The mountain city of Chongqing is a magical city that looms in the clouds and mist, growing wantonly in depth.
Films filmed here usually use gray tones to match the foggy and hazy mystery to bring out the characters' hidden and strong inner emotions.
The three-dimensional sense in the deep space gives Chongqing its own cinematic texture, whether it is a tense and exciting chase scene or a drama that shows the complex relationship between the characters and the environment and their hearts, they can be easily expressed in the three-dimensional space.
The film I want to talk about today is "Desperate" produced by Cao Baoping and directed by newcomer director Gan Jianyu.
The film tells the story of Liu Xiaojun, the owner of a car repair shop who is forced to participate in the resale of black cars in order to make a living, accidentally discovers the little girl Qiqi trapped in the trunk of the vehicle, and then becomes involved in an intricate kidnapping case.
The kidnappers Xia Tao and Xia Xi brothers were entrusted by the dancer Zhang Qian to carry out the kidnapping, and the second-hand car dealer Lao Wan planned to work with Liu Xiaojun to snatch the black car with GPS and sell it again.
So the black car resale case and the kidnapping case were intertwined, Lao Wan was murdered, and Liu Xiaojun, who was going to take the ransom and let Qiqi go, finally returned to the camp of justice, began to protect Qiqi, and fought wits and courage with the two brothers of the Xia family.
The ending is naturally gambling, reselling black cars, and trying to kidnap and extort Liu Xiaojun's prodigal son, who turned back, bravely and fearlessly, snatched back Qiqi from Xia Xi's hands, and completed the self-redemption of conscience and justice after the arrival of the police who descended from heaven.
The routine of standard domestic crime-themed movies, all the little characters with flaws in character, morality, legal awareness and values at the beginning of the film, after experiencing good torture, emotional pulling, the call for justice and self-awakening, will always return to the correct path in line with the core values of socialism.
The growth and transformation of the little people is in line with the theme of the film, but it will not bring too many refreshing feelings.
In addition, this kind of film usually sets up a lot of coincidences for everyone to follow the script that they will definitely meet, and until the final battle, there will always be a weak side escaping, and the superficially strong side will fail.
In the film, the two brothers of the Xia family have many opportunities to directly solve Liu Xiaojun, but their life creed is "rich is human". The two brothers who wanted money and didn't want to die naturally wouldn't kill him before they got the ransom that Liu Xiaojun took away.
In addition, the black car that Liu Xiaojun grabbed has always been equipped with real-time positioning GPS, which seems to allow Xia Xi to catch up with Liu Xiaojun's result with sufficient logic and reasonableness, but if you think about it carefully, Liu Xiaojun also knows the existence of GPS, why do you have to drive this black car, not other cars in the repair factory?
Although the film is a realistic theme, it is full of false settings that violate the authenticity of reality.
For example, Xia Xi and Liu Xiaojun are more "thicker than the other", knocking on heavy objects, crashing into car accidents, and smashing steel bars, all of them are fine, and they don't faint.
In the end, the police's sniper shot Xia Xi finally zeroed his blood groove and ended his criminal life without explaining the reason.
Although it can be guessed that the Xia brothers must have been treated unfairly because they had no money, no power, and no social status, and even made them feel the despair of life and the sorrow of life.
But more or less we should expand the prehistory of these two villains a little, otherwise these two outlaws who only recognize money and do not accept fate will be too flat and stereotypical.
When it comes to acting, Dapeng, Ou Hao and Sha Baoliang can be regarded as decent to complete the portrayal of the characters and the advancement of the plot.
Zhang Qian played by Li Meng and Lao Wan played by Cao Bingkun have slightly heavier attributes, Lao Wan hurriedly went offline after losing his effect, Zhang Qian and Qiqi's father have a deep emotional entanglement, so that she took the risk to save Qiqi's father's life through fake kidnapping and ransom.
What is more surprising in her acting skills is that the Inner Mongolian girl Ulan Toya Duo, who plays Qiqi, is really calm and sophisticated with some old actors, and it can be seen that she is performing with true feelings.
At the end, Liu Xiaojun lit a lighter and gave Qiqi a simple but meaningful birthday, and the father-daughter relationship between them also warmed each other in the firelight.
Another noteworthy feature of the film is the effective use of the urban space characteristics of the mountain city of Chongqing.
For example, the ransom thrown down from the Yangtze River Cableway has a kind of tribute to "Crazy Stone".
Another example is chasing in the streets and alleys of the city where the depth and three-dimensional space are very complex, it seems that the distance between Xia Xi and Liu Xiaojun is getting farther and farther, but in fact, up and down, back and forth, the distance between the physical space of the two people is shrinking, and the audience is just deceived by Chongqing's unique sense of depth and space.
Perhaps that's why Chongqing, the 5D magical city, is perfect for making movies full of crime, suspense and action.
If you add the two plus points that the director is a newcomer and the "burdensomeness" that there is no black background and white at the end of the film to explain the follow-up results, Gan Jianyu's first big-screen work can get a passing score.
Seeing a certain petal's personal resume, "Manslaughter 3" directed by Director Gan will be released in 2025. From 2019 to 2025, six years should be enough time for Director Gan to make great progress and improvement in directing skills, so let's wait and see.
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