Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun, Wang Chuanjun and Huang Lei, what are their characters' names in Nameless? After watching the movie, no one can say it, only vaguely remember that Tony Leung is "Mr. He", Zhou Xun is "Miss Chen", and Wang Yibo was not even called out by name in the 128-minute movie, only "Ye" written on a letter of appointment.
It doesn't matter who they are, when the mountains and rivers are broken and the country is in danger, the strange Shanghai is like a horse lantern, the lackeys of the Wang puppet regime, the weak traitors, and the "wall grass" who follow the changing position, and all kinds of characters take turns to play. All the characters in "Nameless" are symbols in the big time, and the real lurkers in the dark night are among them, the hero is nameless, but he single-handedly turns the tide of the war.
At the beginning of the movie, Tony Leung knocked on the door of a hotel, smiled and talked with the "abandoner of darkness and light", polite, with a faint sense of oppression in his words... Just sitting and chatting, his eyes, expressions, small movements of unscrewing the cap of the pen, and even every wrinkle on his face are stories. As the actor at the top of the pyramid, Tony Leung has been dormant for too long, and finally a movie can return to the peak of acting, he is too suitable for this complex character with a lot of white space, the performance is accurate, if the director does not give clues, the audience will not even be able to see whether this "head of the Wang pseudo secret agency" is evil.
Tony Leung's role as "Mr. Ho" is elegant, in the movie he is dressed in a suit and shoes, and his speech is Sven, even if the Kuomintang agents captured by the interrogation are pleasant, so he is comforting. He is like the main color in the movie, director Cheng Er tells a cruel story with a "gentle voice", the big Shanghai in the shot is retro warm colors, the people in the dance hall are brightly dressed, and BGM is a soothing symphony, all of which are in strong contrast with the blood stains in the secret service cave and the scorched earth after the bombing of Guangzhou.
The stray dogs injured in the bombing, the majestic military dogs on the Japanese bombers, the barking wolf dogs in the Wang pseudo prison, the rare direct torture and shootouts, and even the Chinese people killed by the Japanese army in cement pits died in silence.
Director Cheng Er said that "Nameless" is a "super commercial film", but apparently not, commercial films have no threshold, and the timeline is generally in the order 1-2-3, "because ... So". He used the technique of literary films to tell a spy war story, with distinct personal style and aesthetic characteristics, using a large number of interpolations and flashbacks, constantly switching between several time and space in 1938, 1941 and 1944, one moment is 3-2-1, the other is 2-1-3. The "traitor" in the movie is suspected to have been eliminated, but the camera turned, and the door opened and walked in.
At the beginning, the audience saw the beautiful Kuomintang agents who "moved their emotions and led to the failure to assassinate Wang pseudo-high-ranking officials", the Japanese soldiers who bragged together that they were "dukes", and the breakdown of negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Japanese army in 1944, maybe they were a little confused, and they didn't know what they had to do with Shanghai's treacherous secret game. "Nameless" is like a sprinkled bead, seemingly scattered, but in the end all the key points are connected, you will understand why the underground CCP members in the darkness are "unsung heroes", at the moment of life and death of the country, they do not hesitate to cover comrades with their lives to continue to lurk, "Nameless" accelerated the demise of the Japanese invaders.
Zhou Xun does not play many roles in the film, but it is a very important part, the biggest mystery of the whole film: who is the "lurker"? It was revealed by Miss Chen, an underground communist traffic officer played by her. A good actor can be impressive even if there are few scenes, and she and Tony Leung's only rival play is a masterful move, and the sentence is wonderful.
And Wang Yibo was reborn this time under the tutelage of Cheng Er, he and Wang Chuanjun were well-dressed, a bearded, a tight, and a loose, and was said by netizens to "perform the effect of Dumb and Agua". Wang Chuanjun is a powerful actor who won the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actor, Wang Yibo caught his play, and almost all the big scenes of the action scenes in the film were on him, and Tony Leung's final "life and death battle" was fought to the flesh and hearty. This time he can finally be called an actor, not just a traffic star.
I have to say that this is an unusual main theme movie, listening to the thunder in silence, the pictures, colors, and scenes are extremely exquisite, and the key time points and characters are consistent with history. It is like a cup of clear coffee, the aroma is tempting, but the taste is not loved by everyone, and those who appreciate it will be obsessed and repeatedly reminisce.