"The Unknown" was released last year. This is an absurd comedy movie. The plot mainly revolves around an old gun that was accidentally lost, telling a series of absurd stories about robbers, security guards, and poisonous girls. "The Unknown" is to create a sense of absurdity and comedy by shaping the antagonistic relationship between several groups of characters. They have different social classes and different ideals, but they are all faced with living conditions at the same time and space. A situation where the ideal is broken. The characters in
are terrified and face struggles. The film focuses on the relationship between small people, everyone has their own hardships: the ambitious stupid thief and the desperate shrew go from confrontation to reconciliation. A pair of robbers (Zhang Yu, Pan Binlong) who accidentally broke into the homes wanted to hide from the limelight, but they met a very tough guest (Ren Suxi). The guest laughed and teased the robbers several times. They shot themselves to death. The jokes of the film are mainly caused by them, the way is to create contrast.
The fierce and fierce Ren Suxi is actually a paralyzed life that cannot take care of herself. The more unforgiving she is and the more she wants to ask for death, the more saddened her heart is. She prays for liberation. The seemingly arrogant and domineering robbers, one wants to quickly gain fame and respect from others by having money, and the other wants to make money to catch up with their beloved girl. The two wanted to get what they wanted by robbery "doing a big deal", but they got nothing by mistake.
All seemingly funny jokes are buried under the tragic character of the movie characters. Ren Suxi and Zhang Yu's bickering and confrontation are actually an external manifestation of self-mockery. The more righteous Zhang Yu said that he wanted to "become famous in World War I," the more he highlighted his stupidity; the stronger Ren Suxi, the more her helplessness and weakness were highlighted. Our viewers laughed at this misunderstanding caused by the contrast, but after laughing, they will gradually realize that they all have troubles, and the facts are so heartbreaking.
A security guard who wants to officially become a policeman cannot have a good balance between career and relatives. Ma Xianyong, played by Chen Jianbin, is the "clue" of the whole film, and the whole story can be unfolded slowly through him. He is the main manifestation of the tragic core of the entire movie. He wanted to become a police officer with a formal establishment, but he passed his dreams several times and paid a very painful price. Ma Xianyong experienced the beautiful brokenness firsthand, and was unable to accept it at one time, and finally accepted, matured, and became the person who started a new life. He is a case by case, but also a profile of real life. There are too many unsatisfactory things in the real world of
, but life still has to go on. Everyone in the movie has their own hardships. The seemingly absurd behavior is to establish their own dignity, but the unsatisfactory life makes this dignity hard to find.
The site boss (Wang Yanhui) who owed debts and took his mistress to run away came back to regain his dignity, even if he came back to face beatings and humiliation; young and energetic students begged the gangsters for their fathers and their dignity. The argument was brutally beaten. Everyone is a small person, with large or small shortcomings, but everyone does not easily compromise with life, they are all fighting. The film's narrative revolves around a gun, and the multi-threaded narrative is clear and suspenseful.
The police are looking for guns to solve the case, and Ma Xianyong is looking for guns to prove to the police that he has not lied. The robbers robbed them with a gun. Are these three guns the same?
finally rang the gun, which perfectly combined with the fireworks that have been laid out many times in the movie. The gun fired, and the fireworks bloomed in the night sky. All the clues and characters gathered together. It is also a time for thought when the truth is revealed. All the jokes laid down by the director in front have gathered at this moment into a killer that makes you sad. If you also have some moments of fighting for dignity, you will definitely be infected by them.
"The Unknown" is a tragic song of little people. The performances of Chen Jianbin, Ren Suxi, Zhang Yu, and Wang Yanhui inject souls into these characters. They are no longer the big stars that ordinary audiences can't reach, but the ordinary people around you who will pass by every day. Chen Jianbin put on a dirty jacket, with a gray head and a nosebleed, and he can no longer see the shadow of the emperor who is not angry in "Zhen Huan".
He can not only roll around with hooligans on the construction site, but also pretend to be a police fraud informant knows everything; in front of his daughter and sister, he can't even lift his head because of guilt. The first second you were still laughing at his horrible situation, the next second you would cry for what happened to him. This is the charm of a good character and a good actor.Charm.
