With "In the Octagon Cage", Wang Baoqiang can return the golden broom
After talking about several summer TV series that are not much to watch, today I will talk about the summer movies that are playing heartily.
"Disappearing Her" charged ahead of time and was scheduled to win the summer box office. I love you! " Four old drama bones save the simple plot with their acting skills.
And what Sister Pickpocket wants to talk about today is "In the Octagon Cage", which is known to bet on Wang Baoqiang's career as a director.
【1】
Realistic themes, based on true stories.
Before talking about the movie, Sister Pickpocket still wants to talk to you about the origin of the story of "In the Octagon Cage" - the "Liangshan Fighting Orphan Incident" that caused a sensation in the country in 2017.
Teenage children wrestle in iron cages, surrounded by adult spectators of revelry.
This short film, titled "Fighting Orphans", was once put on the cusp.
"If you don't study at a young age, it will be a scourge to go out of society in the future."
"Why doesn't the local government care about these orphans?"
"The ultimate destination is security."
The surging "public opinion" hit, and the person responsible behind these children, Enbo, the founder of Chengdu Embo Fighting Club, was burdened with the "four deadly sins" of illegal adoption, illegal profit-making, personal control and deprivation of minors' right to education.
An online storm in the name of justice changed the child's future with the snap of his fingers, and all 17 fighting teenagers were "forced back to Liangshan".
Ironically, children who were forcibly taken did not want to be "saved" at all.
In follow-up interviews, they said to themselves, "It's good here, I know best." ”
Because returning to Liangshan means farming.
Most of their backgrounds are either "father is a monk, mother remarries", or relying on their father to go out to work, with an annual income of less than 10,000 yuan, or "both parents are dead" and the family is surrounded by four walls.
The last words an XD mother leaves to her children before she dies: "Don't be XD like your mother".
This principle, which has been transitioned for hundreds of years, "poor generations inherit, the children of the elite are still elites." You never know that the children of the bottom farmers are not as simple as "just study hard".
In 2017, the champion of the Beijing college entrance examination said bluntly in an interview, "I was born in Beijing, and the educational resources that I can enjoy in a big city like Beijing determine that I can take many shortcuts when studying." ”
The mountain that straddles Liangshan and the city, but it is a distance that the children at the bottom cannot cross in their lifetimes, and practicing mixed martial arts and winning the UFC belt was the glimmer of light that they held on tiptoe.
A Yi boy said in front of the camera, "There is beef, mutton, and you can only eat artichokes in your hometown."
Or "I can only herd cattle, or other people's cattle." ”
Even in fact, the club not only recruits for free, but also has a special cultural class for children...
"Those who hold wages for all, do not let them freeze to death in the wind and snow."
Three months after the "Fighting Orphans" turmoil, we finally waited for good news:
"With the support of the government, the Embo Fight Club has obtained a sports school qualification, and the children who were once 'repatriated' will be able to continue to train and learn.
It will also expand the source of enrollment. Not only do they receive martial arts training, but they also graduate with nationally recognized academic qualifications. ”
This absurd thing was over, and fortunately, more people were informed about this incident through the screen.
【2】
Let's talk about movies.
Six years ago, Wang Baoqiang's self-directed and self-starring debut film "Big Trouble Tianzhu" ended up with a low score of 3.7 on Douban, and the Golden Broom Award in the same year awarded Wang Baoqiang the "Most Disappointing Director of the Year Award".
He became the first A-list star to receive the award at the "Golden Broom" award ceremony nine years ago.
Wang Baoqiang, holding a golden broom, sincerely apologized and promised, "Although it is not a glorious award, it can spur people to progress." I came to accept the award because I love movies, respect movies, respect audiences, respect the seniors here. My first time as a director is really inexperienced, there are many shortcomings, and I believe that after hard work, I will become a qualified director. ”
"In the Octagon Cage" is Wang Baoqiang's promise. The screening score broke the record, and the Douban score was 7.6.
Dong Yuhui said a paragraph after watching the movie, "There is a clip that made me cry, in the movie, the old lady said while chanting: 'Children here cry, it's not easy to go out. I couldn't tell for a moment whether it was talking about characters in movies or people in reality. ”
Even Stephen Chow wiped his tears and praised: "Baoqiang is one of the best actors I have ever seen, and it turns out to be the best director, served." ”
"In the Octagon Cage" is indeed a work of sincerity. "Octagon" represents both martial arts and the cage of life, and we really need a movie like this.
Wang Baoqiang, who is also from the second generation of farmers, has an understanding and resonance for such a group. Therefore, in "In the Octagon Cage" there is a rough sense of reality, which is the values of the simple bottom people looking at this social world.
Abandoning the limited understanding of comedy films and starting again from the field of convenience, Wang Baoqiang made a correct choice.
In fact, this texture was already described in "Hello! Mr. Tree" is revealed, and the direction of effort is right, and the effort is twice as effective with half the effort. But in any case, the story of "In the Octagon" is not easy to change, touching on some more sensitive realist themes, and it has indeed suffered deletions, so it is already rare to say that it can be seen.
As a line in the movie, "Have you ever played Splash?" No matter how far the stone floats, it will eventually sink into the water, and this is my life."
The powerlessness at the bottom comes from fate, realism has no heroes, and if reality can be easily saved, it will become a fairy tale.
【3】
"In the Octagon Cage" is definitely qualified, and in addition to those real touches, some obvious shortcomings will still be exposed.
The biggest problem with the movie may be that it is too scattered, the main line is scattered, and the characters are scattered. You can see Wang Baoqiang's ambition, discussing the plight of children at the bottom, the orientation of public opinion media, and the loopholes of society as a whole. When there is too much to say, it is easy to lose the balance of weight and weight.
The inner transformation of the characters is not convincing, and some lines will appear suddenly highlighted. Especially for characters other than the protagonist, the character arc is not three-dimensional or even a little flat.
In the end, it can only end up with a "decent" evaluation, the rhythm of standard genre films, the story is a good story, but the shooting is slightly thin. And the last fighting counterattack is rather a consummation for the audience.
Even though it is full of irrationality and lack of credibility, Wang Baoqiang needs such a scene, and the audience needs such a scene.
Elevated but also distorted.
This is Wang Baoqiang's personal limitation, showing his cowardice in the face of real sharp questions, and finally did not escape the cool narrative of the movie.
And we are always impressed by sincerity.
Taking "In the Octagon" as a start, at least six years, from 3.7 to 7.6, Wang Baoqiang did not disappoint us.