After watching "Sherlock on the Plain" is like the feeling when I just watched "Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World" this summer. It is not like the uproar before "The Wandering Earth", nor is it like the "Earth Is Long". The Berlin actor and actress who were told it is not like the All-Star "Me and My Motherland". This "Sherlock on the Plain" has no expectations before, but it is a hollowed-out pre-screening mentality close to sea level. , The result was a big surprise! The production cost of
is less than one million. The whole family of the new director is on the battlefield. The characters of the soil and the soil are the story of the soil. But it is my 2019 following "The Wandering Earth", "Everlasting Earth", "Crashing a Sheep" ", "The Devil Boy of Nezha", "My Motherland and Me", "You are the Younger", the seventh domestically produced 8-point movie!
used to say that the fifth-generation director always accompanies Lu Xun's variation of a sentence, that the national is the world! In this way, many of the film backgrounds and materials of the fifth generation are interpreted. It seems that the fifth generation is not mentioned much. The nationality and the world seem to have a new direction of interpretation. But the latest "Sherlock on the Plains" has the style of the fifth generation of directors, and it is also very national.
has no big stars and directly uses natural amateur actors. The story is far away from the material city, away from the talented and beautiful people, and even far away from traffic and topics. The new director Xu Lei is based in his hometown and returns to simplicity. Just like Lu Qingyi's warm documentary "Four Springs", the difference is that Xu Lei directs his parents to act, while Lu Qingyi uses a camera to record his parents.
However, such a movie with very little investment, subject matter, actors, etc. is a wonderful movie with many elements!
■Amateur actor
starring in the film is the director's father, and the director's mother also plays a role in the film. There are other supporting actors who are all amateurs! The Sherlock in the title of
is obviously Sherlock Holmes, who is well-known as "Bang Cier", referring to the protagonist Chaoying, and the other rural master Zhanyi is "Watson". In order to restore the innocence of an old friend, and for their own life-long nature of being a farmer, the two persistently performed a Hebei peasant version of "Sherlock" and "Watson".
The names of amateur actors in the film are all their real names. Director Xu Lei said that using their real names can help them join the play more and believe in this situation.
■The design of the dramatic conflict. The starting point of the film
is calm. I sold cattle for money, built a new house and made a wish of my wife. The people who came to help were all elder brothers of the same age. A car accident in the rain made the story a different story. . . The design of the
film story is progressive and organically linked. It is neither blunt nor mixed. The popular formula is that there is no sense of violation. In fact, the more this kind of story material is, the harder it is to arrange the wonderful and watchful, the more it tests the newcomer Xu Lei, who is a director.
■Wonderful climax sublimation
What's more rare is that there is a surprising sublimation at the end of the film, that is, Chaoying uses the plastic sheet on the roof to catch rainwater to raise goldfish! Whether it was the composition, the lighting, or the story itself, the scene miraculously blended together. At that moment, an almost magical picture appeared before my eyes. The magic was a bit surreal! But the wonderful thing is that it was still a real scene. Before the big screen, I was immediately moved by this scene! It is precisely because of this sublimation that I finally gave 8 points!
Actually, this climax is paved. It was the shot of Super British riding a horse when he rescued Zhanyi who was alone in Longtan. First, it was a cool, fuzzy silhouette similar to the classic martial arts, followed by the half-length picture of Super British riding. BGM suddenly flashed a familiar melody from Morricone’s "Red Dead Redemption", which was short, clear, and wonderful! If the previous film has always been a realistic style of duty, then at the moment when the classic western theme appears, "Sherlock on the Plain" has been naughty and surreal. This surreal is not from reality to illusion, but from The Hebei countryside jumped to the western wilderness of tumbleweed! Waiting for the last goldfish moment, this surreal brushstroke was renewed again and again!
■Humor
The humor in this film comes from the local investigation of the old buddies, from the natural and fun lines, and also from the accent and dialect of Shenxian, Hebei. The humor in this film is not the kind of hard work, but a knowing smile. Enjoyment.
■ FIRST Youth Film Exhibition
"Flat"Sherlock on the Original" is supervised by the well-known young director Rao Xiaozhi. It was nominated for the best feature feature film and the best film text award at the 13th FIRST Youth Film Festival this year. See you FIRST again! I have known this film festival for a long time, but recently many films have been sponsored by FIRST, and gradually they have changed from knowing to familiarity. The cancellation of the closing film "Parasite" of the FIRST film festival not long ago is even worse due to technical reasons. My impression of this festival.
In fact, it doesn’t matter if you don’t release a Korean movie. After all, Xining is too far away, you can’t go without canceling it, ha ha. I still hope that under the promotion of FIRST Film Festival, we can see more wonderful domestic movies like "Sherlock on the Plain"!
