Remember Lady Leopard in "Please Answer 1988"?
With curly hair, she is kind and generous, generous when her neighbors need help, and has a very joyful way of getting along with her husband and son.
Because of the hit of "Please Answer 1988", Luo Meilan, who played the leopard lady, once again ushered in the peak of her career. After that, he continued to star in "Fu Cave Avengers", "The Guy in My Body", "Black Dog" and many other high-scoring good dramas, which were deeply loved by the audience.
Recently, the comedy film "The Candidate for Integrity", starring Ms. Luo Meilan, was released in South Korea and won the first weekend box office. The boring election theme makes an absurd comedy sense, which is eye-opening.
In the story, Luo Meilan plays Zhu Shangshu, a parliamentarian who climbs up from the bottom all the way. After several re-elections, she ran for parliament again, and in order to gain the support of the people, Zhu Shangshu was full of lies, one before and one after the other.
In terms of life, Zhu Shangshu declared that she liked to be frugal. In the interview shot, he and her husband live in a small house the size of a palm, and the reporter can't wait to drive to the mansion after leaving, enjoying the top food and the intimate service of the maid.
In this piece of faith, Zhu Shangshu has many changes. One would believe in Buddhism, and the other would pray in front of the people and say Hallelujah. The people who support her believe in whatever religion, she is a follower of which religion.
Suddenly, one day, Zhu Shangshu found that she could not lie, no matter what method she tried, she could not stop the real thoughts from jumping out of her mouth.
Because she couldn't lie, she caused a lot of trouble. The absurd plots are one after another, making the audience can't help but laugh to tears...
Although the story is set in the political arena, in essence, "The Upright Candidate" is a comedy story. At the same time, the fantasy setting of "Can't Lie" adds more points to the story. How will Chu Shangshu's political career be affected? This plot direction makes the audience very much look forward to it.
In the film, Luo Meilan's performance can be described as textbook level, showing the "desperate desire to lie, but the mouth does not listen to the panic" vividly.
When discussing his mother-in-law with his husband, he was not inferior, and after saying "damn old woman", he looked horrified and did not believe that he had actually spoken his inner thoughts.
At the book signing meeting, he said frankly: "I didn't write the book!" Speaking and emotionally, he removed the wig and told the public: My short hair style is also fake!
The plot development is like a mudslide, the audience can't guess what will happen in the next second, and the laughs are very dense.
Together with Luo Meilan, the person who guaranteed her acting skills was Luo Wenji, who had won the Korean Blue Dragon Award. In the story, she plays Zhu Shangshu's grandmother, who is forced to "die".
The rivalry between the two is very interesting, vividly interpreting "the chicken flying dog jump between grandma and disobedient granddaughter."" The reason why Zhu Shangshu can't lie is related to her grandmother, and her grandmother also brings a lot of tears in the follow-up plot, making the storyline more full.
It is easy to see from the title that the main story line of the film is the process of Chu Sang-sook's "how to become an upright candidate".
In the process, she contacted a professional through the assistant officer to launder her reputation. At the same time, he also experienced betrayal and hurt, and finally understood what the most important qualities a politician should have.
Compared with the first half of the happy story, the plot setting of this paragraph is somewhat old-fashioned. But it is very surprising that the film uses a very exaggerated method to sharply mock the political elite .
After an accident, the daily life videos of the elites are exposed to the public, seemingly upright people, but behind their backs, they like to secretly take pictures of obscenity, gambling, and participation in color hospitality. The gap is very large, which makes the people very angry.
In addition to the comedic "can't lie" setting, the film also gives Zhu Shangshu a poor past: before becoming a parliamentarian, she lived at the bottom of society. Because she wanted to change the living conditions of the people at the bottom, she tried to climb up. But what is terrible is that the life of a paper drunk gold fan has swallowed people's will, so much so that Zhu Shangshu has forgotten what his original intention is.
Not being able to lie is an accident, but because of this accident, Zhu Shangshu found herself and got another harvest.
The way Zhu Shangshu "reverses the situation" in the second half of the film is particularly interesting.
Instead of looking for a way to continue to lie, we start from a diametrically opposed direction and get negative and negative.
An attentive viewer may guess how this desperate situation is reversed, but it will still be very surprising when it is actually presented.
In addition to Zhu Shangshu, the characters of Zhu Shangshu's husband and son in the film are also worth playing with.
They knew that Zhu Shangshu's behavior of deceiving the public was wrong, but because they got more benefits after cheating, they acquiesced to this behavior.
Zhu Shangshu's husband and son are not accidental individuals, but a huge microcosm of real life. The vast majority of people in life are tempted by power and money, not to mention politicians who have already enjoyed it.
The BoldNess of The Candidate for Integrity to look at this phenomenon is already a kind of progress.