There is a kind of greed that is reasonable, that is, Li Wei-style. Li Wei is a black worker played by Luo Jin in "Beauty and Error", with the hormones and body of a young wild adventure. Before Luo Jin became a well-known TV actor, he was a film actor.
Text/Takashi Kobashi
If I had to classify Luo Jin's works and only divide them into two categories, I would divide them into one category: "Beauty mistakes" (perhaps after the release of "Tracking" can also be classified in this category), and the other categories are other works other than "Beauty Mistakes".
"Yoshi" is the work of the hall of fame director Alessandro Gonzalez Iñárredo. Such a long name, I simplified it to "the director who made "Babel Tower"" .
"Misunderstanding" was filmed around October 27, 2008 to January 30, 2009, when the director was 45 years old, and Javier Baden, who later won the best actor in Cannes for this film, was 37 years old. Cheng Taishen, a 37-year-old Chinese actor who plays against Luo Jin. Luo Jin is 27 years old.
In this brutal film, survival is a sword hanging over each character's head, which will fall at any time. The director's skill is to calmly record the reactions of these trapped beasts, shoot despair in daily life, shoot benefits in eroticism, and shoot slaughter in tranquility. Often the power of an empty lens can empty all the hopes in your heart.
Luo Jin played the Chinese black worker Li Wei in "Beauty mistakes", encouraging his boss and homosexual "Hai" (played by Cheng Taishen) to make quick money. After the accident, the sea was betrayed. He died in the end. Among a group of middle-aged people struggling to survive, the young Li Wei is the most gambler, he has enough wild hormones, but his love, like the way of survival, only exists in dark places. His trust and thirst for money can be seen as his way of self-salvation. This is the obsession of many people: thinking that with money, everything will be fine. But is reality so reasonable?
In a few scenes, Luo Jin's lines are spoken to the bone marrow. The drama is all about money. Li Wei told Hai several times that we would have a lot of money, and so on. This is probably one of the best lines I've ever heard from Luo Jin. There is a kind of greed that is reasonable, that is, Li Wei-style.
There is a scene where Hai is scrubbing his hands while nagging Li Wei, "This kind of business is very tricky, I have a family." Li Wei replied, "You don't need to remind me of this." This line is a mixed phrase.
Then Hai asked: What are you doing here? Li Weihui, because I love you. Sorry, I didn't hear affection from it, I heard a little flirtation and a little bit of justification and a little bit of indifference and a little bit of attempt. Such a confession that is not pure, but hooks the soul, is unique in all of Luo Jin's works.
There is also a scene where Li Wei, played by Luo Jin, comes in from outside the door. The door was hidden, Li Wei pushed the door open, revealing half of his body, and the bustle in the room just now came to an abrupt end because of his arrival. Such a simple action, dodging, hesitation, hiding, anxiety and all kinds of complex emotions are there.
There's also a scene. Luo Jin's crying scene. The bodies of the gas-poisoned workers kept the order of the bunks they slept under, and they were crowded together. Li Wei, played by Luo Jin, came downstairs, took a look, and quickly turned sideways, bowed his head, and a tear fell. The shot is not given a close-up, a mid-shot solution, closed. Temperance can sometimes be more powerful than an outburst.
The last scene. The one where Li Wei died. The camera starts from hai getting dressed and preparing to go out, and the big bed behind the sea appears in the camera, and Li Wei lies on his back naked body, with blood on his body and on the sheets. The camera does not pity death, does not pause, and continues to follow the sea out the door downstairs. I was smothered by this shot for a long time, duang a little, in my heart scolded the dirty words.
The director does have two shots, and The performance of Luo Jin in "Beauty and Mistake" is not necessarily the best in all his works, but it must be the most different, not only because he played a gay man, but because there are many, of course, including this part of playing a homosexual.
Many good actors have acted in gay subjects, but the treatment of "Beauty and Mistake" is very different, not a spring break, it pushes the film into the abyss of despair. The beauty of Li Wei's body has been shown to you, and finally the so-called beauty has been killed.
Hai and Li Wei's play is a branch line of "Beauty and Mistake". The main line is Javier, and the film begins with a preview of Javier's death. A main line has several branches, and a large number of plot scenes are intertwined. Li Wei is one of the indispensable lines. I even feel that from the Chinese meaning, "beauty" and "wrong" are reflected in Li Wei's role. (Original manuscript, handwritten on June 9, 2019)