In the past, Sir commented on film and television works, often using "sincerity" to praise.
Even if the technology is not good and the story is lacking, seriously complete a work, don't be so hasty, Sir will affirm.
Recently, Sir has begun to waver in his evaluation system.
For example, this one, people can't help but want to paraphrase a popular phrase:
Know that you are sincere, but don't be sincere yet.
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Feng Xiaogang once again "went down" to shoot online dramas as a big director.
The debut "The South is Different" caught up with the fashion of women's modern dramas.
This "Echo", the suspense drama of the Misty Theater, can also be regarded as the cusp of the genre.
But both times the word-of-mouth encountered Waterloo, director Xiaogang has a heart to chase youth, but why hasn't he caught up yet?
Until he saw Song Jia, Sir felt that he had the answer.
Her role in the new play is full of powerlessness, and this powerlessness also comes from Feng Xiaogang's heartfelt outpouring.
01
According to Feng Xiaogang's Weibo himself, this time "Echo" is a "double-line winding work".
The first line is the case that Ran Dongdong (played by Song Jia) is responsible for - the big pit corpse throwing case:
Xia Bingqing (played by Wu You) went to interview a large company, but was raped by the big boss Xu Shanchuan (played by Zhu Yuchen), and later became his "junior" under threats and money offensives.
He was then found mysteriously dead in the river.
The biggest suspect is, of course, Xu Shanchuan.
He had long been tired of Xia Bingqing's entanglement, and more than once expressed his desire to drive her away.
Murderer?
It's certainly not that simple.
The development of the plot is the process by which Ran Dongdong sees through everyone's lies again and again.
The second line can also be counted as a suspense line.
Ran Dongdong accidentally saw her husband Mu Dafu (played by Wang Yang) appear at the crime scene (a hotel) during the investigation, which triggered her suspicion and suspicion, and launched a cheating offensive and defensive war with her husband.
Director of Feng Xiaogang's level, aside from the story, still has a pursuit in audiovisual.
The composition of "Echo" is very textured.
The cameras are all movie-spec – 6K digital cameras, two K more than the most expensive TVs in the mall.
If it is shown directly to the cinema, it can also be watched directly as a movie.
Including the scenery and clothing, you can see at a glance that it is aesthetic, designed, and very life-oriented, rather than an old-fashioned model room.
Of course, there is no shortage of his usual "poor-mouthed" insights.
There are also some cultural memes buried in a very "pursuit".
(p.s. The following contains spoilers)
Literary:
Literature professor Mudaf will be overflowing with "Lu Xun-style" sadness when he suffers from his wife's wrongdoing.
Artistic:
Xia Bingqing was immersed in the pain brought to her by Xu Shanchuan, and accidentally met an understanding "licking dog" Wu Wenchao (played by Bao Bell).
He was gentleman and low-key, silently paying in the dark, and being a soothing towel for Xia Bingqing's emotions.
Just when the plot makes everyone mistakenly think that he is just a harmless passerby, Ran Dongdong discovers that in his studio, there is a painting of Dali "Xiucheng Sugar Orange".
Ran Dongdong, who has a high literary and artistic accomplishment, immediately recognized the background of this painting:
The painting was used as a metaphor for Wu Wenchao's personality, and also laid the groundwork for his later puncture of lies.
Director Feng is not only pursuing a suspense story, he feels that it is "too thin".
He wants to use this drama to explore the truth of marriage and human nature, and wants to make a play with a threshold.
"I know this drama is a bit of a threshold, but I don't want to shoot it without a threshold."
There is a threshold.
But it's not necessary.
Because of this threshold, there is no other world behind you who step over and expect to see, but it is just a plating decoration for the "thin" story.
Is Lu Xun and Dali who appeared in the process of investigation really related to the facts of the case?
When Feng Xiaogang wants to be sincere, but he doesn't know what sincere things to take out, he can say, broadcast, and fire.
Then I have to pull the idleness of art, and it always seems like something is said.
02
The advantage of "Echo" is that it looks cinematic.
Although the play strives to make a life-like appearance from the audiovisual aspect.
But it is still criticized by the audience as "suspended".
And most of the people's brain circuits in the play are not what we ordinary people have.
The original novel of "Echoes" is to write cases in odd-numbered chapters and marriages in even-numbered chapters.
In the play, the way of expression is what Feng Xiaogang said is "winding narrative".
To what extent?
The heroine Ran Dongdong wants to use the results of solving the case to decide her marriage:
If you want to divorce, you have to wait until the case is solved.
In turn, the progress of the case also affects her emotions.
Sir understands that the play wants to show the female policeman in middle age, the double exhaustion of work and life.
But the unclear plot makes everything extremely slimy.
The first detective line is far-fetched.
The story uses a rather metaphorical development line:
The big boss complained about the entanglement of his mistress, so that his own nephew, who was the driver, heard his heart.
Once the boss uncle showed mercy and lent him 2 million to buy a house, his nephew was grateful to Dade and decided to help him solve the trouble of his mistress.
However, his IQ is limited, so he took out 500,000 and found Wu Wenchao, Xia Bingqing's most trusted "licking dog", let him plan and think of an idea to let her leave.
Wu Wenchao couldn't bear to cheat himself, remembering his old classmate who was in the immigration business, and gave him 100,000 yuan to let him coax Xia Bingqing out of the country.
The old classmate deceived until he finally felt that there was no drama, and he was anxious to roll up and run away, but there was still a hint of hope, so he casually stuffed the task with 10,000 yuan to a migrant worker who had just known him for a few days.
Who knew that this migrant worker who looked honest and could write poetry actually had a mental illness and smashed Xia Bingqing into the river with a hammer.
A living person was subcontracted by them layer by layer and bought her life for 10,000 yuan.
The implied class implications during this period are self-evident:
The rich man casually took out two million at will, which was stripped into 10,000 pieces layer by layer, handed over to a crazy poor man, and eventually caused a catastrophe.
What an absurd irony.
It's just that before the final real murderer appears, the audience has long been exhausted by the side lines and strange character characters that suddenly appear.
For example, Xu Shanchuan's nephew still complained a lot about his uncle in the early stage, and in the later stage, because his uncle promised to borrow money, he wanted to repay it by driving away the mistress.
This is really deliberate.
There are many ways to repay, and driving well is also a kind of reward. Uncle's lover also has a lot, drive away one and entangle the next again, how can he repay? Also take 500,000 to solve?
You say that he is impulsive, he can think of changing money into cash to pay Wu Wenchao, saying that he is not impulsive, these actions really cannot be explained by adult thinking.
Douban Rui commented:
The emphasis is actually on the marriage entanglement brought out by Xia Bingqing and Xu Shanchuan.
It seems to be a detective story, but what I actually want to tell is a marriage story.
This is only when it is connected to the second line to form "Echo".
The second family line is even more entangled and twisted when you see it.
An experienced middle-aged female criminal police captain is investigating the case while also tracking down whether her husband is cheating.
Sounds exciting, doesn't it?
But unfortunately, there is no battle of wits that everyone thinks.
The only technical method she had was to find the man's opening record.
Then all kinds of pressed questions began, testing men in various ways.
Including but not limited to, anonymously buying underwear for the husband to deliver to the unit and observing his reaction.
Forcing her husband and the audience to have a nervous breakdown, Ran Dongdong was taken by her husband to see a psychologist.
The doctor was inscrutable, and whispered to them with a mysterious and leader-like smile:
Your wife is not sick.
So, this is a "gaslight" mind control story?
In the play, the husband's cheating is almost solid.
The person also made an appointment, the room was also opened, but the two of them came to the door and realized that they did not go to the last step.
And in the original, the husband's infidelity is vague.
This gives the two sides space to play and also gives the audience a sense of suspense.
And now, Ran Dongdong has checked the wrong object, and the girl she suspects has no unclean relationship with her husband.
So my husband grasped this point unreasonably - I didn't cheat, everything was vexatious.
This makes the plot look very noisy and.
One of the more traumatic changes is:
Deleted Ran Dongdong's mental derailment plot.
In the original book, she actually had a good impression of the apprentice in the police station, because of her sense of morality and suspicion of her husband, she kept asking questions, insisting on finding evidence of his cheating to fill her guilt.
In the play, she turned into a pure love warrior, not allowing the other party's love to be diminished in the slightest.
Is this the truth of marriage that "Echo" wants to discuss with the audience?
Is it a person's longing for love in middle age?
Or do men always have to cheat once?
Sir guessed that Feng Xiaogang wanted to show the weakness of the middle-aged man, but he only showed his screwing when he went around in circles.
03
Everyone has their own limitations, and Feng Xiaogang's limitations are the kind that the audience least welcomes.
Contemporary audiences like film and television workers who speak for themselves and speak for themselves.
Film and television works can resonate with the audience, and it is already half the battle.
Feng Xiaogang's two TV series were criticized for "suspending", a big reason is that it is too far from the audience's life.
The life of the girl in Beipiao in "The South is Different" is too easy, and the money and career are like a strong wind.
"Echo" The life of the middle-aged couple is too pure love, the real middle-aged middle-aged people are busy worrying about the house car ticket Laozi, how many people still chase each other and ask: How much do you love me.
However, being far away from the audience's life does not necessarily mean that it is unreal.
Just as the ancient peasants imagined the emperor with a golden hoe in his hand, he could not get out of his own range of experience.
Rich people can't escape their own experience.
It's true that things and logic are not good, such as the "wine table culture" drama that has been criticized 800 times.
But the shell of the set has become the most popular "urban inspirational drama" with Beipiao girls as the protagonists and "suspense ethical dramas" with female policemen as the protagonists.
Feng Xiaogang has actually made the most sincere expression in his class and life experience.
Twenty years as a day.
It is not difficult to see that Feng Xiaogang's biggest feeling about marriage after the millennium is related to cheating.
Once there is a marriage theme that expresses middle-aged couples, you must pull out all the consequences of cheating.
"A Sigh" 23 years ago, "Mobile Phone" 20 years ago discussed all about middle-aged men cheating.
The configuration is also very similar, struggling to entangle the young and beautiful mistress, the virtuous and "faceless" wife, and the poor male intellectual.
"A Sigh" still has a satire on the cheating man - the movie finally freezes the frightened look after the male protagonist "The Prodigal Son Turns Back" travels with his wife and daughter, and receives a mysterious phone call.
Until "Mobile Phone" only left self-deprecation, and attributed the reason for the discovery of the derailment to the development of communication.
To "Echo", a very "clear" main room was added, both virtuous and tacitly allowing men to steal food, and the remarks were comparable to Xu Fan's sentence "Our family is a man, and we don't suffer losses."
Twenty years have passed, the logic of the box office has changed round after round, young people have changed stubble after stubble, but the focus of Feng Xiaogang's discussion on marriage issues has not changed.
So much so that when he was recommended to the original work, he decided to make it into a drama after reading it.
At the same time, he changed again.
Previously, he was a representative of the "masses", and he helped the common people express in gags.
In "Party A and Party B", in the development of the market economy, the gap between the rich and the poor has gradually widened.
Buying a house has become a new issue that young people need to consider when marrying at the turn of the century.
"Big Names", satirizes the swelling real estate market.
He claimed that he was hacked (in the film and television industry).
△ Documentary "Feng Xiaogang One Day in 2000"
Help the people express, cater to the public, and be put by him in the first place, after all, he is liked, and only when there is a box office can he have the right to speak, and his own expression is put behind.
"Meet the needs of the audience, meet the needs of investors, and the rest is satisfied if you can meet your own needs, and forget if you can't meet them."
Today, he still has the concept of "market" and "public", and the popularity of the times has also followed, popular female inspirational dramas, go to film the life of Beipiao girls, popular suspense dramas, choose the most textured social reasoning, the next movie "Do Not Disturb 3", filmed is to fall in love with artificial intelligence.
He doesn't have the purity of his master, he wants to be grounded.
It's just that the ground qi he received was still communicated with the vast number of ordinary people 20 years ago.
But with the drift of social plates, the soil under Feng Xiaogang's feet is no longer connected with most audiences today.
But he still stubbornly believes that the truth he is in contact with is the truth that represents the society.
Director Feng's current status has long been like the "hacking" stage, he needs to help others speak first and then mix a little of his own words, and his own expression is enough to be loud.
It's just that what he said is no longer what everyone cares about.
So Feng Xiaogang also became the old cannon who stuck to the past, lamented everywhere that the world was declining and people's hearts were not ancient.
There are no rules in the alley.
△ The police played by Zhang Yi in "Old Cannon" had a dispute with the hawker
There are no rules for talking to elders.
△ "Old Cannon", the young man spoke ill of the sixth master
There are no rules on the rivers and lakes.
Therefore, he sincerely acted as his past self, unwilling to adapt to the upheaval society around him, like an ostrich galloping on the road.
But this sincerity is not so much about frank communication and mutual understanding.
It's rather a complaint.
Complain that the younger generation is no longer willing to listen to themselves and complain about their loss of voice.
So "sincerity" also became a tactic:
I have all my heart and lungs, and you have not listened, which means that you are impetuous, and you have failed my sincerity.
And not like that.
Might as well stop screwing.
Don't let sincerity become a two-way delay between the expressor and the audience.
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Editorial Assistant: Kitano Martial Arts Master