A few days ago, the final works of the four directors of "Actors please seat" have been supported for screening, and there have been discussions on the Internet. Just before the "Actors please seat" final ceremony began, it was a coincidence that Guo Jingming and Guo Junchen were hot together I searched, the highest one ranked 4th, the other ranked 5th ▼
Both of them are hot searched because of a short film-"AI" written and directed by Guo Jingming. This short film is very controversial. The netizens who praised it thought it was too touching and cried. Guo Jingming himself was surprised to find that the netizens were "all crying"; and the netizens who complained about it thought it was really a short film in Guo Jingming style that could not be more conventional. ▼
Mr. Eight belongs to the latter kind. After reading it, I feel that it is appropriate to use Li Chengru’s famous saying: "You cannot use cheap brush strokes to resonate widely." ▼
When Guo Jingming rebutted Li Chengru in the first issue, Upgrading "Sorrow into a River" to " China's first movie that seriously discusses campus bullying", and "AI" I am afraid Guo Jingming also feels that he made " China's first movie that seriously discusses robot ethics" , But Mr. Eight feels that "AI" is at best a cliché story that can't be together in love. It's not even a movie, it's just an extended MV.
(spoilers included below) The story of
"AI" is like this: the heroine Jin Jing was isolated and bullied when she was in high school, and her father built a handsome, obedient and powerful robot Guo Junchen for her, befriend her and protect her she was. The two are in a sweet love, but the robot will not be old, and the two have a conflict. During the dispute, the heroine was seriously injured in a car accident. In order to save her, the robot sold the core technology in its own chip, turned into a smart speaker, and accompanied her. The ultimate work of the old ▼
is a short film. In order to shoot the details, the other three directors compressed the main line of the story time to one or two days, but Guo Jingming went the other way and directly filmed the life of the heroine, so the story It seems very jumpy, fragmented and superficial.
When watching "AI", I felt like watching five or six movies at once. At the beginning, Grandma Jin Jing recalled her love story with AI to the reporter, and a sense of sight of "Titanic" came over her ▼
Later, I saw the footage of Guo Junchen following Jin Jing to school all day, and it seemed that he was watching the "Young You" that was released not long ago ▼
and the footage of Jin Jing being bullied by campus, in addition to being like "Young You," In "A River of Sadness", the female protagonist is always broken in family and is always targeted on campus, because she is bullied and isolated because she is not so good. When he sees Qi Liu Hai's handsome hero save the United States, Mr. Eight seems to be I saw Professor Du save Qian Songyi ▼
. The whole movie is also full of strong Guo Jingming characteristics: sensational lines, beautiful and formal pictures, a formal life that can only be enjoyed by the upper class, and an affectionate heroine. , The protagonist throws things at every turn, and falls out if he doesn't agree with each other. In his bones, he still has the "Little Times" set ▼
. Therefore, this time Guo Jingming made a short film like "Northeast Chaos".
Guo Jingming is also very smart this time, forcibly setting the male protagonist to AI. In fact, the male protagonist’s settings are similar to those of the professors in "You from the Star": handsome, able to play, infatuated, not old, it is When it comes to AI, the theme of the whole short film is quite new, but the story is still very clichéd: the heroine is always bullied inexplicably, the hero and the hero always have a reason to break up, the heroine has a car accident, and the hero sacrifices himself for the savior... Why does
say "AI" is like an extended MV? Because Guo Jingming stretched the story timeline for a lifetime, he could only put together a lot of fragments, and gave a rough outline of the story. Isn't it true of many MVs? The whole short film is very beautiful, and it is slow motion at every turn. In the middle, Guo Jingming also played 3 or 4 English songs as BGM. Isn't this a MV?
Of course, the most fatal shortcoming is that Guo Jingming most often talks about it in "Actors Please Take Place"-the logic is not self-consistent. In layman's terms, it is that the plot cannot withstand scrutiny and there are a lot of bugs. All the scenes of
are so modern, why can the heroine dad build a robot that is indistinguishable from ordinary people by working behind closed doors? The hero's father is so awesome, why is he still living in such an embarrassment? Why can robots go to school? In an era when robots are so developed, why do people around seem to know nothing about robots? Why is the blood of the robot blue? Why are robots affectionateFeel, cry?
Why is the heroine being bullied? The core technology of the chip is just a copy of the chip? Is the core technology of a robot as simple as a chip? Everyone has obtained the core technology, why not put the chip back into the male subject instead of putting it in the smart speaker?
Guo Jingming didn't explain these things, so when Mr. Eight saw it, he felt strongly that it would be better to set the male lead to be an alien like Professor Chengdu, but then Guo Jingming might be scolded and plagiarized again.
is such a short film. Why do so many people cry when watching it? Because Guo Jingming is best at sensationalism, tears in his works have always been the least valuable. Which of the several short films in the show, "Journey to the West", "The Legend of the Demon Cat", and "AI" is not the one that cries silly? And "AI" is forcibly sensational to the extreme, and finally used "Little", a song that makes people want to cry as soon as they listen to it, as the BGM, and the heroine's name is set to "Fu Xiaoxiao", so many people It's not strange to cry.
But is it a good movie to make people cry? Movies, as an art, pay attention to aesthetics, and such a crying aesthetic is very low-level. Just like in a variety show, there are many actors who can cry silly, and there are many actors who can roar and get out of control. But there are not many that can be regarded as good acting. Li Chengru's comment on Guo Jingming's remarks is quite reasonable: you can't use cheap brush strokes to arouse widespread resonance.
