Rest assured, as soon as Dapeng's new film comes out, why do Chinese movies have no future?

The Spring Festival file has passed, and although the domestic theaters are still lively, there is one less movie in the town.

At this time, a domestic film appeared as a dark horse.

As early as last year's Hainan International Film Festival, this film received a lot of praise as the opening film.

After the roadshow opened at the end of February, it received rave reviews and exploded word of mouth.

First, he came to the capitals of the three eastern provinces and Taiyuan Zhengzhou and other northern cities, and was warmly welcomed by the audience.

"Movies are more than comedy, they contain a lot of deep reality."

"A work of conscience of filmmakers."

After that, the film also opened a special session in colleges, followed by the Beijing premiere, all of which received a good reputation.

"Through simple little things to outline the brilliance of human nature and the bottom line of being a person, although the story is simple, it is full of stamina!"

"A good film with laughter and tears!"

"Another amazing work by Dapeng, more funny than "Pancake Man" and more touching than "Sewing Machine Band"."

"Funny is not tough, and tearful is not sensational."

"Laughed well, but ended up crying."

In short, everyone laughed and cried, and it was all from the heart.

If I want to say, with the quality of this film, it can already be directly booked as one of the top ten domestic films of the year this year.

Well, don't sell it, this new film with a burst of word of mouth is a movie written and directed by Dapeng

"Keep You Safe"

The story of "Keep You Safe" is drawn from the protagonist Wei Pingan.

Wei Ping'an, known as Brother Ping'an, was originally a cabaret owner and is now a cemetery salesman.

He has a first-class kung fu and has won many sales championships, but on this day, something happened.

One of his former clients was asked to move his grave.

Originally, "the dead are great", but the matter of moving the grave is not so simple.

This customer is called Han Lu, who is a recent local news figure.

Because she donated all her savings of 1.36 million yuan to a children's welfare home, she was called "naked donor sister".

But it was this donation that brought trouble.

I don't know when and where to start, a rumor appeared:

Naked donor sister Han Lu is a lady sitting on the platform, and her money comes through this.

Originally, a rumor without a beginning and no end spread more and more, and the influence became deeper and deeper, and then it was known by President Feng.

Who is Feng?

She is a local real estate tycoon who owns many plots of land, and the park where the cemetery is located is her land.

The one who proposed to move Han Lu's grave was President Feng.

Because it was Mr. Feng's younger brother who was buried next to Han Lu, she was affected by rumors and did not want such a "tainted" person to be buried next to her brother.

On the other hand, Han Lu's orphan life also adds a lot of "convenience" to this operation.

According to the regulations, the consent of the family is required to move the grave, and she has no family members.

Just like in the film: anyway, she has no family, she moved, who knows?

But Wei Pingan felt that he couldn't.

Judging from his brief contact with Han Lu, he felt that Han Lu was not that kind of person.

So he came to the door and sincerely explained: Han Lu is her customer.

Unexpectedly, the other party came and said: I see that you are her customer.

yes, the conversation is dead.

In the end, through a game, he asked President Feng for 4 days to let him investigate the truth of the incident and return Han Lu's innocence.

In this way, a story of "refuting rumors and running off legs" officially began.

But the development of the story is not so simple.

As you can imagine, with such an absurd beginning, the process will also make people cry and laugh.

It's like the whole process of Wei Pingan looking for clues,

From the very beginning of the pet grooming shop, to the part-time dollman, to the haunted house to find a sister, pretend to be a private investigator, and finally chase all the way to Inner Mongolia.

Every process is full of drama, not knowing who you will meet or what accidents you will suffer.

Because he was disrespectful to a rabbit, he was touched with red spray by the clerk played by Yin Zheng.

In order to find a part-time doll, he rushed into the haunted house to find his sister, but before he could find it, he first scared the customers who came in to play.

There was a magical experience of him being misunderstood by his sister and Han Lu, and being carried to the hospital overnight to draw blood, so excited that he even tore his pants directly.

Look at this group of "ghosts" who have not removed their makeup, who does not say a word: absolute!

With him and his sister pretending to be private investigators, they can fool the big guy with a cripple by probability.

He accidentally entered the mountainous area without signal, and in order to talk to his daughter on the phone, he sat on the head of an old man on a horse to find a signal.

In addition to the comedy setting in terms of plot, simple lines are funny and body action humor movies are also available.

For example, Wei Ping'an introduced and explained himself several times, which was very comedic.

From a comedy perspective alone, "Keep You Safe" is a success.

Funny is not embarrassing, the baggage is not old, and a lot of current memes are integrated, neither tickling funny, nor is it longer stacking jokes with jokes.

What's more valuable is that the whole movie is not deliberately sensational.

In addition, the actors in the movie are not only all powerful, but also all-comed, and they are all national-level.

Dapeng himself does not need to say much, in a variety of film and television works, he has long shown his strength.

His sister Wei Ruyi, who undertook important roles, is Li Xueqin who came out of the talk show stage.

Although it was the first time to be electrocuted, Li Xueqin's performance in the film was very good.

For example, in order to be able to set more clues, P beautiful pictures, the part of switching the voice is natural and funny.

Wang Shengdi, the youngest but skilled young actor, just a few expressions in the trailer make people enter the play.

There is also "Xu Jiang" Jia Bing, who just became popular with "Crazy", and the familiar faces in the comedy Wang Xun, Yin Zheng, Ma Li, Yang Di, Ni Hongjie, Pan Binlong, Qiao Shan, Yu Yang and so on.

Unexpectedly, Ma Li played this kind of business elite, and she was also very fashionable.

To create a movie with such a lineup, it is necessary to look good.

Although the movie has a relaxed and cheerful atmosphere from beginning to end, the movie has more to say than comedy.

There is a side story in the film that impressed Qingshi, and the protagonist of the story is Wei Pingan's daughter Wei Motong.

Mo Li is a junior high school girl, she has not been confident because of a large birthmark on her leg, she has no friends at school, and she is always alone.

At a school orchestra performance, she saw a girl in her class steal a fountain pen from her classmate and blame another girl for the theft.

Sharpen saw it and wanted to clarify.

But it was stopped by the culprits, and the reason is simple:

I know your birthmark, and if I say it, I will expose you so that you can no longer lift your head.

And when grinding asks, why do you do this to the victimized girl.

The reason for the culprit is that she has good conditions at home, has no troubles every day, and looks unpleasant.

It turns out that sometimes the source of the injury is unjustified.

After struggling to overcome her fear and bravely report it, she was retaliated by her abuser.

This branch line is placed in the movie, which does not seem to have much to do with Wei Pingan's main line, but in fact, the two lines have an impact on each other.

The film is very cleverly handled in this part.

In the text message conversation between the two, Mo Li did not tell Wei Pingan what happened to him, and did not directly seek Wei Pingan's help.

Instead, through a rhetorical question, the two people have a thought about what they are doing or will do.

Especially when Wei Pingan said distressedly, "I shouldn't encourage you" after seeing what happened to Mo Tong, but Mo Tong said:

"I did what I had to do and I wasn't wrong"

"Not everyone is watching jokes"

This treatment allowed both characters to grow.

Wei Pingan used the seemingly vulgar answer of why he helped Han Lu clarify this question before, "there is true love in the world".

When he personally typed out the signature "Do what you think is right" on Han Lu's social platform, his answer was no longer a "tacky" template, but from the sincere heart of an ordinary person who wants to do good deeds.

Although it is not explicitly shown in the movie, in fact, the rumors and publicity like Han Lu also happened to Wei Pingan himself.

He is a "tainted" person as soon as he appears, he has been in prison, and the reasons have different answers in the mouths of different people.

Some say that he slept with his brother's wife and beat his brother.

Some say he slept his brother and beat his wife.

The most outrageous thing is that he slept with his wife and beat his brother.

But as he himself said, the keywords are all right, but the combination is wrong.

What are the facts? It doesn't really matter anymore.

Maybe he explained it many times, but everyone didn't remember it, and maybe didn't want to remember it.

Because who exactly did he sleep with and who he hit, and what does it have to do with himself?

After all, everyone is just "eating a melon".

This was true in Wei Pingan's case, and even more so in Han Lu's matter.

Moreover, because of Han Lu's identity as a "naked donor sister", everyone worked harder to spread "melon-eating content".

Tony, who does pet grooming, eats melons, does a part-time casual talk, Chairman Jin hearsay from his lover, who knows that the final source is just an unknown message on the Internet.

The deep-seated theme of the film is online violence.

In the matter of Han Lu being rumored, it has been most vividly expressed. What Qingshi didn't expect was that a movie of this scale was actually filmed by internal entertainment.

And such a topic, the effect presented is warm.

The English translation of "Keep You Safe" is "Post Truth", which means "post-truth".

This is an emerging Internet buzzword used to describe situations where "objective facts have less influence in shaping public opinion, and appeal to emotions and personal beliefs has a greater impact."

This English name is more in line with the theme of the movie.

At the premiere of the film, director Dapeng talked about the origin of the movie "Keep You Safe".

In 2020, he and Su Biao (another screenwriter) noticed a news.

When a girl in Hangzhou went to pick up the delivery, she was secretly filmed by the convenience store owner.

After that, the shopkeeper joked with people and made up the chat content of "young woman cheating express brother", and this rumor was processed and forwarded, spread wildly, and spread more and more.

Soon the girl had serious ill effects, losing her job, being misunderstood by her friends, and even being diagnosed with depression.

According to this news, out of a sense of responsibility for creation, Dapeng wanted to make such a work.

The topic of online rumors and online violence is not easy to talk about, and it is not easy to make a movie.

Dapeng through the main line of Wei Ping'an helping Han Lu refute rumors, while packaging it in the shell of comedy, he did not lose his attitude towards this matter.

In the movie, Wei Ruyi, played by Li Xueqin, said this:

"When a woman is said to be a miss, whether she is or not, it is already a woman."

This is the most difficult dilemma for online rumors to break, just like the ending of the Han Lu incident in the movie, absurd and true.

The film received a lot of praise in the early screening, and netizens gave the evaluation of the movie, extracted keywords, and five words:

Sincere, powerful.

This is exactly what this film is trying to convey.

From "Pancake Man" to "Sewing Machine Band" to "Auspicious Ruyi" and now "Keep You Safe", Dapeng has steadily fought on the road of becoming a director, and has won a good reputation with a simple and sincere attitude.

And there will always be rewards for the effort, and the quality of the finished film of "Keep You Safe" is the best illustration.

After watching this movie, if we see malicious remarks on the Internet, we can think more about it, rather than immediately follow the trend to spread, this movie has been successful.

As Dapeng said:

"We have confidence in this film and hope that the film will create a domestic film box office miracle in March."

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