If you want to say that the dark horse of film and television dramas at the beginning of this year, it should be "Flowers".
Those who are familiar with director Wong Kar-wai know that most of his films are based on beautiful pictures and abstract expressions, and everyone has doubts about whether he can tell a good story in a TV series.
Indeed, "Flowers" has just started broadcasting, and criticism is endless, and there are those who feel that the rhythm is chaotic, those who speak in a hurry, and the most critical audience is none other than the original party.
The reason is very simple, in the eyes of the original party, "Flowers" has changed too much, and it has lost many of the essence of the original party's favorite.
However, with the update, another voice gradually gained the upper hand, and the show had too much stamina.
What is the magic of this drama? Wong Kar-wai entered the TV series for the first time, and what kind of artistic conception did he tell the story?
Shanghai-style accent, with affection and desire
In Wong Kar-wai's films, "Old Shanghai" seems to be a regular visitor.
This time, Shanghai is no longer old, it is the early 90s, a prosperous appearance.
At the beginning of the story, Ah Bao played by Hu Ge was still an ordinary teenager, and he found the "old expert" uncle.
At first, he didn't explain the identity of his uncle, but he knew that this person was not an ordinary person.
Ah Bao was also trained by his uncle and promoted to Mr. Bao step by step.
With the advent of success, it is indispensable that there are many women around her, and Mr. Bao is the same, Miss Wang, who has a bright and positive face.
Lingzi, who is a philistine with a shrewd and true temperament, and Li Li, who is domineering and full of wind and dust.
Wong Kar-wai put a group of beauties into a play, and it is rare that the beauty has its own characteristics.
If you want to talk about the description of sex, it is estimated that you can shoot such a tasteful one, that is, Director Wang alone.
In episode 22, after Mr. Qiang and Li Li survived the police interrogation, Mr. Qiang went to Reiko's night in Tokyo.
Li Li returned to Zhizhen Garden, looked at Mr. Bao who came to sit for her, his eyes were red, Li Li used the money brought by Mr. Bao to pay the employees salaries, and also paid more bonuses.
After Li Li completely dealt with his own affairs, when he came out to find Mr. Bao, it was not early, and Mr. Bao didn't care about the time he had waited too long, but asked about the details of Li Li's questioning.
Li Li got in the car and said that he just wanted to sleep well, and Wang Jie's bitter love song "You Are the Eternal Pain in My Chest" was played on the car, and every frame of Li Li was as beautiful as a painting.
However, if you just see Li Li's beauty, it means that you still don't understand the deep meaning of this clip.
Li Li was upside down in the car, and it seemed that he was not asleep at all, and the most surprising thing was that the picture of Li Li's neck stretched and his mouth slightly open was hard not to think about it.
We all know that director Wong Kar-wai is very strict with every frame of the actors.
Therefore, the action of opening the mouth to sleep is placed here, just to vaguely express the plot of Li Li and Bao Zong's upside down.
After driving the car, Mr. Bao got out of the car to smoke, while Li Li sat in a dignified posture, although nothing was filmed in such a lens language, it seemed that everything to be expressed was said.
I have to say that Director Wang's lust is really his specialty.
In the 27th episode, the rivalry between Mr. Bao and Li Li was so beautiful that it was dizzy, and Director Wang once again showed the beauty of the extreme pulling of men and women.
It was Chinese New Year's Eve again, and on the night of this day, Mr. Bao had nowhere to go, and he met Li Li.
Both of them are lonely people, and Mr. Bao thought that it was Miss Wang who said Happy New Year last year, and this time it became Li Li, and he was full of emotion for a while.
But unexpectedly, what floated in Mr. Bao's mind was Xuezhi's memory, and Li Li said that he was a nostalgic person. Mr. Bao replied, there is nothing old to remember.
In the dim light, Li Li said to Mr. Bao: Never believe in the kindness of strangers.
Mr. Bao said: "You and I are not strangers. ”
This ambiguous dialogue will be the rejection between Mr. Bao and Li Li, and if the state of imminent separation is just right, the relationship between the two leaves the audience more room for reverie.
This is also Wong Kar-wai's unique side of the emotions between men and women, there is no overly intense kiss scene, and there is not too much physical contact, and it seems that nothing is said in the haze, and everything is said.
To say that the most successful part of this drama is not only the depiction of lust, but more importantly, the three-dimensional sense of each character.
Each supporting character is his own "protagonist"
No matter which previous drama it is, Wong Kar-wai's narrative style is very fragmented, and many dramas can't even understand the plot of the story after watching it once.
However, "Flowers", as Director Wang's first TV series, although the storytelling still retains some movie tones, it is rare that this drama is getting better and better the more you watch it.
At the beginning of the TV series, it can be said that there is foreshadowing everywhere, the background of the uncle's background, the process of getting to know Miss Wang, and Li Li's secret.
If the time and space of a drama are the skeleton, and the characters are the real flesh and blood, this drama is undoubtedly rich in flesh and blood.
For example, Uncle Jin and Section Chief Jin can be used as a branch line to look at it alone, and in episode 18, Uncle and Section Chief Jin have a head-to-head confrontation.
Section Chief Jin is able to help his former apprentice Miss Wang in everything, showing his warm side.
As for her uncle, her relatives, when her uncle broke the rules of work, she changed her face again, and she was businesslike, which made people feel unkind.
There are also many very small characters in the play, such as Minmin, the little foreman in the Zhizhen Garden, who first lures guests with a low collar to attract the audience's attention, and also reveals her ambition.
Later, she was stabbed by her sister "Xiao Jiangxi" who came to Shanghai to work hard, and she no longer had the coquettish state of the past, only fierceness in her eyebrows.
When Mr. Fan first appeared, many people felt that he was drinking and bragging in a group of people, and obeyed the words of Li Li Beauty, such a character must be a clown-like existence.
But in fact, it was found that Mr. Fan could not only hold Mr. Bao's thigh, but also make friends with Mr. Wei;
Just when the audience thought he was a local boss who went back on his word, it was later discovered that he pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger, sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight.
Until the end, I suddenly found that Mr. Fan was sleek and sophisticated, and the song was just because of the survival of the field, and I felt that there was bitterness behind this character.
There is another place in the play that is also handled very cleverly, that is, the scene where Lu Meilin went to Zhenyuan to find fault, and Du Honggen was scared away by the IOU.
Lu Meilin and Du Honggen just quarreled, but Du Honggen's words immediately explained the story of the two clearly, and each character was so vivid that it seemed that there was a prototype in life.
This drama allows the audience to discover that the expression of characters does not need to be described at length, often a look and a few lines of dialogue can stand up a person's image.
Unknowingly, this drama also ushered in the finale, and the number of people chasing the drama has increased instead of decreasing, thanks to the tone control of Wong Kar-wai's entire drama.
The update is over, attracting a large number of fans
Friends who have watched Wong Kar-wai's movies should know that his movies are generally not superficial, and many of what he wants to express need the audience to constantly interpret and explore.
This also has a big problem, the audience who can understand his movies has a threshold, and they need to understand life in order to resonate with the movie.
It's the same in the drama "Flowers", at first glance, Ah Bao has become the president of Bao with the full support of nobles, surrounded by warblers and swallows, this is the standard configuration of Shuangwen!
But when you study it carefully, it is still based on period dramas as the core, and it is still the usual technique used in TV dramas, seeing the big from the small, and witnessing the changes of the city of Shanghai with Mr. Bao and the people on the Yellow River Road.
It also shows a unique look of savage growth and vitality in the 90s.
It's like the three female characters in the play with distinct personalities, who have both annoying things and endearing advantages.
On closer examination, in fact, they are not only themselves, but also have the beauty of a group portrait of women who "broke through the dock" in that era.
This group of women is alive and well, with their own goals and lives.
Especially the character of Miss Wang, positive and simple, from the initial noise to the final sober independence, is not a character process that can be summarized by a simple heroine now.
All of this has come alive through the director's shooting.
Wong Kar-wai used his own way to create a drunken Yellow River Road in this era, and many people felt that this performance was slightly exaggerated.
I always feel that when I look at Shanghai in the first and twenties of the last century, I have a magical feeling.
In addition, this drama uses a lot of narration to create psychological hints, and the multi-character perspective drama causes the suspense of the story, and the beginning gives people a feeling of chaos and I don't know what year it is.
But friends who know should know that this is what makes Director Wang different.
It is precisely with this kind of extreme pull lens language that the ambiguity between men and women, the courage of business wars, and the competition of courage in business wars can be portrayed, and the audience has an immersive viewing experience.
In short, Director Wang's style is like coriander, some people love it to the point of madness, and some people think it's all gimmicks and is not grounded.
However, it is precisely this kind of filming technique that attracts many new drama fans to jump into the pit.
Looking at this flowery era, a group of characters are in the big waves and sand, some realize their dreams, and some are disillusioned.
The most touching thing is that this past is staged like a passing year, and I believe that many viewers have also spied their own shadows in yesterday's story.
When flowers bloom and fail, it is all life. #看见人间百态#