How popular HBO "The Distance from Evil" was in the first half of the year, and how much anticipated Netflix "Sin Dreamer" is in the second half of the year.
Netflix is two years behind HBO, and finally launched its first self-made Chinese drama in Taiwan, telling the story of an "Oriental modern gangster".
is comparable to movie scene production level; Jia Jingwen, Zhang Xiaoquan, Fan Xiaoxuan, Wang Baijie, etc. starred in a luxurious lineup.
Before there was the first self-made Korean drama "Lee Corpse North Korea" , and later there was the topical Japanese drama "Nude Supervision" . Netflix's voice in the Asian market is getting higher and higher.
's first Chinese-language self-produced drama "Sin Dreamer" was naturally given high hopes by everyone. It seems to be an "impossible to fail" work.
However, this time, Netflix missed.
"Sin Dreamer" Douban score, it says everything.
netizen @明了 Tucao said that for the first time on Netflix, " listened to Chinese lines and looked at Chinese subtitles, but I couldn't understand it. "
In fact, viewers on the other side were also confused. The main culprit for
's "incomprehension" is the editing. Frequent flashbacks, jumps and narrations in dreams have caused most viewers to see them in a cloud of fog and confusion.
Chen Yingrong , who took over the three roles of director, screenwriter and editor, naturally became a scapegoat for the audience's verbal criticism.
Director of "Sin Dreamers", Chen Yingrong
Actually, before the launch of "Sin Dreamers", Chen Yingrong and Netflix have been playing editing games for a long time. Once I wrote the "Break Up Letter" and prepared to leave unhappy. But in the end, Netflix compromised.
So, a very experimental video style, least Netflix series was born, whether it looks good or not, it has become a "heterogeneous" in the history of Chinese drama that is difficult to replicate.
In fact, as long as it survives the first two episodes and clarifies the plot of the fiction and reality, starting from the third episode, the narrative in the following is basically smooth.
The third episode of "Ten Years" and the fourth episode of "The Old Man" staged "Prison Break", and the fifth episode of "Little Floating Life" started a new kidnapping story after breaking out of prison.
"Sin Dreamer" ostensibly tells the gang four brothers "Aquan" Ding Changquan (played by Zhang Xiaoquan), "Fashionable" Xiao San (played by Wang Baijie), "A ghost" Cui Chenggui (played by Zhang Liheng) and "Fu Xing" Cui Wanfu (Played by Zhou Mingfu), is a story of self-salvation from being framed and imprisoned, and then to escape from prison.
The four brothers of gangsters
Although it involves plots such as the collusion between politics and business and the gang, homosexuality, etc., in fact, the director continuously interspersed dreams with reality through , blurring the boundaries of reality and reality, reducing the impact of real events, and highlighting "sin dreams" The concept of 者".
Chen Yingrong said, everyone dreams, everyone is guilty. And the "Sin Dreamer" is each of us.
The key to understanding "Sin Dreamers" is that captures the strange dreams in every episode .
Crime and Dream
Crimes and Dreams
The title of the first episode is "Hills" , as the name suggests, tells the whole story of Ah Quan's homicide.
But as soon as the story opened, the director presented his first dream with the controversial "chaotic editing."
Inmate "Tang Sanbai" Xia Shiying (played by Lu Yilong) in the prison, and "A Quan" Ding Chang have the same father and son. In the middle of the night, he dreamed of telling A Quan that he was leaving.
Not long after Ah Quan woke up in reality, Tang Sanbai died of a myocardial infarction. The dream was given a layer of magical meaning to the prophet. After that, every dream of Ah Quan seemed to be a prediction of reality.
Tang Sanbai said in a dream, "Learning for a lifetime without guessing people's hearts, not betting on providence, in the end, it turns out that it is the same thing, human heart, providence."
's sentence " human heart, providence " laid out the whole world view of the show.
Ah Quan responded in the fourth episodeAccording to the saying "Human Heart, Providence", he believes that the successful escape from prison is the result of both human heart and providence. The kidnapping of his son Tianyou is the driving force of the heart, and the prison fire is the help of God.
"Human heart, providence" seems to guide Ah Quan's series of actions, destined to avoid "sin".
He should have left everything he had planted to him, but because of Fuxing’s "Brother, I’m sorry", he couldn’t bear it. He turned around and carried the kidnapped father and son; and because of a series of "faults", Ah Quan The anger was vented on the tied father Wang Qingnian, and the "sin" was created. Director Chen Yingrong of
explained the relationship between "sin" and "dream" in an interview. She believes that 's "sin" is caused by thousands of things, and there must be many decisions before that led people to go there. step.
"Dream" is like Ah Quan's desire to make up for sin, and want to do the real right thing. The chapter title of the second episode of
"God Blessed" , in the name of Ah Quan's son, strung the past and the present, and predicted the future causal cycle. Director
used "Chaotic Editing" to make Tang Sanbai and Wang Qingnian alternately appear in Ah Quan's dream.
Wang Qingnian predicted that A Quanhui would have the same ending as his son God Bless. Then, Tang Sanbai asked A Quan, "After I leave, do me a small favor and clear the cabinet." This is the final "surreal" ending-A Quan went to Tang Sanbai's house to discover his life experience. The secret of his, laid a foreshadowing.
The crime committed by Ah Quan has become an old dream that has been entwined for ten years. His son, God You, was kidnapped in a causal cycle, and he had to face the "sin" that year.
"Sin" and "Dream" constitute the existence of characters in the movie. The English name of "Sin Dreamer" is "Nowhere Man", which is literally translated as a wandering person and a person who is nowhere to find.
is interpreted in religion as "bardo body" and "middle aggregate", which refers to the chaotic and ambiguous state of existence in the middle of life after death and before reincarnation to the next life.
This explains why Ah Quan has been in a half-dream and half-awake state. Before he stepped into the next cycle, he seemed to have been floating in the sun, trying to fulfill his wishes one by one before he died.
Looking back, the state of "Nowhere Man" Ah Quan is presented in the MV-style mixed cut, it is so close to the situation, very poetic, and dreamlike.
MTV Narrativity
MV Narrativity
Chen Yingrong, born in 1980, often uses DJ as the registered ID of BBS. Over time, DJ has not only become her English name, but also her status symbol.
In the world of movie soundtracks, she looks like a tireless DJ.
At the age of 23, the feature film debut "Seventeen-year-old Sky" won Taiwan's Chinese-language film box office champion;
"Seventeen-year-old Sky" (2004)
2006, the second Chinese comedy "No Doubles" 》 word-of-mouth double-acceptance at the box office.
But what really set her free was the movie "Sorrow" , which directly collaborated with the retro rock and roll Soler band on the soundtrack of an entire album.
is also after this film, Chen Yingrong bid farewell to the film world and plunged into the music world of MV.
8 years later, she returned to the film and television industry. The creative aesthetics of MV seems to have deeply influenced her style of video narration.
Guo Caijie's music film "Love Makes a Flying Chicken" directed by Chen Yingrong
"Sin Dreamer" is destined to never go back to the commercial narrative of "Happy Everyone". On the contrary, the fragmented narrative style prevents most audiences from understanding the plot.
but if you accept DJ's taste in playing songs will change her "MV narrative". The first episode of
opens with the White Snow Ballroom, which explains the highlight of the relationship between the characters and gangs in the play.
DJ is accompanied by an old Hokkien song from the 1950s "Night Rain in the Capital of Hong Kong" . At that time, as the conductor of the US military band in Taiwan, Sanlang Yang had an inspiration in the rainy Keelung and played a sad song with a small horn The song expresses a feeling of wandering.
In "Dream of Sin", Ah Quan, Xiao Shao, and A Ghost appeared in this melody, which opened the prelude to the underworld life, combined with their future experience, and listened to this song again and again, it seems that from the beginning It implies the tragic tone of the characters.
followed by the scenes of the two lovers of Ah Quan and Jingfang (Jia Jingwen) and Xiaosha and Bailan (Fan Xiaoxuan). The music that often appears is "Defends" , which comes from Adelaide last year's new album "Wen Yi Pot Youth Under liqueur".
Ade’s unique character and rhythm, after a rock arrangement, is particularly like a drunk babble.
I owe you a lot in my heart. How I hope you will forgive my arrogance... How I hope everything is the same as before, all the heartbreaking sorrows and bumps turned out to be just a bad dream in the middle of the night
To the lover's fate in the play, the lyrics coincide unexpectedly, and sing the mood of the lovers owe each other, and the regret that the relationship ended without disease.
Especially in the fifth episode of the chapter titled "Little Floating Life", the two lovers meet again after a long absence and steal a day of leisure.
The regretful emotions in "Debts" are rendered, which makes people feel moved.
Ade’s another song "Memorandum to Fifty-year-old Self" appeared in the prison scene in the play, especially in the chorus before the escape, led by Fuxing, a group of condemned prisoners without tomorrow. Writing:
Yesterday was a photo hanging on the wall. Today is the scenery receding from the car window. Tomorrow is the unturned alarm clock by the bedside. The day after tomorrow is the faded name
on the tombstone. This scene is quite ironic.
In addition to these soundtracks that fit the plot, there are some weird collocations in "Sin Dreamer", refreshing the impression of classic songs. In the sixth episode of
, in one of the largest large-scale fighting scenes in the film, Ah Quan singled out all the people from the downstairs to the upstairs. The action director of the film was from Wu Yusen’s "The Hunt" Japanese master Kensuke Sonomura. The whole fighting scene of
originally had the style of Japanese gangster film, but the background music was accompanied by the old Shanghai ballroom song "Soul Haunting Old Dream" from the 1930s. The fierce action scenes were processed in slow motion. It becomes a cruel and poetic picture, which instantly renders the tragedy of Ah Quan.
is the combination of classical music "Peace Piece" . The name of
pianist Bill Evans is not only the clue to the "bed relationship" between Wang Qingnian's schizophrenic wife and the chairman Lin Guanzhong, which was revealed to the police by Wang Qingnian's schizophrenic wife, it is also the piano piece played by Lin Jizi (Xu Guanghan) in the last episode of her confession.
Lin Jizi played this soothing piano piece while telling the world a sensational story. The weirdness of this combination of
is like the cruel and bloody picture of Tetsuya Nakajima and Yuanzi Wen used to match the classic piano music "Piano Concerto No. 5" .
In addition, Xu Guanghan, who was almost nominated for the Golden Horse Award actor for "The Sunshine" this year, was an unexpected surprise. The performance was both creepy and pitiful, making this confession complete. The climax of the show.
Zhang Xiaoquan said, "In the dust of the world, my Ning loves and hates " represents the core of "Sin Dreamer". The literal translation of
is, " The great world is a microbe. What else do I talk about love and hate? "
Buddhism believes that the great world is all in the dust, and people are nothing but dust.
Ah Quan was originally a taciturn and depressed man. He resented the world and yearned for fulfillment in his dreams.
Until the last moment, he finally let go of all the obsessions of love and hatred, and the soul of "Nowhere Man" finally made his wish before the next reincarnation.
Lin Jizi was also at the end, because Fuxing said, "Don't be afraid, brother, we were all afraid that night," and was relieved. The core topic of
falls on the Buddhist Mogul View "Sin Dreamer", which is destined to be an alternative of this era.
Author ✎ Stacy
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