The two rural uncles amused everyone.
I'm not talking about a fast-handed local flavor video, but a new domestic film that will be released this Friday.
Before this year’s FIRST, it broke the usual silence of the Youth Film Festival, and won bursts of laughter and applause from fans in a relaxed and happy dark horse posture. Qin Hao, one of the judges of
at the time, was even more difficult to conceal his love for it. In several public occasions at the film festival, he kept amusingly saying, "The amateur actors inside are really amazing." Ning Hao, who played the most humorously, also praised it as "good-looking and outstanding."
sent one of my favorite posters-
"Sherlock on the Plains"
admired to see the show. Sure enough, it offered the freshest and special movie-watching experience in recent years.
The new-style countryside is beautiful and poetic.
The protagonist of the peasant is so cute and pure.
laughs absurdly, don't eagerly step forward to scratch people, just wait for you to recover, naturally grin hahaha. The title of
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is interesting enough.
"Plain", "Sherlock", the former takes the soil of the Chinese countryside, and the latter wants to stand up the coolness of Western detectives.
is put together, referring to two farmers who are incarnations of cool detectives?
seems to have a theme element that shouldn't be related, but it also brings a new type of collision to the movie.
It is difficult to define the genre of the film. It has criminal investigation suspense, black humor, western symbolic passages, and realistic references.
rarely sees such a domestically produced movie with addition.
But fortunately, it is not mixed, and it combines all the above ingeniously, but it looks fresh and interesting.
Super Yinghe Zhanyi, "Sherlock" and "Watson" from Hebei. The cause of the
case was a hit and run.
Chaoying’s house is going to be renovated, and Shuhe from the same village came to help.
Unexpectedly, there was a car accident on the road, and the man was knocked into the hospital, unconscious.
The driver who caused the accident was nowhere to be seen. In order to be able to reimburse the medical insurance for hospitalization expenses, Shuhe's family decided not to report the crime, pretending that he accidentally fell.
Chaoying couldn't make it through, and refused to agree, so together with his friend Zhanyi, set foot on the road of chasing the murderer. The police in the village of
took a look first and said that this case was not easy to deal with. There were no surveillance videos and no witnesses. How to check if
is handed over to these two farmers? Where to check?
You never think of it.
They slapped their heads, and they went to ask the goddess in the village. The goddess rang a bell and pointed out a general direction, and the two of them followed and checked...
is also OK? The first move of
has been unreliable for the two of them to investigate the case.
A simple peasant with a mouthful of dialects, to be a brilliant detective, is a very misplaced black humor. The comedy element in the
movie comes from multiple plot arrangements of this absurd misplacement.
Looking at Chaoying and Zhanyi, a serious analysis of the case, pretending to sneak in to search for evidence, the natives use native methods, clumsy and funny.
From the countryside to the city, it is necessary to enter the high-level residential area for investigation. The security guards stopped giving them. The two men looked at the takeaway brother who came in and out freely, and made a plan.
then appeared the following scene, when Uncle Meituan met the hungry brother. The whereabouts of
were quickly revealed. The two were rushed to the school by security guards and mixed into a group of high school students who were holding a college entrance examination ceremony.
put on the same school uniform, the uncle and the students fist together and shout: I want to succeed! I want to succeed! Similar famous scenes of
, one after another.
Someone commented on the film for this, like a "journal collection".
And in the process of watching the movie, I also noticed that it controls the rhythm of the comedy, which is indeed exquisite and worthy of scrutiny.
often trembles after a comedy burden, completes an antics, the camera stays for a second or two, and always ends in embarrassment.
's cold and humorous temperament diffuses from the big screen.
The comedy that understands the blank space, it seems advanced.
However, Xu Lei, the director and screenwriter, did not intend to make it funny. According to him, the laughter that everyone contributed to FIRST made him feel guilty.
coldUnpredictable laughter, I am afraid that it will only work if it occurs in the context of domestic life. Most of
is a humorous portrayal of the daily life of the new era. Those magical and absurd, which can be picked up quickly.
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Another thing I really like about this film is its simple and gentle perspective.
Rural theme, to shoot farmers.
Many people will resist when they hear it. The first keywords that come to mind are: soil, poverty, vulgarity, and backwardness.
"Sherlock on the Plain" does not evade or break. In the movie
, there is a spectacular performance.
Our "Watson" is Zhanyi, a peasant who is used to living in the countryside.
came to a station in a big city, unconsciously spit out a mouthful of old sputum, and a civilized slogan of "Environmental Protection, Clean City" was clearly posted beside it. After
was fined on the spot, he refused to accept it. He raised his voice while walking and was ready to take another mouthful. The city management followed him all the way.
didn't expect Zhanyi to put a tui in his hand, and a god operation came directly.
is specific, I am not spoiled. In short,
cooperated with Uncle Zhan Yi to turn around and turn his head, and the pose was full of sorrow, which made people laugh. This design of
might not make the audience feel resentful of the character's vulgar behavior, but the series of actions that follow immediately enrich his image and character. The villagers of
have their narrow points, and naturally they also have a lovely side.
is like the decline and decline of rural life, there is still value that should be recorded.
such as valuable human relations.
No matter what happens, from building a house to a cart, as long as a call is made, the other party always rushes over without asking the reason, without asking for anything in return. The
movie has a lot of relevant plots inserted, and at the same time, it also adds the phenomenon of the impersonal and rigid order of the city for comparison. Villagers of
were hit by a car and suffered from no monitoring evidence.
waited until the super-British and occupied the righteousness and broke into the big city privately, but it was always easy to be recorded by the airtight monitors and caught the current situation.
For the two village Democracy Corners, the city is full of all kinds of helpless restrictions, making the process of investigating the case as difficult as clearing a border.
The city guest who is like a fish in water, of course, knows the survival principle of taking money to get things done.
Super England has no money, and is also making money all the way.
He paid Shuhe who was hit with hospital fees, and most of the expenses for investigating the case, even the fine for spitting was paid by him. In the
film, Chaoying had to sell his old horse, and the other party bargained the price. He would just boast "this horse is righteous" and asked for a sneer response: "How much money is righteous now?"
Chaoying is like This old horse, his benevolence, his stubbornness, in the eyes of many people, is somewhat dull and somewhat ridiculous.
After all, how much are those things worth now? The director Xu Lei of
responded to this question secretly by shooting a kind of simple and unpretentious beauty with the lens of warm feelings. The rural life in Hebei in the movie has become a light and neat pastoral poem. People who are more familiar with rural life will find it hard to find nostalgia for the wild fun of the countryside.
He wanted to design a final blackened super-English ending.
But still reluctant to sabotage, this group of rural people have always believed in their behavior and principles.
weakens the power of criticism, but leaves sincere praise. At the end of
, the super-British wears a straw hat and rides an old horse in the night, like a cowboy in a western country, and a knight in the rivers and lakes, a kind of simple justice, returning to the heart of the character, and watching people roll over.
Another key reason is that the actor of Chaoying is the father of director Xu Lei, so he is even more unbearable. The whole movie of
is starred by non-professional actors, mostly from the neighbors of Xu Lei's hometown in Hebei.
have to boast that they are more natural than any professional actors in the play, and they have achieved a surprising effect.
No wonder Qin Hao looked at it and said that he hoped he could act like this.
However, this kind of natural simplicity and simplicity, without long-term life experience rooted in the soil, cannot be performed. The producer of
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is Rao Xiaozhi, the director of last year's "The Unknown".
Rao Xiaozhi in "AnonymousAfter "Generation", he has been digging and supporting new directors, looking for high-quality stories from small characters.
"Sherlock on the Plain" was chosen by him.
With the help of this "old and new", "Sherlock on the Plain" is very likely to become the next "No Name" style explosion.
is also really shocking.
After watching this film, I have been sighing, how is the debut of domestic new directors more sophisticated than the other? The script of
is carefully designed to criticize the opposition between urban and rural areas, but it is not sharp or sentimental.
▲The extensive use of slogans in the movie is worth paying attention to
's works of the same type. It is hard not to miss Ning Hao and his "crazy" series.
also mentioned Ning Hao at the beginning, and praised the film. The two directors,
, used in-depth conversations to discuss their views during the period. The topic of the conversation was almost a high-level generalization of the style of the two men's works-"Using black humor to deconstruct serious reality". On the one hand,
sees the big from the small, and on the other hand achieves a two-way balance between business and art. Following Ning Hao, Xu Lei continues to investigate the absurdity of the new era.
Xu Lei has stated many times that Ning Hao's early work "Incense" has a deep influence on him. The quiet sense of humor in
was applied to "Sherlock on the Plain" by him.
However, the biggest similarity between the two works is the use of small people at the bottom to show the absurdity of fate.
In "Crazy Stones", Guo Tao puts fake stones on his girlfriend, but he doesn't know that it is the real emerald that threw himself hard.
"Sherlock on the Plains", super-British and occupying righteousness to the end, can only face the truth of the case with a moment of dumbness.
has reached an essence of life through the observation of movies.
As Xu Lei himself said, rural people are numb to the pain they have suffered.
But this kind of numbness is commendatory and optimistic. At the end, Chaoying poured goldfish into the rainbury of the old house, and in his own way, he lived the "happy home and beautiful life" that he had been dreaming of.
's sudden romantic and poetic treatment, filled with hope and vitality, the fleeting loss in their hearts. They have long been accustomed to the heroism of
facing ordinary life.
Although we seem to be extremely valuable. The
movie will be officially released on November 29th. Go and see it. It will be a choice you will never regret this year.
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