small bastard, billiard hall, psychedelic lighting, weird dance.
Guilt, guilt, and tired to the ground.
Because he betrayed "Big Brother" Zhou Zenong-he couldn't stand the police's interrogation and told his whereabouts.
This extra-short film called "The Whistleblower Who Beats Himself" was directed by Diao Yinan.
And in the movie theater, the betrayed eldest brother is still running around.
This year's most brutal Chinese film-
"The Gathering at Southern Station"
The Wild Goose Lake
Following "Fireworks in the Day", the latest work of Golden Bear winner Diao Yinan. Before
is released, there are boundless scenery.
First, it is the only Chinese film shortlisted for the main competition in Cannes.
was praised by Quentin on the spot: realistic, dirty and run-down.
"I haven't seen such a movie for many years."
The second is, Hu Ge.
Two years ago, Hu Ge announced that he would leave the entertainment circle for the time being:
has a big plan in 2017, and it will be difficult to see new works in the next one or two years. My plan is that I want to study. I hope you can support and encourage me.
returns after two years.
just confirms Quentin's evaluation: dirty. The sunshine idol of
has been pressed into the quagmire and rubbed by Diao Yinan.
even tried to fit the character setting outside the scene.
seems to have drunk fake wine and contributed the most down-to-earth promotional photos in the history of Chinese film.
can make him completely abandon the burden of idols, it is Diao Yinan.
has 22 years of screenwriting career and his representative works "Bath" and "Love Mala Tang". After
directed two "semi-underground" personal works "Uniform" and "Night Train", with the theme of moral alienation of marginal characters, he set a strong personal label: film noir.
Five years ago, "Fireworks in Daylight" broke ground from the ground.
won the 2014 Berlin Golden Bear. The starting point of
is a bizarre serial corpse case, and the ending point is a disco that can be written into Chinese film history.
Sin, desire, catharsis...
mirrors reality with loss.
uses a story about betrayal and sees a land of betrayal.
Five years later, "The Gathering at Southern Station." The
position moves south.
left the harsh and solemn killings of the north, and plunged into the miserable mists of the south. What
hasn't changed, it's still the bloody chill.
compared to "Fireworks in the Day".
"Gathering at Southern Station" has a bolder style and more sophisticated materials.
But what about the story? A disappointing high praise comment on
criticized it like this-
has no sense of reality from language to story, playing with the camera, stacking symbols
and various contrived designs, after "Fireworks in Daylight", it is a retrograde
The disadvantages are actually visible to the naked eye: distortion. The characters of
are thin, the turning point is hard, and the motivation is lacking...
is obviously difficult to satisfy everyone in "South Station".
especially those who are looking forward to another "Fireworks in the Day" style, realist work.
But Sir wanted to say.
"Gathering at Southern Station" is Diao Yinan's most extreme black feast.
wants to tell the story, one sentence can be summarized:
manslaughter the police car thief Zhou Zenong, known to have no hope of fleeing, in order to let his wife report to the police that he has received a reward of 300,000, continue to fight in the wild goose pond.
digests it however.
needs a certain accumulation of watching movies and the interest of tasting.
"The Gathering at Southern Station" is destined to not satisfy the tastes of most people.
But whether it is aesthetics, style, or attitude, it is an existence that cannot be ignored in domestic films this year.
Quentin said he was happy.
Where is the fun?
will take you here now.
night
dark night can be the cleanest canvas. The paint painted by
is the light that you will not easily detect, but willfully overflow the picture. Take this still photo for example. Is
fake?
"The Gathering at Southern Station"Over 70% of the night scene scenes are in such exaggerated psychedelic style.
is not just for beauty. Each color of
is replacing language, sending a signal to you in front of the screen-
rose red, symbolizing temptation and trap.
indicates that the protagonist Zhou Zenong has stepped into the trap without realizing it.
is emerald green, representing the mysterious and unknown.
implies that Liu Ai'ai faces the unknown nervousness and anxiety.
Garcinia is a warning and exclamation.
was Zhou Zenong's shock after discovering that his companion had died unexpectedly.
navy blue is hidden and melancholic.
can only linger underground, there is no way to escape the powerless and sad.
is not realistic?
externalizes emotions and highlights characteristics. This is not exactly a means of expressionism.
let the plot rhythm and character mood expand the reality step by step. When
is put together, it is distorted and magical.
But in movies, you tend to ignore its existence. With
, Diao Yinan tried his skills early in "Fireworks in the Day". The three protagonists of
always appear together with three colors.
is yellow, anxious and restless.
red, fear, killing.
What impresses Sir most is the green that always accompanies Wu Zhizhen.
is mysterious and unknown, she is the eye of the puzzle.
is more important.
It also implies the theme of "betrayal".
The story of "The Gathering at Southern Station" is weakened and the sense of form is strengthened.
uses a lot of earthy neon.
allows scenes in different spaces to flow through and flow with emotions.
just say one. In the small hotel
, the three gangsters fought vigorously, unable to open their fists, and unable to move their legs. The yellow lights of
constantly render the tense and dangerous atmosphere, almost suffocating.
and the last moment.
You just can't see people anymore.
only saw the red (blood) "finally" bloom.
Why is this, he can make Quentin clap his hands and say cool.
The ultimate use of visual elements, in addition to light, there are shadows.
sometimes see a person clearly.
uses only one shadow.
Secret and unknown, uneasy and panic.
They not only manipulate the sight of the audience, but also achieve the beauty of form.
Unknown shadow.
full color.
is also the role, wearing a uniform costume:
a group of people who can't see the light, and those desire and anxiety that can only flash in the dark.
then.
Who is in the dark?
accidental
local gang leader Zhou Zenong was in a panic and shot and killed the policeman, triggering a large number of police chases, and the arrest was a death sentence. Even if
is immortal, what is left of this fate?
might as well let it play its value for the last time-
exchanged the 300,000 yuan reward offered by the police to compensate his wife and children who owed it for many years.
however.
saw the 300,000.
also has rivals in the gang, trusted brothers, and even fellow travelers who are strangers but want to get a share.
Zhou Zenong is not only a fugitive, but also a loser who has been contested by all sides.
hunting is ready. Location
is a fictional wild goose pond.
A wild lake on the outskirts of Wuhan gathers people from all walks of life, and a city-rural junction rises on the ground. The administrative division of
is chaotic, "I want to manage, but I didn't manage it well."
The story of a fringe character.
is just like the title, party. The intertext of the two gatherings in the film
.
is extremely black and ironically reveals another face of this group of small characters under the stereotyped label.
1, Thief Assembly.
A thief who stole and ran away? The thieves conference opened at
almost curiously unveiled an underground world: there are gangs and rules.
A group of rogue thieves gathered to contract the entire hotel and exchange experiences.
a map, hung in the center, Used to plan the sphere of influence of each group. If
has rules, someone breaks the rules.
was dissatisfied with the assigned prickly cat's eye and stood up to speak in protest.
thief, also honor.
2, the police have a meeting.
Six groups of wise and courageous crimes? The
murder case broke out. Team Liu (Liao Fan), the captain of the serious case, assembled his team members with the local police to discuss the arrest plan.
pay attention to that clever intertext.
also hung a map in the center. Team Liu explained the surveillance range of each group of police officers, which was exactly the same as the section where the thieves divided the territory.
Justice and evil have the same face and the same means. The irony of
is that there was also a policeman who stood up to speak in protest.
"I have never fired a gun. I need to find a place to test it." The
policeman is also afraid of death. Intertextualities like
abound. Before
.
A motorcycle "theft contest", thieves stole a parking lot in 20 minutes, and the production efficiency was amazing. After
. The
plainclothes are in control, pretending to be motorcycle drivers, and what they are riding is the stolen goods left over from the "theft competition".
The police and gangsters here have been stripped of their moral stand.
is opposite and isomorphic. What you see
is an instinctive competition for survival. There is a firefight in the movie
.
is at the zoo.
Both sides are held hostage by fear, tense and vigorous, like an "animal world" starred by humans. At the moment when the atmosphere was the most tense,
flashed a set of montages:
flamingos, giraffes, and owls appeared one after another, and the beasts groaned in the background.
shot suddenly and exchanged fire.
The prisoner fell to the ground. The beast that
has been pondering has also appeared as a tiger. The
expression is extremely intriguing.
This is also the truth that emerged from the dark in "The Gathering at Southern Station"-
people cannot be the animal nature that is disciplined by civilization, modernity, and law.
in the face of death and survival.
People are equal.
romantic
always has a kind of person.
can and can only survive by instinct.
You must remember the confession in "Parasite".
Do you know what plan will never fail? No plan.
Life can never follow the plan. Look here, do these people plan to sleep together in the gym? But now, including us, everyone is sleeping on the floor together.
Therefore, people should not have a plan. Without a plan, there will be no mistakes.
has no plan, no direction.
live by instinct and instinct.
But the first sentence "Do you know what plan will never fail?", it already represents their identity-
losers.
To be precise, a person left behind by the times.
In "Parasite", they hide in the basement.
In "Fireworks in the Day", they wander in a whole absurd but real black land.
in "South Station" is the urban-rural junction called Yeetang.
police, thieves, gangs, prostitutes...
three religions and nine streams, a party of losers.
As Diao Yinan said, "In addition to giving the audience a story, I also want to give the audience a world." In Sir's view,
.
He did the second half.
Wild Goose Pond, an absurd world that makes Sir psychedelic. In the setting of
, the wild goose pond rises on the ground.
does not exist in reality. The story of
Wild Goose Pond grew out of one unbelievably true event after another: "Thief Congress", "Report yourself to exchange bounty", "Fleeing prisoner hiding in the zoo"...
The seemingly unbelievable, motorcycle head cut The infiltration scene.
is also based on reality.
And Liu Aiai's "accompanying swimmer" profession is also an illegal profession that has appeared in Beihai, Guangxi.
is almost finished in the playFully engraved.
long sleeves, trousers, sun hat, women's messenger bag...
all black stories. The
collage became this wild goose lake.
gathered and housed all kinds of "scum"-
those who were abandoned by the times, driven away by the prosperity of the city, and "superfluous people" in mainstream society. The edge of
is the tradition of film noir.
However, is it their original intention?
is worth noting.
The tattoo of the peace dove on Zhou Zenong's hand.
represents one of the few kindness and romance in this black story-
until his death is just to let his wife and children live a better life.
In this group of beasts hegemony, he just wants to be an uncontested, detached white dove.
He doesn't want much.
is still hopeless.
Unless-use your life, give it a go.
This is Zhou Zenong.
however.
Is this just Zhou Zenong?
At the end of his life, the movie still leaves him with the last trace of romantic comfort.
At night, the lake is quiet, Zhou Zenong and the swimmer Liu Aiai go boating in the middle of the lake. After the clouds and rain, the microwave is rippling. Under the light of
, a group of flying waterbirds was illuminated.
is an image that mirrors the character's psychology-
"A white gull is not mighty, who can tame it in thousands of miles?" If a
person is like a white gull, who can fly freely to the sky, he won't need to bother about these disputes and shackles.
But, who can really become a white gull?
"The Gathering at Southern Station" uses a simple story to try to evoke your more complicated emotions-
is inevitable in life.
fate is helpless. Not everyone in
society has an upward path.
is more of sinking.
is a struggle with all my strength until death. A fragment of
is equally important.
Injured Zhou Zenong spent the night in an abandoned house.
A pile of real social news is quickly edited, from the newspapers spreading on the wall to the screen.
trembled all over, Zhou Zenong stared at them, weakly and firmly, pointing his gun at them. What kind of tragedy is
the cruelest?
When a person is used to failure, he decides not to fail again.
resisted, but it was destined to make him perish.
This is too black.
This is too realistic.
This is the real party of "Southern Station".
It uses the most romantic and poetic language.
tells the story on the edge of your world.
and kindly remind you.
This world has no fringe world, only stories you never listened to.
