On the morning of August 30, the online movie "Female Prisoner Storm 1995" was launched on Tencent and iQiyi. Starring many well-known Hong Kong actresses such as Zhou Xiuna, Zhong Xintong, Wu Qianyu, etc., the film tells the story of the Hong Kong Women's Prison in 1995. This story focuses on the aesthetic elements of female violence, but in the end, the trend of the film is "persuasion education".
In the film, the role of Zhou Xiuna is used as the narrative entry perspective. This financially talented woman went to prison for crimes and entered a new environment in a women's prison. In this environment, there are scenes from Hong Kong prisons that fans are very familiar with. "Hong Kong prison theme" was once an important theme in Hong Kong films, with a small social environment that was conventional. "Female Prisoner Storm 1995" adheres to this narrative world view of Hong Kong films.
In this women's prison, cigarettes and sanitary napkins are the best-selling and circulating items. In prison, Zhong Xintong led his "little brothers" to monopolize the sanitary napkin market, causing other female prisoners to suffer. After Zhou Xiuna came to this women's prison, she took the lead in launching a challenge to establish a private circulation market for sanitary napkins in the prison through more reasonable distribution and production. This kind of story of grabbing the market through market means is quite novel and interesting.
The next story is the non-fight and acquaintance of Zhou Xiuna's character and Zhong Xintong's character. Originally two groups of hostile forces, in the women's prison, they gradually opened a cooperation mode. Obviously, the cooperation between the two is for the follow-up story development service. Halfway through the film, the real female boss enters the prison. The character played by Wu Qianyu is going to dominate the rivers and lakes in prison.
The way to unify the rivers and lakes is also simple, that is, "ruthless enough". Zhong Xintong's character has suffered the loss of Wu Qianyu's role "ruthless enough". In this women's prison, female inmates rub the toothbrushes issued by the prison out of the corners and use them for fighting, especially to quietly stab opponents. The practice of using a toothbrush as a dagger is not original in this movie, and many Hong Kong films have similar plots in prison content.
The story conflict of this film escalates, and it is Wu Qianyu's character who lets an old mother swallow chess. After swallowing the two chess, the old mother was killed alive. In this situation, the character of Zhou Xiuna and the character of Zhong Xintong want to open the joint mode, one to avenge the old mother. The way to take revenge is also very simple, during the women's prison, the two groups of people fight together. Zhou Xiuna's role is very capable of fighting, and she directly knocked down the role of Wu Qianyu.
In this way, the movie has obviously become a fierce competition, and it seems to lack some positive energy. In order to maintain the positive values of the film, the film has made two efforts. The first aspect is to angrily denounce the incompetence of the British era in Hong Kong, which caused chaos in the prison. This kind of angry rebuke is similar in many of Wang Jing's films. For example, the "Chasing the Dragon" series. The Hong Kong Women's Prison in 1995, so chaotic, really deserves a special book.
The second aspect is to let this group of women confess their mistakes and realize that it is wrong to fight in prison, especially in groups. After this group fight, the characters of Zhou Xiuna, Zhong Xintong and Wu Qianyu all recognized their mistakes and said that it was not worth it to be sentenced to increase because of the group fight. This oral confession is really the finishing touch of this movie, and it is also an important laughing content.
When many fans see "Female Prisoner Storm 1995", they may think that it is a bad film with the taste of Wang Jing. However, after watching the entire movie, it is estimated that many fans will be disappointed. The film is not the work of director Wang Jing, and there are not many Wang Jing-style bridges. In the end, the film is on the right path and promotes positive values. In the film, many of the more ruthless bridges seem to have been deleted.
The aesthetics of women's violence, women's prison revenge, etc., are obviously the highlights of this movie. However, the film does not amplify these points, it chooses another way - to persuade people to be good. This kind of narrative is different from the early film style of Hong Kong. Obviously, the current one has a more narrative bottom line. In the early years of Hong Kong films, I can't wait to come as big as the scale. Like the bridge of swallowing chess pieces in the film, in the early Hong Kong films, it will definitely be more excessive.
The narrative of "Female Prisoner Storm 1995" is relatively bland, without too many ups and downs. The film only has a slightly climactic taste in the general attack stage of the story. Zhou Xiuna, Zhong Xintong, Wu Qianyu in the film, the performance can not see too many surprises, in terms of appearance, is also relatively average, after all, several big beauties are wearing the clothes in the number, people rely on clothes and horses on the saddle, there are no good clothes, they are ordinary people. (Text/Ma Qingyun)