It is obviously to expose the scars of society, but it broke 2.1 billion box office in the summer of family fun

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Last Sunday, I went to Shenzhen to watch "In the Octagon Cage".

It is obviously to expose the scars of society, but it broke 2.1 billion box office in the summer of family fun

I watched this movie too late, I guess my friends around me have seen it. Because it was released on July 6.

However, yesterday the cinema was still full.

This attendance should indicate that the box office of "In the Octagon" is real.

And what surprised me the most was that the seats in the first row were lying down, and I had no choice but to buy the first row before the opening, and the result was the coolest!!

"In the Octagon" is a movie where the advantages and disadvantages are particularly obvious.

Moreover, its advantages and disadvantages go hand in hand.

touched on a lot of social issues,

But it's all a shallow taste

As a film based on a true story of society, the event itself is particularly worth discussing. There are also many social issues involved.

The prototype of the story is that a well-wisher saw many children from poor families wandering around, and then set up a sanda club to house them, and he made money from other industries to train them for free, and even raised many national champions.

However, after the media found out about this, they hyped him to use children to make money, and then watched the lively joint efforts, so that many children left the club and returned to the mountains where no one cared for.

In the end, the government helped him obtain a qualification so that the children could continue to study there.

In fact, you don't have to be a champion, there is only one champion.

But at least he provided direction and skills for the children of poor families.

You can't be a sanda champion, you can at least get fit, you might be able to go to the police or work as a security guard, at least you have the opportunity to support yourself with the abilities you learned in the club.

And back in the mountains, there are nine years of compulsory education, but why don't the media think, since nine years of compulsory education is free, and going to the club is also free, why do parents send their children to the club? He doesn't have a student in the club yet.

You look at the children reading around you again, don't you still understand?

Eating at home has become a problem, what about transportation? Can you afford your more expensive workbooks? Are there good teachers? Is there money to attend cram school? Can I get into high school?

You don't solve the problem of education of children in poor mountainous areas, you usually don't care, and when you see someone who cares, you don't investigate or study, and you will buckle a hat of using children to make profits.

Most likely, it is because they are not kind enough, and they do not believe that there will be kind people in this world.

In fact, based on this story, the movie has many angles to shoot.

The media's counter-role and short-term success in this matter, chasing traffic and having no conscience, are particularly worthy of being used as an entry point.

Indeed, the film also showed it.

However, the film also focuses on schools and clubs that cheat athletes into taking illegal drugs in order to achieve sports results;

and focused the camera on the unhealthy trend of privately collecting sponsorship fees from both public and private schools;

also focused the camera on the shady scene of the event organizers;

……

In short, everywhere the film lens reaches, there are problems.

There were too many questions, and for a while, lying in the chair of the cinema, I didn't know who to criticize first.

This is a very obvious place where the pros and cons of the film coexist.

If you focus the camera on a problem and then concentrate your efforts, it must be more prominent than the contradictions of the main film now, and it will capture the audience better.

Of course, as a commercial film, it may also consider that it is too profound, which will dissuade some audiences who pursue entertainment, so it has become what it is now.

However, all the problems are dragonflies and do not make waves in the hearts of the audience, which affects the depth of the film.

The protagonist does have an aura,

But I want to portray it in three dimensions

The story itself is based on the protagonist of a particularly caring figure, who did not give up on the children even under false media reports.

How to portray such a perfect person is a problem.

Actually, it's the last solution I mentioned.

You have to show the characteristics of the protagonist by focusing on coping with major problems by this protagonist, if you let him face small problems constantly, and the big problems are not prominent, the audience will feel that there is no big contradiction in the character, the audience has no pain, it will be difficult to empathize.

The two protagonists have more abrupt changes.

One is from asking for money to giving money, and the other is from saying that you don't touch martial arts to teaching children.

In fact, it can be seen that the screenwriter meant to show his transformation step by step, but the whole story is not focused, there are more details, and the transformation weakens the audience's empathy for the protagonist.

It can be seen that Wang Baoqiang still has a lot of room for progress as a director.

After watching the whole movie, logically I knew that this was a good person, but the feeling was not deep, and the sensationalism was more deliberate. However, many pictures can be seen that the angle is deliberately found, and the screenshots alone are still relatively filmed, such as the airplane of the children looking at the sky.

Little fresh meat sometimes acting skills explode,

Sometimes it's very undedicated

Playing two little fresh meats who are more talented than coach Wang Baoqiang sometimes perform really well in acting, such as hearing Wang Baoqiang say white-eyed wolf on TV, and then crying until he convulsions in the hospital bed, this crying scene is very low without handsome baggage, crying is particularly real and very good.

However, as the person who plays a professional martial arts champion, your figure is really not good, and you are not as good as the pampered immortal and Yin Shou's son in the movie next door.

Especially the last highlight fighting scene, which magnifies the ordinary figure of the body, has no six-pack abs, and is not as good as the personal trainer who tricked you into fitness online.

This figure is too dramatic. It led to the last highlight I didn't empathize with at all.

Moreover, the training of these two actors was also skipped quickly, which did not reflect how a champion was trained, resulting in the film being based on the theme of fighting, but without any professional focus.

In short, the outstanding contradiction shows that Wang Baoqiang still has a long way to go as a director, but the story itself can be made into a movie, which is quite meaningful. And I still want to say in the end, Brother Baoqiang's acting skills are indeed quite good.