"The Yellow Sparrow" is a stock movie.
used to be called "The Cold of the Scorching Sun", then "The Victim", and now it has become "Yellow Sparrow", the change of title is the same as the content of the movie, and becoming more does not mean that it is necessarily good.
The change in the title of the film is nothing, and what is even more surprising is that the poster directly releases the biggest suspense of this film.
The sentence "Children commit crimes, parents are sentenced to death" made the director's 99-minute efforts all in vain, which also revealed that the filmmaker himself knew that the film belonged to the type of tasteless food and discarded pity.
In the film, Guan Xiuying single-handedly connected four cases.
The first is the robbery and murder case of Xu Gang (played by Zhang Haiyu), and the victim is Guan Xiuying.
The second is the case of Xiao Yazhen (played by Tao Hong) who drove and killed someone, the cause of which was her husband Zheng Wei (played by Huang Jue) gambling debts, the third is Xiao Yazhen's homicide case, the deceased is Guan Xiuying, and the fourth is Zheng Wei's accidental injury, the victim is Xu Gang.
The reason why Xu Gang took the risk was because he took drugs and owed a lot of loan sharks and couldn't pay it back, and the debt collector threatened his daughter, so he had no choice but to accept the order from Director Cai's nephew, and kill people to get evidence.
Director Cai and Guan Xiuying are lovers, but they took a video, and it is because of this abnormal relationship that Guan Xiuying has the opportunity to know who the owner of the car is through Director Cai's connections in the DMV after seeing Xiao Yazhen hit someone.
Guan Xiuying must save enough for the custody of her son, and she took a video of Xiao Yazhen hitting someone to blackmail, which eventually led to a murder case with lies, but full of flaws, and the murderer changed one after another.
The twists and turns don't seem to be so ups and downs.
The dramatic tension and character arc seem too bland in the ordinary and old-fashioned text design, and the only thing that can be praised is that the plot forms a closed loop before and after.
But when this closed loop is dealt with, the logic is not rigorous, the details are not in place, the rhythm is not compact, the atmosphere is poor, there is no sense of tension, suspense, and no waves.
The story has been progressing layer by layer, but the imminent setting of intelligence reduction has made all the motives in front of me a legally blind self-touch, after all, the subtitles at the end of the film say that minors are under the age of 16 and do not have to bear legal responsibility.
However, if Xiao Yazhen and Zheng Wei understood this at the beginning, there would be no biggest reversal after the next four cases.
This twist is related to the hotly discussed juvenile delinquency at the moment, but the whole movie is not about this topic, just treating it as a gimmick.
Maybe it's difficult to amplify due to review, maybe the director and screenwriter don't know how to balance the structure of the play because of their limited ability, or maybe the filmmaker is afraid of causing major public opinion and doesn't dare to focus on it.
So I found a legitimate reason for the minor to commit a crime and turn himself in and repent, in exchange for the audience's sympathy, which is very stable, you can watch it, and it is coincidental enough, but it is not good enough.
If you learn "Article 20", it can stimulate emotions and give the audience a sense of participation, even if the quality is not too high, the box office will not be low, but juvenile is different from legitimate defense, there are too many minefields, which is also a major reason why it cannot be "refined".
Although it's a bit of a pity that the subject matter can't play the maximum effect, the shortcomings have to be said.
The McGuffin in the film reverses too routinely, and the front and reverse spiral puzzles and puzzles are all based on pre-scenes and flashbacks, and the narrative technique is single.
Although the implication of the praying mantis catching cicadas and the yellow finch in the back is filmed, the first half of the sentence is a crime, the second half of the sentence is family affection, and each perpetrator is also a victim, but the suspense is all driven by the characters' words, not the plot.
This leads to the deliberate intention of committing a crime for the sake of committing a crime, and the last point is all about love, and there is also a suspicion of sensationalism, no matter how loud Zhao Lei sings, it can't make the audience cry.
The first is that drugs and gambling can't make people empathize, paving so much pathos for each of them, but it makes people question why their families didn't separate as soon as possible, and the director's position.
The second is that the excavation of human nature is relatively shallow, and the character settings are too thin, when the editing is not clever, the story will not be attractive, and the reversal will lose its highlights, which is not as good as CCTV's "Today's Statement".
This is the director's old problem that he has inherited from his last film "Splendid Her".
The love is not true, the meaning is too fake, I only know the endless crying and crying, far-fetched, I don't know how to do more homework to study the law and related real cases.
Otherwise, it will not make the last chapter, which should be an emotional sublimation, become the most criticized flaw, which also reflects the lack of control ability of domestic directors over genre films and the problem of perfunctory money.
They thought that they could win audience recognition and box office success by setting up multiple reversals and tear-jerking elements, but as everyone knows, anyone who has watched a few Hitchcock and Agatha will disdain this.
Moreover, in the past few years, Chen Sicheng has been making similar reasoning and analysis crime films, plus some social issues, the box office is not bad, and the audience has long been aesthetically fatigued.
"Yellow Sparrow is Behind" is still playing with Chen Sicheng's rest, and it is indeed a little unenterprising, "Disappearing Her" becomes "Disappearing Murderer" is not "Manslaughter 3".
Not only that, too many domestic suspense film directors are making their own clever Rashomon structure, thinking that forcible reversal is powerful, such a cognition, Chen Sicheng does not make money, who makes money.
Domestic genre films have a long way to go, and the same is true for the cultivation of film reserve talents, after so many years, Chen Sicheng has turned out to be the king of this track, and his peers really give face.