I have high expectations for director Xin Yukun's new film "Hot Search", because his previous two films "Heart Labyrinth" and "Broken Silence" are my favorites.
However, after seeing some early reviews, I adjusted my mentality in time... So after watching the screening yesterday, it was in line with my expectations. Although this film is not "Xin Yukun", it is still a standard film. commercial movies.
To be honest, if you watch "Hot Search" for Director Xin's unique crime suspense style, you will most likely be disappointed, because this film has almost no of his trademark gloom, sedimentation and mystery, instead it is It is more in line with the theme and era of "short and fast", the battle between good and evil and the weak defeating the strong. You can definitely watch the
movie, and it will definitely be the director's best-grossing movie, but it also lacks a lot of analytical value.
[Friendly reminder: There will be spoilers below. 】
Chen Miao, the editor-in-chief of the large self-media outlet "Wonderful World", has published a number of popular articles, which indirectly prompted Zhang Xiaosui, the girl who was raped by the Internet, to commit suicide by jumping off a building. Later, Chen Miao discovered that there was another case that had been covered up. In the sexual assault case, the real culprit pointed directly at his big benefactor, the Hengshi Group...
The biggest first impression that "Hot Search" gave me was "professional" - not academic professionalism based on the media perspective, but a deep understanding of In the era of online media, the directional explosion of netizens’ greedy mentality is, to use the terminology in the film, “it has taken advantage of this hot spot.”
It can be seen that the main creator has done a lot of homework on the development and current situation of new media. He chose topics to break news, used topics to play on, hot topics hype, multi-level reversal, data traffic, and public opinion manipulation. These are just the reports about Zhang Xiaosui after the opening. In a few scenes, I used all the common summary words that everyone usually eats melon, so that I had the illusion of being speechless: you have said everything that needs to be said.
As for the subsequent PK confrontation between Chen Miao and Hengshi Group, it also involves many tricks such as deception, diversion of attention, changing the situation, changing concepts, spreading rumors and smearing, etc. I will not review the details. In short, this movie The two-hour film allows the audience to watch all the hot topics of public opinion that they have seen over the years and eat enough in one sitting.
"Hot Search" adopts a straightforward narrative, with short shots, fast pace, not much suspense and twists and turns, and the reversal at the ending is not too explosive (there is also a bit of girls helping girls). The advantage is that it is more approachable. The disadvantage is that the "movie feel" worth exploring is also lost.
Let me just say one thing: the characters and environment in the film are too clean.
I only realized this when I looked back at the stills afterwards. Compared with the Henan countryside in "The Maze of the Heart" and the Inner Mongolia grassland mining area in "The Burst", the Haizhou City in "Hot Search" is really It was a bit too glamorous, with high-rise buildings, good cars and houses, and well-dressed clothes. Only places related to the victims, such as schools, hospitals, and night markets, showed a little bit of dilapidation beyond the glamor.
Logically speaking, this should be a well-targeted and clever pen, but in fact, its sense of contrast and irony are not strong (it seems more like conveying the pursuit of glamor). In other words, it has the taste of neglecting the essentials.
I didn't see Xin Yukun's name in the screenwriter column of "Hot Search". I feel that he really didn't participate much in writing the story this time, but this does not prevent him from still being the biggest signature of the film. I still feel a little sorry for this. ’s: Although the film is watchable, without the director’s iconic style, it always feels unsatisfying and not interesting enough. Only in a few slow motions can one vaguely see the shadow of Xin Yukun...
Let’s talk next Order something else.
"Hot Search" seems to be talking about the black box and obscurity of online public opinion in the new media era, but its focus still falls on the double-edged sword attributes of the media: they can harm people, act as accomplices, and also save people. People, do justice.
I personally don’t like the design of the villains in the film. The villains of Hengshi Group’s Wang Shimin and Yuan Hong are too stereotyped and too typical to look fake... Fortunately, this does not affect their performance of bullying by capital predators. Weak and capricious methods, especially the alienation of subordinates and victims.
This is probably the part that moved me the most in the movie: Amy, who was once a victim, turned into Wang Shimin's sex slave and an accomplice in harming other girls; Principal Yan, who seemed to care about the students, was like a pimp. The father-in-law; Zhang Xiaosui's mother Li Meiyu, in order to live a better life in the future, accepted bribes to settle the matter; Zhen Xi, who wanted to bravely stand up and break the news, retreated and regretted it under the coercion and inducement of the bad guys.
This reveals a bloody reality in the online public opinion war - no one involved can stay out of the matter, the rich and powerful will always be able to afford more than ordinary people, and the victims and related personnel will often "look ahead" For reasons such as "cannot fight" or avoid secondary harm, they choose to reconcile or swallow their anger, or even turn their guns and kill others.
The scenes in the video of some media adding money, trolls disrupting the situation, and deftly deleting posts also reminded me of the completely different situation that some of the leading Internet companies in China were in a few years ago after a major public opinion incident. Do you have the media resources in hand? , the difference is really not small...
In addition, there is another unexplained aspect of "Hot Search" that caught my attention, the absence of traditional media - I think this should be the most absurd and absurd thing in the film. The boldest and most vicious place.
The protagonist Chen Miao once worked in a newspaper, and later resigned to start a business. He and his senior brother He Yan established a self-media company. This is a microcosm of the experiences of many media people in the past ten years (I myself have a similar past), and its subtext is Traditional media such as newspapers, radio, and television are gradually declining, and new online media have a larger user base and voice.
But at the same time, self-media practitioners do not have editing qualifications. They are more often in a gray area that everyone knows well (He Yan is worried about Chen Miao pretending to be a reporter and something will happen, which shows that the creators also Understand this), so I often find it ridiculous when watching movies. In such social public opinion events, self-media mostly plays the role of disrupting the situation, attracting traffic, and making trouble. How can it have such high energy and status? I really give it to myself. Face.
Unfortunately, based on the reality of these years, with the reduction of resources, brain drain, environmental tightening and many other factors, the traditional media that should bear the main responsibility for public opinion supervision are indeed increasingly unable to fight. Investigative reporters The number continues to decrease, and influential social reports are becoming increasingly rare. On the contrary, some self-media that is not taboo about meat and vegetables and lacks constraints will produce something impressive.
Public power is serious in its work and needs evidence, which also means that its intervention is often delayed. Before that, only the media and public opinion can bite out and bite the incident, but for ordinary people, the media Public opinion is also one of the few ways to get help.
Nowadays, every netizen with a mobile phone connected to the Internet is theoretically a "self-media". What "Hot Search" wants to say is: everyone can become a mob under control, but we can also all be controlled by just a few clicks of our fingers. A righteous man who acts chivalrously and righteously. I won't comment on the conclusion of
, but it's not a bad thing if you can put it out there and argue about it.
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This is probably the part that moved me the most in the movie: Amy, who was once a victim, turned into Wang Shimin's sex slave and an accomplice in harming other girls; Principal Yan, who seemed to care about the students, was like a pimp. The father-in-law; Zhang Xiaosui's mother Li Meiyu, in order to live a better life in the future, accepted bribes to settle the matter; Zhen Xi, who wanted to bravely stand up and break the news, retreated and regretted it under the coercion and inducement of the bad guys.
This reveals a bloody reality in the online public opinion war - no one involved can stay out of the matter, the rich and powerful will always be able to afford more than ordinary people, and the victims and related personnel will often "look ahead" For reasons such as "cannot fight" or avoid secondary harm, they choose to reconcile or swallow their anger, or even turn their guns and kill others.
The scenes in the video of some media adding money, trolls disrupting the situation, and deftly deleting posts also reminded me of the completely different situation that some of the leading Internet companies in China were in a few years ago after a major public opinion incident. Do you have the media resources in hand? , the difference is really not small...
In addition, there is another unexplained aspect of "Hot Search" that caught my attention, the absence of traditional media - I think this should be the most absurd and absurd thing in the film. The boldest and most vicious place.
The protagonist Chen Miao once worked in a newspaper, and later resigned to start a business. He and his senior brother He Yan established a self-media company. This is a microcosm of the experiences of many media people in the past ten years (I myself have a similar past), and its subtext is Traditional media such as newspapers, radio, and television are gradually declining, and new online media have a larger user base and voice.
But at the same time, self-media practitioners do not have editing qualifications. They are more often in a gray area that everyone knows well (He Yan is worried about Chen Miao pretending to be a reporter and something will happen, which shows that the creators also Understand this), so I often find it ridiculous when watching movies. In such social public opinion events, self-media mostly plays the role of disrupting the situation, attracting traffic, and making trouble. How can it have such high energy and status? I really give it to myself. Face.
Unfortunately, based on the reality of these years, with the reduction of resources, brain drain, environmental tightening and many other factors, the traditional media that should bear the main responsibility for public opinion supervision are indeed increasingly unable to fight. Investigative reporters The number continues to decrease, and influential social reports are becoming increasingly rare. On the contrary, some self-media that is not taboo about meat and vegetables and lacks constraints will produce something impressive.
Public power is serious in its work and needs evidence, which also means that its intervention is often delayed. Before that, only the media and public opinion can bite out and bite the incident, but for ordinary people, the media Public opinion is also one of the few ways to get help.
Nowadays, every netizen with a mobile phone connected to the Internet is theoretically a "self-media". What "Hot Search" wants to say is: everyone can become a mob under control, but we can also all be controlled by just a few clicks of our fingers. A righteous man who acts chivalrously and righteously. I won't comment on the conclusion of
, but it's not a bad thing if you can put it out there and argue about it.
statement: This article comes from user submissions. If it infringes upon the legitimate rights and interests of any third party, it can be deleted by contacting via email.
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