This year's policy was relaxed, and all the films that had been backlogged for several years were put on the table,
Like the summer vacation "Fengshen Part 1" and "Desperate" were all filmed two years ago, as the saying goes, "the longer the backlog, the more likely it is to be a bad film".
However, it turns out that this is not the case, whether it is the follow-up Zhang Yimou's work "Solid as a Rock" or this "Wading Through the Sea of Anger" that has just been released, both focus on the four words "suspense crime", it can be said that the scale is very large, and everything is silent.
The hidden theme of "Rock Solid" is - "There is money outside money, and there are officials in officials", which has unlimited meaning.
"Wading Through the Sea of Rage", scheduled to be released in November, has been backlogged for 4 years, and although it has finally passed the review and deleted some content, the official still "recommends that audiences under the age of 18 choose to watch carefully", for no other reason - the scale is very large, and there are some violent pictures in the trailer alone.
At present, this film has whetted the appetite of the audience, if nothing else, it will be the king of offline cinemas in November, and the number of offline reservations has reached 50,000.
In addition to the theme reasons, after all, the two leading actors in "Wading in the Sea of Rage" are also extremely box office appeal.
First of all, Zhou Xun, after the film, rushed to her this time there were many audiences who wanted to buy tickets to enter the hospital, Zhou Xun's performance did not pick large and small screens, and the micro-expressions and small movements were vivid and delicate.
The performance of breaking the fourth wall in "Imperfect Victims" is textbook level, she looks upwards, talks to the audience, and her lines are sonorous, as if facing the superior and dissecting herself.
In "The Legend of Ruyi", she did not cry hysterically, but performed Ruyi's heart like death.
This time, Zhou Xun played Jing Lan, a mother who loves her son in "Wading Through the Sea of Anger", originally a rich wife, but when she learned of her son's behavior, she did not hesitate to cover with her life.
Zhou Xun dressed up in it without trim, appeared completely without makeup, with enlarged pores and dry skin.
And when she was forced into a corner by the male protagonist Lao Jin played by Huang Bo, her whole body stiffened, and then explained word by word: "It's not like this", powerless and weak.
Even if the truth is true - her son Li Miaomiao committed a heinous crime (s killed Lao Jin's daughter), she still has to defend it, and Lao Jin will not die, "you can't find him", calm and serious, and is about to gamble with her life.
A person drove a car and crashed towards Lao Jin, her eyes were full of fierceness, madness, like crazy, looking sideways, like an animal...
Such a bottomless mother who tolerates her son is chilling to watch, but in the original book of "Wading Through the Sea of Anger", Jing Lan dotes on her son even more, she said: "Your daughter is already S, no matter what you do, she will not come back to life, my son harms or, I can compensate you..."
Such a role, Zhou Xun to play is quite hateful,
But when this scene appeared, the audience couldn't help but cry, that is, when Lao Jin (played by Huang Bo) found Li Miaomiao and was about to complete the revenge plan, Jing Lan, who fell sideways in the car, burst into tears, constantly crying, "Let my son go"...
The wolf-like mother is desperate to the moment she feels the loss of her son.
Huang Bo, who played opposite Zhou Xun, returned to his true colors this time and played the little person at the bottom Lao Jin, he is just a fisherman who earns hard money, his hair is messy, his face is greasy, when Huang Bo's fixed makeup photos come out, you can smell a "fishy smell" through the screen.
He worked hard to earn money to send his only daughter Jin Lina to study in Japan, but what he got was - his daughter's news, he did not know the law and did not know how to redress his grievances, he embarked on the road of revenge alone, and planned to die together and fight for his life.
Huang Bo's performance this time also leaned on "crazy", the whole time was mentally unstable, laughing and crying.
For example, when he finally caught Li Miaomiao, Lao Jin couldn't help but laugh out loud in the heavy rain, laughing very oozingly, as if he was a villain,
Immediately afterwards, he dragged Li Miaomiao back and forth by the side of the car, and the director did not cut the close-up shot, but only saw the fast and steady steps......,
Whether Old Kim succeeded in revenge, the director left a suspense, and the trailer came to an abrupt end.
However, looking at the original book, it can be seen that Lao Jin still chose to personally send the person who harmed his daughter to where he should go, and there is such a sentence on the cover of the book - we are all looking for an answer to the pain experienced in life, and in the desperate situation of no way back, the only thing that cannot be let go is love.
It is conceivable that "Wading Through the Sea of Rage" may also have such an ending.
It is reported that the original author's inspiration came from a real case (which occurred in the United States), the female student was killed, the American police had no choice, and the murderer absconded..., in this case, the author created an angry old Jin, allowing him to embark on the road of revenge alone.
The author Lao Huang once said: "The novel was written in 2015, the film rights were sold in September of the same year, and the Jiang Ge case occurred in 2016, not that I predicted the tragedy, but that similar tragedies in the world always happen."
The director of this film, Cao Baoping, has few works, but is better than fine, like "Scorching Sun" has an excellent story shell, and is wrapped in a heavy social issue, and is good at cutting into crime themes from small people.
Sherlock said that if justice is not done, then pure revenge becomes the only justice, and the issue of "law and justice" involved in "Wading Through the Sea of Wrath" will definitely cause heated discussions after its release.
Looking at it this way, "Wading Through the Sea of Anger" is definitely the most anticipated domestic film at the end of 2023, Director Cao has few works, but it is of good quality and almost does not overturn, not to mention Zhou Xun, Huang Bo, Yan Ni, Zu Feng and other powerful actors, very optimistic about this film, looking forward to the official release, I hope not to cut too much.