It’s been more than a month, and the summer season is just mediocre.
finally ushered in a revenge movie " silently kills ".
won the box office championship on the first day it was released. The total box office is also expected to rise and now reaches 1.27 billion.
With the audience’s feedback and word-of-mouth fermentation, I believe this number will continue to rise, and it is possible to replicate the box office miracle created by last year’s “: The Disappearance of Her ”.
Before "Silent Kill" was released, it had the slogan "Minors choose to watch carefully", and I thought it was just a gimmick at first.
After watching the movie, I didn’t expect the scale to be so large, and the sense of suspense hung on the fans until the end.
The final twist in the story makes movie fans dream back to Zhang Zifeng's evil smile in " Chinatown Detective ".
And the classic line "My husband planted kumquats" will definitely become a hot meme this year. The movie
is a movie about school bullying, but in fact it is more like a revenge movie.
It is more thorough in terms of emotional release than " Crossing the Angry Sea ". Like " Young You ", it explores the topic of school bullying.
1. Ke Wenli knows how to make crime suspense films. At the end, I would like to thank Chen Sicheng
. If we talk about the most successful commercial film directors in China in the past 10 years, we must not avoid Chen Sicheng. His "Detective Chinatown" series has a cumulative box office of more than 87 100 million.
The "Manslaughter" series, "三级" and "The Disappearance of Her" produced by him were also box office hits.
At the end of the movie, Ke Wenli specially thanked Chen Sicheng for his kindness. Without Chen Sicheng, perhaps there would be no new version of "Silent Kill".
In 2018, newcomer Ke Wenli graduated from graduate school and shot his debut film "Silent Kill" inspired by social news.
received an invitation from Chen Sicheng’s team during the later stages of film production, which changed the trajectory of his life.
took over the filming of "Manslaughter", and Ke Wenli's "Manslaughter" was delayed. It was not until the Shanghai Film Festival in June last year that it met the domestic audience.
However, due to problems with the male lead, the movie could not be released, so there was an upgraded version of "Silence".
Ke Wenli, who made his remake debut, is no longer the rookie he was before, but a mature filmmaker who has worked with top commercial film director Chen Sicheng in "Manslaughter" and the web drama "Detective Chinatown".
Chen Sicheng's Tang Detective series uses a classic comedy combination of mindless and unhappy, and on this basis it incorporates character reasoning and action elements.
To put it nicely, this is called Ji Dacheng, but if you are not polite, it is also called Suture Monster, but no one can deny his commercial success.
As the "successor" of Chen Sicheng, Ke Wenli has achieved the ultimate in crime suspense. "Silent Kill" has an astonishing scale in the crime theme and faces the cruelty of school bullying.
also makes a breakthrough in taking revenge on the perpetrator through the characters in the movie. The suspenseful atmosphere never leaks out, and the plot setting can even achieve the reversal and reversal that he is good at.
If you like commercial films of the same type, this movie must not be missed. Otherwise, please watch the movie with the same caution as minors.
The following content contains minor spoilers.
2, based on the news, but it is a brand new story
Fans who are familiar with Ke Wenli's creative process may worry that "Silence" was inspired by news events, so will this story become stale and lose suspense early on?
After watching the movie, I found that this worry was completely unnecessary.
The core of Ke Wenli's film is taken from the revelation given to him by the news that "collective silence can kill people."
The overall appearance of the story, especially the development and ending, is completely divorced from the real cases in the news.
Perpetrators of campus bullying often do not receive the punishment they deserve due to the protection of the perpetrator's minor status.
The victim may live in the shadow of it all his life, or even commit suicide. This has become a difficult situation for many people in the real world.
Do you still remember Hu Xiaodie who jumped off the building in the movie "Young You"? If Chen Nian hadn't met Xiaobei, her ending would not have been much better, but the trio of evil women headed by Wei Lai could get away with it.
The breakthrough of "Silent Kill" is to "revenge" the perpetrators through the movie. It conveys the extremely simple public emotional needs, and those who bully and harm people's lives will also pay the same price.
In the movie Wang Chuanjun , the father Lin Zaifu raised the hammer of anger in despair, just because no one gave his daughter who was bullied and died fair and justice.
Junning Zhang plays the mother Li Han. Her character carries the reversal in the middle of the film. Is the mother's behavior of beating her daughter excessive discipline or addiction to abuse?
The answer to this mystery will not be revealed until the last scene of the movie. It may just be the long-term stress reaction of a sad and self-blaming mother.
3, all villains, top actors perform on the same stage, but the biggest surprise is that she is the youngest.
The acting skills of this movie are guaranteed, and the basic support of this movie is Wang Chuanjun and Zhang Junning.
Jin Shijie and Wu Zhenyu performed quite well, Cai Ming brought unexpected joy through just a few performances.
But the biggest surprise comes from Xiaotong played by Wang Shengdi.
can even be said to set the mood for the entire movie. It is only the climax of the movie where Xiaotong smiles after her revenge is successful, which can be called a famous scene in the movie.
can be compared with Zhang Zifeng’s evil smile in Tang Detective.
The father played by Wang Chuanjun is relatively simple in setting. The difficulty lies in how to create a flesh-and-blood and real character.
His daughter is a special group of people from the stars. Originally, their father and daughter had the best time together.
Lin Zaifu's daughter is played by Xu Jiao. This simple-minded girl was forced by bullies to stand on the glass patio for a pigeon.
And the most ironic thing is that at her feet is a choir singing hymns led by a priest played by Jin Shijie.
No language can express the theme of the movie better than this movie scene, that is, "silence can kill."
In the movie, it is not only the priest who is silent, but also the classmates, the school security guard, Li Han's matter has nothing to do with him and regrets it is too late, and the bully's father is also the principal of the school.
The deaths of the girls, none of these silent people are innocent.
Originally, the "Queen of Sketch" Cai Ming joined the cast, which made people sweat, but Jiang is still very old and spicy. She made the character hateful with just a few lines.
When someone else’s daughter died and she was looking for evidence to hand out flyers, she said, “I don’t have the skills.” As a landlord, when she learned that her tenant might be dead, her reaction was, “Isn’t this becoming a haunted house?”
No wonder Junning Chang got hammered in the movie, it really helped the fans to relieve their anger.
The biggest surprise and the biggest provider of pleasure in this movie is none other than Xiaotong played by Wang Shengdi.
Initially, under the misdirection of the director, she was portrayed as a simple victim of bullying, but in fact, the cruelty in her bones is simply innate.
I originally thought that she was the catalyst for the "Kumquat planted by my husband" incident, but in fact she was the ruthless person who took the knife first.
As for what "Kumquat planted by my husband" is, in order not to affect your movie-watching experience, I hope you can go find it in the movie. I believe you will get a knowing smile when the answer is revealed.
Xiaotong chose to remain silent because of the domestic violence she suffered when she was 9 years old. She was mistaken for being mute, and why she did not speak became one of the biggest suspenses during the movie.
Summary
This movie is rated 6.9, which is average and not perfect; such as the accumulation of crime incidents and spectacles may make some viewers feel uncomfortable.
and Ke Wenli, as a director, were too ambitious and caused an overload of various elements, especially the attempt at religious lines, which was far from the norm.
has its flaws, but it is definitely a movie of the same type that is full of content and full of emotional release.
When the subtitles drop, a movie should come to an end.
Christopher Nolan has publicly criticized Hollywood movies for this, especially the double easter eggs produced by Marvel. He believes that this is a kitsch behavior for movie fans.
"Silent Kill" gave Xiaotong a free ending with blue sky and white clouds before the subtitles fell, but after the subtitles fell, it gave a pseudo ending that seemed to be forced to be correct.
When I re-examine Nolan’s views on movie Easter eggs, I can’t help but want to correct it: for some special reasons, Easter eggs are allowed.
But this easter egg is indeed unnecessary. Some netizens said that this is a major failure of the movie. What do you think? (Written by Mu Weizhou)
