This week, Huang Xinyao's new film "Classmate Mynas" will be released in Taiwan, which is also his second feature film after 2017's "Big Buddha Plus".
From Plus to Minus, it is not only the renewal of Huang Xinyao's word game, but also the shotgun exchange of Huang's black style movies.
Because this time, the protagonist did not increase the price, and became four.
Fellows Max/ Classmates Minus 2020
After graduating from high school, the four high school classmates often gathered in the bubble tea shop to break the cards and scare the three small ones, but after the party, they still had to face the difficulties of life:
Electric Wind (Zheng Renshuo) is an insurance salesman who leads a meager salary to save money and buy a new house, because his girlfriend is pregnant and will enter the life stage of marriage;
Engaged in the paper house industry and has a closed knot with yin and yang eyes (Liu Guanting), because of the long-term care of the bedridden grandmother missed the marriage, want to seek a marriage agency to find a good woman to marry;
Canned (Natto) takes over the job of the household office after committing suicide by swallowing a drug, and thus reunites with his goddess School Flower Mai Nasi;
Tim Tsai (Shi Mingshuai) is a director who has never met Huai Cai, but under the opportunity to be photographed by a politician (Chen Yiwen), he begins the election road.
"Classmate Menas", which was shortlisted for this year's Golden Horse 9 Awards, is definitely one of the most anticipated taiwan films this year, and I believe that it will soon be seen in various ways.
Before I could see this movie, I invited Mr. Lan Zuwei, a film critic from Taiwan and deputy editor-in-chief of Liberty Times, to talk about Huang Xinyao on this new film.
The world is full of sad people
scold... When will it be my turn to succeed?
- Muddy Water Creek Commune "Cartoon Pistol"
Whether life is from black and white to color, or color to black and white, in fact, they are playing with their lips, seemingly frivolous, but it is also easy to hook the blood of the rivers and lakes that makes people laugh, with Huang Xinyao lying on the ground and breathing the creative hand marks, this kind of Ayao-style whiteness, in addition to grounding, there is another kind of vicissitudes that see through the world, Taiwan is difficult to match, whether it is witty humor, or ridicule and self-deprecation.
He is like Woody Allen in Taiwan, cheerful is the original juice, spicy is the green onion, and there is a kind of painful tickling satisfaction of life's needles.
If Woody Allen's film lacks his trademark statement, the audience will be lost, and Huang Xinyao understands this.
Director Huang Xinyao (Image from the movie trailer, the same below)
This time, he doubled down on the gift, giving you a full of Yao-style fun, just "listening" to him "talking" about the movie, it is indeed a top enjoyment.
From "Big Buddha Plus" to "Classmate Mynas", the title of the film has changed from Plus to Minus, and he continues to play the word game that Wong Shin Yao loves.
In addition to the ironic confrontation, Plus contrasts the great desire of Buddha and man, Minus in addition to the goddess's real name, Minus this word refers to frustration, negative and retreat, more suitable for his consideration and compassion for humble life.
However, this time Minus's ambition is greater than Plus's, to retreat into advance, it seems to subtract from the real addition, in addition to standing at the trough of life in the mountains and rivers, examining the variable parameters of male friendship, but also in the details of spanking and rubbing, showing the gentleness of male love;
More importantly, the proportion of women's roles has risen sharply, no longer just the instrumental role of desire vase flowers, but more aura magnetic field (although, I am more looking forward to the straight man Ayao in the future to have a more feminine point of view).
Minus is more wide and larger than Plus, both a life progression and an artistic evolution.
This article attempts to apply the concept of "Wind Forest Volcano" to understand Huang Xinyao's creative hand marks.
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Huang Xinyao is very good at making "black" movies.
"Black" includes the black at the bottom of society, the black in politics, the black in the workplace, and the black of the intersection of yin and yang.
The fun of black humor is to be measured.
Huang Xinyao's sharpness lies in the fact that from politics, life and death to life setbacks, the subject matter he mentions has completed a kind of reinforcement effect of "this is what it was, and now it is more enlightened".
The Great Buddha Plus (2017)
Huang Xinyao, who used to run errands in politics, once came and went north and south in the election propaganda car, entertained politics, that kind of sensitivity and sharpness, fist to flesh:
Filming the political propaganda mixed food "Tim Zai" (played by Shi Mingshuai) witnessed and performed the toilet qiao or the enhanced version of the finger pointing to tomorrow, incredible exaggeration, absurd and outrageous existence, just a breeze blowing, the complex complex of men mixing power and desire, all have a thousand knives of laughter and scolding power.
"Tim Tsai" (played by Shi Mingshuai)
Political black is only a small dish, and social black is the main dish.
Whether it is the canned food (played by Natto) who has not been able to find the household census work, visit the broken houses with four walls, the spell houses, and the black studios one by one;
Canned Food (Natto)
Or the deprivation of the Austrian and the governor who works in the insurance company (played by Zheng Renshuo), on the bitterness and difficulty, are higher than the navel and dried vegetables in "Big Buddha Plus".
Electric Wind (played by Zheng Renshuo)
Zhong Menghong's specialized ruin photography, combined with Zhao Sihao's colorful Taiwanese aesthetics, even if it is just a glimpse of the floating light of the dragonfly dotting the water, all write a cruel but true secular style.
The "closed knot" played by Liu Guanting is a person who undertakes the black of life, engaged in paper work, he is the most able to see through the cold of the world, only by understanding the human heart and human nature, can he use his skillful hands to rest in peace at the last moment, and the living can rest in peace.
The language barrier on the stuttering disease gave his introverts and psychics a private corner, and only the world he could see and the conversation he could hear made the cold black world have a little warmth.
Closed Knot (played by Liu Guanting)
As for the "starting house" of his own mini house in the house, it is not only the peak of his skills, but also a happy paradise where he can enjoy himself by relying on his profession in the embarrassing life of having no money and no house.
The navel of "Big Buddha Plus" has a room of dolls in the UFO house, "closed knot" has been "building" a house for others all his life, and finally tied a mansion that can see Mount Fuji to send himself, that kind of pocket version of humility and fine, there is another desolate wind blowing in the dream, blowing people so sad.
However, this "black aesthetic" of seeing through life is composed of Xiao Ke (Ke Renjian) and Cai Zhongxuan of The Muddy Water Creek Commune using music to combine them.
The "cartoon pistol" in the finale sings the frustration of the angry youth and the waste youth in the 90s, but it also continues to apply the "angry/feces" sadness of "a middle-aged man who has achieved nothing".
Muddy Creek Commune 2006 EP "No Pain No Gain"
Huang Xinyao's grand introduction to the Turbid Water Creek Commune is rather a key finishing touch, both to greet his (and his classmates') youth and to give a sonorous voice to the contemporary frustrated man.
After all, most of the love songs in the world are too soft, only to soothe and heal the healing, but they are through the voice of the voice to vent unevenness and incomprehension, but also because of the habitual disqualification of the Muddy Water Creek Commune, Ke Renjian and Cai Zhongxuan do not play the cards according to the card soundtrack, will not be able to use the deviant music for the four students' stumbling life to point out the drifting tail rhyme.
Every time the music sounds, the emotions that cannot be said are already emerging.
forest.
At the wedding, Tianzai, a classmate who was running for the legislative council, hurriedly arrived, not to congratulate, but to come to solicit votes. Years of friendship are not enemies of reality.
Zheng Renshuo played the electric wind, seeing that his life events were so trampled by his old friends, he chose to be silent, but his face was full of.
On the day of the showdown, "Electric Wind" looked at the famous brand of the manager's classmate "Mei Yiyuan", called out his former nickname "Five Corners", counted the old accounts, and cleared his heart.
Although, his fierceness was only so, and his fierceness was only so, and then the suit plunged straight into the lake.
How much fire can the lake catch?
However, the "electric wind" that cannot blow the wind is also the most rational and emotional role.
When playing cards and playing nonsense, he is the one who points to the point and brings out the topic, and it is precisely because the sensibility is so delicate that the funeral rampage can be so sparkled.
Partial, meticulous rationality, but also let him willingly buy a super small parking space that can only be pushed out by hand, Huang Xinyao did not hurry through the encounter of "electric wind", how many stuck youth, embarrassing life?
This black humor, a blend of absurdity, antics and despair, blows silently through the corners of life like a breeze from time to time:
Just like the lottery ticket in the hands of "Tim Tsai", which is only one number away and wins the jackpot, the difference is one number, the difference is much worse;
Just like the number of "Tim Tsai" running for the legislature, "Number Four" is not a humorous ridicule with "good death"?
It's like "canning" swallowing a whole can of "skinny", is it thinking about a hundred? Or do you want to do your best in a quick weight loss?
Of course, it is also like "canned" spring dreaming, can only ask for help A piece of male god's finger piston...
Talk about fire.
Huang Xinyao believes in infatuation, does not believe in love, from "Plath" to "Manas", the love of straight men is straightforward, but also fragile, infatuated are extremely mellow, but also crazy.
After all, there are lovers in the world, and the world is not lonely.
There are two kinds of love affairs in "Classmate Manas": one belongs to the incense and the other belongs to the heart. Even if there is a boundless spring dream full of flesh, returning to the essence of idiotic characters, they are all spiritual.
The incense is given to the "canned".
He has never been a saint, but a defeated disciple, who has met the goddess Manas, who does not dare to blaspheme, but does not tolerate dust (pan Huiru stands in front of natto, that disproportionate beauty, that unbelievable sigh, fully illustrates a successful casting, can save the director how much lip and tongue energy).
A good wish is in front of you, but like Orpheus in Greek mythology, he obviously wants to take the goddess Eurydice out of hell, but because of a little more greed, a little more delusion, he can only watch the goddess turn into black smoke and collapse and disappear.
After all, the smoke of the incense could not go to the heavenly court, and could only turn into tears and drop red dust.
The tears of "canned food" are actually the heart song of Minus who is middle-aged and unable to return to heaven, and can only sigh.
The heart incense is given to the "closed knot" as a matter of course.
Good-natured, because of stuttering, life has more invisible walls, and the pity given to him by the heavens is given to Ah Yue (played by Wang Caihua) who can see through his life at a glance.
Love does not need to be translated, as long as it has been loved, and it is the person who has met the right person, who has enjoyed the tacit pleasure;
Love needs to be translated, in fact, it is just to alleviate the anxiety of outsiders, to reassure the lover, and to reassure the family.
The temporary happiness that Ah Yue brings to the "closed knot" is of course the unkindness of heaven and earth, but there is also the unmeritoriousness of heaven and earth.
Although Huang Xinyao believes too much in desire (the inevitability of human nature) and does not believe in love (the probability of life), he is occasionally vegetarian and occasionally eats meat.
He used the laughter in the comic book store to write about the loneliness of floating love, and gave the insomniac men and women who "want snow in the evening" a "small red clay stove" of the slight warmth, which is the extremely ordinary and profound love wish in Haihai's life: without reasoning, you can embrace and warm up at both poles.
As for the fire and quick fry provided by Zhu Zhiying and Zheng Yutong, it pushes the marginal effect of the small panties to the extreme, and this sparkly sovereignty battle, in fact, there is a finishing touch:
The high commissioner who couldn't figure out what the woman was fighting wanted to get a foot on the toilet, but Valerie felt that the panties were dirty, and didn't let him touch and wipe his hands, where was it dirty? How is it dirty? The unspeakable wind and fire were all folded in that little pair of panties.
Not to mention the scene where they then stand side by side on the election platform, it seems that the light ark has passed through the ten thousand mountains, but in fact, the crying of the apes on both sides of the strait is refracted in the reality of their laughter and flesh.
Finally, talk about mountains.
The first back of the film is Ah Yao; the narrator is him; he is the one who can't help but jump out and rush into the camera to hit people; it is also he who frequently turns around and talks to Zheng Renshuo.
The omnipresent Huang Xinyao, like Hitchcock, always loves to sign his name in all corners of the movie; Ayao, who tries his best to show his voice and face, always does not forget to remind the audience:
Movies are fiction and reality.
"Classmate Mynas" has a director who loves to make movies, even in his dreams does not forget to shout action, but he does not even understand the day and night scenes, "Tim Zai", Shi Mingshuai played a half-man, half-horse Sagittarius characteristics, human pursuit, loss and confusion can be Ayao's avatar, the qualitative change and trek of the beast is also the reality of Ayao's ridicule, and he wants to come out and beat him, in order to dissipate the true cry,
The play-in-play is a fascinating film form, and the ingenuity lies in whether through this form can make you see through the appearance and peek directly into the soul, and the structure of the play-in-play is like Huang Xinyao playing with an evolved version of the Russian doll:
Peel off the shell and there are layers of mini modules inside.
"Classmate Manass" is inspired by "Scare Three Small", "Scare Three Small" comes from classroom work, classroom work comes from friends and partners are crippled, from small dolls to big dolls, essentially the life cry of the boy Huang Xinyao, he will not be absent, nor can he not be absent.
That being the case, through sound, the flesh will eventually emerge and become a necessary form. Whether it is called "post-setting" or "immersion", what does not move and does not change is Huang Xinyao's youthful footsteps after all.
"Its speed is like the wind, its slowness is like a forest, its invasion is like fire, and its movement is like a mountain." In fact, the whole text is not finished, and there are two sentences that are followed by "it is difficult to know like yin, and it moves like thunder".
Huang Xinyao's narrative of hidden organs always has unpredictable twists and accidents, so it is like a thunder valley, rumbling.
Author: Lan Zuwei
This article was first published in the Adventure Movie: Cinematik
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