first knew that this movie was in the article on the official account. I thought it was a movie bid for the Olympics this year. I was still thinking about how to bid for the Olympics without being screened before. The result was that the director was called the bid for the Olympics, not the bid for the Oscar foreign language film (the name Really suitable to be a director)... But after watching the trailer, I became very interested, and the producer of the film is Ning Hao, and also the "Bad Monkey 72 Change Film Project" in "Xiu Chun Dao 2" and last year's "Big Fire" The quality of another feature film released after "I'm Not the God of Medicine" should be guaranteed.
This film is adapted from the "Changzhou Wife Killing and Defrauding Case", changing the tone of the case and retaining many details of the original case. Wu Hai, played by Dapeng, is a laborer from the bottom of society. In order to treat his son suffering from asthma, his friend Zhong Zhenjiang, played by Zhang Zixian, was designed to deceive Yue Miaomiao, a low-level network anchor played by Liu Yan, to marry him, to commit murder and deception, and Various funny or warm stories occurred during this process. The degree of completion of the
film is still relatively high. The scene was set in Chongqing, which gave the film a lot of smoke and smoke, like a story that happened around us. The acting skills of the three protagonists are also very online. Liu Yan was pleasantly surprised. Of course, I think the best performer is Zhang Zixian, who interprets Zhong Zhenjiang’s role as treacherous, cheap, and savvy (coordinates are drawn...) It is in place, and it has a comedic effect. I have only watched his performance in "Beijing Women's Guide", "Wandering Earth" and "I am not a medicine god" before, but there are not many scenes. This movie can completely get his acting skills, I hope to see him better The development of ~
"Beneficiary"
Let’s talk about Liu Yan. I watched "Actors Please Get In" a while ago, and she acted as a guest star in "Pink Girl" as a guest star. She was actually very convincing and didn't play any role. This movie is also very pleasant. The acting is very natural. The acting skills are much better than in the previous movies. There is no idol baggage to play ugly, and the camera is very good, but I don’t like it very much. In the end, the close-up where Wu Hai confessed to her in prison, she just cried silently. I admit that she cried beautifully, but as a person who was murdered by her husband and was saved by her husband It’s not that when I heard this incident, I should show some complicated emotions such as surprise, anger, hatred, helplessness, sadness, etc. Maybe I don’t quite understand the director’s intentions. This scene reminds me of the last Song Kanghao in "Memories of Murder". The classic close-up shot of "Please call me by your name", and the last shot of Sweet Tea crying and smiling at the fire, have played a very important role in sublimating the theme of the movie, but the movie’s This paragraph is very general.
"Beneficiary"
finally talked about Dapeng, his appearance is relatively shrewd, but the characters in this movie are also very silly and acting very well, breaking away from the previous image of diaosi, and acting out the sadness of the low-level people. Not bad. However, it may be a problem of character creation. While the plot is advancing, his feelings towards Miaomiao are not progressively expressed. What is good to Miaomiao is basically a routine. She lied to her and couldn't tell how genuine he was. Pretending, including confessing to Miaomiao after being drunk (of course she didn't hear it) and losing his temper on the stairs, you can see his inner struggle, but I don't know if he really falls in love with Miaomiao, or he can't bear it with conscience. Or maybe I feel that Miaomiao is very touched by his son. Of course, people’s feelings are very complicated. Maybe they have all of them. We don’t have to distinguish them. It's just that the inability to distinguish this caused him insufficient motivation for the final transformation. Maybe I would rather let Wu Hai go to save Miaomiao. This event is inevitable rather than random. If you make Wu Hai dislike Miaomiao a little earlier in the film, the problem will be much smaller because the relationship has changed and grown (my humble opinion, don't like it). In contrast, Miaomiao’s emotional change is manifested. A small detail is very interesting. Miaomiao first said that she likes to sleep as soon as she rides in the car. Later, when she went to worship Buddha in the car with Wu Hai, why didn’t she feel so energetic. Girls should understand. The first reason to go to bed in the car was to not want to talk to Wu Haiduo. He was not interested in him. Sleeping would not be embarrassing. Of course, I was very happy to drive out with the person I like.
"Beneficiary"
movie can be given between 3.5 stars to 4 stars, the overall good, the rhythm is a bit problematic, the opening and ending climax scenes are good, the rhythm of the middle emotional progression is a bit slow. There is something like Ning Hao’s shadow in the film. I believe that the trailer said Ning Hao cut it. There are fans on the scene.When this question came up, the director answered decently: Ning Hao is his master, and he has taught him hands-on for three years. He thinks it is normal for his work to be like a master. In fact, I don’t think it’s necessary to be so harsh on new directors. When Ning Hao’s "Crazy Stone" became popular, many people said it was like Gerich’s "Two Smokers". Now how many people say Ning Hao is like Gehry. Odd? The important thing is whether subsequent works have their own style and whether they can establish their own style. There are still a lot of jokes in the film, and most of them are for the plot. This is very clear. For example, Zhong Zhenjiang's carefully designed accident and murder, nothing happened according to his expectations. This reminds me of Hitchcock's "Telephone Murder" theory about the perfect murder: the perfect murder is just a matter of paper, because the story is developed according to the author's thinking, but it is not in real life.
It is worth mentioning that the director explained at the scene why the fraud case was too simplistic, and he did not want to give guidance to the interested person to avoid the occurrence of crimes, because there were many imitation crimes after the film prototype case.
