originally didn't plan to watch "Fudu Youth", but this is not the recent continuous watching of "Under the Daylight", "Youth Diary" and "Fairy Tale World", so I simply watched "Fudu Youth" and "Old Fox" and other films together, and made up a wave of Hong Kong and Taiwan literary files, which is also good.
At the Golden Horse Awards, Wu Kangren defeated Ruan Jingtian in "Removing the Three Evils in the Week" with "Fudu Youth", which is actually not unpopular, after all, "Zhou" did not stir up big waves in Taiwan, and even lost money, and the popularity in the mainland was just an accident.
This year's Golden Horse (the 60th) basically gathered Taiwanese Mesozoic actors, including Wu Kangren, Ruan Jingtian, Xu Guanghan, Wang Baijie, Lin Bohong, plus Zhang Xiaoquan, Qiu Ze, Zhuang Kaixun, Taiwan's most acting people are here.
Among this group of actors, Ruan Jingtian won the award for "Monga" as early as 2020.
However, he later fell again, and "Removing the Three Evils Around the World" can be regarded as his rise again. In addition to Ruan Jingtian, Wu Kangren's award this time is equivalent to this group of young actors starting to go ashore.
However, "Fudu Youth" is not a Taiwanese film, but a Malaysian film. Among the producers, Li Xinjie and Guangliang are both Malaysians.
For Malaysian movies, everyone doesn't know much, probably only "Nanwu" directed by Zhang Ji'an, "First Love Red Bean Bing" starring Li Xinjie, "Li Zongwei: The Loser is King" starring Yang Yanyan, "Heart Demon" starring Hui Yinghong and a few other films that everyone has come into contact with, and "Barbarian Invasion" released in the mainland last year is also a Malaysian film, but it has not caused any waves.
As Malaysian Chinese-language films, the above films all deal with immigration and clan topics without exception. "Fudu Youth" is also a typical immigrant topic film.
After all, before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the mainland had always practiced the theory of blood, and all those with Chinese blood were all descendants of the Chinese and were all Chinese, and we recognized dual or even multiple nationality. Otherwise, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there would be overseas Chinese such as Chen Jiageng and Situ Meitang who actively saved the country, because they themselves are Chinese and they are also saving their own country.
However, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, under the siege of the Western world, in order to break the diplomatic blockade and seek a breakthrough line, it was officially announced that dual nationality would no longer be recognized, and overseas Chinese were no longer Chinese, and each belonged to its own location.
However, in Southeast Asia, where the Chinese are concentrated, except for Singapore, all other countries without exception have had anti-Chinese incidents, and even caused serious bloody conflicts.
The motherland no longer wants itself, and the country strongly rejects itself, and the soul of the Chinese community has been greatly wounded, which has not been able to heal so far, and has become their lingering nightmare and pain, and it is also one of the core themes of overseas Chinese literary and artistic creation. What's more, countries such as Malaysia and the Philippines still have serious anti-Chinese thoughts, which makes local Chinese people feel worried.
"Fudu Youth" is about a pair of young people who grew up together in the "Fudu Community" in Malaysia, as children that no one wants, they are all black households and have no ID cards, because they help each other grow up, they have formed a relationship that is not a brother but a brother. Wu Kangren's Ah Bang is a mute, and Chen Zeyao's Ah Di is a troubled young man. The two people live together, because they don't have ID cards, once they are caught by the police, they are likely to be sent back to nowhere, and they have to hide left and right every time the police come to sweep, so as not to be embarrassed.
Jia En, played by Lin Xuanyu, is a community volunteer who has always wanted to help Abang and Adi. With great effort, Jain found out that Adi was not an orphan, but had parents. I hope that Adi will go to his father and then get him an official ID card. However, because Adi has a birth certificate letter, he is not afraid of the police coming to him. As for his father, he didn't care at all, and even rejected it very much, because he felt that his father had abandoned him, and he refused to admit that he had a father.
One time when Jia En came to find Adi again, Adi was annoyed and knocked Jia En hard. As a result, Garn fell to the ground.
Adi was terrified.
And Ah Bang turned around and turned himself in, saying that he had killed the person.
The first half of the film, that is, before Jia En was killed, was not good-looking, including Wu Kangren's performance was only decent, and the turning point was Jia En's sudden death. The little girl is really pitiful! She is obviously doing a good deed, but she gave her life in vain.
It's not that Abang is just Adi's stand-in, Jain is indeed the one that Abang eventually killed. Because Adi only knocked out Gaen, when Abang was in the aftermath, Gain suddenly woke up, just when someone knocked on the door outside, Abang reached out to stop Gaun from shouting, and Gaun died at the hands of Abang.
Abang and Adi, especially Abang, who were supposed to be sympathetic to them, turned out to be murderers. Abang played by Wu Kangren is not very good, but he has indeed washed all the lead. In the final stage, a master goes deep into the prison to try to comfort Abang, but his actions completely inspire Abang and make him develop a self-statement, which is performed very well under Wu Kangren's interpretation. Although there was no sound, just gestures, Wu Kangren tried his best to show it, gushing out his pathos and depression. It also vividly interprets the life experiences of the low-level people in Malaysia, especially illegal immigrants.
My life is terrible, I haven't done anything wrong, but why is life so unfair, I want to be loved, but no, I don't have friends, I don't even have parents, can you understand?
Although this paragraph is sophistry, none of this is a reason to kill, but it can still be moved by Goh Kangren's performance, moved by his fate, and moved by the Chinese bottom in Malaysia. Thinking about it, this paragraph has a great bonus effect on Wu Kangren's award.
On the whole, the watchability of "Fudu Youth" is not high, and the story is relatively cliché, except for Wu Kangren's good acting skills, there is not much else to praise.
However, Wu Kangren's ability to win the award is the biggest attraction. Among the young and middle-aged generation of actors in Taiwan, Wu Kangren is a very popular actor, and he hopes to go further.
Ruan Jingtian's performance in "Removing the Three Evils Around the World" is mainly due to the good writing of the script, which leaves Ruan Jingtian room for performance, and his performance also exceeded expectations, adding vigorous vitality to the role and full of sexual tension. If there is a gap between Ruan Jingtian and Wu Kangren, I would prefer to choose Ruan Jingtian, but Wu Kangren is also good, worthy of awards, and the performance of the incarnation of the role is still worthy of praise. Wu Kangren's tanned face and wearing a tattered dress are quite like the same thing, very like a slum youth, unpretentious. Not advanced, but integrated, Wu Kangren did it.
Nguyen Ngh's performance was in the millimeter, and whoever wins has enough reasons to win. Fortunately, with the blessing of the mainland's hot box office, Ruan Jingtian won off the court, and Wu Kangren's award was more meaningful to himself. "Slaying the Wolf 3" chose Wu Yanzu, Wu Kangren and Liu Junqian as the starring actors, hoping to make a good work.