The male god is thin and out of phase, and the charm behind the shadow still exists,
Maintenance workers and undead, wet and dry heat said ambiguously.
The old criminal police investigated the past, and the blind singer pointed out the mystery.
There is a suspense shell in the air, and there is no rich core.
Official sister rating: 6.5.
Mention Peng Yuyan, everyone's first impression is estimated to be sunshine, love sports, shoot a play, learn a skill -
Filming "Roll Over! In "A Letter", 12 hours of training a day, 6 days a week, a full 8 months, deducing the image of a gymnast;
In order to transform, learn martial arts, fighting, diet, fitness for up to three months, presenting the perfect flesh in "Guild Wars";
Starred in "Breaking the Wind", rode 6 or 7 hours a day, and passed the professional racing driver certificate of the venue.
However, in the recent new play of this male god, the developed muscles that were praised by Jiang Wensheng as "more beautiful than ancient Greek sculptures" have disappeared.
The whole person seems to be thin and disfigured, and the fierce eyes are even a little bit zhang zhenhua ↓
Originally for the filming of "Tropical Past", Peng Yuyan took a vegetarian diet half a year in advance and lost 32 pounds, setting the lowest weight since adulthood.
Looking at this section of the clear spine, there is a little clown's crazy smell.
In "Evil Does Not Pressure justice", Peng Yuyan, who appeared naked in the camera, was praised by netizens as "just looking at Peng Yuyan's flesh, it is worth the ticket price.".
Then this time, let's see what kind of charm there is in the new work that can make the male god give up a body of explosive flesh-
Once Upon a Time in the Tropics
At first glance, this poster is a bit suspenseful and criminal, and it has a bit of a literary and artistic film feeling.
Director Wen Shipei, I haven't heard much, right?
Yes, this is a newcomer director, and this film is also his feature film debut.
However, as a newcomer work, the film has a rich history of awards: it was selected for the first prize of the "VFF Talent Highlight Award" project in the marketing section of the Berlin Film Festival's talent project to support emerging filmmakers, and it was shortlisted for the special screening of the official section of the 74th Cannes Film Festival.
But the director is not small behind it, and Ning Hao escorts him.
In 2016, Ning Hao launched the "Bad Monkey 72 Change Film Project", which aims to explore creative young filmmakers and explore new powers of Chinese cinema.
Later, we also saw Lu Yang's "Embroidered Spring Knife II: Shuluo Battlefield" and Wen Muye's "I Am Not a Medicine God" these amazing domestic films.
This year, it's the turn of the atmospheric "Once Upon a Time in the Tropics."
Despite the escort of big coffee and the blessing of the film festival, after the film was released, the evaluation was not high, or a little polarized:
Only tropical, no past. The text is too barren and the audiovisual is too much.
Let's first look at the past ↓
One night, the air conditioner repairman played by Peng Yuyan asked his girlfriend to watch a movie, and drove alone on the vast road.
Suddenly, a cow appeared in front of him, and the repairman turned on the headlights and chose to bypass the cow and continue.
However, before he could react, there was a bang and a man crashed into his car.
The repairman panicked, and his first reaction was to flee.
But before he could get far, he drove back—to see if the man was still saved.
Who knows that this man has lost his breath.
The hit-and-run attempt was unsuccessful, and the other party also died on the spot, tragically.
In order to avoid hitting a cow, I chose to take a detour, but I didn't expect to kill a person, and the reality is so absurd.
There was no one around, and the repairman was evil to the side of the guts, and simply threw the corpse into the river and fled.
However, the trial escaped for a while, could not escape for a lifetime, and when he returned home, he could not withstand the conscience condemnation of the repairman, and chose to go to the police station to turn himself in.
The police station was crowded, and out of timidity, the repairman naturally gave up turning himself in and fled again.
At the moment when the repairman turned around, he rubbed shoulders with the widow of the deceased, Liang Tai, played by Zhang Aijia.
It turned out that the body had been found, and even the identity had been confirmed, and Chen Er, a veteran criminal police officer played by Wang Yanhui, was responsible for tracking down and informing the widow of the deceased to come and identify the body.
Interestingly, the cause of death was not a car accident, but a shooting — in other words, the repairman was not the real killer.
As a result, a little-known money transaction gradually surfaced.
On the one hand, the old criminal police track down the case, on the other hand, the repairman can't resist the guilt in his heart, and constantly appears next to Liang Mama, wanting to help her.
I have to say that in this film, Peng Yuyan's performance has improved compared to what he thought: in addition to the appearance that fits the image, even the details of the high and low shoulders of the repairman who carries a shoulder bag for many years, he has considered;
The eyes are also more struggling and complex, especially in the first half of the performance of the characters trapped in the beast' anxiety;
After the film Zhang Aijia needless to say, the hands and feet are all style, twisting the picture of the hole in the stockings, it is difficult not to remind people of "Sunny Day", so that the audience always wants to see the two people rub out some sparks in the film.
The light and film of the film is completely a kind of enjoyment.
It is said that the director put on the stockings in front of the camera, hoping to create a soft, mysterious tone, and tried more than 400 sets of stockings for this purpose.
When it comes to recalling the scene, it is replaced by a rough and grainy picture, rendering the blur of memory and the sense of story of the past.
A scene like this cruel and bloody, switched to a blood-red filter, with a sense of madness and suffocation, is very much in the style of the author's film.
Needless to say, the soundtrack always uses different noises to set off the mood of the characters:
Like the roar of the train when the maintenance worker joins the group frame, the mania in the character's heart has nowhere to vent;
Or the dense drum beat when Mr. Liang ran away, creating a tense atmosphere.
The fist-to-flesh fight scene in the film is a kind of heat wave, and the sense of age is spontaneous.
As the first feature film, whether it is the audiovisual language or the narrative structure of shunshu + flashback + shunshu, you can see the strong director's personal aesthetic and the fan film elements of the academy.
For example, the blind singer played by Zhang Yu sang a song "Are You Lonesome Tonight" and also paid tribute to the Chinese classic "The Juvenile Murder Incident on Muling Street".
The visual effects and crime themes of the film are easily reminiscent of "The Party at South Station", especially the scene of holding an umbrella on a rainy night;
The upside-down and fragmented narrative method reminds people of Bi Gan's "The Last Night of the Earth", which is full of dreams;
But unfortunately, the shortcomings of "Once Upon a Time in the Tropics", like the previous two works, are too much pursuit of personal style in the text, so that there is too much white space in the narrative, and there are not many places worth tasting.
In the film, the combination of Peng Yuyan and Zhang Aijia, the "murderer" and the widow of the deceased, has too much crushing feeling in acting, and it has not been strong enough to have the chemical elements of Zhang Yu and Xiao Songjia in "Calm Wind and Waves".
In particular, the first half of the film is the inner salvation of the maintenance worker, and the second half becomes a crime theme, coupled with the hasty ending, giving people a strong sense of separation.
Therefore, the praise received by the film is mostly in the video style and audiovisual language, and as for the text and narrative structure, it is really difficult to exaggerate.
Wrapped in the shell of a suspenseful crime, it finally became a color experiment.
In any case, as a debut novel for a newcomer director, the direction of creation and exploration is worth encouraging, and the skills are also very good, but I hope that while pursuing my personal style, I will not forget to pay attention to the creation of the text.
Looking forward to the director's next work.