Copywriter | Fourteen North
Editor | Nanfeng
The first winner of the summer movie market has been announced -
" Silent Kill "
went from being ordinary to "killing" all the way out of the encirclement.
"Manslaughter" director Ke Wenli still delivered a good answer without Chen Sicheng's assistance. The movie
has won multiple box office championships. With an almost uncompetitive lineup, the box office has exceeded 400 million.
predicts that the cumulative box office will exceed 1 billion, which is a huge profit.
For viewers who have already fattened up their appetites, this is a seemingly unremarkable crime film with mediocre publicity, but its popularity at the box office has managed to make it out of the entertainment industry entirely based on its strength.
Logically speaking, the reputation of "Silent Kill" is self-evident.
never expected that the comment area would become extremely polarized, with common topics such as "female shots causing discomfort" becoming hot searches again.
"This kind of movie can actually sell tickets", "I won't watch it anyway", "I won't contribute a penny of movie tickets to this kind of movie", "It's really a lightning protection".
Some people even bluntly said: The film industry is becoming more and more rubbish, and we all deserve it.
A small-budget crime film can actually make people so angry.
Whether "Silent Kill" really involves disrespecting women, or whether it has become cannon fodder in the summer box office war, let's take a closer look this time -
The scene about the so-called "physical discomfort"
To be honest, after watching My first thought about "Silence" is -
is most likely not a mainland movie.
Various intuitive headshots, blood and holes after the girl was sexually assaulted, school bullying and police helping to destroy evidence, etc. The plot and scenes of
can actually be released. Facts have proved that sometimes the quality is not good, so don’t blame the censorship entirely. The "discomfort" shot of
being taken out in a close-up can be summarized in three points.
One is the scene of Xiaotong being bullied at school.
Here she is stuck to the wall with light yellow glue, her body is wet, and her face is covered with glue.
This is the first small climax that is still fresh in people’s memory at the beginning, and the theme of school bullying is presented before our eyes.
The second is the shot before the deceased was killed.
For example, the exciting scene where several bullies were shot in the head.
There are four female students involved in bullying here.
Three of them were directly shot in the head with a hammer, and the audience could directly feel the blood splattered on the spot. However, it can also be seen that there are special effects here, but the atmosphere is more terrifying.
Third, Xiaotong was violated by her stepfather.
There is no frontal shot here, but after the incident, the girl was wearing white clothes, and the blood was even more prominent.
Immediately afterwards, after the stepfather's throat was cut, blood immediately spurted out and he was twitching on the ground.
The girl who doesn't understand this yet is calmer and has empty eyes.
In the comment area, most of the scenes that disrespect women focus on these three aspects.
Since the injured protagonist in "Silent Kill" is a female student, coupled with the two main elements of "school violence" and adult mental illness, it is not difficult to imagine how many movies will touch the sensitive nerves of the audience. point.
The word "standard" in film and television dramas itself is related to "sex".
The scale of "Silent Kill" is even higher than " Solid as a Rock " and " Crossing the Angry Sea ". It is actually understandable that some people feel physically uncomfortable while watching the movie.
From a movie perspective, large scale does not mean "disrespecting women".
The feeling of pleasure is greater than the grievance, and the scene of the perpetrator is the focus.
To be honest, after watching the movie and thinking about it carefully, the director did try to play on the audience's psychological defense in order to show a large scale.
However, most of the shots are really too restrained.
As a viewer who has the urge to watch it again, I once recommended this movie to my friends.
Let’s talk about the plot first.
The focus of "Silent Killing" is not the mother or father struggling to find their children, or what kind of violence students have experienced on campus, but "revenge".
After briefly showing Xiaotong being bullied on campus, the four perpetrators immediately went to see the Lord of Hell.
Seeing this, the director raised the suspense part to the highest level. What can arouse the audience's interest more is actually the speculation about the murderer.
The focus of the later scenes of Xiaotong being violated is not here.
What shocked everyone even more was that the murderer of the stepfather turned out to be this little girl. Director
did not stick to one point and repeatedly emphasize how miserable the victims were. Instead, he portrayed the tragic death of the abuser.
Just when everyone is about to feel aggrieved, the plot kicks up and all kinds of revenge begin. Normally, when watching a movie, you won't be emotionally entangled by the female students.
let’s talk about the lens.
What is the picture that really disrespects women? In
's "Solid as a Rock", a woman in extremely thin clothing peeed in a puddle after being helped, and there was also a surveillance camera showing two people lingering in a hotel.
" Anti-gangster Storm " and other anti-gang film and television dramas, women standing naked on the side become the background wall of "naked loan".
Some girls were grabbed by the hair, and even had their clothes disappear, leaving only a coat that barely covered key parts.
Of course, I am not saying that the works mentioned above are "disrespectful to women", but when these scenes are released, they will indeed involve vulgar plots.
In "Silent Killing", the girl was violated and her clothes were neatly dressed, but the blood stains were more conspicuous.
In my opinion, this does not expose the girl, but also stimulates the audience's vision, which truly respects women on the basis of scale.
There is also a scene where Huijun was tortured before his death.
Her forehead was pricked with blood from a rosette full of spikes.
was forced to drink water containing his own hair, and finally Huijun was photographed standing on the glass platform from below.
The bleeding and drinking of water mentioned above are probably relatively "low-level" methods of school violence.
From a bottom-up perspective, I think viewers who have watched the movie will understand that nothing was captured at all. Although the actors were wearing short skirts, no flesh was exposed in key parts.
Is this disrespectful to women?
Conclusion
Objectively speaking, using "disrespect for women" to judge a film and television drama with good results, large scale and high quality really makes the work "indefensible".
On the one hand, for a movie that is in hot release, it is impossible to show all the scenes to spoil the movie, so that there will be no surprises for the audience.
has no way to argue. He can only use positive word-of-mouth to pull it off, and he can't come up with accurate footage, so he really can't make a strong counterattack.
On the other hand, gender antagonism is stirred up.
Are these comments really made by sensitive female viewers after watching the movie?
I don’t think so.
The lineup and publicity of "Silent Kill" are not strong, and most of the audiences who can enter the theater are interested in crime themes.
As for crime films such as school violence, they themselves involve some sensitive points, so the audience can be somewhat mentally prepared. Moreover, during the time I watched the film, female audiences responded more positively.
To sum up, I am afraid that the overwhelming momentum of "Silent Kill" has already disturbed some people's cheese.
Seeing that various summer blockbusters are about to be released, films that can bring visual impact, especially works that stand out due to their quality, will definitely pose a threat to the films of the same period. It is not difficult to see from the comments of
that some netizens have made it clear that "they will never spend a penny" before they even read it. I think some people actually have no intention of buying it in the first place.
I don’t know if you think “Silent Kill” has touched the red line of “disrespecting women”?
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