At this year's First Film Festival, "Sherlock on the Plain" is one of the dark horses with the highest attention and discussion. It not only became the "favorite" of Qin Hao's film festival as one of the judges, but also won the Best Film Text Award for its unique story. Wu Jing, Guo Fan, Wen Muye, Yao Chen, Lu Yang, and Rao Xiaozhi even formed a group to record a video and appeared in a different form, recommending this movie.
"Sherlock on the Plain" was released on November 29. The film has a score of 7.8 on the Douban website, and the cumulative box office has reached 9.2 million. The movie has also received rave reviews on all major platforms.
At the beginning of the movie, people saw a cow. The original protagonist Chaoying planned to sell the cow and make money to complete his wife’s last wish and renovate a new house. So he asked his friends Zhanyi, Shuhe and a group of villagers to help. Unexpectedly, Shuhe was in a car accident on the road. After calling the police, the police bluntly said that the case is difficult to solve. The location of the incident was not monitored and witnesses were also witnessed. The scene of the incident was also destroyed after a heavy rain. Looking at Shuhe who was lying on the hospital bed and did not wake up, Chaoying decided to use Zhanyi's own ability to find the driver who caused the accident. The cool story of the two country masters who turned into detectives began. Although the story of
sounds very passionate, it may follow the old routine of detective stories: the country master has done justice, experienced various hardships, and finally found the truth, the real murderer was arrested, and the heart of the people is very happy, but the protagonist of this story is doomed to this story It must be absurd. Friends who have watched the movie even know that the real murderer was never found.
Why is it that the protagonist of this story is destined to be absurd? Detectives must first have the ability to reason about cases, and what we see in this movie is that as a detective, their reasoning methods and skills make you feel weird and even funny. Writing and drawing on the small blackboard simple reasoning, using several layers of interpersonal relationships to check and monitor, it makes people feel that they are solving cases in metaphysics and using superstitious methods to find the location of the perpetrators.
intensified this absurdity in the movie is that some of their distressed stories in the city, such as Chaoying and Zhanyi when they wanted to check the third car, they entered the city, we can see that the city center is full of pictures. Slogans and banners to create a civilized city. As soon as he got out of the station, Zhanyi unconsciously spit out sputum. At this time, the city management followed and directly issued him a 50 yuan ticket. The stingy Zhanyi was not convinced, but Chaoying still paid the fine for him. After paying the fine, Zhanyi was still upset. When he raised his throat, he saw that the city management was still there, so he could only put the sputum in his mouth, but the city management still followed them. In desperation, Zhanyi was shocked. Operation, he spit on his hand and wiped it on his hair. The frozen pose was so graceful and arrogant that the audience laughed.
And the laughter brought to us in the movie is derived from the contrast and dislocation of the two country masters after they came to the city. The reason why the movie can be loved by Douban literary youth and many big-name stars, first of all, it shows the city and the country The gap between the two shows the struggle between different classes.
When our protagonist knew that Boss Fan had derailed, Chaoying refused to take the "hush money". Boss Fan felt that he was in the hands of others, so Chaoying was beaten. Boss Fan believes that only when Chaoying takes the money, he can sleep soundly. The shrewd and self-interested approach of the merchant class, represented by Boss Fan, and the honesty-oriented quality of Chaoying in the city form a clear contrast. The film wants to convey to The audience's content is clear at a glance. There is also a bridge section in the
movie. It was in Zhanyi to go to the east of the city for an appointment. In the middle of the night, someone needed to push a car, and only a phone could easily call people out of the bed to help. In such a situation in the city, we would definitely feel embarrassed and trouble others. The city is densely populated, but the distance between heart and heart has become longer. If rural people go out, they can safely ask others to help with their children. People rarely ask their neighbors to do things.
In addition, what we can find is that the director Xu Lei uses all amateur actors, and the actors even have problems facing the camera. The movies performed by such people are "On the Plains". "Sherlock" is not a film that is too depressing and touching. What we can't deny is that this is true, what we are familiar with, and that is grounded.
is this down-to-earth actor, a real countryThe style, the sense of justice and mutual support among people, and a quiet and steady wind blowing over us are the villages that we may have been familiar with or may have long forgotten.
Perhaps the film gave the literary youth the feeling of an ideal country, but its final result was that the suspect was not found at all. All unwillingness and regrets passed away with Shuhe's awakening, just like the director Xu Lei said after the Chongqing roadshow : I am more concerned about the social outlook and interpersonal relationships in the process of solving the case. Many things in life have no answers. Paying attention to people's attitudes towards difficulties is more important than giving a complete ending. Text/Yu Li
