Before the release of the movie "Endless Race", it was called the news version of "Medicine God" by some people who watched it, especially after "Crazy", all Zhang Songwen participated in the "first new film after "Crazy" as a gimmick.
Although it also expresses the theme of "a person who is not sick to save a group of sick people", "More than Endless" will be dumped several streets by "I Am Not the God of Medicine".
After watching it, there was only a sigh: the movie is okay, but it's a pity to play a lonely.
Specifically, 5.
Lonely one, is to take Zhang Songwen to attract the box office.
The film was made three years ago.
Zhang Songwen's status has changed drastically before and after the film's release. Now all the gimmicks that attract viewers are Zhang Songwen, but in the movie, in fact, he is only the male number two after the male number one white guest, in fact, it is not necessarily much more than the male number three scene.
The year he finished filming in 2019, he participated in the filming of "Lyceum Theater", which is his second time participating in Lou Ye's film after "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind", but it still did not make waves.
There are still three years to go before the broadcast of "Crazy".
In the past three years, he also filmed "Hidden Corner", "Sweeping Black Decisive Battle", "Chinese Doctor", "Old Zheng Fei to Fill In" and so on, and the salary of the third or fourth male made him still unable to buy a house in Beijing.
But now that "Crazy" is coming, it is estimated that his salary has skyrocketed, and one is almost enough to buy a villa.
Zhang Songwen is worth the price.
But the film "More Than Endless" is not worth it.
If you want to watch Zhang Songwen's drama, it is enough to look at the short video of the film on Douyin.
Lonely two, the news worth acting in 2003, "hepatitis B" is not ranked at all.
In China in 2003, the biggest news was SARS and the Sun Zhigang incident.
The former as a public health security incident, in the golden age of print media in 2003, the media did not express better, but caught fire to Chai Jing, who did TV.
The reported letter revealing that Jiang Yanyong, who was concealed SARS, died a few days ago, and there were almost no media reports.
The latter was almost single-handedly reported the incident of Sun Zhigang, who died without a temporary residence permit due to custody in Guangzhou, and reported it vigorously, and finally the "temporary residence permit" was canceled.
This happened at the beginning of "More Than Ending", and I thought I wanted to write a story around this.
Especially after the Sun Zhigang incident, the high-level officials in Nandu headed by Cheng Yizhong were reckoned by the autumn, which was even more shocking and heartbreaking for the news people who looked up to Nandu that year.
Who knew that "More Than Endless" was engaged in the painless "hepatitis B" being discriminated against.
This is not to say that "hepatitis B" discrimination is not worth reporting. Hepatitis B discrimination, which affects at least tens of millions of people, and even the "anti-discrimination proposition of 120 million people in China" highlighted in the film, is well worth writing about how a journalist used pen and paper to finally shake the official iron fist.
However, in "More Than End", the rookie reporter played by Bai Ke rushed to the Iron Curtain when he first came out, shouldering justice on his shoulders, but in fact, his fist hit the cotton with every blow.
In the movie, only the "victims" are comparing, and there is no collision and struggle between journalists, media and power agencies.
Although the system is not formulated by a single person, it is really incomprehensible that there is no negative angle for maintaining the system or a bureaucratic figure, or even a secretary, mayor and other characters who can be moved and shaken by the report.
From another point of view, the understanding and misunderstanding of "hepatitis B" should be said to be more a lack of common sense, and the media needs to popularize relevant knowledge, rather than just issuing a so-called "anti-discrimination proposition for 120 million people in China".
Loneliness three is a shell that engages in atmosphere, and there is no bowl for high-density information output.
After lightly saying SARS and providing a temporary residence permit, the mining disaster was basically a superficial end.
Fanfare renders the previous Zhang Songwen and the editor-in-chief and colleagues a little saber rattling to page and contest topics, disguise themselves to go deep into the tiger's den, and mistakenly hit the ground to collect evidence, etc., and then it's over?
Metropolis Daily began to pay attention to the Nanchi mining disaster in Guangxi almost in 1999, and the reports of the mining disaster were basically related to "bloody" and "high-risk".
The coal boss, ruthless and rich, and the collusion of local officials, these only see the bloody capital represented by the former in the movie.
It is not clear what attention and reaction the report aroused, the situation of the people, the situation of the miners and whether the mine was disposed of. I have not seen the governance of coal mines adopted after the report was taken seriously by the state.
In the golden age of metropolis newspapers, every supervision report and negative news in the print media will have the effect of stirring up a thousand waves with one stone.
This is all the result of media people "endlessly" asking the truth in the golden age of print media, which is what movies should express.
The film also won the Best Director Award at the Pingyao International Film Festival led by Jia Zhangke, and it was later discovered that director Wang Jing was once a member of Jia Zhangke's team.
No wonder he was able to bring in Chief Jaco to play the coal boss.
In fact, the feeling of the movie is good, the style and atmosphere can be, and it can make the former practitioners sigh, but the story is not very good.
Lonely four, news is always available, but real news people are rare in China.
It is not that the current news people are bad, but that there is no public opinion environment of about 20 years of the golden age of Chinese journalism (1994-2014) represented by Metropolis Daily.
In 1994, China's first urban newspaper, Huaxi Metropolis Daily, was launched, and since then, urban newspapers in various places have been established, and compared with now, there were also controlled journalists at that time to enjoy press freedom that is unimaginable today.
In 2014, the national newspaper kiosks were basically abolished, and under the attack of WeChat and Weibo, urban newspapers everywhere showed a cliff-like decline, and the suspension of publications gradually rose.
Like the Xici Alley mentioned many times in the film, Xiao gathered the forum of news people from all over the world, which can arouse many news people who have walked through that era like the author, but this movie is a love letter to the paper media era, but it is more like an elegy for the paper media era.
This elegy is still sung to a small group of people, and it does not mean anything to most people.
Nowadays, everyone has a microphone, the news has the truth, but there are no real professional news people to report, everyone only believes what they say and see, and most people are locked up in a self-righteous cocoon by algorithms and have fun.
Lonely Five, that is, in the film and television works of the mainland, there has never been a qualified journalist image, almost never seen, and this one is no exception.
Planning, writing, editing, every link of a good report reflects the brilliance of intelligence.
Over the years, American dramas and British dramas have had good news workplace dramas, and "Newsroom" and "Newspaper" are more resonant.
The embarrassment of "More Than Endless" can be seen in all film and television works in the mainland, and it can be said that over the years, the image of journalists in mainland film and television works is either a paparazzi like maggots or a mask man who sits in the air and talks about the ideal of journalism.
After all, Taiwan has also published a set of "Our Distance from Evil", which is relatively real and objective, and you can see that there is space and goals for people to pursue, and there is also the high penetration and influence of the Internet and mobile Internet in the current news environment.
"More Than Endless" can only use a real adaptation to fool people, make a small character and finally try to change the obscene plot of a system.
Of course, the movie is not completely undesirable, "In this world, what thing has nothing to do with us", the slogan of this movie is very demagogic, pointing out some of the principles that journalists pursue and adhere to.
As the biggest gimmick of film marketing, Zhang Songwen's performance is full and rich, which can make those who have done media, especially those who have been media in that era, feel at ease.
After watching Douyin, he asked the media people on Douyin for advice, humbly and seriously, and personally answered netizens' questions, and smoked a lot of fans.
The role played by the male No. 1 Bai is young, impulsive and rational, persistent, persistent, without education, experiencing the turmoil and budding at the turn of the century, like a media person when the metropolis newspaper was just starting out.
The male partner Song Yang has acted in many Xu Haofeng's movies, and has never been popular, but his acting skills have never been bad.
The heroine Miao Miao is a bit of a tool man, the female partner Qin Hailu is more and more suitable for the role of the eldest sister, and Lin Chong Zhou Yemang, who appeared on the big screen again after last year's "Love Myth", but there are too few scenes.
Overall, the lineup is not small, but for the profession in China, which lacks the most realistic portrayal, or the profession that is most unsuitable for showing on the screen, "More than Endless" is far from enough.