After seeing "The Later Us" was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Feature Film, many viewers were very surprised. After all, the weight of other films that also received this nomination was heavier than one: "Earth is Long", "I'm Not a Medicine" "God", "Wandering Earth", "Gutian Bugle", which one is not so praised?
can occupy a place in so many excellent movies, this movie should also have its own uniqueness. With this idea, I opened the movie.
Unfortunately, it turns out that it is really bad. Although there are certain merits, these advantages are not enough to cover up the nature of its vulgarity. I am sorry to say that Liu Ruoying's directorial debut is not qualified.
first talk about the highlights in the movie
The first highlight is Tian Zhuangzhuang's interpretation of the role of Father Lin.
A yellowish apron, a black woolen cap, a pair of sleeves, a somewhat rickety figure, while saying "I will have the New Year's Eve dinner in a while", while adding a spoonful of soup for the child, one is not good at expressing cold face That's how the image of the ardent rural father stood up.
Tian Zhuangzhuang is not a professional actor, but as a representative of the fifth generation of directors, he taught many actors from academic classes a lesson. Long before the start of the movie, he went to the northeastern countryside to experience life, putting himself in that environment, and his all-round observation and thinking made his performances natural and vivid.
At the end of the film, the letter from Father Lin even provided the biggest tear point in the film, "If you can live up to your fate, it’s really hard to live up to this life," he said. The sense of disobedience is not so heavy, coupled with the lonely figure of him roasting in the house in the middle of winter, even if I haven't watched the whole film, watching this clip will make people nasty.
The second is about color switching. The
film set up two lines, one is the memory of color, and the other is black and white. Now, until the middle of the film, the reason for this arrangement is revealed through the game setting: Ian of Kelly cannot be found, the world loses its color , Heralding the loss of Xiao Xiao's vision, and from now on the world is only black and white.
Color is an important visual element in film art. It can not only explain the background and set off the atmosphere, but also convey emotions, express ideas, and arouse the emotional resonance of the audience.
Liu Ruoying cleverly uses bright, bright colors to photograph memories, and expresses reality in a more sad and silent black and white. Past expectations, misses between beauty and reality, and regrets continue to intersect. The memories have not faded, but have become more and more profound with the development of time , The reality clearly looks glamorous, but it fades into original black and white, bringing strong visual contrast and impact to the audience.
Next, let’s talk about where it is.
is first of all a labeled life in the north. The time of the
movie was set up in the ten years from 2007 to 2018, and life in Bei Diao took up a large part of it. Obviously, it can be seen that the directors and screenwriters lack in-depth understanding of the real life of the post-80s generation in North Drift, and the shallow cognition has caused many things to float on the surface without a foothold.
is also an entrepreneurial computer science college student. Friends can work in large companies, but the male protagonist has to make a living by selling pornographic films, serving as customer service, and delivering takeaways. After his games have become popular throughout the city, he can work in the same company. It is unavoidable to give birth to the feeling of torture and suffering for the sake of suffering. The life of Bei Piao depicted in the movie
is similar to that in many works. It feels like the life of Bei Piao is like this after watching a few TV series, so I moved the imaginary picture to the big screen, but you can listen to it. Listening to the true thoughts of the Bei Piao clan will not make the film look so homogenous and false.
followed by blunt lines.
"My biggest regret is that your regret is related to me." "You will find that person, to hold the moon for you nine days, and to catch turtles in the five oceans" "The sad thing is, I have no power to mourn, my biggest sorrow is No power to do anything for you"
Can you imagine that these conversations are everyday conversations that happen in real life?
There is a serious sense of separation between the lines of too literary and artistic expressions and the images of the characters. These lines do not seem to be spoken by the ordinary people at all. What are they like? Fiction. And it is a youthful romance novel lacking logic. The language of this novel style of
really doesn’t match the reality-oriented little characters, and the whole movie looks nondescript. Say it is a literary film, the commercial atmosphere is too strong, say it is a commercial film, but the lines are stillSo literary. The
film did deceive many tears of idiotic men and women, such as "later we have everything, but no us", "happiness is not a story, misfortune is" and other golden phrases are widely spread, but this is a movie Rather than PPT or MV, is there any difference between this "golden sentence" of forced sensationalism and art and the emotional chicken soup flooding on the Internet? The worst thing about
is this old story.
Love collides with reality. Young poor men and women meet the right person at an inappropriate time, and they are finally torn apart by reality. After many years, they have everything but miss the one they loved. I don’t know how many novels, movies, and TV series have been filmed for stories like
. In fact, these things can be summed up in one song, "Later" or "Young Talents". Instead of wasting two hours to watch this stinky long movie, it is better to watch the song MV, which is cheaper and can be edited many times.
uses the same routine to market emotional sales feelings every time, relying on these things every time to earn audience tears. Recalling the predecessor, reminiscing about the past, reminiscing about the past, "Predecessor Strategy", "To Youth", "If Love", "Later Us"... the same themes are staged over and over again, and the audience is already aesthetically tired.
Even if you still want to tell such a missed story, you can tell it more innovatively. The narrative method and the core of the story need to conflict to a certain extent in order to enhance the overall appeal and viewing of the film.
, instead of presenting a sad story with the same sad tone like "Later Us", the whole film lacks ups and downs, and you can know the end by looking at the beginning. This is very fatal. The expected development is destined for this. This movie has no vitality.
Generally speaking, this is a very Liu Ruoying movie. A large part of the literary atmosphere is due to her literary mind. She did use her color and lines, as well as the casting. It was successful, but maybe it was because of the long history of literature and art, and the lack of the scent of fireworks, which caused the movie to fall into a cliché. The final effect was not very good. The
movie can of course sell feelings, but it cannot be so simple and straightforward to tell the audience "I am consuming feelings, you must cry". Mature directors will use clever ways to wrap it, making the audience willing to pay for it invisibly. Like "Top Player" and "City of Philharmonic".
