Tomato-kun has not been touched by a movie for a long time, until he watched this "Keep You Safe".
Director Dapeng can always use a very small story to tell some simple truths that ordinary people can understand at a glance, but usually ignore them, through sincerity rather than preaching, which makes Tomato Jun begin to like and look forward to Dapeng's new works.
And this "Keep You Safe" still retains this temperament, and to a certain extent, even completed Dapeng's breakthrough to himself.
There is plenty of laughter and dark humor in the movie, as well as sincere emotions that move people, and there are laughter from time to time in the theater, and occasionally a few slight sobs.
Among the 10,528 comments that Douban has shown, most of them are four-star and five-star, and the reputation can be described as explosive, and if the score comes out, it is estimated to be more than 8 points.
That's the charm of Keep You Safe.
After watching the film, Tomato Jun liked it very much, and the three highlights and two surprises revealed in the film are still haunting in my mind, making people can't help but want to brush it twice.
Let's take a look at the highlights first:
Highlight 1: Simple story, strong conflict plot, punctured the bubble of secular ethics
Although the story of the movie is not complicated, it is very substitutionary for ordinary people.
Wei Pingan, played by Dapeng, is a released person who has completed his sentence, and the reason why he went to prison was because he once came out because of his brother. In order to let his wife live well, he offered to divorce her.
Wei Pingan, who is "single" again, can only live by selling cemeteries because he can't find a job, and his biggest expectation is to meet his daughter who went to junior high school.
Although life is average, it is still passable, but the intrusion of a customer changes Wei Pingan's life.
Her name is Han Lu (played by Song Qian), she has been an orphan since she was a child, she looks beautiful and beautiful, but because she is sick, she wants to buy herself a cemetery at a young age.
After contacting Wei Pingan, Han Lu picked the most central place for herself, and next to this land, buried was actually her former lover and the brother of the famous local entrepreneur Feng Zong (played by Ma Li), but the two failed to get married before their lives; Han Lu chose to donate all the money she saved to the welfare home that raised her.
Things were so decided, Han Lu was also buried in his own cemetery after his death, but suddenly one day, the general manager of the cemetery had to remove Han Lu's cemetery, claiming that it was "unlucky".
It turned out that there were rumors that Han Lu was a sitting woman before her death, and Mr. Feng was worried that Han Lu's burial next to her brother would affect feng shui, so he instructed the general manager to remove her ashes.
Digging a grave after death is a taboo among the people, but when Wei Pingan asked for evidence, the general manager did not know.
According to his usual contact with Han Lu, Wei Pingan believes that Han Lu is innocent and is bent on seeking justice for her.
So he went around to track down the source of Han Lu's statement that "Miss Sitting on the Platform".
The three became tigers, all of them were spectators who ate melons, only Wei Pingan was bent on returning Han Lu's innocence, not only because she was his own customer, but also because of his inner perseverance.
But Wei Pingan, who investigated the source of the rumor, unknowingly fell into the rumor himself, and while proving the innocence of others, he also had to prove his innocence.
Although it is a very simple matter, Dapeng incorporated a lot of dramatic character conflicts during the filming process.
Online violence and rumors, coupled with the fact that the girl was "digging a grave" because she suspected that she was a "lady sitting on the platform", Dapeng also used his own way to burst the bubble of secular ethics.
Highlight 2: Father and daughter both pay the price just to "be nosy", and the two lines are cleverly conceived and fascinating
The biggest highlight of "Keep You Safe" is not only to cut from the bottom of the characters and select a very small, even unrelated event to highlight the character story, but also to make adjustments in the concept, using a double-line parallel way, with the influence of the father on the daughter, to express the theme and highlight the character.
Wei Pingan's daughter is named Wei Motong and lives with her mother.
At first, Wei Motong was a timid and cowardly girl, she didn't say much, she had low self-esteem because of the red birthmark on her leg, especially when her mother God nagged to exorcise her, that inferiority complex was strengthened again and again.
Only her father, who has the same "stain" as her, has been encouraging her to be brave and strong and do what she thinks is right.
Han Lu, who Wei Pingan helped Pingshui meet, is actually nosy in the eyes of ordinary people, but it is precisely because of an ordinary person with a righteous heart like Wei Pingan that the bottom line of society can be upheld.
Under the influence of Wei Pingan, Wei Grinding is also making changes at the same time.
At the class concert, the story of a girl from a wealthy family stealing a classmate's pen was raging, and among everyone, only Wei Motong knew that the girl was framed by others.
Wei Motong has been hesitant to find the teacher to explain the truth, but the next day she is threatened that if she tells the truth, the ugly birthmark on her leg will be publicized.
Wei Mo is struggling inside, she wants to help her classmates, but she is afraid that she will get hurt.
And at this juncture, my father is in a hurry because of Han Lu's affairs, not only driving a car to Inner Mongolia, but also being frequently searched by the Internet due to various unexpected circumstances.
In front of a small mobile phone screen, Wei Moling asked his father what all this was for.
My father told him that "Do What you think is right" in order to follow his heart, which also happened to be Han Lu's WeChat signature.
Wei Moling was determined to help her classmates, but the day after she told the truth, she was bullied and filmed a video in the toilet, which spread all over the Internet.
At this moment, both father and daughter were for other people's affairs, and they were greatly hurt physically and mentally, even so, the two people also agreed that they would not give up.
In Wei Ping'an and Wei Grinding, we see a kind of inheritance.
True adherence to social justice is never just talk, but after being hurt by this, we can continue to move forward towards the right thing.
Through this father and daughter, Dapeng is also telling us that good people will always have good rewards, brave and kind, which is what this world is.
Highlight 3, 10 comedians work together, humorous and hilarious new memes, worthy of family fun
There has been no real comedy in theaters for a long time, until the appearance of Dapeng's "Keep You Safe".
Tomato Jun did not expect that Dapeng could gather more than ten comedians together, and he did not expect that in his film, there were no bad terriers, only with the original black humor plot and the superb performances of the actors, it made the audience laugh forward and backward, laughing out of pigs.
Needless to say, Dapeng has a unique hand in performing small people.
Green hair, an old Mercedes with a door lock, a big grinning style, and unobstructed speaking habits all shape the little character of "Wei Pingan" into a plump three-dimensional and textured one.
Unlike the characters in other twist movies, Ma Li and Yin Zheng are humorous enough and subversive enough this time.
Ma Li's Feng Zong is Wei Pingan's biggest obstacle to insisting on preserving Han Lu's cemetery. In the film, Ma Li is no longer the "fierce wife" when she cooperated with Shen Teng, but a solid strong woman.
Although usually reserved and serious, Ma Li can also use the contrast from time to time to bring laughter to the audience, especially in the temple, when her brother's ashes are snatched, the stunned stop and chase, it is simply amazing.
Yin Zheng incarnated as Tony's teacher who gave pet haircuts and beauty this time, his real name is Tony, but Wei Pingan's remark to him is "stealing mud", because the first stop of the rumor is here.
In order to express his dissatisfaction, he can spray Wei Pingan's face with paint, and he can also tell him with a serious look that the rumors were spread by "Godzilla" and "Great Dinosaur".
Audiences who have seen "Charlotte Troubles", I am afraid that as long as they see Yin Zheng's face, the melody of "One Cut Mei" will sound in their ears, as a man with his own BGM, Yin Zheng's humor has penetrated deep into his bones.
Jia Bing played a company boss in the process of rumor transmission, after "Crazy", Jia Bing became popular again, it is difficult to have an actor, with both humorous and ruthless temperament, and Jia Bing in "Keep You Safe" is also the same.
At the dinner table, the confrontation between him and Dapeng Li Xueqin still makes Tomato Jun remember it vividly, and the question and answer are not only full of atmosphere, but also quite a Chinese dialogue.
In addition, the comedians who appear in the film include Wang Xun, Qiao Shan, Yu Yang, Li Xueqin, Pan Binlong, Liang Chao, Yang Di and so on,
Almost all of the well-known comedians in China gathered in "Keep You Safe", and they also brought us a comedy feast with their own performances.
What surprised Tomato Jun, "Keep You Safe" not only has a high level of drama, but also has two surprises that could not have been imagined before watching the movie.
The first surprise was Li Xueqin.
It has been three years since the "Talk Show Conference", this northeastern girl from Peking University came out of the circle with her funny talent.
In the past three years, Li Xueqin has made amazing progress from Internet celebrity, to variety show coffee, to movie actor, almost every year.
And this "Keep You Safe" is the first feature film that Li Xueqin participated in and released.
In the film, Li Xueqin is the rightful female number one, and she plays Wei Ruyi, Wei Pingan's younger brother and the key person in Wei Pingan's success in finding the rumor-mongering Han Lu.
Tomato Jun did not expect that Li Xueqin, an Internet celebrity contestant who has not undergone acting training, has such a good sense of camera, and the role she plays is not only not dramatic, but natural and outstanding.
Wei Ruyi is very similar to Li Xueqin's usual character, working part-time as an NPC in a haunted house, likes to spread gossip, looks simple, but has a flexible mind and is very smart.
The part where she and Wei Pingan meet in a haunted house is the climactic passage of the entire film.
Especially when I heard that my brother had an affair with Han Lu, he took a group of NPCs who were pretending to be ghosts, so he took Wei Pingan to the hospital for blood testing.
The hospital late at night, the yellow rumors for no reason, the ghosts with terrifying makeup, and the cemetery brother with green hair, this scene is both magical and realistic, both funny and sad, and perfectly reflects the theme of the film.
There is no doubt that the female number one Li Xueqin is one of the biggest surprises in "Keep You Safe", and Dapeng may also have unearthed a new female comedian for us.
The second surprise is moving.
"Keep You Safe" is a realistic comedy movie full of black humor, but under the premise of comedy, Dapeng not only pays attention to those humble and ordinary individuals, but also reflects the shimmer between the underlying individuals, which is very touching.
In this Tomato Jun, many girls looked forward and backward in front, and cried in the back.
As a young, loving, and unloved orphan Han Lu, there was no mistake, but because of a little unsatisfactory of an Internet addicted teenager, she was rumored to become "Miss Sitting Platform".
Not only was there no peace during her lifetime, but she had to endure gossip and dig her grave after death, and even the orphanage did not dare to accept her donation, everything stemmed from this rumor.
This can't help but remind us of those who have suffered groundless rumors and endured online violence but have nowhere to seek redress in reality, such as Zhang Jingchu, such as Reyizha, and then the girl with pink hair.
A sentence that everyone inadvertently types on the Internet can become a weapon for murder, as is the case with online rumors and violence.
As Wei Ruyi said: "When you say that a girl is a miss, she is a miss."
It is precisely because this kind of electronic violence is very terrifying that Wei Pingan's efforts to give an explanation to stranger Han Lu are worthy of our admiration and learning.
For the sake of justice, he not only lost his job, offended the boss and chairman, but also was raped by the Internet, and became a "person who sleeps with his brother" and a "drug dealer"...
After suffering all the injustices, on his birthday, when he knew that Han Lu had thought about how to celebrate his birthday before he died, and gave himself a birthday gift that the whole city could see, the tears that welled up in Wei Pingan's eyes were already enough for all the audience to cry.
Everything he paid seemed to be rewarded.
The sympathy between him and Han Lu seemed to have real meaning at this moment.
Although Han Lu is no longer alive, Wei Pingan, who delivered food at this time, is also worthy of it.
Among the directors who turned actors, Dapeng is the most special one, in the early years because of the Internet drama out of the circle, and then began to direct and act in feature films, from 5.8 "Pancake Man" to 6.6 "Sewing Machine Band", and then to 7.7 "Auspicious Ruyi", Dapeng's movies, there is always a special temperament.
For a long time, Dapeng's creation has been modeled on the small people at the bottom, he highlights their hardships and difficulties, and there is no earth-shattering great deed, but just such a small thing, it is enough to move us for a long time.
Because the true happiness of this world has never been a major event in the country and the world.
When life falls to the bottom, you can still face it with a smile, stick to the bottom line, and have a naked heart, that is what the world should be.
(Movie Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Office: One by One)