In April, which seemed deserted, the film market actually picked up along with the weather.
Starting from " Godzilla vs. Kong " to Hayao Miyazaki's new work " What kind of life do you want to live ", it seems that the mainland market has also become the most promising fat cake for foreign blockbusters.
In addition, "The World of Grass and Trees" can also be ranked among the best with a small cost, which is also surprising. Although
cannot compete with Hayao Miyazaki, it has a simple lineup and an unpalatable subject matter, and it can close to the first place in the box office. This record is actually really good.
Zhuyu first, " All-or-Nothing " unexpectedly became popular, and " Grass and Trees in the World " will undoubtedly be even more difficult to create another miracle. Fortunately,
has powerful celebrities. Jiang Qinqin , Chen Jianbin and Wu Lei can completely support the whole audience.
Looking at this trend, it should be a niche work with a good reputation.
However, when you click on the comment area, the style of the picture is reversed -
"very ugly, very fragmented", "pretending to be profound and incomprehensible", "a mess, spending money to suffer" and so on.
Obviously the production team and cast are considered safe, but why has "The World of Grass and Trees" been bombarded with such surprisingly unanimous negative reviews?
Don't worry, the show has already begun -
The plot is divided before and after
In fact, the core content of "The World of Plants and Trees" is really good. A single mother raised her child alone to grow up, and she made good sisters while doing tea picking work.
However, he was still disliked by his boyfriend's mother, was driven out of the mountain, and stepped into the abyss of pyramid schemes. The mutual redemption of mother and son and the examination of human nature are all breaking points.
Even when I looked at the front, I thought it was quite good. The slow pace of
can fully appreciate the director's storytelling ability, and the huge contrast between the characters before and after is also reasonable.
But in the end, in order to forcefully increase its value, it changed from a drama full of contradictions to an obscure literary film.
After the male protagonist’s mother became insane, the plot of the male protagonist going up the mountain was not clearly expressed, and it jumped directly to the child carrying his mother up the mountain.
Then the two people suddenly fell into the lake one after another, and then the mother woke up and saw the tiger again. The director
wanted to compare desire to a man-eating tiger, and had the mother in the film wash her body naked in the lake, indicating that the whole person has been purified and reborn.
However, all this is completely different from the previous expression method and style. The audience was confused and no specific and clear results were given.
The picture is overwhelming
Also in the first half, the constantly interspersed beautiful scenery really made my eyes shine.
After watching a lot of commercial films, "The World of Grass and Trees" can tell a story, capture the beautiful scenery of Hangzhou in a unique way, and integrate it into the plot, which is really eye-catching.
It can be seen that the director is very good at shooting documentaries.
But in the final analysis, the picture still serves the plot. First, the story must be told clearly, and secondly, the audience can feel the visual enjoyment.
There are already a lot of mountain scenery interspersed in the front, which is fascinating and it is time to get down to the main topic. However, at the end of the most critical plot, a large number of empty shots are still used to fill it up, and the audience will inevitably feel that it is a drama.
No matter how beautiful the picture is, it is still a shallow visual enjoyment. During the movie watching, from the initial surprise, you will have a sense of déjà vu as a promotional film.
When conflicts and conflicts come up quickly, the scenery far away from the hustle and bustle of the world can no longer satisfy the audience's curiosity.
In fact, after watching the end, I even thought that maybe it was because the director could not make an ending that satisfied him.
is unwilling to settle for a mediocre ending, and cannot think of a more surprising and advanced ending, so it can only use intention to deliberately elevate it. In fact, it will only make people's heads full of questions.
The acting skills of the actors are good, but there is no character blessing.
In terms of character design, "The World of Grass and Trees" is actually quite clever.
did not ask three actors to play a family of three as usual. Jiang Qinqin and Wu Lei fit the characters very well.
The audience can fully feel that the actors have exerted their strength to the extreme, and they also worked hard in the explosive scenes.
But, to be honest, the character setting in the play itself is relatively simple, and even if the actors try their best, they cannot fully portray the characters.
Take the most interesting heroine Wu Taihua (played by Jiang Qinqin) as an example. The gap between the front and back is easy to play. From a poor and down-to-earth woman, to a well-dressed, flamboyant and brainwashed deceiver, to a mental disorder overnight. .
has no problem at all with Jiang Qinqin’s acting skills.
But the details need to be foreshadowed by a plot.
It’s not that the actors acted without details, but it was simply not written in the plot, leaving no room for the actors to express themselves.
What the audience saw was that this woman suddenly changed her personality and suddenly went crazy again, unable to feel the specific suffering in her heart.
In contrast, "All or Nothing" depicts the characters vividly and the group portraits are full, so the audience was indignant and passionate when watching it.
At the same time, Chen Jianbin’s role is completely that of a tool man.
This man appears insignificantly in the play, showing neither the love between middle-aged people nor the simplicity or cunning of the tea-picking boss.
has almost no color. After watching the film, I can't even remember what role the character played.
Even without Chen Jianbin, Jiang Qinqin and Wu Lei could have acted in the entire film.
Chen Jianbin seems to have been forced in to support his wife's career. It really wasted the tacit understanding between the two of them for many years, as well as Chen Jianbin's acting skills.
While watching the movie, I even felt that Chen Jianbin actually wanted to add some drama and use more pen and ink to portray his characters, but unfortunately the space was too narrow.
Even if he was asked to play a policeman who communicates with boys, he might be more brilliant.
In my opinion, the emergence of a well-received masterpiece requires mutual success between the director and the actors. The director
designed clips for the actors to highlight their acting skills, but the integrity of the story fell short. No matter how good the actors were, the script could not be written off.
Conclusion
In my opinion, the director should also have experienced a long period of self-contradiction in the process of creating "The World of Grass and Trees".
It is not difficult to see that he is very comfortable in shooting scenery or pseudo-documentary techniques, but if he wants to retain the audience, he must add contradictions.
is added, and it is difficult to take it back at the end. The emotions that were finally raised suddenly have no place to release, and the audience feels very awkward.
saw the success of "All or Nothing" and wanted to imitate it, but he couldn't let go of the regional cultural characteristics that he wanted to promote most, so the film was shot in a way that was both local and foreign.
At the same time, Hayao Miyazaki, who has many fans, is also on the stage. No matter how strong the early publicity is, it will be in vain if the word of mouth cannot stand up.
I don’t know which movie you chose to watch during this holiday?
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