In the name of Hua Tsai's starring and supervising producer, Yi Xuanjun went to see "Blood Choir" last night.
Unexpectedly, during the process of watching the movie, I seemed to wear Li Chengru's soul, possessed by "Three Ru", unable to help myself...
Some netizens said that watching this movie can be embarrassing enough to cut out a movie theater, then my toes can be cut from the floor of the movie theater on the third floor to the foundation of the mall.
Who would have thought that with Andy Lau escorting and escorting Lu Guanting, Lei Songde, Guan Lijie, Xie Junhao, Li Lizhen and other veteran Hong Kong stars to help perform, the theme is the main inspirational and warm teacher and student story, can actually be filmed into the current color?
The plot of the film is very simple, Andy Lau plays a well-known choral conductor invited from the United States, returning to Hong Kong to teach a group of problem students to learn choral chorus, and finally participating in the competition.
Lo Guanting plays the principal
One of the main points of interest is the interaction between teachers and students. It is nothing more than how stubborn the students are at the beginning, and then under the careful teaching of the teacher, they change their hearts and grow.
Another big attraction is definitely music. After all, it is a choir class, and there are few good songs that cannot be said.
This kind of "music + education" films, there are many successful cases in the Chinese and foreign film circles. For example, we are familiar with "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class", "Life Is Beautiful Because of You", and Aunt Mei's "Strings Move My Heart" playing the violin. In Hong Kong, there are also classic works such as "McDougall When I Am With My Heart", which is very touching, whether it is teacher-student love or music.
So before watching "Blood Choir", my expectation is that at least it can be filmed like the "Flash Girl" in the mainland in previous years, after all, this team still sounds very powerful.
But after watching it for ten minutes I realized, no! Right! strong!
"Blood Choir" combines all kinds of dog blood bridges, and the plot is chaotic and unreasonable, which not only does not move the audience, but makes people feel uncomfortable.
After thinking about it for half a day, the word "cliché" is the most suitable way to describe this movie. The whole film, whether it is plot, characters, audiovisual language or music, is very tacky and boring, clichéd, and there are too many hard wounds, making people play. In addition to the hard work of stars such as Hua Tsai, there are basically no highlights.
At the beginning of the movie, the plot has a feeling of being full of black question marks.
The teacher introduced these students, saying that this is "growing up in a single-parent family", this "parental tension", this "likes to play cosplay"...
I was speechless, when did family origin and hobbies become a student's problem? If nothing else, this description alone is filled with a stereotype of young people. Is it true that children who grow up in single-parent families must have problems and can also become the original sin of children?
At the beginning of the movie, the movie was troublesome, the teachers' brows were locked like a great enemy, I thought that these children were all chaos demon kings, and as a result, as soon as Hua Tsai appeared, the children immediately sat obediently, not even a small talker, and Hua Tsai said that they would do whatever they wanted, and there was no sense of rebellion. Where is this like problem students, key high school key class children are not so good to take, right?
The film points the root cause of the problems of these so-called problem students to their families.
For example, student A, he has a domestic violence father and a weak mother, played by Guan Lijie and Li Lizhen, who have not been seen for a long time.
Guan Lijie plays a domestic violence father
Li Lizhen, the peach goddess of the year, deliberately fattened up and dressed up ugly for not many scenes this time.
Li Lizhen plays a weak mother
Student B, who has an alcoholic dad, doesn't understand her two-dimensional daughter and tears up her poster.
Student C, he is not a problem student but does not know how to mix into this class, he has a domineering president dad, and finally do not know why he did not let him learn chorus, forced to send to the United Kingdom to study.
Xie Junhao plays the domineering president's father
Student D is a little boy with a big tongue, who is significantly younger than the other students, and the reason for joining this choir is also a mystery. His family was poor and had committed theft.
Just by looking at these introductions, you may think that the director is still quite attentive, and it also shows the educational problems that exist in many families. But in the movie, none of these children's growth clues can stand, often acting and breaking, and then do not know where to pick up. The most puzzling thing is that their parent-child relationship instantly improves without any plot push, if there is divine help. Of course, you can say that the music teacher played by Hua Tsai played a role in the middle, but in fact, he really didn't do anything...
Hua Tsai's education method, I summarized as "passers-by watching + chicken soup comfort". It is not obvious that he has a more in-depth involvement in the respective problems of these students, he is just a bystander, silently watching them happen, giving a hug, saying a few words of chicken soup comfort. As a result, all students are like being inspired by God, suddenly transforming and growing up in an instant.
As a choir, the film must show how Hua Tsai teaches them to sing, after all, according to the plot setting, they are not music students.
The film mainly shoots these clips:
The first step is to clean the classroom. However, the classroom we see on the screen is not enough to describe it in terms of spotlessness, so it is as clean as if it can be used as a sterile room, so where is the need for cleaning?
The second step is to play a two-person three-legged game to cultivate team spirit. There's nothing to say about this, just that.
The third step is to divide the high school low voice department and play the game of wind blowing.
After three steps, the children made a natural sound...
Except for the parts that look more professional, there is no other part of training music.
However, in the matter of spilling dog blood, the director spared no effort. The president of the choir competition with a villainous face just won't let their class participate, on the grounds that they are a bunch of problem students (?). ）。 So Hua Tsai rushed out in the pouring rain, stopped the chairman's car, and pleaded with the students, and the atmosphere was even more bitter than Qiong Yao's drama.
What's even more frightening is that in order to express a theme similar to "teaching and learning", the film has made up a previous history for the role of Hua Tsai, saying that when he was a conductor in the United States, because he could not accept the failure of the game, he developed a bad habit of drinking alcohol, and finally drunk driving hit people. Just at this time, he received an invitation from the principal to come to Hong Kong to reform the problem students, and he returned. What does this inexplicable plot have to do with the main line? Hua Tsai saw the progress of the children, and what is the causal connection with his final return to surrender and confess his sins?
Aside from the conclusion that you should never drink and drive, I don't understand what else it means.
Completely unreasonable plot is also counted, good evil is a musical film, there must be something desirable in music, right? No.
The choir sang two songs from beginning to end, one under the Lion Rock and one you raise Me Up. (There is also a Lin Zixiang's "Who Can Understand Me") I am not saying that these two songs are not good, they are indeed classics, especially the former has a very special significance for Hong Kong people, it can be said that it is a manifestation of the Spirit of Hong Kong, but to be honest, the two songs we have heard too much on various occasions, so that there is no freshness in the movie, so that I can only issue a sigh: "Ah, just this?!!" ”
In fact, how many Cantonese golden songs have emerged in the Hong Kong pop music scene for so many years, it is completely possible to reinterpret in the form of a chorus, singing from the beginning to the end, the effect should be good, why did the creator anchor these two songs, back and forth those few words?
The most embarrassing thing is that the choir competition at the climax of the ending, this choir added an awkward rap between "Under the Lion Rock" and "You Raise Me Up", that effect, really who listens to who is sour, too ugly. The words are also not well written, it is nothing more than an indictment of why adults look down on us children...
In fact, Lu Guanting and Lei Songde have participated in this movie, both of them are musical talents with many good works, and it should be very good to use some of their representative works. But throughout the film, not only the songs in the chorus part are very mediocre, but even the background music is very "canned", just like the "Art Life" that everyone ridiculed many years ago, often in the place where the director feels to be sensational - "the piano should be up".
Alas, although Hua Tsai is still so handsome and very engaged in acting, this plot and production are really impossible to swallow. I think Hua Tsai's initial participation in this film must have been with the kindness of nurturing local originals, and this inspirational plot sounds more potential. Finally filmed like this, whose pot is it?
Source Beijing Daily client · Art Bloom
Author and Editor of this issue: Yuan Yun'er
Producer: Zhou Nanyan
Process Editor Wu Yue