Lifetime! Guo Jingming's IP film and television works will actually pass.
Even the opening score on Douban once reached a staggering 6.5.
It is about "Sorrow Against the River", which once collected a wave of POST-90s IQ tax.
It is now stable at 6.0
Although Guo Jingming is not the director of this film, as the original author, producer, one of the producers, and the boss of the director's fall, the relationship between this work and Guo Jingming is like the relationship between "Yanxi Raiders" and Yu Zheng.
It is no exaggeration to regard it as Guo Jingming's work.
Based on a dark plot full of abortion, promiscuity, school violence, suicide, etc., it can be called the most painful original work in "youth pain literature".
Can create the best reputation of Guo Jingming's works in history:
Movie Little Time 1:4.7; Little Time 2:4.9; Little Time 3:4.3; Little Time 4:4.6; Trace 1:3.8 TV Series Summer Solstice: 4.3;; How Much Do You Know about Flowers in Dreams: 4.1; Little Times: 3.9; Magic City: 3.2
Box office pressure Jia Zhangke's "Children of jianghu":
It can even make Teacher Li Yinhe call out:
Is it the credit for the fallen adaptation? Or is it the credit of the newcomer actors?
Think too much.
The fallen debut work "The Leftovers are King", and the support of Shu Qi and Peng Yuyan, who are both beautiful and powerful, the whole movie is not too collapsed.
Even Jin Shijie's famous long-shot monologue directly raises the level of the film.
However, without the blessing of powerful actors, the executive producer changed from Teng Huatao to Guo Jingming, and "Sorrow Against the River" completely exposed the lack of talent that fell on the narrative.
The overall standard of the film is still to borrow the last paragraph of Li Yinhe's above remarks.
Just replace them all with antonyms.
The original book tells the story of the four-corner love between Yi Yao, Qi Ming, Gu Senxi and Gu Senxiang.
The characters are also rotten female frequency network configuration: a humble poor woman, a heart-warming school grass, a handsome boy, and a perfect goddess.
Except for Gu Senxi and Gu Senxiang siblings who can't have lovelines, the rest can be cross-paired at will.
At the end of the story, because of Gu Senxiang's unexpected death, Yi Yao proved his innocence and committed suicide by jumping off a building, and Qi Ming could not bear to burn charcoal to commit suicide.
The heroine's life is tragic, and everyone cannot die well, interspersed with half of Guo's complicated and gorgeous psychological description:
"The vessel of the heart built by vanity and jealousy is increasingly infused with viscous ink. It stinks. "Whore. Rotten woman. These words covered young life like a tide in the summer of the year I was thirteen. Yi Yao looked at her face and felt like a huge flower that had bloomed badly. It emits a strong aroma of decaying flowers. ”
There are many outrageous adjectives and figurative sentences, but there is a lack of actual and specific character action descriptions, which is simply a disaster as a script.
Not surprisingly, this sense of emptiness continues into the film.
The plot progress depends on the MV and music, and the emotional explosion of the characters all depends on the bombing of the lines.
Or the set of domestic youth films, relying on the so-called youthful atmosphere created by collagen under the soft light filter to impress people's hearts.
In today's decline of domestic youth films, no one will be stupid enough to repeat the dog blood routine of nostalgia, abortion, and sadomasochism.
As a result, when the director fell into the film adaptation, he could only drastically "eliminate the three views".
All content related to sex and death has been downplayed or deleted.
For example, delete Yi Yao's abortion promiscuity and change it to accidentally contract a venereal disease;
Gu Senxiang committed suicide by cutting his wrists after being insulted by the little hooligans, and became an accidental fall from a tall building.
The tone is like a domestic horror film
The suicide and death of the three protagonists and the heroine's mother are deleted as the heroine's suicide attempt.
After avoiding these minefields, the later part of the film suddenly moves from the four-corner love to the school bully.
Tang Xiaomi, a transfer student, was jealous of Yi Yao and Qi Ming's intimacy, and publicized the news of her venereal disease throughout the school.
So we see the female director Min, who plays Yi Yao, being abused in a fragmentary MV.
In the winter, it is watered, rained, jumping ponds, jumping into the sea, being splashed with red paint, undressing, and pouring dirty rice.
There were 180 scenes of crying.
In order to express the tragic and resentment of the characters, it is also necessary to bear most of the lines of shame MAX in the original work.
In my opinion, those tearful audiences, one is for themselves who have had the same experience, and the other is for the very miserable and dedicated heroine.
The end of the movie even changes, as if walking into "Today's Statement".
After Yi Yaoguang was saved, the initiator, Tang Xiaomi, was punished by law.
The end credits scroll through the data related to campus bullying, and the Easter egg also pulls passers-by to appear and say.
Campus youth films turn hard to a realistic style, is not it to plate the "sense of social responsibility" layer of gold?
Almost all the praise is related to the theme of "school bullying"
Sure enough, many people have admired that the work of "touching the theme of campus bullying for the first time" in the domestic cinema line film is actually from Guo Jingming's hand.
Do you think of Guo Jingming's "Traces of the Lord", which is labeled as "the first live-action full-CG animation film in China".
A height with social reality, with a conscience; one stands at the forefront of film technology and has courage.
I want to give guo Jingming an award.
The theme of "school bullying" is self-evident: the decline of youth films, the rise of realist themes.
In 2013, Guo Jingming's "Little Times" and Zhao Wei's "To Youth" jointly set off a boom in youth films.
In the following two or three years, all kinds of newcomer directors and cross-border directors have poured into this capital melee.
Leaving countless bad reputations of "domestic tire-beating films".
Looking back today, almost no one has had real success in this area:
The nostalgic pain youth represented by Zhao Wei's "To Youth" is a failure;
Guo Jingming's "Little Times" represents the exquisite tearing of youth is a failure;
The hormone salty wet youth represented by Feng Tang's "All Things Grow" is a failure;
Xu Jinglei's "There is a place only we know" represents the Wenqing-style temperamental youth is also a failure...
In recent years, why can't we make decent youth films?
Perhaps because our youth is simply "dreamless", "ruthless and lyrical", and "no one can be remembered".
A short review of "Everything Grows"
Less of the special youth in the movies of Jiang Wen or Lou Ye, less of the group of spirited faces, less of the myth of the relationship between individual fate and the times.
After all, what is filmed is some private memories and mutterings that cannot be put on the table, and the sale of beautiful flesh.
And those small and trivial little beauty, without delicate emotions and script skills can not be conveyed at all.
Otherwise, it is very easy to turn the movie into a piggy bank for collecting items from the era, and youth nostalgia is tantamount to fetishism.
Youth films have lost power, traffic and IP are becoming less and less smart, and Guo Jingming has lost credibility with "Small Times" and "Traces".
But the theme of realism reached its climax in these two years.
From the comfort women documentary "Twenty-Two" with a box office of over 100 million, to Wen Yan's "Carnival" with the theme of teenage girl sexual assault being favored by Golden Horse, to the word-of-mouth box office of "I Am Not a Medicine God" about the sky-high price of life-saving drugs, which hit the highest box office in 2018.
Works with real social value have a higher and higher degree of acceptance among the audience.
Even because of the social value, the film's wind evaluation will be higher than the actual quality.
710,000 people scored a 9.0 point of word of mouth miracle
Under this market trend, "Sorrow Against the River" rubs Guo Jingming's IP heat while also busy cutting with Guo Jingming's characteristics.
Regardless of the front and back of the style, a painless moaning youth is hardened into a cruel story of youth about school bullying.
The heroine's blood and tears accusations at the seaside can be seen to be very forcefully sublimating the theme.
Falling into this so-called feminist perspective, compared with Wen Yan, the gap is immediate.
In "Carnival", whether it is Xiaowen who was violated, or Xiaomi who witnessed the onlookers, and Lily who betrayed her hue, the women who appeared were all in a pessimistic situation of being oppressed by male power.
Each female character tells the meaning of the sexual symbol symbolized by the statue of Monroe, so that the audience can truly sympathize with the fate of the characters.
Instead of showing the pain of school bullying so idolized and shallow as "Sorrow Flows Against the River".
It is very obvious who really wants to speak for a group and who is consuming the suffering of a group.
If you sincerely want to make a movie with a social theme, you will not adapt it with a ready-made youth novel IP;
Will not still retain Guo Jingming's lines that think that aesthetic beauty is actually the second disease;
Will not be invited is still a new actor with a paralyzed face who can't slip his lines;
It will not spend a lot of energy to depict the ambiguous feelings of handsome men and beautiful women, and will not see the group portrait depiction and psychological excavation of victims and abusers;
It won't end with data that everyone can look up, not "This film is based on real events"...
In fact, on social networks, school bullying has long been "nothing new under the sun".
The ugly attitude of those middle school students who talk nonsense, insult and wrestle, and take nude photos and threaten to appear in the social news uninterruptedly.
It also surprised onlookers: what happened to the children now?
Images are from the web
Behind it, the lack of parental education, the laissez-faire of schools, the turbulent psychology of adolescence, etc., are all gray and dark sides of reality that do not need the soft light filter of youth.
Of course, there are also many people who speak for this film: you have not personally experienced school bullying, you will not understand.
They are genuinely weeping for the protagonist.
But I also want to say that you deserve a better, more sincere school bullying movie.
Hopefully the day won't be too far away.
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