Cao Baoping's film narrative style can be summarized as follows: the mist-shrouded plot is mixed with all kinds of messy foreshadowing and details. When the audience is a little confused, he explains the story clearly to the audience at the end, and finally uses the truth To burn the hearts of the audience.
"Crossing the Angry Sea" can be said to be a very Cao Baoping-style movie. It is large enough, the picture is cold enough, the content is hot enough, and there are enough foreshadowings and details. Sometimes it is easy to miss it if you don't look carefully. .
This article sorts out nine major details of "Wading the Angry Sea" and shares them with the audience.
1. Lao Jin seriously lied
Lao Jin once received a call from Jin Lina when he was leading a fishing fleet at sea. It was when she committed suicide. Lao Jin later said that he answered the call at that time, but there was no sound on the other side. In fact, Lao Jin Jin lied, and it was serious. His cell phone clearly showed missed call, and he didn't answer the call at all.
This is foreshadowed in the movie. In order not to interrupt his work, Lao Jin even unplugged the phone line on the ship. It can be seen that he was very reluctant to answer the phone when he was at sea, including his daughter's phone call.
After his daughter passed away, Lao Jin did not dare to tell others that he did not answer the phone, because it was very likely that the phone call would determine Jin Lina's life or death, which was also the most painful thing for Lao Jin.
2. Lao Jin wants to save face at all costs
Jin Lina’s classmate asked Lao Jin if he knew she had a boyfriend. Lao Jin first said that he knew, but then changed his story when he was embarrassed. This detail illustrates Lao Jin’s characteristic of wanting to save face and suffer.
The main reason why Lao Jin lied was because his ex-wife Gu Hong was present, and he didn't want Gu Hong to see that he didn't care enough about Jin Lina.
Gu Hong must have been exposed to a lot of Jin Lina's past affairs when dealing with her daughter's funeral, including the mobile phone she left behind. Therefore, she must also know how Jin Lina felt about Lao Jin, so she decided to let Lao Jin Never try to find your daughter's grave.
3. Lao Jin wants to save face 2
At first, the audience understood Lao Jin’s anger as his feelings for his daughter. This is the anger that any father can understand, but during the conversation between Lao Jin and the Japanese police officer, he also revealed that Another mentality is "Dare to mess with my daughter, Lao Jin". The implication is that this is a serious loss of face.
Lao Jin manages more than 30 fishing boats and is very prestigious among the fishermen. He also cares about this prestige. It is indeed right to abandon his family and career in order to lead the fishermen to get rich, but he may still care too much about himself. To save face and neglect the family.
Lao Jin attaches great importance to face, even the Japanese police noticed.
4. Black carp streamer
At the beginning of the movie "Walking in the Angry Sea", Jin Lina was participating in a local festival in Japan. The teacher introduced that the black carp streamer represented her father. As a result, the black carp streamer quickly sank in the water.
I believe that viewers who are familiar with the rhythm of suspense films and Cao Baoping's film style have already guessed by now that this story is not just as simple as a case, it is likely to involve family and fatherly love, and Jin Lina's father Lao Jin is definitely a complicated person. The characters and the results were certainly correct.
5. Birthday and good feelings
Jin Lina met Li Miaomiao when she was working in Japan. Facing the very attentive waiter Jin Lina, Li Miaomiao gave her a cake like a veteran in love, because it was Jin Lina's birthday.
Jin Lina's birthday is on the same day as Japan's Iris Festival. Her nameplate says Iris, so Li Miaomiao only needs to be careful to guess it.
Of course, Li Miaomiao may have just wanted to flirt with girls at first, but what she didn’t expect was that for a girl who had lacked the care of her relatives for a long time, this incident had a great impact on her, and it also made Jin Lina develop a liking for Li Miaomiao. .
6. Teeth and Love
Li Miaomiao had a chaotic attitude towards Jin Lina at first, but after Jin Lina gave up on herself, Li Miaomiao found that he had a special feeling for Jin Lina, so he killed the little turtle as a prank and let the Japanese boy Broken front tooth.
Jin Lina originally wanted to take revenge on Li Miaomiao, so she naturally would not miss this opportunity. Unexpectedly, Li Miaomiao did not hesitate to use pliers to break off her front teeth, scaring away the Japanese boy.
This move is two-way. On the one hand, Li Miaomiao also wants to prove his feelings for Jin Lina. On the other hand, Jin Lina also sees Li Miaomiao's feelings for her, so the love between the two collides and sparks.
7. Li Miaomiao's sister
Before escaping, Li Miaomiao sent a clown box to her half-sister by courier. This box contained a hidden mechanism that sprayed water when opened.
The movie did not indicate what kind of water it was, but according to the trailer, it should be a corrosive liquid that caused serious injuries to Li Lie's wife and daughter's faces. The wounds were horrific.
This detail shows that the relationship between Li Miaomiao and Li Lie has completely broken down. Not only does he not trust his biological father at all, he even wants to ruthlessly retaliate against the other party.
8. Li Lie's hidden murderous intention
After returning to China, Lao Jin went to Li Lie's villa to look for Li Miaomiao. He broke the door, injured people and scared the children. Under normal circumstances, as long as Li Lie called the police, Lao Jin would definitely not just detain him. The question is, if you break into a house with a weapon and injure the owner, no matter what the reason is, it is enough for him to drink a pot.
But Li Lie took the initiative to let Lao Jin leave. From this moment on, many viewers would conclude that Li Lie wanted to kill Li Miaomiao. With Lao Jin’s mental state and ruthlessness, once he caught Li Miaomiao, it would almost be a disaster. murder.
Even if Lao Jin can't catch Li Miaomiao, he can just bring his ex-wife Jing Lan back and force the mother and son to show up. Then Li Lie will send someone to capture Li Miaomiao and hand it over to the police, in order to take revenge on his ex-wife.
In essence, Li Lie's inner thoughts were similar to Lao Jin's. Based on his understanding of Li Miaomiao, he would also believe that Li Miaomiao was the murderer.
After Li Miaomiao used toys to assassinate Li Lie's wife and daughter, Li Lie had already made murderous intentions, but he still needed Lao Jin's "cooperation".
The subtitles at the end of the movie show that Officer Dai Zhen was punished for violating discipline. There are various signs that it was not Jing Lan who secretly asked Dai Zhen to let Lao Jin go many times, but Li Lie behind the scenes.
You must know that Lao Jin set a fire in the basement of Jing Lan's house and triggered a fire alarm. This matter was definitely not something Jing Lan could bring down without a single word of investigation. Dai Zhen did have a problem with Lao Jin's attitude. To a certain extent, he should also be cooperating with Li strong.
9. Pesticides and Father
Jin Lina recorded a dream of hers during her lifetime. In this dream, she saw Lao Jin’s body hanging in the sky. The air at this time was foggy, and she choked with the smell of pesticides. Straight cough.
These details all depict the scene where Lao Jin holds Xiao Na and sprays the cat with mosquito repellent. This shows how much psychological damage this incident caused to Jin Lina in her childhood.
The daughter saw her father being hanged. This scene was praised by some netizens as the best movie scene of the year. It was extremely shocking and made people unable to help but look at themselves. Especially the audience who are parents will be more or less aware of it after watching the movie. There is some heart-burning feeling.
