Uncle Yu found that the 5.20 schedule of the theater chain has begun to exert force.
This weekend, ten new films were released.
There are classic suspense IPs, as well as cooperation between actors and actresses, as well as sweet romance films.
Which ones are worth watching? Uncle Yu will help everyone test poison and demine.
The first part selected is "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain".
The reason is simple, curious.
Fan Wei and Zhou Dongyu are partners for the first time.
A Golden Horse actor, a three-gold queen, the strength is there.
But what will be the effect of playing an old husband and a young wife?
The story itself is also quite gimmicky.
Adapted from real events, the hero and heroine are both felons and prisoners.
Between the two, there was another fraudulent marriage dispute.
Uncle Yu finished reading it with high expectations, but he vaguely felt a little bad.
Looking at the comments of other audiences, the worries are confirmed.
There is a word in the review that appears quite frequently:
"Physical Discomfort"
Why?
Let's talk about it while it's hot today-
"Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain"
Let's start with the story itself.
The original book "The Murderous Girl in a Wedding Dress" was released a few years ago.
The film is basically faithful to the original, and expands the details of the relationship between the protagonists to form a complete story.
is indeed full of twists and turns, and the two protagonists alone are the "double villains" that are rare to see in domestic films.
Lao Qin (played by Fan Wei) was imprisoned for 27 years for manslaughter and smuggling contraband.
Chang Juan (played by Zhou Dongyu) was imprisoned for murder at the age of 14 and served ten years in prison.
The acquaintance of the two is also based on a transaction with a clear price.
Before Lao Qin was released from prison, a windfall fell from the sky.
The house in my hometown was demolished, and the compensation was 1.5 million.
But the price is that the old house is gone, and even the graves of my parents have been moved away without authorization, and there is no home to return to.
Lao Qin was born in the countryside, and he always felt that this money was left to his son by his father's mother.
Therefore, he decided to marry a wife and have children as soon as possible after he was released from prison, and renew the incense for the old Qin family.
But I also want to know that Lao Qin's experience can attract a high probability of being a liar.
As a last resort, he could only hold a sign and go to the gate of the women's prison to squat.
Thinking that they are both fallen people at the end of the world, they can probably understand each other.
The only one who responded to him was Chang Juan.
She also had just been released from prison and was homeless.
took the initiative to apply and promised to give birth to Lao Qin, but there were only a few conditions.
At first glance, these conditions are reasonable.
A house, a wedding dress, miscellaneous gifts, and a bride price.
The bride price is odd and partial, 184,400.
At first, Lao Qin did have concerns.
First, Chang Juan is too young, only 24 years old, 32 years old wrong with herself, it was originally two generations.
Second, there is no guarantee that Chang Juan is not a liar, and there is no guarantee that the money will be given.
In order to dispel Lao Qin's concerns, Chang Juan proposed a "trial marriage".
It didn't take long for Chang Juan to agree to get the certificate because she recognized Lao Qin's kindness to her, and the two really became husband and wife.
But soon, they were at odds about having a baby.
Lao Qin saw that everything was done according to Chang Juan's wishes, but the woman was undecided.
After a big fight, not long after the reconciliation, Chang Juan disappeared with more than 180,000 dowries.
Obviously, this is a fraudulent marriage.
When she found the person, Chang Juan attempted suicide by jumping into the river, and her brain damage turned into a vegetative state.
It turned out that Chang Juan tried to commit suicide many times due to serious remorse during her sentence.
It was only because she was in court that she learned that she had killed the wrong person.
was originally to avenge the death of his parents in a car accident, but he found the wrong person because of the difference in the surname "Wang Huang".
For this reason, the body and mind are tormented day and night.
The bride price money is also the compensation for the other party's family.
Subsequently, Lao Qin decided to take people home to take care of them.
There are no miracles, no follow-ups.
Life goes on, that's the end of the story.
It can be seen that the story is quite grayscale.
As director Zhang Guoli summarized: conflict, authenticity, and controversy.
There are a lot of topics to be covered.
For example, the situation of marginal people, mutual harm at the bottom, the subtlety of human nature, the dislocation of the old and new eras, and even the issue of life and death, there is a lot of room for excavation.
But such a rich text should bring the potential of a good movie, why is there a "physical discomfort" evaluation?
Because of the chaos.
Film, unlike documentary, needs a clear theme to be authentic.
In the work, the creator seems to have no answer.
This led to the fragmentation of the style of the film at first.
The first third of the movie, like an honest comedy.
The old Qin Weinuo, who had just been released from prison, was sluggish.
Whether it is a marriage adventure or a flying young wife, there are a lot of jokes.
The character image is also kind and straightforward.
let go of the liar's matchmaking agency again, and at first he simply pitied Chang Juan and invited her to dinner to send her travel expenses.
Until the two entered marriage, the tone of the movie was brighter.
Chang Juan also hugged Lao Qin tightly, and the two rode a car together in the sunset, with a light soundtrack and a soft atmosphere.
But in the middle third, there is a sudden thriller.
Seeing that Chang Juan didn't have children, Lao Qin hid her documents.
Directly provoke the threat, which is creepy:
"I'll pay you back when you give birth, and you won't be able to run away if you give birth."
The verbal conflict between the two escalated, provoking Lao Qin not only to beat him, but also to rape him on the spot.
Chang Juan's counterattack also has murderous intent.
So the audience instantly realized that the two people in front of them were not good people at all.
Their hands are truly life-threatening.
Based on the original story, it is not a simple love story in itself.
The plot is actually quite smooth at this point, at best, it is not enough to foreshadow the transformation.
But who knows, the remaining third has returned to the warm painting style.
After Chang Juan disappeared, not long after Lao Qin Gang settled down, he unexpectedly learned about Chang Juan's experience and the use of the bride price, and found her with the help of relevant departments.
Seeing her commit suicide, she jumped into the river alone to save people.
Others persuaded Lao Qin to give up Chang Juan's treatment, but he still insisted on taking people to his home to take care of them.
took a bath and wiped her body, beat her back and loosened her muscles, and often pushed her to the balcony to bask in the sun.
The lack of emotional foreshadowing and the rapid turn of the plot lead to a serious sense of rupture between character creation and story development.
What does the film want to film, is it a two-way redemption for the wicked?
Is it realism, or is it desperate love?
Maybe they all want to get a little bit of it, but they focus on imbalance, causing confusion in the perception.
The theme of the film is always ambiguous, and the audience does not know what the film is trying to express.
Perhaps the creator is also aware of the problem and deliberately added a detail to this.
Lao Qin has been in charge of cleaning in prison for many years, and it has become a habit.
After Chang Juan disappeared, Lao Qin relied on cleaning the stove everywhere to restore the old order to gain a sense of stability.
Therefore, the care of Chang Juan may not be out of emotion.
may also contain a selfish purpose - to finally find a "life stove" that can be wiped for a lifetime.
For this reason, he can ignore Chang Juan's will to die and self-esteem, and desperately keep her twisted body.
This kind of paranoia can actually add a touch of sad irony and make human nature more complex.
Find a realistic base point for the disparity in age and vision between the two to dispel the discomfort.
also makes the film more coherent in terms of plot direction, character image, and story core.
It's a pity that it didn't shoot well.
Under the sad soundtrack, what the audience sees is the doctor's affirmation of Lao Qin's caregivers, and the treatment of the extremely scary treatment with laughter.
Even the end of the film ends in the scene that echoes the previous scene of the two watching the fireworks together.
It's hard to tell whether the creator wants to praise Lao Qin's kindness or be sarcastic.
The sensational treatment of romanticization suspicion makes the audience more responsive to the rape scene in the middle.
Thinking of Chang Juan's resistance to resist and reject Lao Qin, the scene of taking care of the bath in the film is even more physiologically uncomfortable.
The film's attempt to move the audience with such a story will instead incur disgust.
In the end, the movie has become a product of four dissimilarities that are not romantic enough, healing enough, sharp enough, and satirical enough.
I wanted to go deep into the issues, but I didn't get anything.
In all fairness, there are regrets that the film is insufficient, but the actors' acting skills are indeed commendable.
Needless to say, Fan Wei's "The Long Season" a year ago has already given people a glimpse of his current acting skills.
In "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain", his control of details surprised Uncle Yu again.
After more than 20 years of prison life, even if Lao Qin regained his freedom, he was still terrified when facing discipline.
He couldn't stop shaking and blinking so often.
But to grasp this degree so that it is not deliberately false, it takes skill.
shows Lao Qin's foolishness and recklessness, and even adds a touch of comedy to it.
Except for Fan Wei, it is difficult to think of anyone else with a similar temperament.
In this regard, the actors have blessed the movie a lot.
Zhou Dongyu's physiological acting skills when he starred in a vegetative state should not be underestimated.
The movement of the eyes and the control of the degree of distortion of the body are clearly put into the effort.
Uncle Yu just finished talking about 90 flowers, and this film will make people feel that it is not unreasonable for Zhou Dongyu to win both awards in this group.
But the high-end cast does not seem to be able to eliminate the "physical discomfort" caused by the drama problem.
Is there no solution to this problem?
Not necessarily, Uncle Yu thought of "Oasis".
The two protagonists are also marginal people, one is a low-intelligence person who has been released from prison after completing his sentence, and the other is a patient with severe cerebral palsy.
Coincidentally, there is also a physically uncomfortable and controversial rape scene between the two.
But by the end of the film, countless viewers had already completed a change of attitude.
From the alarm bell to the pity of the two, and even hating the world to tear them apart.
How?
Uncle Yu thought about it, and the integrity of the play is beyond doubt.
The movie gives enough plot and duration to dilute the discomfort caused by this rape scene.
enriches the characters, paves the emotions, and finally controls this "discomfort" within the scope of "reality and authenticity", rather than eye-catching curiosity.
And the principle of such a technique is restraint.
did not pretend to be clever and used audio-visual guidance to sensationalize, but let the audience find a way to interpret the relationship between the two themselves.
Even the dancing of the two people on the street retained the grim gaze of the onlookers.
Before the male protagonist was caught, he climbed the tree in front of the female protagonist's window to say goodbye.
Chop down branches for her to remove the shadows and make her no longer afraid.
Such a sensational tragic drama, but there is no trace of music in "Oasis".
The audience is still shaken by pure emotion, and silence is better than sound.
In contrast, "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain" is precisely because it is based on the creative logic of domestic commercial films, and it does not dare to restrain its methods.
From the perspective, I didn't find a clear attitude towards the story of the two protagonists.
I dare not sympathize, I dare not despise, I dare not believe, I dare not doubt.
The creators themselves can't be pure, and they don't trust that pure emotions can help the audience derive complex perceptions.
So just shoot a little bit of everything, even if it obviously creates a twisted look.
Interestingly, Uncle Yu watched the director's interview and found that he was actually aware of these problems.
As a result, it can only be said that there is a lack of confidence in the creative attitude and the immaturity of the technique.
After all, it was a waste of the cast and the story foundation.
The first part of the schedule, Uncle Yu is a pity.
I always feel that whether it is a movie or a creator, we should not want too much from the beginning.
The purpose is clear, but it is simple.
If you want everything, it's easy to be overwhelmed.
The hunger of the audience can sometimes be filled with just a good story.
The premise is that it is really well spoken.