I have to say that Chen Sicheng bet on the right treasure again, and the "iron triangle" created by Zhu Yilong was unexpectedly successful
In 2015, Chen Sicheng transformed into a director, and the "iron triangle" composed of Liu Haoran and Wang Baoqiang handed over a suspense work "Detective Chinatown".
Originally, this film was not optimistic, firstly, Chen Sicheng's directorial level needs to be considered, and secondly, the suspense theme is difficult to shoot, and the film integrates comedy elements in it, and it is undoubtedly more difficult to get out of the circle.
But I never expected that the first work of "Detective Chinatown" won a box office score of 823 million, and the word-of-mouth performance was also quite excellent, laying a solid foundation for the next two plays.
After three years, this iron triangle combination returned, bringing "Detective Chinatown 2", which is also the theme of suspense and comedy, with a box office score of 3.397 billion. After another three years, the unchanged lineup and unchanged theme directly helped "Detective Chinatown 3" win a box office of 4.523 billion.
With this series of works, Chen Sicheng became famous in a battle. After that, he supervised the production of two films in the "Manslaughter" series, both of which performed well at the box office, and Chen Sicheng also became a representative of domestic suspense films.
This time, Chen Sicheng served as the screenwriter and producer, and Zhu Yilong and Ni Ni created a new "Iron Triangle" combination, which was unexpectedly successful. After its release, the film directly won a word-of-mouth score of 7.5, and more than 60% of the audience gave four-star and five-star praise.
Not only that, this movie is also the box office champion of this year's Dragon Boat Festival, and it is quite rapid to beat the films released at the same time, and I have to say that Chen Sicheng bet on the right treasure again.
First, layers of reversal, a plot full of suspense
The frequent emergence of domestic suspense movie masterpieces directly raises the aesthetic power of the audience, which makes suspense works want to retain the audience, first of all, they must have a performance beyond expectations in the quality of the plot.
After the audience has seen high-quality suspense works such as "Detective Chinatown" and "Manslaughter", they still gave "Disappearing Her" a rating of 7.5, which already shows that the story of the film alone is very attractive.
This film tells the story of He Fei (played by Zhu Yilong) wife Li Muzi mysteriously disappeared during the wedding anniversary trip, and when He Fei's search was fruitless, his wife (played by Wen Yongshan) appeared again, but He Fei insisted that the stranger in front of him was not his wife, and his wife took out her identity certificate to prove herself.
Almost everyone believes that Li Muzi in front of them is He Fei's wife, but Li Muzi in He Fei's eyes is very different from his wife in everyone's eyes. And there are hidden secrets between the two, and as gold-medal lawyer Chen Mai (Ni Ni) intervenes in this bizarre case, more mysteries slowly emerge.
In the film, the male protagonist He Fei entered a suspicious case, and in the process of finding clues, he has fallen into a dangerous situation, and his perspective is like the audience's limitations, and he can't see what the truth is.
Li Muzi, who returned to He Fei after disappearing, looks different from He Fei's wife, and the personalities of the two are very different, and she is obviously approaching He Fei with a purpose. Because she is too good at disguise, she successfully deceived all the people who were not familiar with Li Muzi, and He Fei was regarded as a madman by others because he questioned that the person in front of her was not his wife.
Such a character setting is already very suspenseful, and the compact plot development makes the audience nervous in the process of solving the puzzle. Since Ho Fei's visa expired, there were only four days left, and if he could not find his wife, he would not be able to see him again.
He Fei's persistence makes people very puzzled, and the audience is likely to question Li Muzi's motives, but they will also doubt whether He Fei has a mental illness.
Li Muzi's evidence constantly makes everyone believe that the person in front of him is He Fei's wife, and He Fei is prone to hallucinations because he has been a diving instructor for too long, suffering from brain nerve diseases, making him recognize his wrong wife and deliberately make trouble.
The first layer of suspense in the film is who Li Muzi and He Fei are lying, but the intervention of the gold medal lawyer involves the popular fitting room secret door incident in Southeast Asia, and the highlights of the story are becoming richer and richer. The truth of the twists and turns, and the relationships between the characters that are constantly established and broken, are terrifying to think about.
Second, the powerful lineup gathered, Zhu Yilong is too amazing
For a big-screen work, the importance of choosing the right actor is self-evident, and the configuration of "Disappearing Her" and "Detective Chinatown" is different, no longer a combination model between the actor and the new generation, but a full strength.
Ni Ni's big-screen masterpieces have always been well received, and after the explosion of Zhang Yimou's "Jinling Thirteen", Andy Lau starred in "Bomb Disposal Expert 2", which also has wonderful performances in screen works of various themes. This time in "Disappearing Her", Ni Ni played the lawyer Chen Mai, which is more like a character tailored for him.
Calm and capable, without losing casual, very similar to Ni Ni's own temperament. Short hair styling paired with professional clothing has firmly established the image of lawyers. In addition to this, the characters will drag racing, riding motorcycles, making the characters more life-like and more three-dimensional, not just a strong woman-style tool man setting.
And Li Muzi, played by Wen Yongshan, is very different from her image in "Manslaughter 2", no longer a good wife and mother, but has become a femme fatale. Chinese film, Wing Shan's smile is very seductive, but it makes people's scalps stunned. Gentle like a little white rabbit, but her arrogant appearance makes her look mysterious and dangerous.
Du Jiang's policeman Zheng Cheng is also a complex character, he is witty and brave, but he also has his extreme side. For Du Jiang, who has interpreted countless main theme works, interpreting this breakthrough theme is indeed a challenge, but it brings more freshness to the audience.
The most amazing is Zhu Yilong, after entering the big screen, he has proven his strength with works such as "Peak Explosion" and "Life Events", but what can really be called an acting explosion is this "Disappearing Her".
Zhu Yilong's portrayal of He Fei is a tender and distressing character, but when it reveals another side that is unknown, it also makes people shudder. It can be seen that Zhu Yilong has completely substituted himself into this role, and he even integrated some of his small habits in life.
As soon as I was nervous, I couldn't help but open my mouth, the muscles on my face twitched together when I was afraid of fear, and I was stunned when I was slapped, and every emotion could be accurately transmitted, and it also allowed the audience to quickly enter the play and follow He Fei's perspective to interpret the mystery of his wife's disappearance.
It can be said that this film has taken a fairly steady step from the story plot to the casting. Chen Sicheng switched from director to screenwriter, and also successfully unlocked another new identity, and his strength cannot be underestimated. I wonder if this "Disappearing Her" meets your expectations?