In the past Qingming Festival schedule, the total box office exceeded 800 million.
Set a box office record in the same period in Chinese film history.
Which one did you watch?
Uncle Yu wants to talk about one of the more special films today.
"The World of Grass and Trees".
First of all, because the film was advertised in the early stage that this was the first anti-pyramid scheme film in China.
In view of the fact that works with similar themes in the past have always been labeled as "sensitive" and "scale", they have never been connected to the theater.
Many people regard the release of this film as the official lifting of the ban on pyramid schemes.
Secondly, it is director Gu Xiaogang.
The last feature film "Spring River Plumbing" was presented in a refreshing way because of the blending of people, scenery and love, and was included in Uncle Yu's top ten film list of the year.
This new work,Naturally, I look forward to it a little more.。
What's more, the cast also has highlights.
"Shilang" Chen Jianbin and "Chunyuan" Jiang Qinqin teamed up, as well as Wu Lei.
In particular, Jiang Qinqin also won the title of actress with his crazy performance with tension in this film.
How did it go?
Let's inspect the goods together——
"The World of Grass and Trees"
To be honest, audiences who enter the theater for the "MLM theme" are likely to be confused.
Because in the first forty minutes of the movie, there is no intense plot.
It's more like a family literary film filmed at the expense of a tourist attraction.
The camera first shows the tea picking ceremony of shouting mountain.
and let the protagonist Mulian (played by Wu Lei) lie in the green eyes, expressing his sense of belonging to the mountains and trees.
Then the story unfolds.
**The following contains spoilers**
Mu Lian and her mother Wu Taohua (played by Jiang Qinqin) are from Sichuan and struggle to make a living in Hangzhou.
Wu Moshua is a tea picker, her husband has been missing for ten years, and she has raised her son alone.
Although the life is poor, the good thing is that the mother and son are of the same heart.
There is also a local old man who sells tea (played by Chen Jianbin ) and moss flowers know cold and hot.
But soon, the problem that had to be solved came to the fore.
Seeing that Muren graduated from university, she has to plan for the future.
Wu Moshua intended to raise money for her son to buy a house and settle down in Hangzhou.
But it's hard to build a home.
Money, indeed, is the biggest problem.
Moss Flower Dormitory, working several jobs, tightening his belt and earning money is only a drop in the bucket.
Love, but also bumpy.
Mu Lian misses her missing father, is bent on finding his whereabouts, and rejects Lao Qian.
Lao Qian's mother also disliked Moss's conditional background and forcibly separated the two.
Moss Flower was desperate, so she left with the sisters she knew from tea picking.
The other party said that he had found a way to make a fortune and took Moss Flower to investigate.
It is conceivable that she entered the pyramid scheme.
Then the style of the movie changed abruptly and became an anti-pyramid scheme propaganda film.
It can be seen that the creative team has put a lot of effort into this part.
The brainwashing tricks were turned out, and it became a multi-level marketing award that was upgraded step by step.
also spared no space to show the whole process of moss flowers being deceived.
Every step, every word, every emotional transition from doubt to belief has been preserved.
In a trance, there is even a sense of documentary déjà vu.
And as the emotional state of the moss flower becomes more and more crazy.
Mu Lian also struggled to save her mother.
With the accumulation of wonders in the film, the rhythm of the film has changed, and it seems that it is going to rely on commercial genre films again.
And just when Uncle Yu thought that the director wanted to shoot "All or Nothing" 2.0.
The movie suddenly changed its style again.
The MLM part was hastily closed, and Moss Flower was rescued and fell into a mental disorder.
In the last twenty minutes, it was mysterious again.
Returning to the tourism film, a tea culture display was carried out.
Later, he asked Mulian to carry her mother to the mountains, wanting to use the power of nature to heal moss.
Then the two were injured and drowned in the cave.
The imagery is stacked, adding a lot of surreal atmosphere.
Even, a South China tiger emerged from the cave.
Moss Flower is half-asleep and half-awake, roaring opposite to the desire represented by the tiger.
In the next shot, he came out of the cave and bathed in the pool.
Like a trail of dust retreating, like a new life, back to normal life.
After watching it, Uncle Yu had mixed feelings, it turned out that he could also buy one and get three free when watching a movie.
Many netizens in the Douban short comment area also see the same thing.
One of the most mentioned words in the negative reviews is "split".
is like two directors, made three movies, and then mixed into one film.
This sense of disconnection is not only about the plot and style.
The actor performs and is not in the same dimension.
The most brilliant is indeed Jiang Qinqin.
Her character status and performance style in the film span a lot.
Before entering MLM, Moss Flower was a little submissive because of the cramped economy.
Always forbearance, restraint, and will not choose to fight back when scolded.
After entering the pyramid scheme, everything changed, and she gradually fell into madness beyond recognition.
This change doesn't just go beyond dressing.
There is also the look, tone, strength, and tone of voice when speaking.
She spoke all kinds of learned pyramid scheme techniques sonorously and powerfully, and revealed an abnormal sense of loss of control of soul snatching.
One of the craziest is a scene where a mother and son pull in the rain.
When Moss Flower led people to pyramid schemes, Mulian secretly called the police.
She felt betrayed and thought that her son even wanted to arrest his own mother.
The other party tried to wake up Moss Flower one after another, forcing her to lose control of her emotions even further.
Jiang Qinqin's eyes were out of focus in the rain, and his expression was hideous, accusing everything in life.
She is constantly abandoned, husband, old money, son, and even society.
Moss is hungry for new life, so she prefers to indulge in pyramid schemes.
At least a moment of spiritual belonging can also make her happy.
This performance with a high emotional concentration wants to take into account the accuracy, which really tests the actor's skills.
But just when Jiang Qinqin was working hard, the camera swept over the old money played by Chen Jianbin on the side.
There was a burst of laughter in the cinema.
I saw him bending over and shrugging his shoulders and standing aside, frightened by the out-of-control mother and son.
Needless to say, the finished film has a similar effect
This scene is exaggerated and easy to get out of shape.
As a result, this comparison, the style of painting is directly deviated.
Moss Flower indicts the pathos of an uneven life, and it becomes a joke.
also made the actor's performance suddenly feel too violent.
And there are not many such "accidents" in the film.
Every time Old Money appears, it turns the story into a comedy in seconds.
The mother and son here are struggling and miserable, and he has an appointment to take someone to Mars.
Here Mu Lian is worried that her mother will be cheated out of all her savings, and she is always worried.
even went deep into the MLM to collect information and stage a spy war film.
The old money over there said that the most important thing is to make your mother happy.
I don't know if Moss Blossom is unhappy, but Uncle Yu is really hard to be happy.
After all, such a sense of drama makes the theme completely dissipated.
The film is the second part of director Gu Xiaogang's "Landscape Picture" film series.
Judging from the opening part and the direction of the poster promotion in the early stage, it does carry the style tendency of the urban human story of the previous work "Spring River Plumbing".
In addition, the director also drew new inspiration from Wang Zengqi's book "Grass and Trees in the World" and the mythical story "Mulian Saves His Mother".
It is intended to equip a traditional filial piety core rescue story with a contemporary form, and then integrate it into the urban style with its own humanistic and ancient meaning.
Therefore, the identity of the tea picker, the mountain shouting ceremony, and the tea-making process of Moss Flower are all to make the "tea" element become an image that connects the audience's imagination and makes them realize the traditional core behind the story.
Correspondingly, Mu Lian is also a young man with a lot of divinity.
can have a faint connection with nature, so I am obsessed with using trees to awaken my mother's dusty heart.
Whether it is the hellish MLM scene or the pain experienced in the mountains, it is also a sign of the thorns on the road to saving the mother.
At the same time, such a mother-son combination hides the absence of a father.
So he buried a line to find his father, and through the collapse of several father figures such as the missing biological father, the cowardly old money, and the false boss, he collapsed one by one, and then completed the task of growing up as a teenager.
It's a pity that it is rumored that the film's funds broke down in the middle of filming, and I don't know if the re-investment will cause concessions and compromises in expression.
In addition, the director's lack of experience in cooperation with professional actors has affected the control.
Instead, the focus shifted sharply after the problem was set at the beginning of the film, and it became a fragmented landscape film about pyramid schemes.
Immediately afterwards, it seemed that in order to make up for it, she pressed the issue of finding herself for Moss.
Just like the core of the character in the film, which has always emphasized that "moss flowers are as small as rice, and I want to learn to bloom peonies".
Moss has lost her sense of belonging, and now she just wants to be an independent person.
MLM is a mental paralysis of her false rebirth, and it further reflects her loneliness.
At the same time, it also hides the creator's appeal to take care of the spiritual world of more victims.
It's a pity that the distorted and fragmented play makes the already scattered themes even more scattered.
I talked about everything, but I didn't talk about any of it.
The creator, who is not interested in wine but between mountains and rivers, is forced to abandon the landscape and world at the beginning and the grass and trees paradise at the end.
As a result, family affection and love are superficial, and the future will be deepened.
In turn, all the characters' behaviors are unconvincing, and it is difficult for the audience to substitute.
The MLM part, which was intended to be a gimmick, was once redundant because it did not reach the qualified commercial perception due to the unskilled technique.
Even the end of the MLM part was not because of Mulian's efforts.
But after the villain exposed himself, he attracted the police.
The deformity caused by such a compromise made Uncle Yu start to think about what kind of movies the market wants and what kind of movies the audience needs.
Is everything looking at money, doing everything to copy the hit, and creating "All or Nothing" 2.0?
It is better to retain the authorship, so that the landscape can also have a piece of its own land.
This answer Uncle Yu is still a little vague.
The only thing that is certain is that the audience has neither seen the landscape nor the golden taels.
After the farce, there is only one deformed result.