Original title: People's Art Review: Feel the blend of reality and drama in "The Three Brigades"
The recently released movie "The Three Brigades" can be said to be a topical film from every angle. The script is unconventional, the acting skills of all the members are online, and it is inextricably linked to the real society. Once it was released, it sparked discussion among the audience and won a good box office.
The film is adapted from the documentary literature "Please tell the Director, the mission of the Third Brigade has been completed". It tells the story of the Third Brigade led by Cheng Bing, the captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade, who caused the accidental death of one of the suspects in the process of handling a vicious case and was sentenced to jail. After prison, he still insisted on tracking fugitive suspects as ordinary people.
Major cases in the police and criminal genre are actually a way of expressing the complexity and multi-dimensionality of society. The core of the film is to create characters to show people's different choices when facing changes in fate, as well as the social spirit and values in the current context. pointing. Specifically, it can be shown from three perspectives: time, space, and characters.
In the film, from the beginning of the Third Brigade, as a role model for the police force that repeatedly solves major cases, they shoulder the investigation work of the case, to the time when they accidentally injure people and cause the death of the criminal suspect and serve a sentence in prison, and then to the long 12-year pursuit of the murderer after he was released from prison. Lu, the identity of each character in the three brigades has significant identity changes at different times. Before being imprisoned, they were high-spirited policemen. After being released from prison, each of them had a different identity: Cai Bin sold toys, Ma Zhenkun ran a food stall with his wife, Liao Jian worked in the insurance business, Xu Yizhou became a dog trainer, Cheng Bing In the process of chasing the murderer, he tried different jobs such as air conditioning repairman and water deliveryman. Their lives are represented by time, and they have experienced earth-shaking changes before and after, but they have been trying to pursue and confirm their inner identities. The subtle changes within time construct the narrative of their identities in the period of confusion, exploration, and symbiosis. , and use the mutual emotions between the characters to guide them to revise their identities.
In the end, Xiao Xu gave up chasing the murderer because of love, Ma Zhenkun because of his wife, Liao Jian because of the child, and Cai Bin because of stomach cancer. Only Cheng Bing carried his obsession until his temples turned gray. In this process, the film also uses space to convey this identity narrative. From the incident in Guangdong in 2002 to Tongren, Guizhou in 2013, the space of the pursuit of the murderer across 7 provinces and tens of thousands of kilometers in 12 years has changed. It not only presents the identity of the three brigade. The exploration of identity, and the mixing of images of ordinary people and heroes, reshaped a symbiotic identity, which ultimately led Cheng Bing to discover where the suspect was hiding under his pseudonym while exploring his own identity. At the end of the story, the film does not focus too much on Cheng Bing's real fate after completing his long pursuit of the murderer, but leaves a blank space to give the audience a strong impact.
The reason why police and gangster movies are so popular is that in addition to the fierce scenes of police and gangster struggles, the key lies in the blend of reality and drama. The audience can feel the social spirit and values in the narrative construction of time, space and characters, and can experience similar identity and emotional resonance. Through the superposition of commercial genres and realist themes, domestic films can go deeper into social changes and internal conflicts, reflect on the public's recognition of the value of society, and at the same time promote social progress and development through mutual influence, reflecting the power of highly topical films to drive traffic. Ability and narrative communication advantages.
In the current film and television industry, realism themes still have great potential to be developed. In the process of blending realism themes with commercial film types, in addition to the integration of genre narratives, there are also stylized styles, character typing, image mapping and problems. The profundity aspect has yet to be surpassed. The practice of "Three Brigades" is worth thinking about. (Author: Xie Yang)
