
On the bed, there was a gentle touch and whisper.
When she woke up the next day, she went to the window and snuggled her head in her bosom, and the two were speechless.
At first glance, it was a bed play.
In fact, it is a highly emotional feminine trait that tests the heart, and builds trust in the chaos.
It is also necessary to mention Lou Ye's discussion of the theme of "lust".
Yu's task was to take advantage of Furutani Saburo's affection for his wife and obtain her intelligence.
To put it bluntly, it is to set up a situation and deceive trust.
It seems that Yu Yan is already a mature cold agent.
But unlike in other spy scenes, the characters always hide their children's private feelings for the sake of righteousness.
This is Lou Ye.
His films are always sensual, and that's exactly what makes him sexy.
In fact, Yu Yan and several characters in the film are pulled by lust and conscience.
In the spy war that is most jealous of trust, in so many unidentified characters.
Lou Ye let the spy war not only deceive, but also trust.
Why didn't Tan Na delve into Yu Yan's identity.
Because Yu Yan repeatedly stressed to him: Believe me.
If I disappear again, you'll go to our old place and find me.
And Tan Na also responded to the oath:
No matter what happens, no matter what changes, no matter what you see and hear, I will be here waiting for you.
How rare is it to never change in a chaotic world?
Lou Ye, or that Lou Ye.
And Bai Yuncao is not an unscrupulous woman to complete the task.
Whether it was being coaxed by Mo Zhiyin to "exchange information" with benefits, or being forced to bow by the overlord, she fiercely resisted.
Sleeping intimately with Yu Yan, she was not for the task.
It's out of genuine liking.
And Yu Yan also trusted her, and in a critical moment, chose to let her pass on the news for herself.
Once exposed, it will kill itself in high secrecy.
instead.
He should have been the most trustworthy adoptive father.
Eager to care for her safety, he visits his adoptive father in the middle of the night to talk to him.
Remember when Yu Yan stayed in the hotel on the phone and was monitored? Remember when my adoptive father entered the door of a viola room, for fear of being seen?
In fact, the adoptive father is a member of the hotel intelligence agency, and the person who spies on him is him.
He didn't have to be sneaky at all—acting.
He didn't fully trust Yuyo.
Who are the actors?
On the surface, Yu Yan is a famous drama star; secretly, she has to play the late wife of Furutani Saburo.
She is a double actress.
When they rehearse a new play, the scenes in the play and the scenes in the film are intertextual or even common.
It's a play within a play.
The "careful machines" on these scripts are novel, through the complexity of the superimposed scenarios.
Through these complexities, the value of trust is reflected.
What exactly is this film trying to say?
Come and see, lou Ye's works never end rain.
It's sticky, it's sticky, it's ambiguous.
This film also has a hot fire on the street, which reminds people of the distortion and cruelty of human nature in "Stormy Clouds".
The difference is.
Here, the emphasis is on the tearing of human nature by war.
The shaky camera resembles the turbulent situation at the time.
This head, the Snow White Legs of the Shanghai Girl in the Severe Cold, felt the warmth.
At that end, the big star Yu Yan was in the rain of bullets.
Lives hang in the balance, not to mention trust between people.
"Believing" in this thing is like experiencing a game like a dream gamble.
The film began in the isolated island period of Shanghai.
At the end, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima was reduced to rubble by the atomic bomb.
Changes in the general environment.
Perhaps, in a game of trust, a butterfly flapped its wings.
And in this story.
This butterfly is named Yu Yan.
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