Zeng Nianqun
"The Beneficiary" is a movie with distinct advantages and disadvantages, surprise and regret.
First of all, the young director of Bad Monkey Pictures "72 Change Project" continued his great career. After the success of "Xiu Chun Dao 2" and "I am not a medicine god", he intensively created this "black humor" crime type "Benefit" people". After successfully pushing the young talents Lu Yang and Wen Muye to the China Film Center, they connected the booster rocket to their debut Olympic bid. In addition, Niu Han's "Sweet Life" and "Journey of Clouds and Water", which were given away by Niu Han, are waiting to be released, and a huge project of young directors' fireworks show is being staged. Ning Hao is behind all this.
Since "Crazy Stone" in 2006, Ning Hao has dominated the local "black humor" altar for more than ten years. In recent years, Ning Hao has not produced many creations, including five titles such as "Crazy Racing", "Golden Heist", "No Man's Land", "Heart Flower" and "Crazy Alien". From Ning Hao's creative track, we can clearly feel the bottleneck in his creation. Rather than seeking a personal breakthrough, it is better to try to break through collectively. Ning Hao, who benefited from the "New Asian Directors Project", has repaid himself and launched the "72 Change Project" in 2016.
"The Beneficiary" is the third young director's work listed in the "72 Transformation Project", and it is also the first feature film in the Olympics. The film is driven by a crime story of fraud and insurance, and balances humanity through the leverage of an online female anchor. Although the story is not new, the characters in the film are very Chinese and current, and very grounded. The "black humor" in the film runs through, and at first people feel that it is too "Ning Hao", but after another thought, Ning Hao and his "black humor" have existed for so many years, it is not necessary for such teammates to form a group or even form Will the "black humor" team contribute to China's "black humor" experiment? The script of
"The Beneficiary" has some flaws, the plot seems routine, and the character set is also lame. However, as a new director's commercial feature film debut, the degree of completion is still quite high, and the overall and the details are remarkable. Especially in character creation and performance scheduling, the Olympic bid has shown considerable utilitarianism. In terms of performance, "beneficiary" Liu Yan acted as the culprit. In the past, directors and films used the sexy Liu Yan as "Liu Yan". Therefore, in the movies that Liu Yan participated in, we only saw Liu Yan himself, and did not see the character creation. But this time, Liu Yan no longer bound herself with sexy, entered the role itself for an unprecedented time, and successfully created a down-to-earth network female anchor "Little Fox Fairy". If Yi Yang Qianxi in "You are a teenager" has won a game for the traffic star, then Liu Yan is winning a game for the vase actress this time.
In contrast, the presence of the sea played by Dapeng is weaker. The characters always hide behind the mask, and the body and expression language appear mechanical and rigid. It's no wonder that Dapeng has just portrayed similar characters in "Take a Risk". It is the same type of crime, it is also a rein in the precipice that walks under the bottom line of the law, and it is also living at the bottom of the society as a last resort for money. If you want to open the dimensions of the two characters, you can’t do it. The final result can only be "Excessive force" can only sacrifice the credibility of character creation. Compared with Dapeng, Zhang Zixian's performance is more surprising, and he is the best candidate for a golden supporting role.
said that "The Beneficiary" is Ning Hao's "self-replication", whether it is Ning Hao's mentor from the Olympic bid, at least this work is still standing, and it also allows us to see Ning Hao's discovery and promotion of young directors force. We can't expect every work of Ning Hao to stand on the top, nor can we expect every movie he releases to be as popular as "I'm Not the God of Medicine". However, "standing" is the root, "standing" has more possibilities, "standing" is the hope of Chinese movies, and "standing" will have more movie "beneficiaries".
