The film is obviously centered around Huang Xuan's "Phoenix Man" Yang Hualai. Due to the failure of starting a business, I was owed money and my life was embarrassed. He found that his wife Miao Wei was still in contact with his first love, and their relationship broke down. Finally, he couldn't pay back the money and was forced to die. ...
Yang Zishan said in an interview that when I first saw the script, I felt that the whole story was distorted. Similarly, as an ordinary audience, the author has the same feeling when watching movies. The whole book is full of conflicts, such as naked loans, cheating, quarreling, arson and so on. There are many things to express, but there are still some deficiencies in narrative.
For example, the lines of female college students who committed suicide cannot be well integrated into the whole story. Isn't his original life enough to push him to the wall step by step? What is the significance of the appearance of female college students? Suggest that Huayang is about to embark on the road of self-destruction? This explanation is far-fetched. Also, the emotional contradiction with his wife is only shown through a quarrel drama. Here, female roles are completely reduced to tools, and Miao Wei and female college students are only tools to accelerate Huayang's despair, without showing any personal characteristics. Although I can understand Huayang's various behaviors in the end, I can't feel what caused him to break out.
Huayang's image is also elusive. He thinks highly of himself, trusts his friends and doubts his wife, so he has a big personality problem. Reason and sensibility are completely reversed in dealing with problems, leading to a bleak outcome.
A lot of irrationality greatly reduced the score of the play.
Can a debt of 2 million crush a person onto the road of crime? Miao Wei, who cheated without considering divorcing her husband, suddenly changed his attitude after learning that Huayang owed money? Why can my parents-in-law watch Huayang's state with standing by? When watching the movie, the author's heart has been full of doubts.
After the failure of investing in dinosaur park, Huayang fell into a state of collapse, but Luo Yu was able to make a comeback. What's the story of two people here? It is not reflected in the play. It was only by pulling the two people that they showed contradictions. In the end, Yang Cai realized that he had been cheated, which was a bit out of place.
Being cheated for owing money failed to crush Huayang. Miao Wei's phrase "The child is not yours" can make Huayang kill people passionately? After so many years, doesn't he really know that his wife is still in contact with his first love? Did he really find it on the driving recorder?
Third, audio-visual hodgepodge.
The style of the film is full of surrealism, which is why the director chose to shoot in Wuhai. There are many images in the film, such as giant dinosaurs, old people doing yoga in the desert, Mianyang group ... The only feeling these images give the author is that the landscape of Wuhai is different from other places.
Originally, this style of film is not ugly anyway, and it will definitely be moved to the big screen visually. I don't know if it is because the visual cost of the scene is too high, and the pursuit of artistry ignores the logical thinking and narrative way that a story should have. The emotions of the characters in the play are full against the background of the environment, but the fate of the characters should not be influenced by emotions.
I can understand the meaning of this passage, except that Huayang got into the mouth of a dinosaur, other pictures are really confusing. There is no problem in pursuing surrealism, which is also a manifestation of establishing the director's personal style. But the foothold of the story is too realistic, and the surreal creative technique makes the film look very fragmented. I don't think this story is necessarily Wuhai, but it can be changed to other places.
Generally speaking, this medium-and-small-budget art film is not well made. From his own point of view, the director felt that he had explained everything, handed over a long work for an hour and a half, and left the rest to the audience to speculate and guess.
The story could have been more extensive and had a more coherent plot to tell the story of how to push people to the wall, but there was nothing in the movie. Zhou Ziyang is actually a director who is very suitable for shooting a man's play. His emotional expression is absolutely in place, and the visual effect is no problem. But there is no solid plot structure, which leads to these things falling apart on the big screen. Domestic directors should make more efforts to explore the ugly side of human nature, rather than blindly showing it from external influences.
Hyin:？
Wuhai can only be said to be chaotic. The story is actually very simple, and what you want to express is also very clear, but with the development of the plot, more and more elements are added, which is a mess. Some plots appear for no reason. There may be many interpretations of it, but my personal impression is that I can't get into the plot and there are many places I don't like.
Yu:
One of the few road movies in China, I was a little disappointed after watching a movie. There are many conflict plots in the film, but it feels like it was forcibly pieced together, and it didn't bring me a sense of shock when the conflict broke out in the story. I feel that the director wants to express too much, but it's messy. The only thing worthy of praise is Huang Xuan, whose acting skills exploded! Totally online!
Wen | Zheng
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