"Mr. Red Carpet" is indeed unexpected, but it is not suitable for the Spring Festival. People who go to watch Spring Festival movies are essentially happy and exciting, watching this movie that requires brains, many people are restless, and the audience next to me has come out four or five times to breathe during the movie. If it can be placed in the May Day file or the National Day file, it is better than the Spring Festival file.
I initially went to see "Crazy Stone", but after watching the Chinese version of "Square" ("Square" won the Cannes Palme d'Or)
Let's briefly analyze the film:
First, what is the story of "Mr. Red Carpet"?
After watching it, many people are confused, what story is this movie telling?
In fact, the key word is: communication.
"Mr. Red Carpet" is a play within a play, the story of the rural woman that Ning Hao filmed in the movie, the core of his story is communication, and Andy Lau must show fatherly love.
Andy Lau can't communicate with his wife, his children, or young people in the Internet age in the film...... When you encounter something, you will only hide, and after throwing away the knife that is handed down by others, you don't know how to face it, and you know how to hide. I hit someone's car and smashed someone's car, and I can't communicate......
The nature of this non-communication reveals the arrogance of an elite.
He thinks that it is not worth wasting time with a person like his wife, and if the other party makes trouble, as long as he doesn't speak, he doesn't have the same knowledge as her. He was even more simple and rude to the child, and the child said an Internet term, which he thought was a vulgar word, and he was directly punished for writing sorry 100 times.
He doesn't understand the terminology of the Internet era, is unwilling to keep pace with the times to learn, and is even more self-righteous that he thinks that he is dedicated, completely ignoring that other people's thinking and his own thinking are not a matter of time and space at all, and he thinks that the other party's thinking is not worth his time to understand.
This kind of thinking directly led to the male protagonist facing a public relations crisis. His arrogance was eventually "punished".
In fact, this movie is implying that the biggest obstacle to communication is self-righteousness and believing in oneself.
Second, "irony" abounds in this film
This movie actually runs through Ning Hao's satirical style, but it is not as black humor as "Crazy Stone", but a more restrained satire.
The film satirizes several types of people:
First of all, it satirizes the self-righteous celebrities - that is, the self-righteous elite.
The male protagonist went home with a young girl, afraid of being photographed, afraid that the other party would blackmail him, so he was on guard everywhere, and even a one-night stand made him nervous. This is borrowed from a plot from "Square". After the male protagonist had a one-night stand, in order to prevent the other party from blackmailing him and sticking to him, he took away some of the items that happened at night, including condoms......
Liu Weichi was in the girl's house, and almost all the glowing places were pasted for fear of being photographed......
In addition, Liu Weichi has a security team wherever he goes, saying that he is experiencing life, and after directly booking a three-star hotel, he is not used to living in it......
Second, it satirizes the indiscriminate intervention of the capital
Maybe this is the coolest place that Ning Hao filmed. When the management asks for more drama, there is a drama that beats the capital......
Finally, satirize self-media practitioners
In solving Liu Weichi's public relations crisis, we found that self-media practitioners actually disregard facts and really think about them, and are good at benefiting public opinion.
In short, this movie has a certain depth and needs to be thought about slowly. But the pace of storytelling is too slow, and the story tension is not enough, resulting in the whole story becoming lengthy, and many moviegoers are on pins and needles.