1. Hebei flavor of black suspense film, "Sherlock on the Plain" with a bit of cool. Obviously, it is a rural comedy, and there is a bit of absurdity in reality.
Fish are kept on rooftops, filled with clear plastic film and suspended in the air.
romantic.
The water slid down, and the goldfish were on the roof, and he slowly looked up, as if admiring the beauty of the goldfish, and as if he was thinking of something else through the plastic fish tank. Very different from the peasant, Chaoying is Sherlock on the plains.
When it comes to Sherlock, many people's first reaction is that of a famous detective in Baker Street, London, so the two local detectives who have been wandering all the way across the North China Plain seem absurd and funny.
But the story is very tragic, the simple farmer Chao Ying saved little money in half his life, and wanted to renovate the house but was accidentally, in order to save his friend Shuhe, he used his own way to find the murderer.
However, the narrative method of the movie is extremely lifelike and interesting, and many bridges directly trigger the laughter in the cinema. Watching the whole movie, the feelings for the protagonist Chaoying are not sympathy for the high, but the admiration and empathy left after laughing.
All kinds of extremely lifelike scenes are put together, but there is a wonderful sense of earth coolness.
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This kind of helplessness is actually a situation that many small people may encounter in real life. The friend was hit by a car, the driver escaped, the scene was a mess, there was no surveillance video. It's just that some people choose to swallow their anger, but some people choose to be tough. Chao Ying they hope to have a better result, man, live is not steamed steamed Therefore, the two people decided to combine their swords, solve the case first, and find the driver who caused the accident.
The way they investigate the case is grounded. Joy feels extreme, but it carries absurdity and joy. First ask the most ingenious fairy in the village to see where the suspect is, and check the license plate number by an acquaintance.
The car accident of the tree river does not need Chao Ying to be responsible, the only person who is really responsible is the driver who caused the accident, but Chao Ying paid for the medical expenses for the tree river and emptied his savings. To borrow the words of teacher Ma Weidu at the screening sharing meeting, it is a sense of chivalry and jianghu.
Then, with the internal logic of the characters' actions, we can also get some touches from their case solving process. In a small enclosed space, the relationship between acquaintances is so important, a Chinese-style humane society.
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Chao Ying is not a professional actor, he is the director's father.
The other lead actors are villagers, non-professional actors. After the screening, I was a little surprised to hear director Xu Lei talk about the movie.
Their performances are natural and sincere. Dialect plus life-like presentation, without deliberateness, is a simple intuitive feeling. The two men rode around in an electric tricycle, looking for traces of the perpetrators. Following in their footsteps, the camera captures countless everyday scenes: dark-skinned and wrinkled faces, old farmers squatting on the ground smoking cigarettes, all common scenes. Overpass holes painted with ugly handwritten advertisements, four-wheeled vehicles with broken old plastic film.
A magical movie, a magical crew.
Rao Xiaozhi, the director of "The Unknown Generation", is the supervising producer of this film. He supported the new director Xu Lei. Focus on realism, so set your sights here. The narrative that blends commercial elements of genre films and feature films, and uses absurdity as a condiment, is to be affirmed, because most viewers can accept this kind of black humor and feel it in a laugh.
In addition, this realistic film does not appear bitter and vengeful, but full of laughter, and the road to murder is ridiculous, which can see the grasp of real life.
Director Xu Lei has his own unique style, he can combine local reality and poetic romance.
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So let's find out about its fun and nutrition.
Uncle Peasant has a contrast in identity, but he is transformed into Sherlock and Watson on the plains. Both ridicule and ridicule, but think deeper, the identity of the two ordinary uncles changed, because of the helplessness of reality, they can only choose to rely on themselves to find the murderer in that situation, the more so the more full of black humor, director Xu Lei called it "North School Small Fresh".
In the process of solving the cases of "Sherlock" and "Watson", we can observe the appearance of society, the interpersonal relationships in the society of acquaintances, and the embarrassments and dilemmas faced by many people in the process of urbanization, which is wrapped in many internal thoughts and questions. In the face of the outdoor cameras of the community and the monitoring of the elevator, Chaoying and Zhanyi always show caution and trepidation, which is also an ironic stroke in the movie.
In the movie, there are many scenes of Chao Ying and Zhan Yi sitting side by side on the electric car, with rhythmic electronic music, inexplicably having the feeling of a Western. People who have lived in the countryside will probably smile when they see this place.
This kind of display is not a patchwork or construction, but a dig. It originally existed in the lives of Uncle Chaoying and Uncle Zhanyi, and these people had a warm force that could live well even if life was difficult.
In the local context, a story full of black humor is told to the fullest. In the end, it no longer matters whether the murderer is found, everyone returns to their daily life, finds themselves, and once again picks up the courage to face a bleak life.
Irony or romance are the starting point to guide people to think, and it is precisely because of this power that they are not just small people, but cool heroes in tired life.