The nominations for the 58th Golden Horse Awards, which will be held on November 27 this year, have been announced, and the most nominated one is actually a Hong Kong film.
Some commentators believe that this is a very stable masterpiece in all aspects, and there is a good chance that it will be able to sweep next year's Academy Awards, and the only opponent at present is Zheng Baorui's "Wisdom Teeth".
"Fury: Serious Case" broke the box office record and had the opportunity to become the highest-grossing Hong Kong film of the year;
So, is this "Turbid Water Rafting" the annual word-of-mouth work of Hong Kong films?
The director and screenwriter is a post-90s generation.
His name is Li Junshuo, and the 2018 "Trish" starring Jiang Haowen and Hui Yinghong is his work.
After 3 years of sharpening his knife, he took out "Turbid Water Rafting".
A story about rough sleepers.
The protagonist of the story is Hui Ge, who has just been released from prison.
He was homeless, and when he returned to Sham Shui Po, he had no choice but to sleep in the open.
However, he chose the wrong place.
One night the police forcibly cleared the scene, and his only belongings were ruthlessly removed.
Located in the northwest of the Kowloon Peninsula, Sham Shui Po was one of hong Kong's earliest development areas.
However, due to the lack of rational urban planning in the early days, the appearance of the city was chaotic, and the buildings and illegal buildings were very dilapidated.
With the passage of time, it has gradually failed to keep up with the changes of the times and has become the poorest area in Hong Kong.
So there is the sentence in the movie.
"Sham Shui Po is where the poor live."
Therefore, Hui Ge and the street friends found another place to live, and eventually built a log cabin under the bridge, where everyone helped each other and warmed each other.
Only to learn that they had all been in prison.
Hui Ge is played by Wu Zhenyu, whom we are familiar with.
In the past, I often watched him play a hot gangster character, or a policeman who presided over justice, as well as comedy, which did not affect his sense of reality in playing a low-level small person this time.
Many viewers who have seen it feel that the film emperor has been booked by Wu Zhenyu.
And in "Bomb Disposal Expert 2", the villain Xie Junhao, played the villain Xie Junhao, playing the street friend of the street friend Hui Ge.
He is also credited with dedicating himself to the performance of the Emperor of Shadows.
Just by looking at his makeup, you can feel it, obviously two years younger than Wu Zhenyu, but he looks at least 10 years old.
If it is not him, many people will not recognize him.
Even so, a social worker stepped forward to help Hui Ge ask them for compensation.
So they went to legal protest and tried to use legal means to fight for rights.
The matter also attracted media attention.
However, Hui Ge did not have hope for the media, only that the media did not really care about them.
The old man felt that it was useless to fight a lawsuit, and if they could win a lawsuit, they would not have to go to jail.
Despair and helplessness envelop them.
Justice may be late, but it is never absent.
But for these people who live on the streets, if they want to wait for justice, they must have a life to survive the winter.
"Turbid Water Rafting" is adapted from real people and real events, and the reality of Sham Shui Po is really a group of rough sleepers like this, struggling to survive in the cracks of society.
I saw a very heartfelt comment.
"Will the rough sleepers lying in front of the cultural center know that a movie about them is being played inside?" （@Ian.C）”
Some people may think that these rough sleepers may not be highly educated, and it is not necessarily wrong for the police to ask them to leave, or it may be the rough sleepers who play hooligans to force the police to use coercive measures.
Then the film stands in the perspective of the rough sleepers, then there is a suspicion of beautifying them.
However, some viewers who have seen it said that the film was only recorded as a pure spectator and did not deliberately beautify it.
If you can leave the audience room for self-reflection, it should be great.
Other actors also include Li Lizhen and Ye Tong, two film queens, who have enough reasons to want to see from the actor's theme.
This small cost, similar to the realistic style, has gradually become the new signature of Hong Kong films.
2017's "One Thought of Ignorance" achieved profitability at the Hong Kong domestic box office;
Then in 2018, "The Fallen Man" kept pace, and the box office even reached 19.37 million Hong Kong dollars, higher than "Godzilla 2";
In 2019, there is another "McLuer", which tells the story of a group of people who go to a 24-hour McDonald's to spend the night.
These films rely on excellent scripts to attract big-name actors and, more importantly, give newcomer directors the opportunity to exercise.
It is conceivable that if "Turbid Water Rafting" can also win more attention and awards, such realistic themes will become a new wave of Hong Kong films.