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"Keep You Safe" uses comedy to focus on online rumors and violence, social values, and "laughter"

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"Keep You Safe" appeared in theaters nationwide on March 10, spreading rumors and breaking legs - "Keep You Safe" tells such a story. Dapeng, who was born as a comedian, has always been very popular in the film and television industry, and this time, in addition to inviting Li Xueqin, Yin Zheng, Wang Xun, Jia Bing, Yang Di and others to star, he also let Ma Li, who was respected by netizens as a comedy "first sister", be invited to star, which made me have high expectations for the film.

"Keep You Safe" uses comedy to focus on online rumors and violence, social values, and "laughter"

As a media person, I am convinced that "Keep You Safe" is a good film worthy of recognition in terms of social value and comedy effect: this film with the theme of online rumors and online violence interprets the harm of rumors in a comedy way through the tossing of Wei Pingan, an atypical modern "bastard" played by Dapeng. The entire film is based on a rumor, and the first thing that almost everyone who hears the rumor in the film does is not to judge whether the rumor is true and curb the spread of such rumors, but to spread everything they hear to others around them based on an almost pathological desire to share. The film is full of absurdity when dealing with this plot, but if you think about it, aren't the online keyboard warriors in reality who don't distinguish the real from the fake and start to go out in a big way themselves so absurd and ridiculous? At the same time, the film also conveys how valuable the kindness of strangers is, in the film, Brother Ping An casually opened a bottle of soda for the orphan girl, which became a joy that the girl could not forget for a long time, and the girl grew up and became a gentle person, helping others in her own way. Between strangers who meet each other, casual doing good may be a ray of light in the lives of others.

"Keep You Safe" uses comedy to focus on online rumors and violence, social values, and "laughter"

To be fair, the film "Keep You Safe" is very courageous, it focuses the story on the problem of "online violence" that is common in the current social context, and allows the audience to more truly appreciate the powerful harm that language can also kill. Some people may feel that the kind of online violence in the movie is far from life. But just a few days before the screening of "Keep You Safe", a video of a high school student giving a speech at the 100-day pledge meeting caused heated discussions on the Internet, and some people with ulterior motives began to take the opportunity to publish malicious ridicule on the Internet, and even rose to the level of physical attacks on minors. Similar to last year, there are many cases of Liu Xuezhou finally choosing suicide because he could not bear the online violence. In recent years, there have been many cases of people who have been deeply troubled by online violence and even chose to end their lives. Online violence is not far away from us, and we leave a false comment or opinion on online social platforms that may have a huge impact on other people's lives, or even disasters.

"Keep You Safe" uses comedy to focus on online rumors and violence, social values, and "laughter"

While the social value is thought-provoking, the real "laughing fruit" of "Keep You Safe" is not ambiguous, the scene where Wei Pingan goes to the haunted house to find his sister Wei Ruyi is the most classic, through the external interloper Wei Pingan constantly deconstructs the horror elements, while quickly transforming the dissolved emotions into a sense of joy, presenting a slightly terrifying and funny grotesque atmosphere. There are also many laughs in the process of tracing the rumor transmission chain, such as Wei Ruyi's psychological fraud to Chairman Jin, Wei Pingan's reaction to his fan group, etc., which are all new baggage with relatively characteristic characteristics of the times.

"Keep You Safe" uses comedy to focus on online rumors and violence, social values, and "laughter"

And "Keep You Safe" can so well combine social values and comedy effects because the creation is inspired by real social rumor news, this film focuses on social issues in the form of satire and discusses the online environment with the audience. In 2020, Dapeng and Su Biao, another screenwriter of the film, saw a piece of news that a girl in Hangzhou went to pick up a courier and was taken a photo, and there were artificial rumors that caused great trouble to her life. Because of this news, they wanted to make such a story, showing in detail how a rumor was born one by one, hoping that everyone can think about it while laughing. Closely following the theme of the current era, coupled with solid and steady execution, director Dapeng wants to express his understanding of truth, goodness and beauty through the role of Wei Pingan, and the last sentence "I wish you peace" is not only Wei Pingan in the film speaking for others, but also conveying the most beautiful blessings to all audiences, making people believe that having the beauty of the world is to have true happiness. On March 8, after the film "Keep You Safe" was screened in Xi'an, some viewers commented that it was a "funny, good-looking and crying" movie. At the same time, various social topics are displayed in the film, which is an excellent film this year. Audience feedback: "Keep You Safe" is like a modern version of "cautionary tales", and Wei Motong in the film bravely made his own choices for the sake of his righteous belief even though he was bullied at school. And after the bullying incident, I also learned to correctly face and view "my unique self that is different from others".

"Keep You Safe" uses comedy to focus on online rumors and violence, social values, and "laughter"

Finally, what surprised me even more was the rapid progress of director Dapeng, "Keep You Safe", as his third comedy feature film after "Pancake Man" and "Sewing Machine Band", has a very important advantage, that is, the laughter is (relatively) natural, and does not force you to laugh. Learn to hide jokes naturally, this is the watershed with most domestic bad comedy, quite a blue and better than blue texture, in the future this "gradually out of joy comedian" may be able to go further.

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