movie "Morning Cloud and Mud Rain" made Fan Wei win the Best Actor at this year's Beijing Film Festival, and he deserved it. Because I’ve seen it, I feel that if it weren’t for him, this movie would have faced a lot of controversy. I won’t spoil it for now as it won’t be released for a few days. But the conclusion can be said first: Fan Wei easily absorbs the seemingly unbearable things in life into his performance, and then digests them into a refreshing Taoist fairy style. You can't imagine how strange it would be for an old man to star with Zhou Dongyu and have to seriously discuss when to have a wedding and whether to have children. Especially in today's relatively conservative public opinion environment, actors need to take on the responsibility of protecting Character Purity Mission. Therefore, Fan Wei is really a clean old man.
His performance is clean, if it is more it will be kitsch, if it is less it will be artificial. From Lao She's novel, in screenwriter Mei Feng's directorial debut "No Problem", Teacher Fan is the performance that has been sealed in my heart. This kind of black-and-white film relies heavily on the formal sense of audio-visual language to make people feel high-end and tasteful. This effect is also a double-edged sword. The actors cannot act in a particularly life-like manner, otherwise it will appear very noisy and childish; but on the other hand, , but it shouldn’t be too fashionable, too theatrical or even too outrageous. The black and white image itself is a kind of boring and restrained aesthetics.
Therefore, Director Ding, played by Fan Wei, is a person who has a sense of proportion engraved into his soul. Every morning when he goes out, he has to prepare himself in front of the mirror, go into battle, and live in human skin. Fan Wei came up with this smooth performance himself. It is really brilliant. Without using too much force, he can outline the disobedience and division of a workplace person to the bone. Coincidentally, there is also a black and white film "Nanjing!" "Nanjing" also shows Fan Wei's sense of proportion in handling the characters, cleanly and neatly. He left Mr. Tang as a husband and a man until the last moment, while at other times he shrank in embarrassment and fear, which was very real and believable.
The strange thing is that no matter what actress is paired with Fan Wei, there will be a "clean" way of thinking about the theme of human nature, neither guessing how they got together nor observing their intimate interactions, just like Fan Wei The roles of women are randomly assigned to women by God, so be it. The audience will only follow the characters and the plot to think, are they happy together, or are they tortured? Life is really hard. A typical example is his collaboration with Zhang Jingchu " Fragrance Journey" etc. Another strange thing is that even in suspense stories such as "The Long Season" and "Broken Bridge", regardless of the villain or villain, Fan Wei will have some heart-wrenching moments of grievance, especially when dealing with family relationships. Frankly speaking, Fan Wei actually removed the matter of love from the relationship between the characters. This is not to complain about his lack of masculinity. Rather, after a cross talk actor enters the big screen, he directly enters a spiritual realm close to philosophy. This is very peculiar, not dirty, not boring and blank, in fact it is in line with the aesthetic taste of Eastern people. Just like dry landscape, like bonsai, like a pure bottle. Many people like and pursue the power and beauty of blood when they are young, but after middle age, they know how to get rid of the loneliness and beauty of simplicity. Cleanliness is actually a very cruel value orientation. For actors, it requires your concentration and restraint, but for human nature, it means that you are actually depressed and lonely.
