"The Eighth Suspect" failed, but is Dapeng's acting skills worthy of the title of actor?

This year's Dapeng is a bumper harvest.

At the beginning of the year, "Keep You Safe" was well received and sold, and now "The Eighth Suspect" made him the Golden Goblet Award actor of the Shanghai Film Festival, and the actor to the director to the actor completed the second-level jump.

Actors rely on movies to become emperors, can movies support actors?

The story of "The Eighth Suspect" does not have many surprises, and it is not much different from the real case, as long as you check the information or look at the trailer, you can know the general direction.

Crime, escape, pursuit, at a glance, no suspense, the narrative structure is also very traditional, there are more logical loopholes, and the director does not borrow from the utilitarianism of Hong Kong films, amplifying the cool point and ignition.

This makes the pace of the movie relatively flat, it is very enjoyable to watch, and sleepy bugs will attack at any time during the movie, after all, the film has no surprises and no waves.

If you go to the movies with this gimmick, you will definitely be disappointed.

Moreover, the role of Sun Yang is dispensable, there is no progress to the plot, and he did not know about the robbery plan in advance, and he is not relying on Dapeng to survive.

Perhaps just to match the real case, forcibly installing such a character, in fact, removing it will make the plot a little more compact, which is a big mistake in the character.

In terms of text design, "The Eighth Suspect" is too bland.

The structure of the three-act play, the film only has a good beginning and ending, the confrontation part is completely invalid, law and escape, love and reason, persistence and justice, all collapsed.

Dapeng has a good face and utilitarianism, and after repairing the bridge and lacks funds, he is ready to rob the money truck.

But he killed the banknote bearer, carried the murder case, and the other accomplices fled too high-profile, so that he and his cousin had to embark on the road of escape.

This should have been a wonderful scene of the police and fugitives chasing each other, like "Cat and Mouse Game", but the director's handling was too simple, only using Zhang Songwen to embellish it and skip it, and there was no emotional infection and thrill at all.

After that, Dapeng and Sun Yang fled to Myanmar, and it was not comfortable to live in a foreign country, so they decided to find a substitute for the dead ghost, change their identity, and return to China to change their way of living.

And Lin Jiadong's side has been biting the 95 banknote robbery case because of the sacrifice of his good friend, and it is reasonable to personally arrest the last two murderers and comfort his friend's spirit in heaven.

Dapeng and Lin Jiadong, both of them have the belief that they must live.

Under normal circumstances, directors should play up their psychological changes here, reinforcing dramatic conflict and human suffering.

But love has become a dragonfly and a glimpse of light, neither seeing a deeper emotional entanglement from Dapeng, nor glimpsing the meaning of law from Lin Jiadong.

This imbalance makes the second layer of contradictions of the film disappear, the watchability is reduced, and it brings great difficulty to the publicity, which can only focus on the actors and set up some flags, otherwise the publicity is helpless.

As for insistence and justice, only superficial tastes remain.

Lin Jiadong's way of discovering the suspect Dapeng was through an accident in the circle of friends, I don't know if it was such an accident in the real case, but in the movie, this setting is obviously not convincing.

Perhaps the director is trying to restore the truth as much as possible, but he forgets the importance of artistic adaptation, loses ups and downs, and has no action and big scenes, which is a failure as a commercial film.

More importantly, since Lin Jiadong discovered Dapeng, the entire movie has fallen into the embarrassing dilemma of tasteless food and abandonment.

The movie can be watched, but there are more and more problems with insufficient motivation before and after, and when the movie has this kind of problem, no amount of discussion becomes meaningless.

The mode of Lin Jiadong and Dapeng's duel between the two heroes, their respective persistence and justice, loses the space for interpretation, resulting in the confrontation between the third-layer characters not having a chewy head.

The three-layer confrontation, which was originally a climax, has been reduced to mediocrity, and it is not surprising that boredom and boredom follow.

So what is the highlight of "The Eighth Suspect"? The change of human nature and the change of Dapeng's acting skills give the film a reason to watch it.

The aberration of Dapeng's human nature is because of the greed in the three poisons, and the love in the eight sufferings, which cannot be separated, unwanted, and unable to let go.

Chen Xinwen is a construction company owner, as long as the hand is not so long, in the nineties when tens of thousands of households are scarce, it is a completely rich life of another class.

However, he was too greedy, greedy for money and fame, and finally embarked on the road of no return to sin, and since then he has taken the wrong step and taken the wrong step, because he planted the cause because of desire, and the fruit of the second half has to be eaten by himself, which is the heavenly reincarnation of karma.

In the process of changing from Chen Xinwen to Mo Zhiqiang, Dapeng experienced eight hardships in life.

Separated from familiar places, separated from his father, who failed to fulfill his filial piety, the wealth and transshipment he asked did not wait, the luck of escaping legal punishment and living the rest of his life peacefully did not wait.

In the end, I can't bear my own life, I can't let go of my wife, children and cousin, and with ties, human nature cannot be the same, so there is no determination, quietness, peace, and worry, and I am always entangled in nightmares.

Dapeng seems to be living in the world, but in fact it is a lonely soul and wild ghost in a treacherous hell, there can be no true feelings, no family, no concern, people are alive but the soul is lost, sooner or later report to the king of Yan.

In addition to human nature, Dapeng's acting skills have also improved greatly.

The previous Dapeng, mainly playing nonsensical little people at the bottom, all had a commonality.

It seems humble, but in fact, they all have an arrogant and proud temperament, which does not match the characteristics of the characters very well, and there is a deliberate performance of contrast to make the audience laugh.

But in "The Eighth Suspect", Dapeng has almost faded this special trace, and the fit with the character is very high, and the layering before and after Chen Xinwen and Mo Zhiqiang is well interpreted.

During Chen Xinwen's period, Dapeng was a self-conscious who wanted to die and suffer sin, and refused to bow his head in front of people.

It is clear that there is not much money left in the company's account, and he insists on inviting employees to eat and drink, putting up a big scene in a big restaurant, and when settling the bill, he does not want to hear others say that he does not have enough money to keep an account first.

There is one point that needs to be grasped when playing this type of role, and that is arrogance.

The voice is octave high, the eyes are empty, the speech is in tune, and the walk is carried with the wind, giving people a very pretentious and ostentatious feeling.

In appearance, Dapeng has achieved the likeness, holding up the boss's belly, behaving in a pretentious manner, and in terms of details, Dapeng has also achieved a god-like, and his eyes never show weakness, as if everything is under control.

Dapeng during Mo Zhiqiang's period was a low-key life, trying to make himself the most inconspicuous person, which was completely different from the style of being a boss.

Speaking is no longer as loud as before, but soft-spoken, straight waist has also become slightly hunched, looking at people without looking directly, walking without swaying.

When talking on the phone with his father, whom he had not seen for many years, Dapeng cried silently, kowtowing to his father on the mobile phone, regret, guilt, pain, and necessity, and multiple emotions came together.

Especially in several rivalry scenes with Lin Jiadong, the subtle changes in Dapeng's eyes and the inhibition of his voice show that he eats the characters very thoroughly.

Chen Xinwen really became Mo Zhiqiang, and Mo Zhiqiang was terrified when the truth was about to be broken, and became the veritable eighth suspect.

Dapeng performed Chen Xinwen's trepidation and uncertainty, and the inner entanglement was shown on his face, which was very different from the past Dapeng, and people did not recognize it at once.

But that's all that is worth saying about "The Eighth Suspect", which is quite regrettable.

The story is a good story, and the actors are also good actors, but the director's fire has not yet arrived, and even with Zheng Baorui's producer, it has not improved much.