The movie "Keep You Safe" is a good movie, and it is also a rare comedy of life in recent years, which is recommended to watch.
However, the movie also has "incomplete" places, here is a brief discussion with you, only to represent personal views.
"Keep You Safe" is a comedy movie, but it belongs to the category of life comedy, reflecting people's livelihood and hot spots, relatively realistic, slightly absurd, but completely different from the comedy films that everyone has been in contact with in recent years.
For a long time, Chinese comedies were the kind of hilarious comedy of "happy twist" or "pretending to be happy twist", taking the gag route, the style emphasized exaggeration, how to take the fantasy route is better.
Broadly speaking, the nature of this film is somewhat similar to those market comedies of the Hong Kong film Hui Guanwen, which is based on the life experience and daily topics of ordinary people.
In the category of mainland films, it can be compared to the style of life comedies such as "The Happy Life of Poor Mouth Zhang Damin", "Stand Straight, Don't Lie Down" and "Have Something to Say" (only the style is similar, but this film obviously cannot reach these heights). If you want to expand it, it is a comedy such as Wang Shuo's "Obstinate Lord", Feng Xiaogang's "Party A and Party B" and "Big Names".
"Keep You Safe" has in common with these life comedies, the style is more realistic, the plot effect and film technique, but also closer to reality and people's livelihood, taking the route of playful realism. To sum up, it is both entertainment and social attributes.
But that's where the film's problems arise.
The entertainment attribute is very good, and there are corresponding social attributes, but it is incomplete.
An incident triggered by a rumor, the male protagonist finally finds the source of the rumor for the sake of others' journey to refute the rumor, a seemingly good and evil reward, and everyone is happy. But in the meantime, those rumors, those who talk behind their backs, those online blackwater... The role in this incident is greatly reduced.
After the fact, [those people] didn't reflect, weren't punished, [those negatives] weren't exposed, just blamed all the problems onto a certain character.
But the parties were all more or less injured in this incident, and even Wei Pingan almost had nothing, so there was no follow-up. Please, rumor-mongers are hateful, what about those rumor-mongers? Wei Pingan put everything in order to wash away Han Lu's rumors, but those who spread rumors only acted as entertainment carriers in the movie.
Including the bullies who bullied Wei Motong, in the end, they only highlighted the bravery of their daughters, and the others, everything is an understatement.
So after this incident in the movie, the horse ran, danced, and everyone was safe and sound, which is a world where only the Wei family father and daughter were injured.
★ From the perspective of the social attributes of the film, as a work caused by social topic events, the film quietly transfers the contradictory relationship.
This is a bit like the contrast between "Manslaughter 2" and the original "Imminent".
"Imminent" does not have the appearance of bad people, but points the spearhead to some social problems such as insurance shady, medical system, and wealth gap, which is a realistic movie. "Manslaughter 2" under the same story, the spearhead is transferred to a (bad) person, let the other party bear everything, this is an entertainment film.
"Keep You Safe" is also an entertainment film.
Before watching the film, I guessed that I used emotions to resolve everything, which really blinded me. The end of the movie is very touching, but U1S1, when the great dedication touches us, the film also quietly transfers all the contradictions, the problems raised earlier, have not been solved, and the rumors are still happy. This is the legendary "want to cover up".
The look and feel of the movie is actually good, but it is precisely because of the incomplete social attributes that the film cannot reach the depth of reality of "Kim Ji-young born in 82" and "A Parting", and even has a distance from Chen Kaige's "Search".
This is actually not a problem of movies, but the shackles of similar Chinese films in the current environment.
Just like "stealing mud" in the film, just eat a melon, as for it. Yes, but how to say that, when there is an avalanche, not a single snowflake is...
The movie is a life comedy that plays with realistic realism, but superheroes appear in the film.
However, from another point of view, the melon eating mentality of "not caring about oneself" presented by the film, and the general social mentality of hoping that "others will help them accomplish something" are very real.
It's the melon-eating masses, it's the keyboard man, anyway, it's not me who is unlucky in the end. But when this kind of thing really happens to him, he will not choose "self-proof", but hopes that a hero like Wei Pingan will appear, who can help him fight his grievances, and as a party, he is no different from Han Lu at the time of the movie incident.
Why should people help you?
★ From the perspective of the play, the movie actually pays too much attention to the arc of the main characters, and ignores the characters of the supporting characters, resulting in flaws in the logic of the drama.
This is a common disease in Chinese films, and there are such problems in many excellent works, such as Wang Qin in "Hello, Li Huanying", and the role of Wang Xun in "Ten Thousand Miles Home"...
These characters are positioned in their respective works as the kind of resistance that creates difficulty for the main quest, but when their functions are completed, they disappear from the story.
The same is true of the few responsible for spreading rumors in "Keep You Safe", which leads to the lack of social attributes mentioned above. And the redemption, sublimation, and even punishment that the movie should have let Wei Pingan "do it for you" alone.
Of course, you will say that in reality, such people will not be pursued in the end. There is nothing wrong with that, but as characters in the plot and story of the movie, they should actually have a corresponding arc or ending.
How to solve it? Take an inappropriate example.
In the police and bandit film "Stormtrooper Rage Street", the boss of the protagonist's group (played by Diệm Dinh Ye), flying and domineering and making trouble for the stormtrooper every time, is particularly angry but can't help him. What to do in the end? Before the end of the mission, the protagonists take a sack and trap the boss's head from behind, and run away after the fight, he doesn't know who did it, it's funny and relieved... It's that simple.
In fact, "Keep You Safe" is missing an ending like "Poison Tongue Lawyer".
The generous statement of Huang Zihua at the end of the latter is very uplifting, good and evil are rewarded, people are doing, the sky is watching, are you poor and reasonable? Can you burn the next house for heating? Are you rich? There is no "three, six, nine" before the law (poor people) ... Just this ending, it also transformed a case full of loopholes into a big cool article.
"Keep You Safe" has always emphasized that "there is only true love in the world", rather than "justice and ease in people's hearts".
If you add a soulful monologue of Wei Pingan at the end of this film, interspersed with some plots, let Chairman Jin, steal mud, and even bully Wei Mo's bad students, either receive some punishment, or reflect on their own behavior (in fact, there is also this meaning, such as Wei Ruyi, but it is not obvious), everyone works together to build a better world, instead of hanging on high and unconcerned, and having trouble to find Wei Pingan...
"Keep You Safe" is the last such a hesitation!
★ In the end, the fault is picked, but in no way negates the quality of the film. "Keep You Safe" is still a good movie.
The movie has a good reputation, and the stamina should be very large, and the early popularity is not good, which is a factor that has changed the file, and also has the reason for the material picture effect.
After all, it is a comedy close to reality, and there is no such opening joke or particularly eye-catching shots in the film, which to a certain extent makes the poster and trailer of "Keep You Safe" ineffective. A fight with the TV series.
After watching the movie, you will understand that this film, cutting the trailer and making stills is very difficult, those jokes are placed in the movie, connected to the upper and lower plots, it is very interesting (such as the haunted house paragraph), but take it out alone and cut it into the trailer, it will not work (it is decided that this film is not the kind of comedy that relies on dialogue and paragraphs), but you don't want to put these contents, everyone doesn't know that you are a comedy...
Moreover, the audience has a preconceived impression of the current comedy, resulting in the trailer and stills poster of "Keep You Safe" being mistaken by many people for that kind of "vulgar comedy", which is not the case.
So, Dapeng's "Ji'an Universe" series of market comedies, please continue.
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