"Bursting into Silence" is the second self-written and self-directed genre film by director Xin Yukun after "Labyrinth of Hearts", Douban 8.3 points, starring Song Yang, Jiang Wu and Yuan Wenkang. It tells the story of Zhang Baomin, a low-level small person "mute" looking for his missing son, borrowing sheep to "eat" people, showing the complexity and evil of human nature, and constructing a social epitome of "the weak and the strong" between different classes. The irony and criticism of the theme of "eating" people is as strong as Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman".
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > 5 detail metaphors that the director of "Bursting Silence" deliberately did not point out</h1>
The first is the background of the characters, and the director deliberately does not explain it. At the beginning, the male protagonist Zhang Baomin came up to fight and did not say a word, until he went to other mines in order to find the missing child, opened his mouth for people to see, and the audience knew that he could not speak!
But his pillow would "talk". Looking closely at Zhang Baomin's sleeping picture, the pillow that is like a sack shows that his family's life is very difficult, and he is a low-level small person.
Another detail is that the film was filmed in Inner Mongolia, and a careful look at the license plate is not "Meng", but "Feng", which is the director's ingenuity and the wonder of Chinese. "豢" refers specifically to feeding (livestock) and also has the meaning of luring people to serve them with profit and let them be slaughtered.
Chang Wannian's off-road vehicle "Feng A", the lawyer's car "Feng B", and Zhang Baomin's motorcycle "Feng C" correspond to the upper, middle and lower society respectively.
The main plot is that Zhang Baomin is looking for his missing son Zhang Lei, lei is three stones, and the triangular stones collapse in the picture to imply that something unexpected happened to Zhang Lei. The "triangle" image is used many times in the film, the pyramid on the table of Chang Wannian, which he later used to smash Zhang Baomin's head; the three sheep heads hanging in front of the butcher's shop; and the mountain that collapsed at the end is also triangular.
The composition is also a triangle. Chang Wannian's arrow points to the lawyer, who asks Zhang Baomin to inform his daughter of the whereabouts of his daughter, and the murderer of Zhang Baomin's dead son is Chang Wannian, and the three return to the circle, implying that they are holding each other back in a "triangle" relationship.
The most direct and clear relationship of the "triangle" is the metaphor of "sheep". Shi Hang once said: "Other directors are filming food, Xin Yukun filmed a food chain!" "Zhang Baomin raises sheep, butchers kill sheep, and Chang Wannian eats sheep." A scene in which Chang Wannian threatened to buy a mine, a large table full of lamb slices was placed, and the other party said: "I am vegetarian." "
Chang Wannian choked on people with one sentence: "Sheep also eat vegetarian." "Subtext: You are the sheep, let me slaughter.
At the end, Zhang Baomin's wife holds a sheep, which is equivalent to holding a dead son. For the son, like the sheep, has been "eaten.".
Ultraman is also a rather sheep-like obvious metaphor. The masked child sees everything first, and is the only God perspective in the whole film. Ultraman's intuitive meaning is heroism and justice. There is also an extension of the meaning, that is, the aphasia of idealism.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Song Yang met the director of "Labyrinth of Hearts"</h1>
Song Yang's acting skills are polished from small roles little by little. Fame and resources in general, although in recent years, although he has starred in several male protagonist plays, it is a pity that they are not tepid. It wasn't until "Bursting into Silence" that more people paid attention to this acting actor.
In order to get closer to the image of the miners, the actor Song Yang sunburned into a black charcoal color, beard pulled, the face wound black scab image, like an ordinary person who suffered hard work in the mountain mines, very real.
From the selection of actors, it can be seen that director Xin Yukun has a good eye for people.
Xin Yukun began to be famous from "Labyrinth of Hearts", there are no stars in the film, the actors are non-professional people, he uses a structure similar to "Rashomon", the story of a village, made into a suspenseful brain-burning type film, and obtained a high score of 8.7 on Douban, which is very rare in domestic movies in recent years. Xin Yukun plays with structure in "Labyrinth of Hearts", interlocking with each other as cause and effect, and the editing is broken but not scattered. In the process of watching, it is difficult to guess the ending.
If the debut work "Labyrinth of Hearts" is a young director's sharp edge, which is an ultra-low-cost experimental work in nature, then the existence of the second work "Bursting Silence", the actor and the funding are all upgraded, is the real formation of the director's style and tone.
To take a similar example, when Bi Gan's debut work "Roadside Picnic" first came out, it surprised the audience, and the same all-vegetarian actors, poetry and long shots used to truly show the small place Kaili in a realistic way. But as soon as the second "The Last Night of the Earth" came out, the excessive imitation of Tarkovsky and the procrastinating literary and artistic style made everyone sleepy in the cinema, and even the blessings of Tang Wei and Huang Jue were useless.
But Xin Yukun's second part did not fail, the reputation was maintained, and the score of Douban 8.3 was not bad. The tone is still the dark direction of social reality, coupled with the professional acting skills of Song Yang, Jiang Wu and Yuan Wenkang, making "Bursting into Silence" go very steadily.
Recently, Xin Yukun posted on Weibo that he completed a new script, and speculated from the bibliography that his third film will be a science fiction film with AI artificial intelligence elements, which is of course worth looking forward to.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > "Eater" Movie: Predators and Exiles</h1>
The desolate and desperate temperament of "Bursting into Silence" reminds me of the Korean movie "Yellow Sea". Even Zhang Baomin's fist-to-flesh, disorderly movements, and the appearance of running for his life in the woods and hillsides are all like He Zhengyu.
In "Yellow Sea", Ha Zhengyu is as sloppy and imageless as ugly, he is involved in a murder case so he has been running away, equivalent to an exile, and there is no place for him anywhere. Behind him, there is also the "predator" Mian Boss chasing him.
Zhang Baomin's relationship with Chang Wannian and lawyers is also the same, Zhang Baomin is an "exile", always in a passive state of waiting to be slaughtered, even if he wins everyone, his son still loses if he does not even find the body. Chang Wannian and the lawyer are "predators", they are in cahoots, of course, Chang Wannian threatens the lawyer, but in essence they are just as evil.
In the hesitation and choice of the role of the lawyer, the director touched the complexity of human nature, that is, good and evil are choice-making, and the motivation for choosing the evil side may be forced to be helpless, because the upper layer of the food chain is still looking at him, waiting to "eat" him.
Chang Wannian eats sheep, essentially "eating" people, and forcing lawyers to "eat" people together. Whether the lawyer is forced or not, evil is evil. The whole film does not have a picture of Chang Wannian and the lawyer directly killing people, nor is there a trial-style, didactic-style exposure of human nature, and the performance techniques of the theme are more restrained and obscure, and the suspense effect and irony of the film are greatly increased.
The director also reveals the cleverness of the main theme, borrowing sheep to "eat" people; borrowing Ultraman to illustrate the lack of justice. Because of the male protagonist's "aphasia", the director can only hint at the truth through various symbolic details and metaphors, and reproduce the law of the jungle between different classes, so as to reveal the bad human nature of people "eating" people in silence.
If Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman" is a terrible allegory of cannibalism, on the surface it is a real cannibal, but secretly it criticizes the dark nature of feudal etiquette to "eat" people.
Then "Bursting into Silence" is undoubtedly a reproduction of the fable in the real world, using the causes and consequences of killing to refer to the process of "eating" people, criticizing the ills of class solidification in modern society. And through the cave to hide the corpses, satirize the upper class "eat" people to the point where there are no bones left, without conscience and morality.
In order to deepen the theme of "eating" people, the director creates an atmosphere of depression and despair, leaving no room for even an outlet for emotional catharsis. The cave looks like an exit, but it is actually a symbol of gazing into the abyss, and the huge darkness seems to swallow people up.
In the whole film, Zhang Baomin did not express his emotions, did not collapse and cry, he could not even make a sound, called his son's soul back, and finally landslide, Zhang Baomin's emotions were forever pressed down with his son's body, and he never vented out, which was zhang Baomin's saddest and most depressing place.
Until the end, Zhang Baomin never knew where his son was, whether he was dead or alive. In the end he just looked around at the desolate mountains and frowned at the reality. The expression of the actor in the last scene accurately deduces a feeling that "the emotions cannot be released in the chest", which is the best interpretation of the film's "bursting" and "silent".