I also watched this movie, and the most intuitive feeling is that I didn’t like it.
If nothing else, let’s talk about the performances of the two protagonists. I really don’t think Zhang Junning, who is unmarried and unpregnant in real life, can play a good mother.
I don’t even think that the introverted and sensitive Wang Chuanjun in reality played a father who lost control of his emotions until he killed everyone.
So, after watching the whole movie, I couldn't empathize with their pain.
Especially Wang Chuanjun, every time I see his pretense of pain in "Manslaughter", I will think of Xiao Yang's father in "Manslaughter".
are all movies directed by Ke Wenli, and they are both fathers who avenge their daughters, but the two of them gave me completely different impressions.
In order to verify this point of view, I specially found "Manslaughter" and watched it again.
Sure enough, I was once again conquered by Xiao Yang's acting skills, and once again felt dissatisfied with Wang Chuanjun's performance.
is also playing a father, and he is also passionate about his daughter. Why can’t Wang Chuanjun make people sympathize with him, but Xiao Yang can make people fall in love with him every minute?
Next, let’s discuss this issue and see what the difference is between them.
1. Wang Chuanjun in "Silent Kill"
First of all, we must affirm Wang Chuanjun's acting skills.
I believe that many people still remember the clumsy but cute Sekiya Miracle, the seriously ill patient in " I'm Not the God of Medicine ", and the manager Lu in " All or Nothing ".
Even in "Silent Kill", Wang Chuanjun's acting skills are remarkable, and he has taken into account many of the necessary body details.
A scene that impressed me deeply was that after the death of his daughter, Lin Zaifu, played by Wang Chuanjun, distributed leaflets at school in the rain to look for witnesses.
There is a detail here. Lin Zaifu, who was originally upright and straight, now has a stooped back.
The impact of his daughter's death on him has materialized from the depths of his heart to the outside of his body. One can imagine how much pain he has endured. In the
film, Wang Chuanjun also contributed a lot to such performances.
After his daughter fell from the building, he couldn't stop shaking when he broke down and cried. There was also the eyes that widened when he asked Li Han why he didn't save his daughter, and the resentment in his eyes when he looked at the place where his daughter fell.
These meticulous expression details are all accurately presented by him.
Therefore, whether it is similar in appearance or in spirit, Wang Chuanjun's performance is absolutely passable.
Then why, during the watching process, the audience could never empathize with him? The answer is simple, has gone too far.
Wang Chuanjun has acting skills. There is no doubt about this. If in other works, his acting skills have made him successful, then in this movie, he may have fallen into the trap of over-acting.
This resulted in many of his actions being performance-first, which made seem unreal and natural enough.
In this way, it will not stand up to scrutiny, and it will be difficult for the audience to sympathize with him and have a sense of empathy.
Take the scene where Lin Zaifu is playing with his daughter at the beach. The way he looks at his daughter while working, the emotion in his eyes is almost overflowing.
Although I knew in my heart that this scene was mainly to show his love for his daughter, to be honest, I still felt a strong sense of discomfort when watching this scene.
Let’s put it this way, if you didn’t know in advance that they were a father and daughter, just by showing this scene, many people would probably misunderstand their relationship.
Because Wang Chuanjun’s performance here performed love, but did not perform fatherly love.
The most taboo thing about this kind of emotion that can be recognized by human instinct is "acting". It requires mobilizing life experience and then showing it naturally.
In addition to this specific scene, it is estimated that many people have been deeply impressed by the way he roared in the rain after watching this video.
After all, this kind of emotional outburst that is rarely seen in real life still has a great impact on people's vision and psychology.
As an audience, we can certainly understand the blow he suffered after losing his daughter, but to be honest, his so-called hearty expression is actually a major obstacle that prevents the audience from empathizing with the character.
Because in real life, when people suffer pain and helplessness, even if they cry bitterly, they are mostly silent.
Another point is that when watching Wang Chuanjun's scenes, I couldn't feel the specific changes that his daughter's death had brought to his real life. I could only feel the great changes in his emotions.
This kind of expression that is separated from life and only lingers on emotions can easily give people an inexplicable look and feel.
Therefore, although I saw Wang Chuanjun's acting skills again in this film, IMHO, this kind of performance for performance's sake is really difficult to impress the audience.
2. Xiao Yang in "Manslaughter"
Before "Manslaughter", many viewers' impressions of Xiao Yang stayed on "Old Boy", "Father" and "Little Apple", only him Think of it as a member of the singer group "Chopsticks Brothers".
Even though he directed and acted in " Oldboy: The Dragon Crossing the River " and " Weather Pre-Explosion ", and also participated in " Chinatown Detective ", everyone only thinks that he is an actor for fun. "Comedian".
It was not until Ke Wenli's first feature film "Manslaughter" appeared that Xiao Yang's acting skills and his identity as an actor were recognized by the public for the first time.
Li Weijie, who he plays in the film, only attended elementary school for four years. His occupation is a network line repairman and his hobby is watching movies.
On weekdays, he is known for his kindness and cowardice, but in order to save his wife and daughter, he did not hesitate to commit dangerous crimes and eventually went to prison.
The reason why Xiao Yang was able to "turn over" with this film was largely because the fatherhood he portrayed was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
I believe that many viewers can see the usual father-daughter relationship pattern in real life in the daily interactions between Li Weijie and his daughter.
Looking back at "Manslaughter", there are two scenes that made me respect Xiao Yang's father again.
The first scene took place at the dinner table of Li Weijie’s family.
The eldest daughter in adolescence is rebellious. Li Weijie loves her daughter very much but is not good at expressing it. He sits at the dinner table and either teaches her to speak well or eat more vegetables.
As a result, his daughter walked away, leaving him alone and embarrassed.
But in order to continue to establish his image as the head of the family in front of his wife and little daughter, he had to hide his inner confusion and continued to pretend to be angry and not caring.
Think about this scene at the dinner table, and Li Weijie’s embarrassment as a father, but he doesn’t know how to get along with his daughter. Are these extremely life-like scenes very common in life?
This is why the audience can easily put themselves into it without any effort, because what we pay attention to is not the performance, but ourselves behind the performance.
The second scene happened between Li Weijie and his little daughter.
After his eldest daughter accidentally killed a male classmate who insulted her, Li Weijie did not hesitate to be suspected of a crime in order to protect his wife and daughter.
He knew that the police would come to his door one day, so he imitated the interrogation scene in advance and deliberately pretended to be fierce.
When the little daughter saw him like this, she became afraid unconsciously and felt aggrieved before she could say anything.
Seeing his little daughter's reaction, Li Weijie, who was as violent as a beast one second, became reluctant to give up the next second, and even his tone of voice became softer.
To be honest, I was really impressed when I saw Xiao Yang's switching acting skills here.
acted really well, completely interpreting 's saying of "risking your life to protect your family" in a concrete way.
Actually, these two scenes are not important in "Manslaughter", but I always feel that with these two scenes, the identity of the father played by Li Weijie is established.
Compared with Wang Chuanjun's unilateral expression of emotion towards his daughter in "Silent Kill", Li Weijie's emotion towards his daughter has a two-way interaction with the audience.
The audience not only understands the daily relationship between him and his two daughters, but also gets a glimpse of his own family affection in life from this daily interaction.
This is the essential gap between the two of them when they play the father.
Wang Chuanjun is immersed in his own world and moved by himself.
Xiao Yang has integrated into the public world and used the life experiences of most people to perform Li Weijie's life story.
Here, I think of two examples to confirm this point of view.
The first example is Wang Chuanjun’s performance in a variety show.
was so moved that he cried on the spot when he saw the Rizhao Jinshan Mountain. He said that he felt like a container and that there seemed to be a lot of painful things put into his body and he wanted to get rid of it.
I admit that his performance and his words at the time were very poetic, but to be honest, this reaction was too unrealistic.
Even if the people next to him can understand what he is saying, it is difficult to empathize with him for a while.
As for most people, seeing him in this state, it is difficult not to feel a strange feeling.
Another point was made by Xiao Yang in an interview.
A reporter asked him why he likes acting. The general idea of his answer was that it is difficult for people to express their emotions heartily in real life because everyone has to be responsible.
Therefore, when he is acting, he enjoys borrowing the character's identity and doing things he would not do in real life.
But even so, he still insists that performance comes from life.
Therefore, when he received the role of "Manslaughter", the first thing he thought of, who had not yet become a father at that time, was to look for the behavior style a father might have in daily life from the way his father treated him.
In real life, Wang Chuanjun, who is married and has raised a daughter, obviously has both acting skills and life experience, but he has not let the character Lin Zaifu enter the hearts of the public.
In the final analysis, it is because he, who is good at poeticizing life, has become somewhat divorced from the public's usual way of life, and this ability to be down-to-earth is an important bridge of communication between actors and audiences.
Xiao Yang, who has come out of real life, has seen through this and does not deny it. He even wants to reproduce the daily behaviors in life to help the audience gain some new insights.
On the other hand, Wang Chuanjun is deeply trapped in his own spiritual world. Even if he uses superb acting skills to materialize all his emotions, in the final analysis it becomes a carnival for one person.
Because what he pursues is not understanding the audience, but eager for the audience to understand him.
Of course, the reason why Wang Chuanjun's shortcomings are so obvious in "Silent Kill" is largely because the logic of this film itself has big problems.
"Manslaughter" only focuses on the problems encountered by a family from beginning to end. There are enough plots to lay out the details of Li Weijie's daily life, but "Manslaughter" wants to explore too many issues.
involves all aspects. Naturally, there is not enough space to present the little things in the life of Lin Zaifu and his daughter, and the audience will inevitably feel a little suspended.
If he encounters a suitable script again, I believe that with Wang Chuanjun's acting skills, he will be able to play a father well. I hope that I will have the opportunity to see him break through in the future.(Written by: stebufa)
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