What happens when a man is in love?
No one can say for sure.
But even as a small level ten enthusiast, I can only honestly say that there are basically only three kinds of scenes in the movie when I fall in love with a small asshole:
1. You watched him die
2. He watched you die
3. You died together tragically
It can be seen that whether in reality or in movies, messing with the object of a small is a high-risk behavior that is no different from suicide.
The audience was always happy.
Two months ago, "When a Man Is in Love" was released in Taiwan and received great popularity, temporarily ranking first in Taiwan's local box office this year.
The love story of pure love and bitter love has been told over and over for decades, and it can still be so popular in 2021, indicating that people always have illusions about dangerous love.
You will not have material security together, and the future is even more dim, but you can't stand the affection of men and the affection of women.
After all, the more there is no future, the more romantic it is.
This is the core of the little aesthetic.
From this point of view, no matter how bloody "When Men Are in Love" is, I have to applaud this love story.
After all, the love in domestic film and television dramas is more and more poor and loves the rich, the early love of middle school students in reality must pay attention to the door to the door, the marriage market is even more refusing marriage to help the poor, at this time, a man with no money and no future in the cinema has only a true heart, and a woman who does not want money and does not care about the future but is only impressed by the true feelings, as if it is the last pure land in this world.
But being moved by the characters does not mean that the movie is not a problem.
This story of pure love of a handsome man and a beautiful woman can only be regarded as half a good play.
It adheres to the advantages and disadvantages of small aesthetics, but it can't do the extreme like the old film, so my tears, ah, slipped around three times in the eye socket, and then stubbornly held back.
01
"When a Man Is in Love" is a remake of the Korean movie of the same name, and the original score is 7.7 points. The remake of the Taiwanese version this time breaks the spell of "remake must rot", which not only makes up for the logical loopholes in the plot of the original version, but also makes the whole story more self-justified, and the localization adaptation also has many highlights:
For example, Qiu Ze, who speaks Minnan dialect (be sure to see the Hokkien version!) ）；
For example, the fierce and vicious gangster sister has transformed into a candidate with a spring breeze;
For example, wearing a flower shirt and singing earthy love songs in the bowling alley.
Compared with a remake next door, the sincerity and ability are much higher.
Bad is bad in the last twenty minutes, it is the hypnotic tear-jerking twenty minutes that make the movie suddenly change from "Heavenly Love" to "A Story Sadder Than Sad".
When Qiu Ze began to have nosebleeds, I had not seen the original work and giggled in my heart:
Won't it, no, there are still people playing terminally ill terriers this year?
As a result, the director not only plays terminally ill terriers, but also plays a full set, and every plot point in the last twenty minutes can be seamlessly connected to "Blue Life and Death Love" twenty years ago.
I could cry to death at the age of 16, and I just wanted to run away from the cinema at the age of 26.
"When a Man Is in Love", whether it is the original version or the Taiwanese version, has not been able to deal with a problem, that is, how a love with no future should end.
Obviously, the reason why the male protagonist has an aneurysm in his head is not that he shoots more bricks on his head, but that the screenwriter can't continue to make up.
As the little airplane place sings:
You are the prodigal son, no matter how beautiful she smiles.
The occasional aftertaste is the most appropriate, who wants to see it after the shore?
The best part of the prodigal son's return is that the prodigal son wants to turn back but can't.
Why can't I turn back?
Even if the male protagonist is not terminally ill and the two people are healthy and healthy, the difference in concept and behavior will be a stumbling block to the future.
Therefore, letting the protagonist get terminally ill and hang up is the next strategy.
The little bastard only needs one thought to ruin the future of him and his lover.
The more the director wants to stir up emotions, the more he wants to leave the male protagonist clean, an innocent appearance of there are always people who want to harm, the farther away from the little aesthetics.
Directors who have truly mastered the little aesthetic do not need to be overwhelmed with sadness BGM (When Men Are in Love relies on music for more than half of the time to foil emotions), they only need to hold on to a certain Achilles heel in the male protagonist, let him hesitate a second before the dawn, and the gears of fate will involuntarily crush him.
He was powerless to resist this fate, but he still knew that he could not do it.
So he fought, he failed, and his life was destroyed along with his love.
By this point, he had completed a complete tragedy —
Isn't it more tragic to destroy this love with your own hands than god having to break up a couple?
So "When a Man Is in Love" is half a good film.
Before Qiu Ze suddenly fell ill, the film originally developed according to the above ideas.
The cheng brother played by Qiu Ze has a fatal weakness, that is, he has a tendency to self-destruct.
At the beginning, several scenes of Qiu Ze's collection of accounts have already explained the personality of this person.
He illegally collected accounts, and what he did should be a bluff, but he chose the way of self-abuse, took a brick and slapped it on the head, poured gasoline into his stomach, and forced the debtors to repay the money.
This is, of course, a means.
But it can also be seen that he does not care about his body, his health, his life, and the future.
Once faced with a problem, he first tries to solve it by hurting himself. Life is a pool of stagnant water for him, it is just a chaotic day with no hope, what is his body?
He couldn't receive the money, and in front of the eldest sister, he also looked like he loved me anyway.
Therefore, the appearance of Xu Weining not only brought him love, but also brought hope for life, or more exaggeratedly, the whole meaning of life.
He is not only helping Xu Weining, but also using the power of love to save himself who is about to fall into the quagmire.
The first half of the film, while telling the story of the love between the two, meticulously shows the process of Qiu Ze's transformation, which makes people involuntarily believe in the power of love.
Because there are expectations, with people who want to protect, the subconscious mind that gives up on itself begins to retreat, and if you want to protect others, you must first protect yourself.
So because he fell in love with Xu Weining, he also began to accept himself.
He began to pay attention to grooming and combing his hair to look like a big brother;
Drawing a dating table is also a planned manifestation of the beginning of life;
Even, he began to plan for the future, save money, get married, open a milk tea shop...
Just as his life was about to get on track, the expected turn came.
When he found that his life could not develop according to his expectations, the self-destructive tendencies in his body began to work again, instructing him to beat the police and arrest him and imprison him, and when he came out, he held a gas canister and asked the eldest sister for money.
Qiu Ze's way of collecting debts, I think the Taiwanese version of the adaptation should go beyond the original. The Taiwan version was changed to a gas canister, which not only has the determination to end up together, but also adds a touch of highlight to the background of the sadness of the little people, and at the same time, echoes the beginning -
In desperation, he will still only hurt himself.
At this point in the development of the plot, it should obviously be the climax and end of this love tragedy.
How can this money be returned?
The male protagonist is always a little, and when he has no way out on the right path, he is like a drug addict, and once again makes the choice that is easier for him, to be a gambler and gamble his life.
However, for a realistic love, such a psychology will never make two people happy.
As long as Qiu Ze walks back, the love of the two people will undoubtedly die.
This is the root of this love tragedy.
Therefore, Qiu Ze must die in this scene.
This is his fate, but also the fate of the love of the two of them, and it is also the fate of all the little who fall in love with a well-behaved woman.
But whether it is the original version or the Taiwan version, they have chosen to ignore this most fundamental contradiction, in order to emphasize that the two people are stronger than Jin, Goldfinger opened widely, let the powerful senator return the money, and painted a snake to make Qiu Ze suffer from terminal illness, and arranged for the heroine to send him to the end.
After a pass, the patience of the previous hour and a half was all ruined by the unrestrained sensationalism at the end. The beauty of this love tragedy is completely lost, leaving dog blood on the ground.
02
The second meaning of little aesthetics, the male protagonist must be dirty enough, decadent enough, and low enough.
Even if you are in the ditch, you still have to look up at the moonlight, and then carefully stretch out your hand, trying to leave the light.
The sadness of those who have looked at the lonely moon for a long time is really too pitiful.
Even if you haven't seen the original, just look at the appearance of Huang Zhengmin, the second uncle of the village, and the soul in the belt of this flower shirt and pants, there is an inner taste.
He poked it in there, and the story was told—
Poor, fierce and not good-looking, and still want to chase after Han Huizhen, who is like a flower, he does not take advantage of the danger of others, he does not die and fights, and there is really no drama. Catching up, falling into it, forty-something rough men humbly into the dust, as if Quasimodo had been favored by Esmeralda, and you could not find any explanation other than love that was pure to the bone.
When the protagonist becomes Qiu Ze's face, the absolutely impossible bitterness of the original work disappears and is replaced by the natural dry firewood.
Growing up like Qiu Ze, and stalking, will anyone really not be impressed?
I don't believe it.
Although I still watched the whole process of Qiu Ze's sister with relish, it was like a murder case that was publicized in advance, and the suspense was greatly reduced.
Of course, it doesn't mean that if you look handsome, you can't play a little.
How many of the old handsome guys in Hong Kong have not played the low-level gangsters?
Handsome like Andy Lau, when he was young, he was also a small professional.
Denim jacket with tight pants, motorcycle helmet to the head, the throttle so a step, coupled with the stone-breaking handsome face, rich little beauty to see the chase.
Although Du Qifeng complained that he could never let go of the idol baggage, it did not prevent Heavenly Love from becoming a classic in the little aesthetics.
Of course, a more convincing example is Zhou Runfa in "The Story of Ah Lang".
It is also a middle-aged person, living in poverty, carrying a small oil bottle, even if he has a handsome face, his behavior is so rough that you immediately believe that this person does not live very easily.
But after cutting his hair, everyone immediately understood why Zhang Aijia would fall in love with him.
It can be seen that handsome men have the way of acting handsome men.
South Korean should be bitterly in love, Hong Kong should be beautiful enough, and our Taiwanese are going to stinky locomotives, can't they?
Absolutely.
In the bowling alley, Qiu Ze sang the earthy love song Bo Meiren's original plot is simply a stroke of god, and the soul of Taiwanese love is instantly ignited.
I almost choked like Xu Weining, the girl who laughed at Qiu Ze's old soil, and choked those who hated Qiu Ze for being too handsome and hindered the authenticity.
Until I saw through a detail that always vaguely felt that something was wrong—
Qiu Ze's unkempt hair was obviously a wig.
I don't know where the group found this wig as dark and thick as seaweed, but I just want to ask them, how much misunderstanding is this about life, in order to associate a decadent middle-aged man with a long hair that is exuberant and thick?
You know, a middle-aged man in his forties is more likely to be alopecia areata than a seaweed-like messy hair.
If this messy hair is to be compared with the hairstyle after love, judging by Qiu Ze's acting skills, it is not necessary at all.
Think of when Wu Zhenyu's flat head shape was killed all the way from 1999 to 2000, from the police asir down to the mixed head horse, the role he played was huan fei Yan thin, and each one was brilliant. During this period, he played a little from muddy to willing to give up his life for his lover, the whole body shape did not change in the slightest, even the clothes were not changed, and he still acted out with his liver and intestines.
All of Qiu Ze's efforts, desperately pretending to be cruel, desperately decadent, almost deceived my tears.
As a result, because of this surreal wig, it fell short.
Pity, really pity.
03
The times are progressing, the little bastards have long been replaced, the left-handed BP machine, the right-handed machete tattooed Mickey Mouse in the middle of the era is gone, but some things have remained forever.
For example, the heroine who is in love with a small is always so unlucky.
No matter how poignant and tragic the little aesthetics is, it is essentially a self-touching from a male perspective (of course, this is the truth that I realized when I became an adult), and the heroine, most of them are used to set off the golden heart in the humble flesh of the male protagonist.
Like Wu Qianlian and Zhang Aijia, after being abused by the family, they still forgive and even forgive the male protagonist, and finally see their lover dying tragically, and they have already calculated a good fate.
Being shot and killed like a stutterer, and being the male protagonist for the dead ghost, is the ultimate sacrifice of the little aesthetics——
Jun did not see the small stutter become the eternal cinnabar mole in Chen Haonan's heart, leaving a moving stroke for the life of this famous little bastard, and the affectionate people set up touching the heavens and the earth, and attracted many beautiful women to take the initiative to sacrifice and sacrifice.
In contrast, the good girls after the millennium are obviously not so stupid.
Even in the face of the childish, affectionate and single-minded Qiu Ze, Xu Weining was still sober at first.
But soon, the beautiful Xu Weining still fell under the attack of the little.
If you look at the whole story from the perspective of the heroine, then this film is not a love film but a horror film, and it is the kind of horror that is closest to reality and cannot be shaken off.
The heroine sent three people to the end in succession, namely the father, the lover, and the lover and the father.
People don't talk about this love, it is nothing more than being intimidated, one person to work several jobs, to survive some hard days.
As a result, I fell in love with Qiu Ze, well, not only did I have to endure the pain of two more deaths, but I also liked to mention one after Alzheimer's disease. How difficult Alzheimer's disease is, there are elderly people in the family who are sick.
The male protagonist is dead, love has completed its great mission here, who can think that he will also come to a dying father, the ghost of the person has not become a dumb bride in a second.
Before entering the movie theater, I thought that the tears should flow for Qiu Ze, who was terminally ill, and after watching the movie, I knew that the tears should be left to Xu Weining, who was a young lady!
Thinking of this, the words qiu Ze said to Xu Weining rang in his ears:
"I liked you the first time I saw you."
Recalling the heroine's toiling life, this sentence perfectly interprets the words "all love at first sight is an uprising at first sight", and suddenly the love words become incantations.
Of course, I know, someone must blame me for being harsh —
Qiu Ze provided emotional support in the most difficult time for girls, and the two depended on each other for their lives, how can it not be said that it is the greatness of love?
The reason is correct, but if you look at Xu Weining's image, it is not only bright and smooth, but also a rare cold and colorful mixed-race beauty.
This image and temperament, clearly the woman of the big brother, but she wants to hug the street hopelessly, is it reasonable?
A worldly beauty who is in debt crisis actually has qiu Ze's turn to save this grade of small, and Taiwan's underworld big brother seems to be not very good.
I even suspect that the creator also discovered this bug after confirming That Xu Weining as the heroine, so he changed the original soprano big brother to the underworld big sister.
Otherwise, this account big brother would have personally collected it long ago, where is Qiu Ze's share?
But then again, this shows that the creators of the Taiwanese version are really careful in correcting bugs.
You see, this film always pulls the audience's perception back and forth like this, so many times, with no patience.
But at least, Qiu Ze awakened the soul of that little bastard level ten enthusiast in my body.
So sisters, don't say anything, let's revisit "Heavenly Love" and go!