summer season, the market performance has been relatively flat. However, with the release of the movie " silently kills " on July 3, the market finally ushered in the long-lost popularity.
"'Silence' is the best-performing film at the box office since the summer." Zhang, manager of Anise International Cinema, told reporters. On the first day of its release, the film's film schedule was as high as 30.3%, and it earned 67.02 million yuan at the box office that day, which also helped the overall box office reach 126 million yuan that day. In the next three days, the film performed equally well. It was released for four days and achieved a box office of 442 million yuan. "The market has not seen such a popular film for a long time."
"Silent Kill" is directed by Ke Wenli, starring Junning Zhang, Starring Wang Chuanjun , Cai Ming and others. This is a remake. Ke Wenli filmed his first feature film "Silent Kill" as early as 2018. It is his graduation work during his graduate school, starring Huang Jianwei, Yin Xin, etc., and will be released in 2023 The Shanghai International Film Festival's "Chinese New Style Unit" currently has a score of 7.8 on Douban and has a very good reputation.
The original "Silent Kill" laid a good foundation for this remake. Co Wenli introduced a new cast, but still retained the basis of the previous work in terms of content. The story of the new work takes place in a school called "Jinghua Girls' High School" on a small Pacific island. The girl Chen Yutong (played by Wang Shengdi) belongs to a special group and has been bullied on campus for a long time. Although Li Han (played by Zhang Junning), the mother of a female worker at school, tried her best to protect her daughter, it was to no avail. The strange thing is that the girls who bullied Chen Yutong disappeared one by one, and soon, Chen Yutong also disappeared. With the intervention of the police, a man named Lin Zaifu (played by Wang Chuanjun) came into the sight of the police and Li Han. As the plot develops, there is a hidden secret behind every character involved in the case. Who is the good guy and who is the bad guy? Bad guy? It won't be revealed until the end of the story.
"Silent Kill" continues the style of the 2019 film "Manslaughter" directed by Ke Wenli, with special emphasis on "strong plot and fast pace". The film was triggered by a campus bullying incident, but this was just an introduction. The film soon transitioned to the scene of several bullying girls being beaten to death by a masked man wearing a black raincoat. After that, Chen Yutong disappeared, Li Han searched everywhere for his daughter's whereabouts, and the police also got involved, and the film began to shift into a suspense film. As the plot unfolds, various characters begin to appear. Different from other suspense crime films, the film does not simply focus on the analysis of solving the case, but digs into the complex motives and respective situations of each character in this murder. For example, the police chief Dai Guodong played by Wu Zhenyu neglected to educate his son, turning the latter into an unscrupulous person who likes to hide in the dark and secretly take photos; Li Han seems to love his daughter deeply, but he has always believed in "keeping his daughter safe" since he was a child. "For" long-term "domestic violence" against Chen Yutong; Fang Juezhong, played by Jin Shijie, preaches to others all day long, but in fact he is a weak person at heart. The exploration of the depth of human nature enriches the connotation of the character, and also highlights the theme of "sometimes silence can kill" that Ke Wenli wants to express. Indifference that has nothing to do with oneself has largely led to the occurrence of tragedy, which makes The film has the function of enlightenment and warning.
Father Lin Zaifu, played by Wang Chuanjun, is the focus of the film. The film describes the warm moments when he and his autistic daughter depended on each other despite a difficult life. However, his daughter suddenly fell to death, which eventually led to him becoming a terrifying avenger. The film leaves a space for the audience to think about how a formerly docile and even humble little person turned out to be the opposite.
In terms of plot design, "Silent Kill" adopts the most popular "layer-by-layer reversal" structure. After a simple bullying incident, the story began to undergo a series of reversals, which continuously brought emotional impact to the audience. Especially at the end of the film, the missing Chen Yutong and the kumquats planted on the balcony pushed the suspense of the story to its climax and gave the audience a strong sense of pleasure watching the film. As one netizen commented, "The film is very enjoyable to watch. The further it goes, the more eye-catching it becomes. Who would have thought that there are so many sins hidden under the main line of the mother saving her daughter? It is very suitable for netizens to discuss and interpret after the release." ."
However, while the film emphasized "strong plot and fast pace", it also received criticism from some viewers, especially because there were many bloody and violent scenes in the film. For example, at the beginning of the film, Chen Yutong was tied to the wall by her classmates , and covered her whole body with glue; although Lin did not directly show the expression of the victim when he was killed by the hammer, Wang Chuanjun's performance still made people feel frightened. Reminder, as the movie has not yet been rated, some uninformed parents may take their children into the theater to watch it.
The current Douban score of "Silence" is 6.8, which is much lower than the original. Audiences believe that the overly coincidental plot of the film is illogical when examined in detail, especially since there is almost no complete good person in the film. For example, Li Han searches frantically for his daughter at the beginning and seems to be a loving mother, but then suddenly turns into an "abusive person". "My daughter's mother", she soon became a victim of domestic violence in marriage. Even when her daughter was sexually assaulted, she chose to retreat. "It feels like the script was generated by AI."
