The crime suspense comedy "There is nothing that can't be solved by a hot pot" is directed by Ding Sheng, written by Xiu Xiaonan, Ding Sheng, Wang Hang, and starring Yang Mi, Yu Qian, Tian Yu, Yu Haolei, Li Jiuxiao, etc.
The film began to be screened in advance on April 13, and the total box office of screenings and pre-sales exceeded 20 million, and word-of-mouth was polarized.
Some viewers feel that the laughter is dense after watching it, and it is constantly reversed, so it is recommended to watch it, but some viewers reflect that they have a poor perception, so they are mysterious.
was officially released on May 1, and as of 10 a.m. on May 3, the box office score was 42.709 million, and the proportion of scheduled films dropped from 8.0% on the first day to 4.5%, ranking eighth on the May Day movie list.
After watching this film, I think that the film has no lack of unique ideas and highlights, but there are also certain shortcomings and shortcomings.
The film is rich in elements and has distinctive Chinese cultural characteristics
"There is no hot pot to solve the problem" mainly tells the story of four people who don't know each other in the backstage warehouse of the theater to share the spoils, thinking that they will be developed in the future, but they are involved in a "murder case".
A hot pot is tumbling with endless suspense, and finally their true faces and the stories behind them gradually become clear.
The film brings together Chinese cultural elements such as hot pot, Sichuan opera, and mahjong, which is very characteristic of Chinese culture. In the film, the four of them gathered backstage in the Sichuan Opera Theater because of a riddle text message "Demolition and demolition officials, family wealth, Tibetan dramas, and unspeakable", playing mahjong and shabu-shabu, and directly called "Nine Cakes", "Seventy Thousand", "Fortune" and "Chicken".
In addition to these explicit cultural elements, the Chinese entertainment, Chinese horror, and Chinese thinking contained in the story are also very distinct.
Even the "baggage" also has unique Chinese characteristics, such as "relevant departments", the five-star praise of the takeaway brother, and the "stalk" is very down-to-earth, which makes the audience smile.
As can be seen from the title of the film, "There is no thing that can't be solved by a hot pot" was changed from the popular Internet joke "There is nothing in the world that can't be solved by a barbecue, if there is, then two meals".
This paragraph is widely circulated because it humorously expresses the bold and open-minded spirit and simple and simple philosophy of life that belong to the Chinese, and is full of thick fireworks and ridicule of life.
Hot pot is not only eating, hot pot has a strong social attribute, people sit together, while cooking ingredients, while talking, suspenseful crime situation, several people argue, do not delay sitting and eating a few mouthfuls of meat, while eating and gesturing.
The film introduces elements of Chinese opera into the narrative. The face change and fire-breathing on the stage, the soundtrack of the opera drums, and the classic characters such as Flea Shiqian, Bao Gong, and Guan Gong on the drum kept "breaking into" the suspense crime scene.
On and off the stage, it is constantly broken and intervened, forming an intertextuality.
The symbolic meaning of the characters in the opera forms a certain sense of dialogue and insinuation with the characters' hearts, which is a bit of an absurdity for outsiders to be peeped at and played by the characters in the play, which brings tension and oppression to the characters' psychology.
The dramatic logic and plot of the film also fully reflect the characteristics of Chinese narrative.
For example, the psychology of the common people "hating the rich and hating the officials", the four of them learned that Director Fu was greedy for so much money, and their inner desires drove them to stand on the moral high ground to "do the right thing for heaven", and it seemed that theft had become "reasonable".
Defeat the big corrupt officials with public opinion supervision, and educate the ethics of good and evil through drama stories. As well as the Nai He Bridge, black and white impermanence, and the Chinese-style horror and karma of "people are doing, the sky is watching", all of which have distinctive characteristics of traditional Chinese culture.
The story is neither "black" nor "humorous"
Originally, there was a story shell with Chinese characteristics, why did the movie only leave people with hustle and bustle after a hot pot meal?
In the second act, the crisis events are not set up strongly, and the confrontational conflict does not push the story to the climactic end of the third act.
The false crisis leads to the vanity of the story and the characters, and after discovering the "corpse", the four of them dare not do it out of fear. Director Fu "came to life", and the true faces of several people were soon revealed, and then the film fell into quarrels and misunderstandings.
It's no wonder that the audience complained about it, and the plot advancement depends on the lines.
If a few little people really cut Director Fu by mistake, and see blood when they go down with an axe, what will happen to the story?
If the sister of "Fa Cai" (played by Yu Haolei) is really killed, then how will he treat "Mi Ji" (played by Yang Mi) and Director Fu (played by Tian Yu)?
If Jiu Pian (played by Yu Qian) really sent 200,000 yuan to Director Fu, it turned out that there was no need for this at all, but the money was no longer coming back, what would he do?
The characters can't go back, and they start to choose actions, which is when the story really begins.
"In a thought, darkness and light", a line that appears many times in the film, but it accurately summarizes the characters and the story, similar to the effect of "impulse is the devil".
At the end of the day, it's a story for the little guys. The demolition and relocation of corrupt officials has nothing to do with them, and they have nothing to do with murder, arson, and destruction of corpses, and they don't want to have anything to do with it.
Their greed for money is only ready to move at the beginning, and those emotional and irrational things such as greed, deception, and fear are scared back before they unfold.
Some people call it a black humor movie, which is characterized by its absurdity, cynicism, cynicism and heaviness and bitterness, tears and pain, melancholy and cruelty.
This is precisely the crucial part of the film that is missing. The film's observation of real life, the excavation of human nature and the expression of the theme are not deep enough, so the four people with ghosts in the story share the spoils, divide the "corpse", and kidnap them, which seems to be a matter of care. The contradictions intensified, and the slapstick scenes appeared exaggerated.
Also known as the "script killing" type movies "The Wind", "Rise to Fame", "Man Jianghong" and other works, the story is set in modern and ancient society. The creator has a clear historical view, theme and value expression of the historical background of the story.
The characters act in the context of the larger historical context, with interests, humanity, positions, confrontations, sacrifices and protections. Use the past to metaphor the present, borrow the past to speak of the present. The audience is able to empathize, empathize and empathize with the characters and stories in the film.
Although there is nothing wrong with the theme expression of "good and evil will be rewarded", this kind of collage and use of pure traditional culture is a bit old-fashioned and empty in the context of the current rapidly developing modern society.
During the May Day holiday, if you want to go to the theater with friends and family to relax and relax, arrange a hot pot after watching it, "There is nothing that can't be solved by a hot pot" is a good choice. But if you have to find the disadvantages of the needle from this movie, "related to me", it is a little reluctant.
[Text/Zhang Hongliu]