"The Party at South Station", which fans have been looking forward to for a whole year, is finally going to be released.
This film has been extraordinary since its inception, and is another masterpiece in five years after director Diao Yinan won the Berlin Golden Bear Award for "Daytime Fireworks", and was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival in May this year, and is also the only main competition Chinese film, competing on the same stage as "Parasite" and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood".
This is followed by the various materials and messages of the film, the trailer and poster highlight the neon aesthetic, all kinds of neon lights, full of purple, orange, and the display of shadows in the dark night. The second is the aesthetics of violence, the stylized play, the plasma splashing on the umbrella, the beheading of the flying car, the car lock as a weapon, coupled with the visual spectacle of the urban village, it is not surprising that Quentin is amazed in Cannes. The four-minute applause of the audience after the Premiere in Cannes is the biggest affirmation of Hu Ge and other creators and directors.
From the perspective of the audience, Hu Ge's performance is undoubtedly the biggest attraction, before hu Ge was well known to everyone because of TV dramas, there are not many works in movies, and "The Party at South Station" is his first work to play the male protagonist of the film, which is crucial for Hu Ge's career.
Similarly, "South Station" is not a high and low art film, it is also a good crime genre film, fugitives, pursuits, bounties, action, crime film elements are readily available, Director Diao Yinan has been balancing the commercial and artistic nature of the film, "South Station" is his latest attempt.
Zhou Zenong, played by Hu Ge in the film, is a fugitive with a heavy bounty, and on his way to escape, he intersects with the captain of the serious case team Liu Team (Liao Fan), the escort girl Liu Aiai (Gui Lunmeng), the friend Hua Hua (Qi Dao), and his wife Yang Shujun (Wan Qian), who has not been seen for five years.
Director Diao Yinan is very good at directing actors, and in 2007, "Night Train" won actor Liu Dan the Best Actress Award at the Buenos Aires Film Festival, and "Daytime Fireworks" in 2014 won Liao Fan the Silver Bear Award for Best Actor in Berlin.
In "South Station", it requires actors to provide physical rather than psychological performances, in order to truly become Zhou Zenong, Hu Ge went to the lamp, fitness, shooting, and learning Wuhan dialect before filming, and in terms of action scenes, he also got rid of the routine actions in previous TV series and practiced the fights in the film every day.
There is a scene in the film where the upper body is naked after being injured, and in order to make the muscle lines look better, only a little coffee is drunk for three days. For Hu Ge, the scene in the mud in "South Station" is called the watershed of his own performance, in the cold mud, shooting the third one, he has no physical strength at all, and after the physical strength reaches the limit, he also forgets himself, and he seems to have become that person.
The main creators of the film have described Hu Ge with hard work and use, hu ge also used to describe the performance, Hu Ge can be said to use "South Station" to open a door for his future.
From the perspective of director Diao Yinan, "South Station" is completely different from "Daytime Fireworks", "Daytime Fireworks" is more simple and realistic, telling a suspenseful story in the environment of Northeast Xiaoser, while "South Station" is more romantic, more ostentatious, obviously stylized, and the neon aesthetic is mixed with the Chinese urban village environment to create a unique aesthetic.
From the earliest few exposed clips to show Diao Yinan's blind scene scheduling ability, large scenes, many actors' scenes abound in the film, five forks in the road, amusement studios have made the behind-the-scenes production team waste a lot of brains, and the film emphasizes the long shot, actor scheduling, camera coordination, lighting transformation are extremely difficult, in the case of 80% night scenes, still maintain a very high degree of completion.
Diao Yinan said, "In addition to giving the audience a story, I also want to give the audience a world" "The Party at South Station" will show this strange world in front of you.