does not tolerate heroes, so it makes Zhuzi a big seller. The script kills the movie consuming women but they think they have depth.
Every time Chen Sicheng, his team, and his successors become a hit, they poison mainland Chinese cinema movies.
saw the poster of " silently kills ", Ke Wenli (the movie "Manslaughter" and the web drama " Chinatown Detective "), Zhang Junning (" hides the mystery of the sea "), it seems to be a humid atmosphere in the tropical rainy season , and the official WeChat publicity slogan is "suspense and twists and turns". Three big words have penetrated from this picture: Chen Sicheng.
"Manslaughter 1", " Manslaughter 2", " She Disappeared " all bought the rights to old movies. "Silence" is different. The original version is also the work of Malaysian director Ke Wenli. According to Taiwan news, it was filmed in 2018. Only a few film festivals have shown it. The original actor Huang Jianwei was also accused during the metoo movement in Taiwan. . The remake version now released by
was shot for the mainland market, with more stars recognized by mainland audiences. The story is set on a "certain island in the Pacific" and is said to have weakened the religious background.
Many viewers commented on the Douban short review because of the ending of "You can escape everything after fighting back". After all, the audience in mainland theaters had been holding it in for so long that even before they saw the subtitles "So-and-so was arrested and brought to justice in accordance with the law," they would shout "How dare you film it."
But the "Special Thanks to Chen Sicheng" at the end of the movie's subtitles can reflect the essence of the entire movie.
Suspended setting in Southeast Asia, forced reversal of the script's killing style, and consumer exploitation of female characters (while pretending to have depth) - Chen Sicheng's three major blockbuster hits, "Silent Kill" has them all and carries them forward.
(The following is full of spoilers)
The starting point of the story of "Silent Kill" is campus bullying in a girls' school, and the bullying of girls against girls is filmed in great detail.
There is bullying between girls, but why is it girl against girl? What is behind this bullying sentiment? What does social culture instill in girls?
The bullying scene in "Dark Glory" at least showed the boys standing aside and watching. The "female bully" Yanzhen is always in a "female competition" mentality. She wants to please Quan Zaijun, She wants to play the role of the "all-around good woman" and the "winner in life" considered by society. (Although the details of the humiliating punishment of women at the end of "Dark Glory" still contain a certain misogyny.)
The plot of "Silent Kill" arranges for girls to bully girls, and several bullies are murdered. All the female characters were tall, thin and beautiful girls, wearing student uniforms, small skirts and slender legs. First he bullied people, and then he was killed. In the picture, he still had a small skirt and slender legs, and he was buried and hung.
When the camera swept over the skirts and slender arms and legs of the girls set as "abusers" again and again, they unscrupulously photographed their young bodies and looks but died miserably. My head was screaming, no, that's not it. You don't care about bullying at all, you just want to be found guilty and then confidently film "Bad Girls Die Tragic Death", telling the story of a female middle school student who committed suicide and died, with her slender legs exposed under her short skirt.
The bullying scene was also very disturbing to the audience.
In the first bullying scene, the bully used glue to stick the girl to the wall and then sealed her mouth with glue. The whole bullying scene is made up of the victim nailed to the wall like the crucifixion of Christ. In the second bullying scene, the girls bullied a mentally disabled girl and put a crown of roses on her head, and the thorns pricked the girl's forehead. Perhaps there is a more explicit religious or cult reference in the original version, which most people have not seen. But just looking at the current version released in Mainland China, the whole scene seems to have some kind of bad taste, smearing glue on the girl's mouth and force-feeding something into the girl's mouth.
How does bullying happen? The story seems to provide logic, because at the beginning the bully was the principal's daughter, and in that non-existent "Pacific Island", the principal colluded with charity donations. So bullying is also a product of power.
sounds like everything is right, right?But the director's camera is obsessed with creating images of girls killing girls. The bully and the bullied are actually young girls' bodies being consumed by the camera. The real power and the source of evil are briefly mentioned in the vague TV news at the end of the film. This non-existent "evil power on a certain island in the Pacific" does not constitute any realistic direction. How safe it is. Only consuming girls, creating bad girls and filming their skirts, creating poor girls and filming their humiliating misery is realistic and concrete. , in the name of "the movie has a profound theme".
What is even more unbearable is that the plot brings out another case of sexual assault of a young girl in a series of twists and turns. The cruel scene in which the stepfather violated a 9-year-old girl was shown with blood between the girl's legs and panties on top of her head. First of all, this is very cruel, and secondly, it is a terrible fantasy.
The male director introduces "profound social issues" and "tortures human nature". Is it only through rape cases? Is it to expose its crimes or to promote rape culture?
The movie " Carnival " did not film the crime process itself. The female director Wen Yan handled the entire story with careful care and presentation of the little girl. It is precisely this kind of story that really highlights the social problem: the victim is guilty. Discussions, slut shaming, scrutiny from the legal system, and the protection of young girls is the responsibility of the entire society.
In "Silent Kill", there is a sharp contrast with the portrayal of a "young man who habitually takes photos secretly". Huang Minghao plays a lonely young man, the son of policeman Wu Zhenyu. He began to secretly photograph the female relatives living with him very early. His police father violently beat him in front of the female relatives who were secretly photographed as a punishment, but he also begged the relatives not to call the police or resort to law. . In the subsequent plot, this man's secretly photographed images become important evidence for solving the case. It seems that this man is not a secretly photographed criminal, but a performance artist, and the only sober person in the world who has opened his eyes.
I have no intention of arguing with the fans of the male director, "This is just an objective shooting method" and "The prisoner may also unintentionally provide evidence, so what?" To be honest, I don’t even know how to explain this to the arrogant male director: your endless empathy for all the wretched men who commit crimes really flows in the camera, but you think it is "objective".
There is no need to mention the subsequent plot. This movie traces the early years of the candid camera criminal. When filming, it was a kind of tenderness such as "Oh my God, it's not easy for old fathers" and "This is just a lonely boy." A gentle perspective is given to the candid photographer. The female relative who was secretly photographed by the boy in the film only has lines to chase her, curse and drive her away, as if she is an unkind housewife.
As for the multiple girl characters, the movie is exploitative in a variety of ways. Isn't this comparison enough?
Let’s talk about “reversal”.
As soon as the domestic film and television promoted the "reversal", I knew it was going to be doomed. "Silent Kill" just keeps spinning so hard that I can't even connect to the plot.
According to the final version of the mystery, Miss Li, played by Zhang Junning, was domestically raped by her husband (Xing Jiadong). After being raped, she discovered that her 9-year-old daughter had been raped by him. When she took a knife and considered killing her, she found that her husband had already been raped by her daughter. Stabbed to death with scissors. So she didn't call the police and buried her husband's body in the rooftop garden. From then on, the relationship between mother and daughter was no longer normal. Ms. Li gave up all her work to work as a school janitor, making it her first mission in life to keep a close eye on her daughter. At the same time, she would beat her daughter severely from time to time, so that the whole building could hear it. This mother beats her daughter. The mother’s explanation for beating her daughter was that she was disciplining her daughter and letting her know that everything has boundaries. (The grown-up daughter is played by Wang Shengdi.)
The real logic of these plots is "Hey, look, I have reversed it again, am I awesome?"You thought it was the daughter who was being bullied and the mother was protecting her daughter. I turned it around and you saw the mother also beating her daughter. You thought it was the daughter escaping from the violent mother. I turned it around again and it seemed that the mother also killed her husband for her daughter. You were moved again. Don't worry, I just retweeted it. Oh, it's the daughter who is trying to kill her mother to protect her. Mother and daughter are dependent on each other...
Stop retweeting. Is there any logic here? Not to mention whether a 9-year-old girl can kill an adult man with just one knife using household scissors (which is actually impossible), let’s say that after a young child was violated and witnessed his mother being beaten, the stress led to excessive defense and homicide, all the scenes and There is evidence of physical trauma, and the child is a very young minor. Why can't the police handle this matter?
Well, the mother wanted to quickly calm down the whole thing and return to normal life. Why did the plot of letting the two victims depend on each other include a "mother beating her daughter"? There is no in-depth digging and thinking at all. I just add a sensational plot when I think of it.
The plot of the mother and daughter acting as victims to fight back is the same as the previous plot of bullying in a girls' school. The director pretends that he is dealing with some social issue, but in fact he has no understanding of the plight of the weak and the victims. Each issue is just a label that kills elements in the script. These characters are just "so miserable" and "so sadistic" for consumption. "It's so cruel" "Oh, I'll kill you instead" "You just say that you are high-powered but not high-powered".
A normal and reasonable story cannot be a top. It cannot withstand such reversals over and over again and it will spin to the point of vomiting. Making a movie is not about killing the script, so don’t do twists just for the sake of twists. Even if you smart-aleck male directors insist on killing the script, can you stop pretending to care about women's issues and just get a few men to kill it back and forth next time.
However, how can a male director be willing to abuse a man?
If the male character is a "bad guy", it would be like the wife-killing male protagonist in "The Vanishing Girl" or the candid cameraman in "Silent Kill". He was given an infinitely pitiful shooting perspective and could still boast that "our director can shoot this well." Human nature is so complex."
Of course, what male directors prefer is the "Holy Father" shooting method of male characters. That is Lin Zaifu (Wang Chuanjun), the father in "Silent Killing" who created a big counter-murder drama for his dead daughter.
His daughter was bullied to death, so the father wanted to kill all the bullies. In addition, the father also decided to punish those who remained silent against bullying. This is also the title and theme of the film: we cannot be silent about crime, otherwise silence is condoning crime. The main plot line of
is actually about two victim families entangled together. Lin Zaifu (Wang Chuanjun)'s daughter Huijun (Xu Jiao) was bullied to death first. The whole school is pretending to be blind, especially a sanctimonious spiritual mentor (Jin Shijie) Still muddying the waters, he appears to care about the father who has lost his daughter, but in fact he is kowtowing to the principal and his bully daughter. Miss Li (Junning Zhang) prevented her daughter Xiaotong (Wang Shengdi) from helping Huijun (Xu Jiao), and then turned a blind eye to Lin Zaifu (Wang Chuanjun)'s request for help. Xiaotong (Wang Shengdi) could only secretly pass on the evidence of the bullying-death case, but her friend After her death she became the next victim targeted by a bullying group. Lin Zaifu (Wang Chuanjun)'s revenge plan has an additional side task, helping Xiaotong (Wang Shengdi), who was beaten by his mother and bullied by his classmates, to escape.
In order to create suspense and smoke bombs, a large part of the tracking and beating plot took place between a victim's father (Wang Chuanjun) and a victim's mother (Junning Zhang). The plot is reversed, pretending to be a mother protecting her daughter, Junning Chang's role seems to have a righteous mission, and Wang Chuanjun seems to be playing the suspect; and then it hints that the mother committed domestic violence and killed someone, as if Wang Chuanjun's role has been reversed to have a righteous purpose. Finally, the reversal was completed, and it turned out that they were both victim parents.
So let me ask you, the fight between the victim’s parents takes up so much of the film, what profound meaning can you get from filming so many “mutual harms at the bottom”? This island is all fictitious. Who is in power on the island, the principal, a charity, or someone who seems to be a cult that Ruoyouruowu dare not take pictures carefully? It's just a fictional story about criticizing a "person in power", and the movie only dares to make a vague statement about "the principal colludes with a charity." This is not a swipe at all.
Rather than filming girls bullying girls in detail, rather than showing women's bodies, rather than letting the parents of the victims beat and calculate, this drama does not even create a detailed fiction of a cult leader, or a village chief who has done many evil things, or The Sin of False Charity.
"You know, the people above are too bad" is a simple hint that bullies the weak and fears the strong. The creator does not face the real problem at all.
However, the treatment of the victims’ parents is also different. The victim's mother was beaten and her daughter was violated. In such a miserable life, there was one more scene where the mother domestically abused her daughter. The victim's father, he killed several female high school students just to pay for it with blood. He tracked down another girl's mother and designed to make her suffer, just to let the other girl escape. Oh my god, he committed suicide in the end. Oh my god and his daughter. Reunion in heaven is truly a father’s love like a mountain.
But this father let go of the spiritual mentor (Jin Shijie) who condoned crime. If his revenge plan also includes "punishing those who remain silent and do not testify", the character Jin Shijie should be punished the most. But the vengeful father hated the mother of another victim most.
Because the first thing that really guides the plot is the need for "reversal", and the second is the subconscious mind of the creator. The "reversal" requirement causes the male and female protagonists to switch places from time to time to deceive the audience. The subconscious mind of the creators makes them unconsciously leave more space for consuming women. Even if it is an imaginary story, what kind of character can be a better metaphor for the perpetrators in real life? Aren’t they the hypocritical old man and the headmaster who talks all the right nonsense but never protects his children? The camera and story line gently passed over them, and finally focused on one female character after another who was either deformed or humiliated.
So, horror, suspense, family love, female topics, and social issues are all available with one movie ticket! Is the movie being packaged for promotion?
Last year, Chen Sicheng supervised the production of "The Disappearance of Her", but footage leaked of him personally coaching Janice Man to show off her sexiness. The actress's natural eyes and movements were not like that, but Chen Sicheng transformed her into "the sexy girl in his imagination". The actress's The greasy performance turned out to be the male director pulling the invisible string on her head, but the actress's screen image would be regarded as evidence of the existence of "a certain kind of woman".
The short video-style filming method of "She Disappeared" consumes women's issues and labels various social problems, but in fact eliminates women's autonomy in survival (making Li Muzi voluntarily give up the oxygen bottle and seek death). But it made money at the box office. After
more Chen Sicheng movies emerged. Last summer, " goes all-or-nothing " was submitted for the Olympics. The anti-fraud story also turned the male villain into a "pure love god of war" and conveniently framed the subtitle group as part of the fraud. The several stories are not adjacent to each other. This can also be called a movie.
By the second half of last year, it was no longer possible to tell which movies were Chen Sicheng and which were not. Zhang Mo also released a movie " rescues the suspect ", in which a Chinese female lawyer in a Southeast Asian country is involved in suspense. "Crossing the Sky" is a remake of "'s Invisible Guest ". Xu Guanghan is wearing a Southeast Asian police uniform. The poster reads "106 minutes and 44 reversals." I'm already dizzy from the publicity before I even watch the movie.
This year’s Olympic bid brought script-killing creative ideas into the online drama " new life ". At the beginning, I thought it was some kind of Chinese version of Ripley, a great liar story, but it turns around all the way to the end, where every man is innocent, and the victims of sexual exploitation are transformed into deserved plunderers. Even if the male protagonist dies, he still has to emphasize his height of 183cm. The tragic youth of the male protagonist who takes the exam has no logic, there is no revenge at all, it is all self-destruction. There must be a basic method for suspense. After the twist is completed, you must follow the story timeline to see what you have made up!
Ke Wenli, the director of "Manslaughter" and the director of the web drama "Detective Chinatown", is also the director of "Silent Kill". It is said that the original script was shot very early, and I don’t know who influenced whom, but Chen Sicheng’s film is now being released in mainland China. It is a combination of Chen Sicheng’s illness, and it is smoother than Chen Sicheng himself.
Speaking of this, someone must have asked again, ah, you are very demanding, so why don’t you tell me what is good-looking?
has already said it, "The Town of Dailuoqi".
Every moment when I was sitting in the cinema and restless, I thought back to "Dalloch" in my mind to confirm that there are still good things in this world. It is a suspense drama that only kills straight white men. It is completely reasonable to go through layers of reasoning and then work backwards when you see the answer. And, there are all kinds of real female characters - tall and healthy, slovenly, anxious, fat, thin, vested interests and ordinary people who protect their own interests, those who love to go to work and those who don't, and those who love men. and those who love women. The image of a female middle school student is an aboriginal girl who loves to play rugby and a chubby cousin who can read. As a victim, a woman who does not know it and condones a man's crime is just an accessory, not a criminal, and the plot does not need to endlessly consume and judge her.
uses photography to think about and accuse social problems; or uses photography to exploit and consume victims. The creator's attitude is in every shot and every frame.
