Yesterday, Chen Jianbin's second self-directed and self-acting film "The Eleventh Time" was released nationwide, starring Chen Jianbin, Zhou Xun, Dapeng, Dou Jingtong, Chunxia, etc. The work is very avant-garde experimental style, and there is a strong sense of real life and stage intertwining and wandering when watching the film. It can be said that the "content" of the film is very rich, and it is easy to attract the audience to think deeply.
Many fans said that director Chen Jianbin, who graduated from Chinese opera, is very persistent about stage plays, he has real observation and thinking about life, and he has sarcastic but transparent sympathy for reality and human nature. Some netizens even said that they finally understood why Jiang Qinqin would fall in love with him.
Version 2.0 of A Spoon
The movie "The Eleventh Time" continues the absurd style and black humor of Chen Jianbin's directorial debut "A Spoon". However, compared with "A Spoon", Chen Jianbin's second work" "Eleventh Time" is obviously iteratively upgraded to 2.0 in all aspects.
Whether it is the cast, the language of the shots, the art scenes, the sound soundtrack, or the stylized photography, the visual pleasure brought by color, and the non-traditional narrative structure, it reflects the strong desire of a new director to express.
Director Chen Jianbin once said humorously at the "Eleventh Time" creator meeting that he has been very mature as an actor who has acted in many plays, but as a director, there are only two works at present, and he is still a "young" director.
The narrative structure of the film is the chapter body
The so-called "Eleventh Time" refers to the narrative structure of the film, which adopts the chapter style of traditional Chinese novels, and each chapter has a "retrospective" to summarize the content of this time for the audience in one or two sentences.
This is common in classical fiction and rare in movies. It can be seen that Chen Jianbin wants to use the form of zhang hui body to let the audience have a feeling of "watching story clubs, folk literature, comic strips, and turning page by page when they were young" when enjoying the movie.
The reporter saw that the content written every time was two lines, some paragraphs seemed to be very playful, and each time it appeared accompanied by the episode of "Sweet Honey", it was very friendly to young and middle-aged audiences.
The story is a "play within a play"
The plot of "The Eleventh Time" is a "play within a play", which tells that the City Repertory Theatre will bring an old case of tractor murder 30 years ago to the stage and adapt it into a drama "Brake Killing". And Ma Fuli (Chen Jianbin) is the party involved in this murder case. According to the case file, after Ma Fuli learned that his wife Zhao Fengxia had an affair with the trailer driver Li Jianjian, he lost control of his emotions in anger, released the brakes, and the tractor crushed the person to death. Ma Fuli confessed his sins and also spent 15 years in prison.
After being released from prison, Ma Fuli resumed his life, he opened a breakfast shop, and became a halfway couple with Jin Cailing (Zhou Xun), Jin Cailing married him with his daughter Jin Duoduo (Dou Jingtong), when Jin Cailing met someone unladylike, he pulled Jin Duoduo alone. A family of three, this day is very normal.
But the repetition of the old story of the drama troupe, after the media coverage, pushed Ma Fuli to the cusp of the storm and made his new life shaky. While tangling with Hu Quentin, the director of the drama troupe played by Dapeng, Ma Fuli is looking for a lawyer to overturn the case and seek the truth to return his innocence.
Ma Fuli strenuously opposed rehearsals by the repertory theatre. His reasoning was that he was not killing. The reason why he admitted to killing people in the past was for the "face" of men, and he wanted to highlight his anger and establish the dignity of a man. After this, Ma Fuli and Li Jianjian's younger brother and big entrepreneur Brother (Jia Bing) all came in to interfere in the rehearsal.
As a result, this drama has been changed again and again...
A piece of red cloth and a bowl of bean blossoms
Several scenes of drama rehearsals, interspersed in the film, are particularly enjoyable, especially the use of "a red cloth" on the stage, which was originally a symbol of the tractor in the accident, but it is also a symbol of blinding the truth.
In addition, whether it is Li Jianjian's younger brother or Ma Fuli's lawyer who wants to ask for help, every time they appear is related to a bowl of bean flowers. In the face of the "murder" case of that year, standing on different positions, they have different ideas, just like the bowl of bean blossoms in front of them, the lawyer always says that it is light, and the ass brother always says that it is salty. However, whether it is "faded" or "salty" depends only on personal feelings.
The "faith" line may give the audience some inspiration
There is a classic line in the film, "Faith, belief," which runs through the entire story. In the film, Ma Fuli, Jin Cailing, and Jin Duoduo's family have experienced many troubles: the daughter Jin Duoduo's unexpected pregnancy, the mother Jin Cailing's false pregnancy for the daughter, and the father Ma Fuli's running to overturn the case in order to get his daughter's approval, during which many hearts are not easy, but only faith can make them love each other, and let them slowly reconcile with themselves and their relatives. This is also what director Chen Jianbin wants to present to the audience: I hope that everyone who has seen the film can have faith and can get strength and inspiration from it.
The most striking thing is the end of the film: Jin Duoduo rides an electric three-wheeler, carrying his parents forward, and life returns to peace. While the couple was frolicking and talking about their feelings about life, Ma Fuli sighed: Life is all survived, and it is good to survive. This is also a belief.
A large number of fan plots bring a threshold for watching movies
The reporter noted that two days after its release, the box office of "The Eleventh Time" is currently 17.248 million, which is inferior to "My Sister" released on the same day. However, the viewing threshold of "The Eleventh Time" is not low, and many of the dialogues in dapeng and chunxia in the film quote many famous words of foreign theater masters, performance masters and artists, which are symbols of the pursuit of art in their hearts. There are also a large number of fan plots in the film, including "Rashomon", "Hamlet", "Doll's House", "Macbeth", "Second Concubine", "Conduct Zero Points" and so on.
At the same time, "The Eleventh Time" is also very avant-garde drama, the film appears more than once in the stage scene, and even the daily dialogue between the characters is full of stage drama, but this sense of exaggeration is consistent with the black absurd film style.
When I saw Zhou Xun fry up the fritters.....
The audience who walked out of the theater will most likely be subverted by the image of Zhou Xun in the film, if Chen Jianbin performed the husband's "instigation" to perform a grounded sense of worldliness, then Zhou Xun performed the "rough" helpless and long-lost touch this time, watching her kneading dough and fried fritters, and even stir-frying, very comfortable and very familiar, but also very middle-aged.
Others, such as Hu Quentin played by Dapeng, are weak on the surface and deeply love the drama stage in their hearts; Jin Duoduo, played by Dou Jingtong, is rebellious, tough and assertive; Jia Meiyi, who plays in spring and summer, is simple and sincere and regards drama as a pure land, each of them is full of life, and represents every person in reality who has the same personality and background as them, their lives have experienced their own storms and rainbows, and they are portrayed by director Chen Jianbin as the flesh and blood of the film, which is both dramatic and true.
Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Kong Xiaoping
Proofread by Xu Heng
Source: Purple Cow News