Black comedy is actually a high-ranking martial arts mastery.
Attainment is rare.
Cold, absurd, cynical, and insisting on laughing and pulling away the worldly anger for people to see.
It's like Satan standing in the dark, laughing and watching the human clown performing comically.
Speaking of domestic black humor comedy, "Crazy Stone" must be the pinnacle of the evil king's heart.
Ironic and spicy, it can only be described by Cow Boy.
There were many subsequent films competing to imitate;
"Labyrinth of Hearts" and "The Unknown Generation" borrow from its multi-line narrative;
"Man on the Road" and "Let the Bullets Fly" continue its sharp style.
Director Ning Hao once said that he is a fan of Guy Richie, and "Crazy Stone" is inspired by the textbook-level black comedy "Two Big Smoking Guns";
A good story never goes out of style, and it will update and iterate more great works.
For example, the American version of "Crazy Stone", which has recently frequently brushed his face at the Outpost Awards-
Original diamonds
Uncut Gems
Executive Producer Martin Scorsese, Old Face.
The directors, the Safdy brothers, seemed unfamiliar.
But fans and friends in the mixed film circle must have heard of the "Neon Electric Sound School" film style.
Neon tubes, psychedelic electronic sounds, stylized vision, with cool audio-visual and rhythmic sense of fixed point explosion, crazy stimulation of the audience's adrenaline.
Crazy venting, high burst brain shell.
Under the slogan of "beauty is not absolute, but only", believers declare that they are becoming more and more fierce on the aesthetic road of "visual supremacy".
Constantly exploring new aesthetic heights, it also suffers from two-level differentiation.
For example, the original diamond that I want to talk about today.
Accurately get the critic's G-spot, the Outpost Awards rampage, Rotten Tomatoes freshness as high as 94%.
But the North American box office hit the street, and the audience has been scolding it for being deep in the well.
As a straight man with a strong passion for visual stimulation, the evil prince curiously rubbed his small hand and poked open the film.
The male protagonist Howard (hereinafter referred to as Uncle Hua) opened a shop in the diamond trading district of New York and made a living selling jewelry every day.
He was with the most brilliant diamonds, but his private life was dirty.
Cheating in marriage, leaving his wife alone at home widowed parenting;
The lover also had to endure his bad temper, and there were not a few good days with him.
The most important thing is that he has a serious gambling addiction and refuses to give up despite his high debt.
Lately he's been plotting to do a big vote.
It took Uncle Hua 17 months to buy a raw diamond from a mining area in Ethiopia, Africa.
A large stone is inlaid with several diamonds, colorful and dazzling, and it seems that you can peek into the entire universe with a magnifying glass.
This piece of original diamond is very valuable, according to Uncle Hua's own calculations, starting with a million knives, let him become a local tycoon in situ.
Coincidentally, accompanied by friends, NBA superstar Kevin Garnett (played by the superstar himself) also came to wander around Uncle Hua's shop and looked at this treasure at a glance.
The large diamond of Buling Buling flashed blinded his eyes.
Kevin clutched the original diamond and said that he would pay for it.
But how could uncle Hua's hard-earned treasure change hands so easily?
Of course, keep the auction pen for a large price.
But the two argued endlessly, and finally Uncle Hua finally agreed that Kevin would take the original diamond to finish tonight's game, and then return to Zhao.
And as collateral, Kevin left behind his championship ring (a 2008 tournament winning prize. ）
It would have been good to borrow and pay back, but this matter was over.
Who knew that this Uncle Hua had to be a demon halfway and take the ring of the other person.
The money from the ring is not used to fill the debt owed, but to gamble.
The bet is on Kevin's game tonight and he'll get the MVP.
Kevin was very competitive to win the game, and according to the odds, Howard also made a fortune, at least six hundred thousand dollars.
But then came God reversed.
The creditor who had been following Uncle Hua intercepted Uncle Hua's gambling funds halfway, directly used them to pay off the debt, and also ripped off his clothes and threw them in the trunk of the car.
The 600,000 in hand flew like this.
But this old gambler is not dead-hearted, planning to make a second wave of death.
Ever since the original diamond blessed Kevin to win the game, he has become more and more superstitious about the stone.
He decided to keep exploiting the potential value of the original diamond.
Even when Kevin came to buy the original diamond with a $175,000 bill, he firmly refused.
Originally, the evil lord thought that this old iron wishful thinking could play some flowers, who knew that the heavens had sent down another wave of tumultuous operations.
The original drill was valued at 155,000 knives, ten times worse than expected.
Even lower than Kevin's bid.
Seeing this, the evil emperor laughed, and his heart said that this old iron should also be taken over, eh, he is still biased, ready to make the third wave of death.
Hire someone to be a trustee at auction, and fight Kevin to raise the price.
Unfortunately, the fifty cent acting skills were recognized by the auction consultant and stopped Kevin.
The original diamond was finally bought by Uncle Hua's own people at a price of 190,000.
Seeing that the mascot was in his own hands, Kevin was willing to freeze his previous suspicions and buy the original diamond for 175,000 yuan, and he really liked this treasure.
The evil lords all wanted to rush into the screen to persuade this big brother to hurry up and stop it, who knew that he had gone to make the fourth wave of death.
Howard took all the money to gamble on Kevin's other ball game.
After experiencing this big wind and waves, he was not willing and wanted to turn the tables against the wind through this money.
76 people tragically turned into a background board ~
According to this piece of urine that does not play cards according to the routine, Uncle Hua accidentally won this time and won a Grand Slam.
$1.23 million.
But before he could cheer the creditor in the face, aiming it at him was a shot.
At its peak, it was the day of death.
After watching this film, the evil prince was like a fish in the throat, just like holding a mouthful of old phlegm stuck in the throat, spitting it out, swallowing it disgustingly.
The description of Douban netizens is more graphic:
To ask the evil lord after watching this film's feelings, a word, admiration.
The spirit of death can be exerted to the extreme, and there are really few in the history of film.
And what really drives him to hit the stone with the pebble again and again is his endless desire
Borrow money, buy rough diamonds, bet on balls, auction, bet on balls again... I tried everything I could to make more money and never wanted to take it over.
And God also saw his greed for wealth, and kept satisfying him, making him more and more greedy.
In the end, God not only fulfilled him, but also took him away.
Although moderate desire is a beacon that will inspire people to continue to make progress, desire has evolved into greed, and it has become a man-eating monster that will not easily let go of humans.
The Safdy brothers are well aware of this, using a lot of metaphors and visuals to express the issue of desire to destroy people.
For example, at the beginning of the film, the miner who found the original diamond peeked inside the crystal and flashed brilliantly.
And the outlet for the extension of the universe is Howard's body.
At that time, Howard was doing colonoscopy to rule out the possibility of malignancy.
At the end of the film, the bullet hole in Howard's face in the pool of blood enters his body.
Flipping and moving, he finally returned to the crystal world, the vast universe.
The two dreamy shots form end to end, and there is also a deep meaning behind it.
The original diamond alludes to colon cancer, but there are differences in the connection between the two.
The original diamond is a stone conceived by Mother Earth, and inside the magnificent crystal there is an infinitely vast and far-reaching nebula universe, boundless and empty.
And the desire of the human heart is only money, narrow and greedy.
The film constantly amplifies the contradiction between the two in the noisy and dazzling sound and picture effects, making them intertwined, so that the immaculate original diamond becomes the original sin, accompanied by bloody desire.
Let the gain and loss be fleeting, constantly ups and downs, and the hunger and thirst will only increase day by day. Until the end, he threw all his chips on the ultimate gamble.
It's like riding a roller coaster, when he thinks he has reached the peak of his life, raises his hand and cheers, but immediately ushers in the fall point.
Pushing people into hell becomes a comical ghost devoured by desire.