Text/Muqiao Jane
Edited by Mujo Janeko
Preface
In recent years, suspense movies and suspense TV series have shown explosive growth and have been widely praised in the film and television market.
As far as this year is concerned, at the beginning of the year, "Disappearing Her" starring Zhu Yilong and Ni Ni can be described as a good start, and it has achieved a good box office of more than 3 billion at once, which undoubtedly brings huge pressure to the suspense-themed movies in the future.
In addition, this year, there are many movies of the same genre such as "Solid as a Rock" and "Mistake by the River", which have also received good responses.
But the movie we are going to talk about today has won the single-day box office championship for 11 consecutive days, and the final box office is expected to sprint to 450 million.
And its theme is novel, the interpretation is vivid, and the plot is thrilling... As soon as it was released, it showed the situation of a dark horse, running wild all the way, which was amazing.
That's "Saving the Suspect".
01 The birth of a dark horse
"As long as I'm alive, I'll tell you with my actions, don't mess with a mother. ”
In the trailer, Teacher Hui Yinghong's line made people who heard it creepy.
It is hard to imagine how desperate it is for a mother to say such astonishing words in a calm tone.
In this film, two mothers, namely Chen Zhiqi played by Zhang Xiaofei and Lin Shu'e played by Hui Yinghong, are engaged in-for-tat confrontation to save their persecuted daughters, and then jointly solve the case to find justice for their daughters.
There are many intricate interweaving lines, and the twists and turns are thrilling.
Walking out of the cinema, the audience shouted wonderful, and it took a while to come out of the movie.
Then, before commenting on this movie, we must first understand the director behind it - Zhang Mo.
Because she is not only a young female director, she also has a special title---- the daughter of "National Teacher" Zhang Yimou.
So the film she directed received such a good response, did it rely on her father's "support", or did it come from her own talent?
We'll find out what she's been through.
The daughter of the "national teacher".
Director Zhang Yimou's status in the Chinese film industry is unparalleled, and he has won the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Best Director Awards many times.
There are countless actors who have become the best actor with his movies.
What is even more admirable is Zhang Yimou's love for movies, now 73 years old, he is still making movies, and he has no idea of stopping.
When talking about movies, he also gushes endlessly, and his smile is about to overflow the screen.
still remembers that in an interview after the release of "Man Jianghong", Zhang Yimou said that he initially wanted to make the whole movie into one shot, but in the end he couldn't achieve it.
But when he talked about his ideas, his heart was surging, and he was like a teenager chasing his dreams.
So, what about his daughter Zhang Mo?
In fact, Zhang Mo hated and loved his father, who had such an unsurpassable achievement.
Zhang Mo is the daughter of Zhang Yimou and his ex-wife Xiao Hua, when Zhang Mo was 7 years old, his parents divorced, and the young Zhang Mo lived with his mother.
From this point of view, Zhang Mo was able to embark on the road of directing and won many honors, not because of her famous father.
Zhang Mo has always been very good, and Zhang Yimou's divorce from his ex-wife was largely due to his scandal with Gong Li.
Although Zhang Mo, who is only seven years old, does not understand the affairs of adults, she can deeply feel that she is leaving her father.
The divorce of parents can bring a lot of harm to children, but fortunately, Zhang Mo received as much care as possible under the protection of his mother.
Maybe he wants to prove himself and fight for a breath, Zhang Mo has been working very hard.
She has loved writing since she was a child, has published articles in newspapers many times, and even wrote a novel with the same name as Zhang Yimou's movie "My Father and Mother".
Zhang Mo graduated from Columbia University and went on to study at New York University's film school, and after returning from school, she began to build her own career.
She has participated in the production of many classic films, and in the romance film "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree", she served as an assistant director, editor, and subtitler.
In "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", she also participated in the production of the film as an assistant director.
In 2016, Zhang Mo directed the first film "Twenty-Eight Years Old Minor" completely controlled by himself, and won the "10th China Screen Billboard" New Director of the Year Award.
In 2022, she teamed up with her father Zhang Yimou to co-direct "Sniper" and achieved excellent results.
In this year, Zhang Mo was also nominated for Best Director at the 35th China Film Golden Rooster Awards.
Now, the eldest daughter Zhang Mo has finally won the recognition of her father Zhang Yimou with her strength.
And in 2023, this "Saving the Suspect" directed by Zhang Mo is even more surprising.
And in terms of its development trend, it may even surpass the movie "Solid as a Rock" directed by Zhang Yimou in the same period.
It is said that the cumulative box office of "Saving the Suspect" has exceeded 260 million in the 6 days since it was launched, and the number of viewers has exceeded 5 million.
even caught up with Zhu Yilong's "Mistake by the River" and Yu Hewei's "Second-hand Masterpiece", which shows that its strength should not be underestimated.
So what kind of magic does this film have?
3 wonderful plots
The first is the theme, suspense drama plus mother-daughter relationship, what will a mother do who watches her daughter being abused and killed?
This film shows us this terrible reality vividly.
In this film, Lin Shu'e (played by Hui Yinghong)'s daughter is a top college student, but she was brutally murdered and slandered for cyberbullying.
At this time, Chen Zhiqi, who is a gold medal lawyer, was coerced to defend the death row suspect, and the bargaining chip of the threat was to kidnap her daughter.
Between her daughter and justice, what should Chen Zhiqi do? As a mother, she will never give up her daughter.
But defending a murderer and trampling on another mother's heart made Chen Zhiqi feel great pain.
As a result, finding the murderer has become the key to the case, but there is a lot of fog in it that makes it difficult to guess.
In short, this film is very good in terms of plot, picture, structure, and actors' acting skills.
Heavy fog and constant turns make the audience always hang a heart.
It can be seen that Zhang Mo must have put a lot of effort into directing this movie, so that people can see a suspense movie that is not out of the ordinary!
epilogue
As the second generation of stars, Zhang Mo was not covered by her father's light, she has always worked hard and walked her own film road in a down-to-earth manner.
This "Saving the Suspect" not only made the two powerful actors Hui Yinghong and Zhang Xiaofei popular again, but also let us see the director Zhang Mo who paid silently behind the scenes.
And her success stems from her own talent, and of course, it is inseparable from the support and help of her father Zhang Yimou.
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