is going to talk to you tonight is a long-awaited movie:
"The Party at Southern Station"
directed by Diao Yinan, starring Hu Ge and Gui Lunmei.
In May of this year, this film was nominated for the Palme d'Or together with "Parasite" and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. The Chinese-language film genre is proud on the international stage. According to
media: genius director Quentin Tarantino watched the movie throughout the whole process, with more than ten hilarious laughs.
was asked about his impression of South Station in an interview during the Cannes Film Festival. Quentin graciously praised: "This is the most beautiful movie I have seen in recent years." After
was released, Douban scored 7.7, word of mouth is a bit polarized. Some people praised
: "Chinese film goes a step further!" Some people regret that
: "Not as good as "Fireworks in the Day"."
Cicada's subjective impression: 7 points can not be more, expect too much, too much disappointment. Watching Hu Ge play the black boss, it is better to watch Yi Yang Qianxi fight in groups. Missing the fireworks in the daytime, I dare not praise South Station.
speed cutting head, plasma splashing all over, why
, a domestically produced large scale, is touted to the sky?
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Zhou Zenong (played by Hu Ge)
gang boss (a fart), I am indeed a leader, but it is a pity that he is The criminal gangs are not very capable, most secretly electric cars. But when these bastards get a few guns, things are different.
An accident made Zhou Zenong a fugitive with a huge reward. After running away for many years, he was full of guilt for his wife and children. He had a plan: asked his wife to denounce himself, so as to save the 300,000 yuan reward for her and his son.
A fugitive at the end of the road, he must always worry about his feet: because he will encounter betrayal from his brother if he is not careful, or fall into those gentle and charming peachy traps...
Liu Aiai (Gui Lunmei)
The swimmer of the wild goose pond, her job is a young lady. She walked in and out of the dust, and was a marginalized person like Zhou Zenong. She is greedy for money and selfish, but cares about love and righteousness. She is also deliberate and deliberate, step by step.
, a woman who is both righteous and evil, looks unfathomable, but in fact she is just a poor man, a pawn in this tragic farce.
Liu Team (played by Liao Fan)
The bandit captain of the serious crime, spared no effort to hunt down Zhou Zenong. Set up the net to start an exciting cat-and-mouse game with criminals and swimmers.
Yang Shujun (played by Wan Qian)
Zhou Zenong's wife, a ill-fated single mother. She suffers from a strange disease, resents her husband for being indifferent to the mother and son, but cannot blame him. In the face of love and law, this woman is weak, pitiful and helpless.
Talking about the original intention of film creation, Diao Yinan talked about two things. The first piece of
was that he saw a black and white photo a long time ago. In the photo, there was a woman leaning on a boat with a mysterious smile on her face and the sparkling water behind him. He took a photo. " is related to water and women" 's movie idea. The second piece of
, the idea of filming this story had already existed before "Fireworks in Daylight". Many years ago, he heard a foreign song on the sofa, "Imagine that I am a fugitive who was chased and killed with a bounty. I want to run to the beach and find my first love. Let her kill me. Bounty."
Later he felt that this imagination was too hypocritical, so he gave up. It wasn't until a news report a few years later that a fugitive who escaped from prison found that he was worth 100,000 yuan when he saw the wanted order, and asked someone to report him and left the money with his relatives.
He felt that the movie could be made, because hypocritical imagination became news, so the story may not be so hypocritical.
From north to south, from day to night
Wet and charming Wuhan
2014In 1991, Diao Yinan won the Golden Bear Award with "Fireworks in the Day" , and became famous in Berlin.
Mysterious ice skates, despicable men, dirt in the snow, a truth that was tried to hide...
is bitter and murderous, Diao Yinan caught the charm of the Northeast.
After five years, it is still the original team, Gui Lunmei and Liao Fan. The difference is that this time Diao Yinan moved the stage to the south. The bitter and murderous, turned into a gloomy, neon touch.
Under his lens, Wuhan is no longer the big stove we are familiar with, but a small damp city, overturned by the continuous night rain.
He used a fictitious style to redraw the soil for the occurrence of the strange story, which is also particularly charming.
Large sections of night scenes, patters of rain, transparent umbrellas, beauties in red, weak fugitives, gaudy billboards, motorcycles and dumb thieves, hotels, docks, construction sites, old furniture factories, dirty and messy Tongzilou, with hostile dialects, dilapidated city villages, dark alleys, magical luminous square dances, erotic resorts, wild goose lakeside with shadows and trees...
The southern city under his lens is Zhang Yang , ambiguous, magical, hidden murderous, crime-prone .
South Station and "Fireworks in Daylight", one black and one white, one south and one north, one night and one day.
Diao Yinan initially outlined his film noir universe.
is not an exaggeration to say that "The Gathering at South Station" makes good use of light and shadow, and many of the pictures are beautiful:
has also completely stepped up a step in the rendering of the tense atmosphere:
The actors are very hard, as a special star Wan Qian , There are not many scenes, but for a few seconds, I studied in a furniture factory for two weeks.
Gui Lunmei is to adapt to the role in advance. She moved to the tube building in Wuhan a long time in advance. She lives with the locals, learns Wuhan dialect, and plays a few games of mahjong from time to time.
Good student Hu Ge’s first experience of the movie
can only score 60 points
talk about the first starring, Hu Ge.
This is the first time he starred in a movie in the true sense. Hu Ge was thin and tanned in it. Many people said that he made a considerable sacrifice for this movie.
"The first level I passed was that after I was shot, I got up from the mud pool and had to climb a slope. That scene tortured me hard enough. The mud was extremely slippery. I couldn't walk in it, and I had no place to grasp. I can’t use my feet...”
“Most of us are night scenes, but during the day I don’t sleep well and keep myself in a very tired state. I find that the physical changes of people will affect the psychology. Your body is in a state of discomfort for a long time, and your mind will also produce irritability and depression. At that time, the stomach is not good. But I think these are not good, I want to keep them, because of the role Need. He (Diao Yinan) also agrees."
-What does Hu Ge
say? He was miserable in the movie, and looked like a good student. It can be seen that Hu Ge, who hasn't taken the show for two years, worked very hard and tried very hard to make a breakthrough. But the final effect is still unconvincing to his "gang boss" . As a result, his appearance is limited, even if he has a beard and scumbag, his eyes flashing and he is seriously injured, you still think: "is an undercover police officer?" No matter how you look at it, he doesn't look like a cruel gang boss.
Erlai Hu Ge's performance has always been closed, cautious. He himself was not confident when he was speaking, and he worried every day that he would be replaced by the director. For example, there is a section in the movie where Zhou Zenong shares a room with his enemies. Those people have dirty mouths and fragrant mouths: "Do you want to fuck her (Zhou Zenong's wife)?" !" as an audience, we are looking forward to seeing Zhou Zenong's trembling and sullen anger, and then fighting back. It is a pity that these emotional details are missing, and there are still many feelings like this when watching a movie. Hu Ge didn't play badly, just "passing line, not up to expectations". Some people closed their eyes and screamed: Hu Ge this time, "Not far from the movie king!" The cicada master who watched "Joker" not long ago had 10,000 question marks in his heart: is afraid that he will kill? you guysWhat is the misunderstanding of the "actor". As a passerby fan,
is a natural surprise to his transformation. Although the transformation is good, there is still much room for it. There is no need to embarrass, and it is not a good thing for actor Hu Ge.
Some people say that Zhou Zenong's role should be given to Liao Fan, but the cicada owner thinks that Liao Fan is 100% appropriate to play Liu's team.
Do police officers have to be handsome? The captain of a serious crime team is born to death every day, and moves between serious prisoners. Who are he contacting? He should be a bit greasy, he is a hero, with a fierce look, and scheming--Liao Fan is the most suitable.
Liao Fan is mostly group plays, too few plays.
But he played so well, it's a pity.
Rice is easy to cook. The owner of Cicada likes Diao Yinan's noir films, and also wants to see more highly completed works. I nominate two male actors here, and hope to see them cooperate with Director Diao in the rest of my life.
Is a Qin Hao who acts like something, whether it is a police gangster or a scumbag soldier artist :
, a Zhang Yu with a low-level face, and a sexy of a small hotel in a county with 60 yuan on his face:
If one day these two people can walk into Diao Yinan's filter and perform sensuality and violence, it would be right.
A victory for a genre film
Chinese film opens a new page
As a domestic film, South Station is very bold: cuts its head on the speed car, splashes blood, the absurd and weird "girl in a bottle", "boat shock" and " "Field Battle"...the
standards and gimmicks are also available. The
film has the director's unique personal style, very "Quentin" but not "Quentin". Diao Yinan is good at filming stories between police and criminals, and is also good at transplanting Western genre films to Chinese soil.
South Station is just like that. Some people say it is a film noir, inheriting all the characteristics of Hollywood film noir.
The classic awkward dance scene in "Pulp Fiction"
Diao Yinan's magical luminous square dance
The unique charm of Southern Station lies in that it puts a vulgar story about a criminal escape and a police chase in a space with Chinese characteristics. speak.
Men and women continue to shuttle, converge, and separate in Wuhan's cramped buildings and wet streets.
couples, lovers, friends, brothers...
police, thief, gangsters, prostitutes...
This is Diao Yinan’s lust, and it is also the human nature of all kinds under the influence of an era.
