Strange old faces immersed in the lens of Cheng Er
Look before: there are Tony Leung and Zhou Xun, it should be stable, you can give it a try.
After watching: The ear guide is so magical, what magic he made makes the actors I am familiar with so strange!
Although it is expected to be safe, it is boring, and it is worth saying that exceeding expectations is worth saying.
Under the training of Cheng Er, Wang Yibo's presentation of the role is remarkable, the "paralyzed face" is no longer a mockery, the cold and quiet face is extremely suitable for the forbearance and restraint of the character itself, and the body trained by dancing not only makes him look good, but also adds a lot of color to the scene, both strength and style.
The bonus of error-free performance + character charm will probably make a large wave of people turn fans to Wang Yibo in this Spring Festival stall.
Also surprising to everyone in the theater is the arrested female spy played by Jiang Shuying, under the makeup and lighting, she always has a sense of elitism and excess, she shows a rare softness and vulnerability, and has been developed into a different beauty.
What's more, this character is so flattering: the dialogue between Tony Leung and Jiang Shuying in the film seems to be the arrested Wang Jiazhi confiding in Mr. Yi, and Mr. He (played by Tony Leung) did not execute Miss Jiang (played by Jiang Shuying) and let her live, which is also like a gentle version of the ending of "Color Ring" in another time and space.
There is also Huang Lei, under the smudge of Cheng Erqiang's style, he miraculously took off the image of a variety show uncle who "cooks", "divine calculation" and "broken mouth", and has become a "weak person" with a warm temperament in the turbulent times.
When his big round eyes were raised, he could see that caution, anxiety, and panic flowed through them, complex and just right, one more point sharp, one less point idiot. For a moment, I really couldn't imagine that this revolutionary party with weak beliefs could play anyone other than Huang Lei.
So Cheng Er still has something, combined with Yan Ni, Han Geng, and Ge You in "The History of the Demise of Romance", his movies really have the ability to reinvent actors.
If you give up this film because you are not optimistic about the so-called top stream, it is unfair to the movie, and even more unfair to yourself.
The grass snake gray line can't be dug up, then "mainly look at temperament"
Many people say that the first hour of "Nameless" will be boring to watch, and the fragmented narrative, various plots and stacking of characters, it is really easy to make people scratch their heads, and only later gradually get better.
But it has a lot of stamina, and after reading it, I will sort out the fragments in my mind with the help of various comments and interpretations, just like playing a puzzle, I can't sleep without spelling a complete pattern, and I can only unconsciously cooperate with the director to complete the game of "scattering - recombination".
As one of the general audiences, I feel the same way about the second half of the above, until now, after watching it for a whole day, when I close my eyes, I will still jump out of various mysteries that seem to be unsolved, such as:
"Who is the dead man that the Japanese saw in the well?"
"How come the dim sum sent by Miss Jiang's mother is Japanese-style packaging? What is her background? ”
"Why didn't Huang Lei kill Zhou Xun?"
"Why did Wang Chuanjun rape and kill Wang Yibo's wife?"
"Is Minister Tang played by Dapeng dead?"
There are also a variety of small to terrifying details, including but not limited to:
Tony Leung's "Miss Chen" written before Huang Lei's confession indicates that he and Miss Chen have a long relationship;
Zhou Xun, who was hiding behind the door, suddenly turned her muzzle, indicating that she had received the message that she was "for herself outside the door", but she would continue to play tricks on the enemy;
The miner said, "We won't throw that kind of dirty stuff in the well", and the inadvertent "dirt" became a reminder that angered the Japanese army and was buried alive.........
I checked, and Cheng Er turned out to be not a Virgo! But how could he be so serious in detail?!
Face the fragments scattered in your mind, fight, get tired; If you don't fight, it's very uncomfortable. But I have to say, it's fun. Many people brushed "Nameless" in this mood.
When I watch Jiang Wen's movie, I will have a similar feeling, when I watch it, it is cloudy and foggy, but I vaguely feel that there is a hidden mystery and a deep meaning, what "Qingwen Daiyuzi", what "serious people who write diaries", what are they talking about? What memes to play? I want to know!
Even if my head was full of question marks at that time, I still watched it with relish, and then I had to fart to check the information and read the interpretation, and I was not tired of it.
The desire for knowledge is also a desire, and mysterious works with logic and dry goods can easily arouse this desire.
Is it a trap? Forget it, but obsession and love in the world all begin with throwing yourself into the net, and the cycle of life happens to need the adjustment of obsession and love, so why not?
At the same time, when watching "Nameless", I had a different experience: at the narrative level of the previous hour, I was indeed foggy, but I didn't feel bored at all, and I was still full of interest.
The reason for this is probably due to the appeal of the film's temperament.
Compared with the usual exaggeration and stereotyping of anti-Japanese dramas, in "Nameless", which also focuses on the theme of anti-Japanese spy warfare, all kinds of people are more like living people than tool people for war and propaganda.
There are many elements related to eating in the film - steamed pork ribs, mashed drunken shrimp, Japanese ramen, Napoleon cake... Although most of the hidden clues bear the function of promoting the plot and metaphorical characters' fate, and also spreading Shanghai's regional culture, it also adds a soothing and natural sense of life to this murderous story.
The agents also have to eat, otherwise how can they have the strength to engage the enemy and do tasks?
In addition to eating, there are various other types of life pictures in the film, such as Wang Yibo and Wang Chuanjun spitting smoke rings due to boring competitions between work. Oh, it turns out that the Wang pseudo-agent who kills without blinking will also play the childish game of men, and the cold-faced killer is instantly alive and plump.
There is also the scene where the Japanese army buried the miners in cement, before the bloody killing, everything was unpredictable, and in the fine weather of the wind, young Japanese soldiers rode bicycles together, as if on an outing, but the next second, they could do cruel acts that destroyed humanity.
War for ordinary people, may not be hot all the time, but a sudden thriller accident in ordinary days, when this level of horror accident in the life of ordinary people probability of happening to a certain extent, it becomes a disaster and nightmare recorded in history.
I like this way of showing seemingly ordinary and useless life scenes against the main context and strong plot, it makes me think that in fact, the black-and-white and concise history in textbooks only takes place in the gaps of life.
The innocent man who was killed may have just been working hard and looking forward to what to eat for dinner, and the villain may have changed his clothes and went to his father's birthday party to eat.
The capitalized and bold dots on the vertical axis of time are only a corner of history and by no means all, except for the shocking, inheritance of the past and the future, those dense small scales are buried in the most true appearance of people and the most profound background of history.
Reflection is greater than promotion, and winning or losing is losing
Although it is the main theme of suspense, compared to revealing everyone's identity and stamping the seal of good and bad positive and evil, Cheng Er's lens is more willing to probe into the depths of the characters' hearts and dig out the unbearable and messy under the brilliance.
For example, the above-mentioned Huang Lei, who played Mr. Zhang, a person who defected to the Communist Party and threw himself into the Wang puppet government, when asked why, he said: I am a weak person who cannot adapt to the era of great change.
In the face of his colleague Miss Chen's questioning, he said the same thing: I am a weak person, I have done enough about revolution and history.
Traitors are always despised. For the original owner, his "living as he pleases" comes at the expense of the lives of his comrades, and cannot be described as unselfish and mean; To the new lord, his loyalty is doubtful, who dares to say that this dog will not wag his tail at others another day?
But Mr. Zhang's cowardice and retreat are so pitiful. In troubled times, how can a traitor not be a duckweed who cannot control his own destiny?
Just like the stray dog at the beginning of the film, skinny, messy hair, and lame on one leg, hiding in a bomb shelter when it rains, as long as it doesn't rain, it doesn't care whose territory it is;
In order to drive it away, the soldiers threw a piece of meat outside, and in order to satisfy it, it also limped into the rain, embarrassed and hard, and had no choice.
However, God did not even give it a chance to worry about the next meal, and after a while, the dog died in the shelling.
People are the same, whether they lose their dignity or their lives, they are only expected or unexpected results, and their original intention is only to live and live as well as possible.
Not everyone can embrace faith and not change their original intention after testing, let alone accurately predict the general trend of history. Either because of weakness or distress, perhaps a thought that comes back one night in a midnight dream completely changes the direction of life.
You and I stand in God's perspective and know that it was an eight-year war of resistance, but for those who are in it, what they see when they raise their eyes is endless darkness, and the dawn of victory is far away.
Wang Jingwei was also a "weak man", he was afraid of war and advocated "anti-communist good-neighborliness", but he also once wrote the impassioned sentence "lead the knife into a fast and live up to the young man's head" after being arrested and imprisoned for assassinating Zaifeng.
The radical wing of the revolutionary party who was a young man eventually became the leader of the traitors, and only he knows the mental journey of this.
Unswerving faith is itself a luxury to survive in the world, and what can be owned is always a few.
Wang Chuanjun in the film, he and Wang Yibo said a golden sentence when they spit smoke rings in the competition: "People are born for politics, and we are making a living for politics." ”
But when faced with the fact that his father lost face among relatives and friends because he was willing to be a Japanese lackey, it was difficult to hide his loneliness.
In fact, people without ideals can also be sad.
In peacetime, it is difficult to escape mental internal friction, and in chaotic times, how can the so-called self-consistency come so easily?
There is also the wall-riding faction represented by Minister Tang played by Dapeng, what ideals, what isms, respecting the general trend, seeing the wind to steer, and swinging forward is their way of survival. And even such a refined and self-interested "time-savvy" did not end well.
Like another dog that appeared one step ahead of the stray dog sheltering from the rain, its owner was a Japanese soldier, he had shiny coat, a strong body, an aviation hat, goggles, and a resounding name - Roosevelt, so awe-inspiring. But in the next second, it was just the same as that same kind, turning into smoke and dust in artillery fire.
On the one hand, there is a good calculation, on the other hand, the impermanence of fate, and being the ultimate winner in the midst of war may have been a pipe dream. It seems that the smartest people who are most aware of current affairs are precisely the most delusional.
What about those who seem to have won?
Mr. Ye, played by Wang Yibo, experienced life and death disasters, survived to victory in resistance, and then moved from Shanghai to Hong Kong, incognito, living an ordinary life alone, family, lovers, friends, all no longer around.
The past turned into a long silence when asked "who else is in the family" and a tear in the corner of the eye when worshipping the deceased.
Summary
Also involving suspense, the same involves the choice of ideals and personal interests, compared to the burning of "Manjiang Hong" and the grandeur of "evil does not suppress righteousness", the overall tone of "Nameless" is obviously sad and gloomy, the further back you look, the less important it is to lose and win, and compassion for all living beings gradually spreads.
It's like a panoramic overhead shot that appears many times in the film, a whole city, so many people, like ants, waiting for an unknown trial.
That is the real emotional field that once existed in history, and it is also a spiritual imprint that should not be forgotten by the nation even if it has long entered the era of peace.
The cruelty of war is much greater than we think, and only by knowing its tragedy can we know the difficulty and greatness of the unknown people, and cherish today's peace more.
Let's cheer up in 2023, it is said that the world is difficult, but throughout human history, this may be the best era.
Author: Miss Bovary
Follow me and read people's hearts and understand the customs in the entertainment world together.