Text | Linghu Boguang and Chen Sicheng's "Decryption" is online streaming. This movie can be said to be a lesson for Chen Sicheng's transformation. Although the previous "Mozart" was not good, that movie was obviously not that careful. Doesn't Chen Sicheng feel bad that the movie

text | Linghu Boguang

Chen Sicheng " decryption " is online streaming. This movie can be said to be a lesson for Chen Sicheng's transformation. Although the previous "Mozart" was not good, the movie was obviously not that careful. This movie is so Chen I don’t know whether Sicheng is heartbroken or not, but I personally think it’s a pity because it is one of the few Chinese heavy industry special effects blockbusters among the current bunch of reality-themed comedies. The investment for this movie

found on the Internet was said to be 450 million, but its final box office was 332 million, which was an absolute flop. For me,

cannot be distinguished simply by good or bad, but it is very abstract and has no appeal to ordinary viewers. The first half is very slow-paced and feels more like a biographical documentary style, except for a little bit of dream elements. In the second half, when the puzzle-solving part begins, the style of the game changes, with reality and dreams alternating.

Call it a mystery and suspense film. The information between the audience and the actors is not equal. Who knows what your abstract dream means? How can you reason? Call it a fantasy film. It is still based on reality, and reality is more important. Big; let’s call it a spy movie. There aren’t many real battle scenes. In my opinion, the scenes of catching spies can be brushed off, and it feels like they are all different.

The director has great ambitions, but his ability is not up to it. What is especially incomprehensible is that at the end, Chen Sicheng looked in the mirror and saw Rong Jinzhen inside. He did not understand what he wanted to express. Since Chen Sicheng himself has a poor reputation in China, everyone began to accuse him of being narcissistic, which made the perception even worse.

The special effects are good and there is deep meaning, but why is "Decryption" so "ugly"

I personally can fully understand the process of being mentally tortured, falling into fantasy, and struggling painfully. Following all of Rong Jinzhen's dreams, I can guess the next step of the decryption process in the movie. I don't think this movie relies on dream decryption. In my opinion, all dreams, or more specifically, are more like some kind of burst of inspiration, are the result of countless days and nights of scientific research training either alone or guided by a mentor.

I have also had the experience of dreaming about answers, but I know that it was a flash of inspiration after a lot of training. It did not happen for no reason. It was the result of my hard work and what I deserved. But I gave up later, but Rong Jinzhen persisted. This is what the movie was originally about.

The problem is why it is not attractive and the audience will feel bored when looking at it. The reason is that it has too many elements. The biggest problem with the movie

is actually the lack of "process", that is, details. Chen Sicheng uses visual spectacles to replace the process that should be told, from the dilemma to the breakthrough. Even if it is a very small story, for example, in " Me and My Motherland ", Huang Bo 's actor had to repair the flagpole before the founding ceremony. What difficulties did he encounter - think of understanding the law - how to practice - in practice What problem did you encounter again.

This is a complete, tense, and patriotic story. It may not be a classic, but it has a process.

This movie is meticulous and complete from the protagonist's childhood to his studies as a teenager. But the most important thing is that he took a big step after starting the cryptographic research work. The dream in the play became a reality. In reality, the efforts of everyone in 701 and the protagonist are Vain dreams. After dreaming about the design principles of passwords, I came to reality to figure out the missing link in reality.

The movie wants to depict the sacrifice and pain of cryptographic researchers, but the pain of the nightmare I saw and the pain of his wife who woke him up at four in the morning are greater than the pain of doing research. Of course, the director can say that dreams are a metaphor for pain. , but without the reality part, the metaphor is very empty.

ignores the real-life efforts of the protagonist and emphasizes the dream. This is very lazy and vain, because in the final analysis, you are not discussing inner exploration like " Inception " or " Hypnosis Master ".This is not a problem with the protagonist, but a problem with the structure of the play and the director. If you want to have a biography, be patriotic, and still be reluctant to give up the suspenseful visual spectacle, you will inevitably cut off the simplest "process"

I believe that many viewers are rushing to decipher it. I went through the process, but as soon as I was about to decrypt it, I had a dream, and to be honest, I couldn’t connect the elements in the dream with reality, such as the gears, the code book, etc. You can also do a little popularization of decryption knowledge. Ah, in short, it looks like a fog.

At the same time, the emotional line of the protagonist is also open to discussion. Whether Biyu likes the male protagonist or not has nothing to do with the male protagonist’s decryption process. In fact, if you want to emphasize that the male protagonist leaves the family to take care of everyone, just telling a short story about the relationship between siblings is not enough. Very good. In terms of love, just tell the story about another girl. I think the effect is the same (to be honest, I didn’t expect this movie to have a love line and thought it was a brain-burning movie).

Maybe some people still don’t understand. For example, there is a very important plot in the movie. During the struggle with the teacher, the United States stole the male protagonist’s notebook. Many people don’t know the function of a notebook. Let me tell you. Experience it for yourself, there is not only one way to solve a problem, nor is it one answer. How would an unconventional problem solver solve the problem?

will find a logical closed loop, which is the entire construction logic behind an answer. The answer is not a set of numbers, but a logical closed loop of the overall structure including the question and the answer. This requires countless deductive calculations. Remember, there are countless calculations. You only need to enter numbers on the calculator to get an answer. That is too simple. But if you can build a problem-solving model with your brain, you will not get an answer. Rather, they are all solutions in a series. The process of building a model by yourself is equivalent to personally understanding one answer and tearing down the entire logic of the other's architecture.

Why is mathematics so fun? It’s actually here. Everyone sees the world differently and has a different attitude towards it. However, the role of a notebook is a calculation field that completely tests your brain power. The brain capacity cannot accommodate so many threads operating at the same time. Sometimes, he needs to take the external tool notebook to record the problem-solving path symbols. He must have felt nauseated by overuse of his brain, because sometimes he felt powerless when starting a set of calculations to calculate the upper limit of his brain.

will then become so dependent on the so-called recording tool notebook, because the numbers in it that others cannot understand will eventually be connected into a string to form a whole structure to complete the problem solving.

However, this plot almost defeated the male protagonist. He sat on the ruins and played chess. But apart from the male protagonist's decadent appearance, do you think this plot has any profound meaning? Can you feel the protagonist's pain? The truth is that simple.

The biggest failure of Chen Sicheng's "Decryption"? Just didn't copy Nolan

When this movie was released, netizens were talking about copying "Inception", "Oppenheimer", " Beautiful Mind ", " imitation game " and so on. The answer is that netizens have no idea what plagiarism is except using well-known things to show their superiority. It has nothing to do with "Inception" except that it has dreams, and the same goes for "The Imitation Game".

The movie itself is more like "Oppenheimer" and "A Beautiful Mind", but what it loses is precisely that there is no plagiarism, that is, it does not have Nolan's ability. The picture, music, editing, narrative entry point and even the beginning are all at their peak, but he can't do Nolan's focus on editing, narrative and processing.

Nolan's "Oppenheimer" focuses on the anger of the American Prometheus who brought the sky fire and was persecuted by politicians. It should be said, but the emotional drama between "Oppenheimer" and his wife can be said. It can be said that I didn’t film it at all. I just used some shots to show the relationship between the two. It can be said that I didn’t write this emotional scene at all.

On the other hand, looking back at "Decryption", maybe I wanted to say too much, but I didn't say anything in the end. What are the choices of our family, the feelings of family and country, love, family affection, everything for a genius? I don’t understand it clearly, and the editing is not as good as Nolan’s. The interweaving of dreams and reality is very similar to Inception. The editing and soundtrack are very similar to Oppenheimer’s, but they just can’t reach the level of other people’s. In the end, the film is completely different, the kind that both wants and needs.

Chen Sicheng is also making progress. Maybe he really just doesn’t want to be picked on and only knows how to make commercial films, so he is trying to change. As a result, my ability is limited and I wasted my money to try such a blockbuster film. I can only say that I don’t know how to evaluate it.

Because at a time when domestic movies are all about realistic themes, comedies and various things, the movie makes you feel once again that the foundation of the Chinese film industry should be almost laid. We just have to wait for which director, screenwriter and producer can do it in the future. Those who are truly capable and willing to put their brains into cooperating with the film industry to create real hits.

The audiovisual impact of this movie depends entirely on the dream, but the dream is "a madman's dream". How can this make it possible for ordinary viewers to be more comfortable and easily integrated into it. Also, this kind of subject matter is inherently difficult to shoot. It takes a long time to render it, but in the end it’s a dream and it’s all done in a few sentences. Ordinary people and those who play decryption will be silenced.

The structure of the movie is actually quite good. Some of the protagonist's mental journeys echo back and forth. has details and also has multiple presentations of dreams. His personal growth, path dependence, cornering, and hysteria are all displayed. At the same time, the main line, world line, family line, teacher-student relationship line, and love line are all present and not thrown away. Even in the love story, when the male protagonist confesses his love to his wife, it's all part of the celebration after finishing work, right?

This movie left me with the feeling that Chen Sicheng tried so hard to make a good movie, but whether he tried too hard, was incompetent, or calculated too much and ended up being calculated. Anyway, it’s okay. The result is terrible, too. It's just a pity.

Of course, the audience feels that Chen Sicheng is too happy to lose money. Anyway, it is greasy to see him unhappy. But when Chen Sicheng, who can make a lot of money and pursues blockbusters, fails miserably, Chinese movies may be more like assembly line movies.

This is really not a threat to the audience, but the logic of capital is that it will definitely think so.

Every time a movie is released, you will find that they all say that a certain subject matter is not popular, the audience does not like to watch it, and they never reflect on themselves.