"The Eighth Suspect" premiered and gave Tomato-Jun a surprise.
As a screening film of the Shanghai Film Festival, thanks to @Toutiao Entertainment's invitation to let Tomato Jun watch this film, although there is no fixed information at present, I believe that this movie will soon be able to meet everyone.
The film was completed in August 2019, and at this film festival, Tomato Jun was amazed by the film after watching the premiere of the film.
Without spoilers, today, Tomato Jun will talk to you about this film to see where it is attractive and where.
First, the real events are adapted, and the story is bold and full of stamina
"The Eighth Suspect" is a crime suspense movie that tells the story of a gangster.
Chen Xinwen, played by Dapeng, was originally the boss of a construction company, he undertook the official Guilong Bridge project, and his life was proud.
But behind the surface brilliance, there are loopholes that cannot be filled.
Chen Xinwen's company has long been unable to make ends meet, and there is no money to build this bridge again, but Chen Xinwen, who has a good face, still holds on, hoping to usher in a turnaround.
When asked when the bridge project would be completed, Chen Xinwen excused the geological problem, in fact, his capital chain has long been completely broken.
Chen Xinwen has a cousin named Chen Xinnian (Sun Yang). On the way to the savings center to withdraw money, Chen Xinnian encountered several robbers who robbed the savings center.
When Chen Xinnian mentioned that these robbers were familiar, the clever Chen Xinwen discovered their way from the clues.
So, he tricked the robbers into the private room of the hotel, identified them in public, and gave them two ways: either they were caught, or they followed him.
In order not to be exposed, the robbers naturally preferred to follow Chen Xinwen. After contacting the three insiders of the savings office, a group of six people set their sights on a wealthy savings office and prepared to rob it.
During the robbery, they not only killed three escorts, but also directly led to the death of policeman He Lan (played by Zhang Songwen).
Seeing his brother die in front of him, policeman Wang Shouyue (played by Lin Jiadong) was like a knife, and he vowed to catch this gang of robbers and avenge his brother.
But after the robbery, Chen Xinwen evaporated like a human being, and was never found again.
Twenty-one years later, just when Wang Shouyue thought that the case was about to end like this, he found a familiar figure passing by in the news of a fire report.
Wang Shouyue found the place of the incident and met this person, although he was very similar to the former suspect, but he became "Mo Zhiqiang" who had already married his wife and had children.
So, is Mo Zhiqiang Chen Xinwen, and what kind of story will there be between Wang Shouyue and him?
Tomato Jun does not spoil, leave some suspense, and when the film is released, everyone will reveal it themselves.
The director of "The Eighth Suspect" is Hong Kong's emerging director Li Zijun, and the film's producer is "Wisdom Teeth" director Zheng Baorui.
The combination of Li Zijun and Zheng Baorui can be described as a strong combination, which also makes "The Eighth Suspect" reveal a strong cold temperament of Hong Kong-style police and bandit crime movies.
The large-scale robbery scenes, the appetizing cat and mouse game, and the terrifying time and space chase also made Tomato Jun feel the unique charm of old-fashioned Hong Kong films.
Second, the fierce and vicious Dapeng, the restrained and deep Lin Jiadong, the calm and sophisticated Zhang Songwen, the chemical reaction of the three is incredible!
What impressed Tomato Jun the most in "The Eighth Suspect" was the acting skills of the three actors in the film.
The first place is naturally an absolute male protagonist Dapeng.
In order to shoot this film, Dapeng made a subversive change, he not only played the vicious gangsters and bandits for the first time on the screen, in order to span twenty years of age change, he first gained 20 pounds, and then quickly lost 30 pounds in a month, showing the high professionalism of a professional actor.
In the film, Chen Xinwen (Mo Zhiqiang), played by Dapeng, is moody and violent, which is very different from his previous "comedian" image.
We all know that Dapeng was first famous for playing comedy.
Born in the northeast, he has an innate comedy ingenuity and talent, which also makes him famous in the online drama industry.
In 2015, Dapeng appeared in front of the world for the first time as a film director and actor, and his "Pancake Man" received a strong response since its release, not only helping him win the 12th Movie Channel Media Awards Best New Director and Actor honor, but also helping him truly step into the film industry and become an actor role model of "acting and directing".
The role of Wang Gongdao he played was the first serious character in Dapeng's true sense.
Because the span is ten years, the identity of the character changes, and also from the young judge to the president of the court, so whether it is the action expression or the costume, Dapeng has spent a lot of energy to figure out, interpret the change of this character, and even a look, is carefully designed.
This role made Dapeng's acting skills recognized for the first time, and subsequently, he walked more and more steadily and faster on the road of film performance.
After "Sewing Machine Band", Dapeng directed and acted again, creating a box office result of 250 million.
And in "The Beneficiary", Dapeng played a low-level single father, in order to play a good role, he took makeup and begged on the street, and no one could even recognize him.
If before this, Dapeng's roles were basically kind, then after this year's "Nameless", Dapeng officially embarked on the road of "multi-faceted" drama.
In "Nameless", Dapeng changed his previous style and created a Japanese pseudo-high-ranking person, whose temperament is hypocritical and his personality characteristics are all shown in the gesture, although there are not many scenes, but the audience is greatly shocked.
In "The Eighth Suspect", Dapeng fully exerts his "face-shattering" characteristics and begins to challenge the fierce and more complex characters.
Dapeng's acting skills in the film can only be described by the word "explosive", and he did not fall behind in the confrontation with Zhang Songwen and Lin Jiadong, two old drama bones.
From the boy who was at the beginning of the spirit, to the outlaw in rags at the end of the road, Dapeng has also made the most accurate interpretation of the changes in the characters in the past twenty years, so that people can enter the play at a glance.
What is particularly commendable is that Dapeng's performance rhythm and tension in the film are properly controlled, and the emotions are very contagious, and there are two paragraphs, which impressed Tomato Jun.
In the first paragraph, he talks with several robbers in the private room of the hotel.
One second, he was still very calm and analyzed the current situation with the robbers and the best choice they faced, and the next second he suddenly burst out, with the most vicious face, saying a threatening word about the robbers disrupting his 10 million plan.
The change before and after is very sudden, from calm and calm to violent and fickle, Dapeng's performance transition is natural and explosive, not to mention the robbers in the film, even the tomato jun in front of the screen was frightened by Dapeng.
The second paragraph is when he fled to call his father.
That year, he got married and secretly called his father, who asked who it was, he didn't speak, but his father still felt it.
The father said bitterly on the phone that he was a smart child who could do anything, but he embarked on the road of no return to crime.
Listening to these words, Dapeng has mixed feelings, he cried and knelt down, kowtowing to his father in the air of the mobile phone, and his mouth made a whimpering sound that wanted to cry but could not cry, at this moment, Dapeng played a bandit's guilt and regret for his father vividly, that kind of emotional tension and infectiousness, can't help but make us in front of the screen deeply empathize, and even remember our debt to our parents.
In "The Eighth Suspect", Dapeng's performance is vivid, delicate, and top-notch, and he is one of the actors who attracts Tomato Jun the most, and it is also him who adds a lot to this crime film.
Of course, in addition to Dapeng, there are two actors who have to be said in the movie, one is Lin Jiadong and the other is Zhang Songwen.
In "Wisdom Teeth", Lin Jiadong once played the role of a policeman, known as "Hong Kong's poorest actor", he has had wonderful performances in "Chill", "Chasing the Dragon" and "Anti-Corruption Storm".
Lin Jiadong was once Du Qifeng's royal actor, most of Du Qifeng's movies, he has his figure, he has his own unique style, known for being delicate, he can flexibly shape the role, no matter what kind of movie, can be converted at will, is also a typical "drama face".
In "The Eighth Suspect", he played Wang Shouyue.
The most impressive clip for Tomato Jun is that after he learned of He Lan's death, the cigarettes he smoked were shaking, and between that trace of shaking, his relationship with He Lan, and his complex state of mind at the moment, all of them were presented, which made people feel empathy.
Zhang Songwen needless to say, in fact, before "Crazy", Zhang Songwen's acting skills have been recognized by everyone, but in "Crazy", he shaped the transformation process of the characters vividly and meticulously, and the show's out-of-circle, to a large extent, is because of Zhang Songwen's acting skills.
At this time, watching his performance in "The Eighth Suspect", he is still so relaxed, calm and sophisticated.
He Lan, played by He Lan, was unfortunately shot in the chase, which is one of the best performance clips in the whole film.
Because he was shot, he seemed weak, but as a police officer's duty, he wanted to catch up, and finally he could only sit on the ground against the wall, watching the robber leave, holding a lighter He seemed to want to light a cigarette, but he silently put the gun away on his waist, and then hung his head and left the world.
The whole performance was completed in one go, especially the details of his silent collection of the gun, because he was afraid that after he died, the gun would be taken away by others, and until the last moment of his life, he was still maintaining a police alert state and professional ethics.
This performance made Tomato Jun very impressed.
In the entire "The Eighth Suspect", I didn't expect that the performances of Dapeng, Lin Jiadong and Zhang Songwen could cooperate so seamlessly, and the three of them were impressive both in the play and the chemistry between them.
Three men in one play, this film, is a victory for the acting school.
Although everyone can't see it yet, when the movie is released, their performance and cooperation will definitely amaze everyone.
Third, explore the subtleties of human nature, the scale of the movie, not only the crime is as simple as the crime
The most shocking thing about "The Eighth Suspect" is the ultimate description of human nature in the film.
Chen Xinwen, played by Dapeng, is a typical character in the film.
Chen Xinwen was actually an honest person at the beginning, but because he was instigated by his cousin to rob a taxi when he was young, he began to lust for profit, and the feeling of getting something for nothing deeply attracted him, and also made him gradually enter the abyss of crime, unable to extricate himself.
In fact, Chen Xinwen has been able to get rid of the shackles of his fate many times.
When the bridge could not be built because of the broken capital chain, he could say it, maybe he could make up for the deficit in other forms, and the prodigal son turned back.
But he chose the road of no return to rob the bank, and dragged his cousin into the water, killing many innocent lives.
In order to return to China, when he picked up a stone and smashed the "strong brother" who had helped him, Chen Xinwen had completely fallen into the abyss of sin.
In fact, Chen Xinwen's story is very similar to the story of Gao Qiqiang in "Crazy".
Both of them were kind people at the beginning, but under the misfortune of fate, driven by greed and attracted by fame and fortune, they gradually embarked on a crooked road.
They still retain the element of kindness in their human nature, but unfortunately, this kindness is only the only trace of warmth under sin.
Although Chen Xinwen can feel his filial piety when he calls his old father, in the final analysis, such filial piety and morality cannot change the fact that he broke the law and committed crimes, but only a trace of his inhumanity has not completely annihilated.
There is a detail in the film that can well reflect Chen Xinwen's inner world.
He didn't have cash to pay for the meal, let his cousin take it, in order for the boss to look up to himself, the broken capital chain not only did not owe the meal, but took a stack of money to the boss to show that he had money and face.
Vanity is only a negative factor in Chen Xinwen's personality, but it is the superposition of many negatives that makes Chen Xinwen finally go on the road of no return.
Human nature has never been black and white.
"The Eighth Suspect" is not only Chen Xinwen's degenerate history, but also a portrait of human nature.
Until the moment of the final ending, Chen Xinwen did not know if he had sincerely reflected and repented of his sins, but at that time, it was too late.
As a "combined debut" of three golden drama bones, "The Eighth Suspect" has done its best at the story and core level.
It not only shows the era of crime, bandits and the impetuous heart, but also through the escape career of a criminal and the story of a policeman's pursuit of murderers, it deeply picks up the subtleties of human nature and tells the aftersounds outside the movie, which is why it is full of staying power.
Of course, as an audience, Tomato Jun still hopes that "The Eighth Suspect" can be released as soon as possible.
Such a good movie should not be buried.
Looking forward to seeing this movie in theaters this year, when Tomato Jun will definitely brush it twice, never miss it! #Shanghai International Film Festival ##上头条看鉴上影节 #
(Movie Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Office: Miao Miao)