The four of us watched six movies during the Spring Festival, and the following are real feelings, neither pink nor black, and no interests.
"Manjiang Hong": An elaborate script kill
Originally thought it was a three-gun chowder: use the most popular traffic comedian at the moment to build a few acting schools, but what is much stronger than the three guns is that everyone is in the right position. Zhang Yimou's strengths are not only the picture but also the rhythm, there is no need to worry technically, because there is no good novel blessing in the script in recent years, there is always a breath difference, and "Manjiang Hong" makes up for this.
The play is turned over one after another, and the Blizzard Villa mode in an hour is talked about with a degree of relaxation, of course, there is the problem of excessive relaxation and dissolving tension, probably because there are too many laughing stars, and I feel a loss if I am not funny. At the same time, the audience who rushed to Shen Teng will feel that the funny is far from enough, but the overall flaws are not hidden.
Even if the good guys jump the police earlier, it does not affect the suspense. The screenwriter and "Sniper" are the same Chen Yu, but "Sniper" can be said to have no plot, and this story is extremely complicated. There is a plot that is purely my personal opinion but will be a spoiler, which I think is quite interesting. Qin Hui said to Sun Jun: When did you kill me? Sun A: When I saw the four characters of Jingzhong serving the country. But what I felt from Yi Yangqianxi's performance was when he heard Qin Hui say that he would kill two of his subordinates to sacrifice the flag. Everyone has their own cautions that may not be so bright but understandable, and everyone has their own weaknesses.
After watching it, I understood why Shen Teng said during the roadshow that he wanted to play Qin Jiayin, Lei Jiayin did not have many scenes, but the space for play was the largest. At one point I thought there was something wrong with his performance, but I understood his accuracy after the mystery was revealed. Shen Teng once again proved that his new drama path rogue hero is feasible. Zhang Yi also proved that he can play both Chunliang and adulterer. Zhang Yimou's selection criteria for male actors have always been to see acting skills, especially those who have been repeatedly used by him, except for the years when Zhang Weiping interfered, the actor did not drop the chain, if there is, I think Ou Hao is not very natural. This film can be summed up as a patriotic trap tragicomedy, and with my limited number of views, I don't remember that domestic films have the same genre. The setting where the villain is smarter than the decent breaks through the trap, and the decent wins badly in the end by relying on righteousness, which is also in line with the identity of the character.
Of course, there are shortcomings, or Zhang Yimou is not very good at the idea. The theme is still the anti-corruption officials that the Chinese people like are not anti-emperors, Zhao Zhi does not know Qin Hui Tongjin, do you believe it? Who is Yue Feifajin's biggest profit loser? Understandably, commercial films can only go so far.
"The Wandering Earth 2": A sci-fi film for grand narrative lovers
The evaluation of "The Wandering Earth 2" depends on what kind of viewing expectations to watch it.
If it is a commercial blockbuster, the viewing experience is not very good, the first 3 hours of film length is a great test of the bladder, especially 1 hour to endure the routine of outdated emotional lines, interspersed with at least three years of old terriers, such as straight men see the women they like at first glance to name their children, sweet and salty party disputes and so on. What is more detrimental to the experience than the length of the film is the dragging narrative rhythm, the frequent insertion of an elevated picture and straightforward sensational lines, almost no tension is aroused throughout the process, and even drowsy for a while.
If it is a science fiction film, then it is literally "good-looking", the scene design is very grand, the mechanical sense is strong, from the industrial level, do not feel that there is any gap with European and American blockbusters, 2D looks bright and eyes are not tired. In terms of the theme, through the newly added Andy Lau story line, try to explore the larger proposition: the boundary between people and artificial intelligence, what counts as living, etc., which may also be the excitement of the science fiction audience, although it is not new.
However, there are many times, the sci-fi elements are more like a visual background version, and the details of the narrative are not too deeply combined, and the design of small plot points often makes me feel unimaginative, such as Wu Jing's large hand-to-hand combat scene, and then a car accident that determines the direction of the plot, the reason is that the driver has to turn his head and talk to the people in the back without looking at the road, etc. Of course, I read various interpretations and knew that all this could be explained by MOSS's intentional design, but the point of the Easter egg was to double the original established story line, rather than patch the places that felt broken and degraded, making the second part a super trailer for the third part.
If it is the main theme movie, preaching and tear-jerking are two sides of the same coin, which completely depends on whether to eat or not: sacrifice in exchange for the continuation of human civilization; naming foreign characters "Nov"; The so-called "epic sense" of a determined, unblemished person delivering a slogan-style speech from the perspective of all mankind...
Overall, the film's strengths and weaknesses are clear, and it is unlikely to go wrong based on previous viewing tastes.
"Exchange Life": A family sketch that does not exceed the passing line
The director's new work of "Living Together in Time and Space" is not expected to be high, and he only hopes to watch a qualified family comedy. The first half of the story basically meets expectations, and the biggest highlight is still Lei Jiayin, a cold middle-aged lawyer, an innocent and inferior teenager, both souls have detailed performances that make people smile. Zhang Xiaofei's role has no room to play, and is forced into the old-fashioned story line of mother-daughter affection, which is a bit of a waste of her.
The first half of the movie is a sketch + urban fairy tale, if there is anything special to discover, it is that Lei Jiayin is definitely the CP sense of the middle-aged actor NO.1! Even if it is a bad drama, watching him and Zhang Xiaofei fall in love can really be sucked! The second half takes a sharp turn, and comes a dry land plucking onion-style value. Just hard, I thought that the Spring Festival Gala was replayed, all problems, all troubles, handed over to family affection and solved!
The line of action of the main characters is also unscrupulable, for example, the original problem of the teenage male protagonist was to go out to see the bigger world and live a rich life, after exchanging lives with unkind rich people, he suddenly had an epiphany, home is the best, family is priceless, don't want to go out to see! After reading it, I just want to ask him if his logic is not good, wow, this condition can't solve this result? I privately think that it is also very strange to set the main theme of the plot at this point, bluntly put the desire of young people to live a good life and family affection on the opposite side, equating rich and bad, and now the fairy tales for children are not written like this.
But if you don't care about the intention, don't reject the reunion of family affection overcoming everything, this movie can still be watched, which can be regarded as a passable commercial comedy.
Nameless: Tell the simplest story in the most complex way
I was looking forward to it before reading it, because I brushed a short comment saying that it was like the "Color Ring" + "Wind Sound" version of the "History of the Demise of Romance". After reading it, I said responsibly: at least from a commercial point of view, "Nameless" is completely inferior to these two. Like "The History of the Demise of Romance", it is still an intellectually interesting movie, and the threshold for viewing is relatively high.
The film adopts a multi-line narrative, with a lot of foreshadowing buried in front, various interludes, flashbacks, and then sequences, and the first hour is basically cloudy. The second half began to reverse one after another, and the front and back also corresponded one by one. Until the last shot of the film, all the details that make people scratch their heads in front are like a small puzzle piece, spelling out the final answer.
But this answer is too simple, right? Since Liang Chaowei let Jiang Shuying go, I guessed all the routines behind, and suddenly felt bored: Okay, okay, you know, you are all Communist Parties.
Telling a very simple "spy in a spy" story may be a pleasure for the detail party, but it is a great challenge for ordinary audiences. Who has the patience to sit in a noisy cinema for two hours to watch the grass snake gray line and the pulse of thousands of miles? I don't understand how dare to use the banner of "super commercial film" in the early publicity, either invite traffic as the starring role or commercial film.
As for Wang Yibo's performance this time, it should be quite satisfactory to fans. There are handsome, affectionate, and a sense of justice, as well as quite wonderful fighting scenes and tearful scenes that can be taken out to blow the "sense of brokenness". What was obviously timid and made me laugh was a rivalry scene with Zhang Jingyi, and when he said "we have a marriage contract", I immediately jumped to "the overbearing warlord fell in love with me". There is not much to evaluate the acting, I want to talk about his face, flat and smooth, no matter what angle the light is, you can't see an inch of rugged shadows. In the film, he stands with Wang Chuanjun most of the time, under the same light source conditions, Wang Chuanjun is a human being, and he is as pale and empty as a ghost.
"The Deep": Open "Fantasy Drifting of Youth Pi" in the way of "Spirited Away"
First of all, the front row reminds: it is not recommended to take children under the age of 12 to watch the movie, they can't understand and are likely to be scared to cry.
Like "Nameless", the first half of "Deep Sea" is very difficult, and you can only retain the audience with the ultimate brilliant picture, and wait until everyone can't stay up before you start to solve the unreasonable places in front of you. If I were to sum up the story in one sentence, I can't spoil it at the same time - it's like a dream, and it's still very touching to wake up for a long time.
People who can get this story may cry until they convulse in the cinema, and those who can't get it are more miserable, which is equivalent to spending two hours watching a children's version of "Fantasy Drifting of Youth Pi" with the opening method of "Spirited Away". In addition, many shadows of "Howl's Moving Castle" and "One Piece" can be seen in the painting style.
The acceptance of the painting style is also polarized, some people see the gorgeous, brilliant, ambitious, shining, suspected that the Milky Way fell into my eyes... But the other part is dark, twisted, rotten, ugly, nightmare material +10086. Not to mention the ugly fathead fish inside, the eerie eyes of the sea elves, the blood-red demoralized ghosts that cover the sky, and the clowns with mouths so big that they can swallow people in one mouth, which can accurately scare children into crying.
This is not an animation for children, but a dark fairy tale for adults. My younger brother in the third year of junior high school liked it very much, because he was tired of watching national comics based on myths and legends, and it was refreshing for him to see telling realistic stories for the first time.
"Chinese Table Tennis Jedi Strikes Back": Deng Chao + Yu Baimei finally passed once
No blowing or black, this time finally on the passing line. Although it adopts the most classic dramatic structure, there is not much surprise in the shooting of four levels and eight steadily, but with extremely low expectations, I actually saw a complete and well-opened family movie, and this Spring Festival file was finally completed.
This movie is perfect for bringing parents with them, and can quickly pull them back to the passionate era of the early 90s. Although the name of the character has been changed, whoever plays it can be recognized at a glance. Deng Chao's large gold chain, small gold watch and iconic oil head, imitating Cai Zhenhua, can be described as both form and god.
There are no problems, maybe the director is the national ball we are most familiar with with table tennis, so there is no detailed display of playing skills, game rules and formation. Unlike "Wrestling Dad", people who don't understand wrestling at all can know a fur about this sport after watching it, and people who don't understand table tennis after watching "Chinese Table Tennis" still don't understand, how did the arc circle ball repeatedly mentioned in the film come out? The rendering of contradictions between China and foreign countries is also a little too much, don't we often say "friendship first, competition second"? More friends are better than more enemies.
The above is our personal evaluation of the six movies in the Spring Festival file, our evaluation and Douban score may be quite different, but the film review is from the heart, according to their first perception in the dark theater, not influenced by others after coming out.
Overall, the quality of this year's Spring Festival file is good, because the general audience will not watch it all, it is enough to select two films, I believe that the box office will boost the confidence of practitioners. But I want to digress, there are many abnormal stars in the Douban short reviews and ratings of "Nameless" and "Manjiang Red", and it looks like the two traffic fans are fighting spirit. Experienced insiders can see at a glance that the fans are so uniform, organized and combatively "fighting methods", and the commander standing behind them is actually the film's announcement. If you want to fight, you can go to super talk fighting, interfere with the masses in places dominated by passers-by, and it is also very disrespectful to collaborators.
Finally, I would like to say goodbye to everyone in my old age. Although many people play the meme "all Chinese movies are finished", in reality I have not seen any filmmaker really lose confidence in Chinese films, and everyone is desperately trying to highlight the encirclement in their own way.
When a hundred flowers bloom, spring will not be far away.