Text | An Qing
Editor | 9527 Miao Gujun
The movie " Catch a Baby " has become the first hit of this summer season. The box office of the movie has exceeded 500 million on the first day of its release. According to the popularity trend of this movie , "Catch Baby" really has the potential to exceed the 3.7 billion box office predicted by the platform. The combination of
Shen Teng+ Ma Li attracted the audience. The excellent performances of the two actors retained the audience and added laughter.
Judging from the setting of comedy baggage, "Catch a Baby" is indeed much better than the movies that Happy Twist has released in recent years, but it has to be said that the look and feel of the whole movie is not as comfortable as the movies starring Shen Teng in the past. On the contrary, the audience After the movie ended, I had a mixed feeling when I thought about the whole movie.
Click on the Douban comment section of "Catch a Baby", and there are indeed many netizens who have doubts.
"I feel uncomfortable after watching it. Although it is a comedy, if I were to replace Ma Jiye, it would be a deception of life." family thriller".
"Catch a Baby" was a box office hit, but it received a flood of negative reviews, and netizens' doubts were not nitpicking.
Comedy jokes are old-fashioned, and there are too many embarrassing parts
In fact, judging from the portrayal of Shen Teng and Ma Li in "Catch a Baby", the laughter of this movie is online, and there is indeed no lack of positive reactions from the audience during the viewing process. feedback.
But apart from the portrayal of the actors, the comedy baggage of "Catch a Baby" is all very low-level, very simple, and even clichéd.
The plot of Ma Chenggang pushing a wheelchair to Ma Jiye and Ma Jiye sliding down the slope is too common in comedies. The way the movie uses the contrast between grandma pretending to be lame and parkour to play basketball to create laughter is too absurd.
As for the English teacher and physics tutoring arranged in it, they actually all have a stiff feeling. These comedy baggage, if the cast is changed, they can be turned into pieces.
Shen Teng and Ma Li have reliable acting skills, good popularity and reputation, so as long as the two are portrayed, the audience is willing to watch it with a layer of filter.
But in fact, the proportion of funny parts in "Catch a Baby" is too high. A lot of baggage doesn't even need an actor to play it, and you can guess it pretty well. For example, when Chunlan was furious because Ma Jiye was bullied by her classmates, as soon as Ma Chenggang handed over the bag, the audience realized that the comedy burden here was achieved through Chunlan's great reversal of attitude.
As expected, Chunlan, who was furious one second, forgot about the sadness of her son being raped on campus the next second, holding up her luxury bag and asking Ma Chenggang how to carry it so beautifully.
Among all these comedy baggage, "Catch a Baby" has an uncreative and cliched quality, so that the audience's smiles are particularly restrained, because the jokes are too old and have no new ideas, so the audience naturally laughs.
The problems with comedy baggage are basically covered up by the actors' performances, but the discomfort at the core of the plot of "Catch a Baby" is very serious.
The sense of discipline is too strong, and the abnormal education "in the name of love" makes people uncomfortable.
From the perspective of Ma Chenggang and Chunlan, they really love their children. In order to let their children grow up in their own plans, they have spent time and Energy, it is not even an exaggeration to say that these extreme parents are more concerned about their children than parents in ordinary families.
But it has to be said that from Ma Jiye's perspective, this is simply a thriller.
Growing up, Ma Jiye lived under the supervision of his parents, and everything in his life was arranged. Those comedic plots are a child’s nightmare. There is nothing strange about
telling the plot in this way, but the unclear ending makes people feel uncomfortable.
Ma Chenggang and Chunlan used "love" to kidnap Ma Jiye in the end, "Do you think we have controlled your life? You have also controlled our lives."
What a touching sentence, how easy it is for the audience to feel empathy. It is obvious that Ma Jiye in the story is the victim, but he still has to be kidnapped by family affection, and he still has to forgive his parents, even if his parents' actions make him give up on himself. Dreams, giving up personal will, missing the childhood and youth of free growth
If the plot ends here, the audience can still taste the "open ending", maybe Ma Chenggang and Chunlan know that they are wrong, maybe Ma Jiye has a new life. Direction.
But there is a scene in the easter egg where Ma Chenggang and Chunlan hint that they will have another one.
After practicing the trumpet, they will have another one.
And at the end of the movie, it turns out to be. The half-brothers are hugging each other for warmth.
The elder brother, who is not valued by his family and is never trusted by his father, tries his best to prove himself. In the end, he can only climb to the top, but he still does not receive a word of praise from his parents.
is extremely deformed. The little son who loves monitoring is doing his best in the marathon alone, but his parents are coldly mocking him in front of the TV. The one who is cheering for Ma Jiye is the brother who Ma Chenggang mistakenly thinks will hurt his younger brother.
Ma Chenggang's father loves Cheng. They have made mistakes but never thought about making up for it, but just want to open a new account and start over. Such a plot makes the audience feel depressed.
This movie uses actor filters to discipline young people. Is the movie really worthy of such a high box office?
Now it seems that "Catch a Baby" also confirms Wu Jing's words: "The audience's appreciation is getting higher and higher, and clichés are used to deceive the audience." It's just asking for death." "High box office does not mean that one's level is high. "
The fact is that the movie content of "Catch a Baby" is not worthy of such a high box office from a comedy point of view or from a conceptual point of view. As the audience's appreciation ability becomes higher and higher, especially more and more people who have experienced With repressive education, young people who have experienced family abduction in the name of love learn to break through their confinement. Movies such as "Catch a Baby" that attempt to discipline young people can no longer enter the hearts of more young people. In the eyes of the audience, "Catch the Baby" is a thriller that ignores the perspective of children and whitewashes the imprisonment, surveillance, and abnormal desire for control of many parents. It is a disciplinary film that kidnaps children's personal will in the name of love.
What’s even more terrifying is that many people may subconsciously think that “the college entrance examination is more important” at the moment Ma Jiye gave up the college entrance examination. This subconsciousness is enough to prove that getting into a good university is a dogma deeply imprinted in the minds of many people. , Ma Jiye's unprecedented attempt to break through the confinement has become a character being questioned.
Finally, what do you think of the current box office performance of the movie "Catch a Baby"? How do you view the comedy and the values conveyed in this film? ?Join the discussion in the comment area and tell us what you think of the film.
