Song Jia is bold and proactive, and it turns out that men cannot refuse active women
First, let's talk about the atmosphere.
Youthfulness and adolescence are both very precious and fragile things, and in film and television works, it is often easy for top students to miss the submission and the college entrance examination. Driven by an unspeakable fate, "Calm Waves" portrays the dark and cold snobbish atmosphere of the coastal town, the hypocritical human feelings that are intertwined and undercurrent, and the panic and despair of the teenager who turns from an excellent student to a fugitive overnight. And the teenager who settled down finally plucked up the courage to dial his mother's phone, the concrete block of the stone carving factory swayed left and right, the teenager's mind also swayed left and right, the concrete block suddenly fell to the ground, startling a white dust, the teenager finally hung up the phone that had not yet been connected, gave up the opportunity to confess, and a teenager's heart was also dusted.
Zhang Yuicon was born with the texture of a hard layer of ice covered by layers of wind and waves, and the man who came out of the dust of the stone carving factory 15 years later has grown a beard, and a phone call that asked him to return to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral was also the funeral of his youth. It was supposed to be a short return trip, as the entanglement of high school classmate Pan Xiaoshuang became full of uncertainty. Until here, this movie can be called perfect, I thought that I would start talking about how the top student broke the puzzle and embarked on the road of atonement, but I didn't expect that he fell into a deeper abyss in the right and wrong.
That's where I'm going to start talking about the script.
I know that many people will describe Pan Xiaoshuang as a bright flower, a wisp of fireworks reflected in the eyes of an old boy with a hollow expression and apprehension. But I don't like this setting, Pan Xiaoshuang's love for the protagonist is a love that lacks logic, and likewise, the orphan girl left by the victim also lacks logic in her sudden closeness to the protagonist. I think the screenwriter may want to express that girls, regardless of age, are impulsive and unfathomable, and they are also deliberately entangled with mysterious old classmates and old men. But I really don't like to see the camera lust for two women through the perspective of an unfortunate old teenager, and it is also called beautiful - the entanglement of fate.
What's more, the protagonist's father also lightly explained the existence of his new family with "your mother also agreed, you have to leave a future for the Song family", and used a fluttering sentence "I went to the hospital to ask, it's a girl" to beautify his illegal behavior of fetal sex determination with concern for his son. I think maybe the screenwriter wants to show the traditional atmosphere in a remote small city, and the people with small power cover the sky with one hand. But these two episodes did cause me personal discomfort, and in this film, I felt very clearly that almost all men are fighting for destruction, and women are guarding and repairing. I even think that the role of Pan Xiaoshuang played by Song Jia has little meaning in existing, just to awaken Zhang Yu's character's desire for a better life, and finally let him destroy this good life and create tragic beauty for the sake of truth and justice. As a result, in the entire movie, Zhang Yu spent one-third of his time experiencing intense love, experiencing plastic brotherhood, experiencing the life of drunken dreams and deaths of evil forces, and finally found that TMD is not what I want, you scum who destroy justice!
I sincerely hope that when the screenwriter polishes the plot, he can realize that the female character is not a projection of the protagonist's consciousness, should not be a tool to promote the development of the plot, nor is it the object of the camera's gaze.
The brotherhood between Zhang Yu and Li Hongqi is also designed to be relatively empty, I personally feel that the editing has led to a lack of logic, and it is a pity that Li Hongqi contributed a very impressive "clown" performance in the movie. But I don't want to talk about it more.
Zhang Yu, Song Jia, Zhang Yanhui, Li Hongqi... It can be said that it is a very strong lineup, this movie could have been better, fifteen years ago I basically gave this movie a score of 9 + in my heart, very regrettable, I hope that the domestic film screenwriters who write realistic themes continue to cheer!
