Have you ever thought about it? Cheating in exams that made you nervous in middle school has turned into a thrilling and thunderous "spy war" movie in the hands of a Thai director. The high school beauties are like female leaders of the underground party in the examination room, and they are witty, decisive and skillful to pass the answers to the students who need "help", and even spread to Asia and the world! "Genius Gunslinger" is such a fast-paced and strong plot movie with a novel entry point, which can make most fans who want a good story watch High's high-quality commercial films.
In view of the certain suspense of the film and two key reversals, it is inevitable that some spoilers will be involved in the evaluation of character creation. Friends who have not watched the film, please read the next part carefully.
There are not many characters in "Genius Gunner", and the story mainly revolves around the heroine. The genius Xueba Xiaolin (the heroine's name) from an ordinary single-parent family transferred to an aristocratic high school, and under the instigation of the school scumbag boyfriend, he helped his classmates cheat and get paid. The business is getting bigger and bigger, from breaking school rules to breaking the law, and eventually going out of control.
As the only protagonist, the director and screenwriter portrayed the role of Xiao Lin the most. At the beginning of the film, Xiao Lin explained that Xiao Lin was very good at relying on her good academic advantages in exchange for economic benefits, and took the initiative to negotiate with the principal, cleverly allowing the school to exempt her The tuition fee quickly established the character's intelligent, precocious, and calculating initial character.
At first, Xiao Lin helped her classmates to cheat just to raise her own admission fee. Later, when she realized the difference in life opportunities under the social class gap, her motivation for being a gunman changed to making money to study in the United States and achieve class status. span. During this period, Banker, who was also an academic bully but came from the bottom of the society, was also involved. Xiaolin witnessed the playful children easily destroy Banker's only life-changing opportunity for her own selfish interests. During their brief relationship, the two chose to reconcile the hostility caused by the misunderstanding. In the end, the arrest of Banker deeply touched Xiaolin and changed Xiaolin's values. In the end, she chose the latter between the opportunity to quickly achieve a class leap and being an upright and down-to-earth person. For the film, Also completed a nice character arc.
Compared with Xiao Lin, the male No. 1 Bank is the biggest tragic character in the film. He came from the bottom of society and his family barely makes a living from his mother's humble laundry. In the beginning, Bank was honest, down-to-earth, and upright, and his academic performance was tied with Xiao Lin's best in the school. Even if he was short of money, he didn't want to help his classmates cheat to make money. Knowing that Xiaolin is the initiator of the cheating. The full scholarship to study in Singapore allowed Bank to see a light in his bleak life. This was the only chance for him to change his fate. However, just the night before the scholarship examination, he was found by the rich second generation who wanted to recruit him. Man beaten to hospital and missed exam. For the sake of money, he reluctantly joined Xiaolin's fraud group, but turned out to be the only shooter who was caught, so he was expelled from high school and was unable to study abroad for the rest of his life. The huge setbacks and humiliation made his personality completely degenerate. Darkness has turned to the opposite of the upright Banker at the beginning, forming an extreme contrast with the protagonist Xiaolin.
Compared with the male and female protagonists, the two important supporting roles of the film have been reduced to relatively thin paper characters. Grace, the heroine's best friend with a completely silly white and sweet face, and the typical playboy best friend and boyfriend minibus, just like the film. Zhong Xiaolin said: "They are winners when they are born." The two supporting roles are completely tool characters used to help complete the plot and set off the protagonist. It's a pity that the protagonist's best friend Grace, from the plot and ending of the film, is also a victim of Thailand's exam-oriented education system. She loves drama performances, but the entry threshold for high school troupes even requires a certain academic score. This is also the reason why she asked Xiao Lin to help her cheat. If this character can be more written to make her richer and more three-dimensional, I think it will be more topical and satirical about the education system.
The director of "The Gunslinger" is very young. In this film, he showed off his sharp edges and showed off his skills insanely. He played the reverse structure. They are rehearsing what to say if they are caught, and what is more clever is that while giving the audience this reversal, the director adds another layer of plot reversal (no spoilers here). In addition, there are a lot of rich mirror movements, fancy lens language, chiaroscuro, upgraded lenses, distance effects, parallel montages, everything, and the soundtrack is also very good for the atmosphere. It's a pity that the overly obvious dazzling skills and the slightly contrived lens language hurt the audience's sense of substitution, which is a bit overwhelming.
What I like most is the director's skillful integration of strong social criticism into small-scale commercial films, disdain for the examination education system and the school sponsorship fee (school selection fee) system, and his disdain for the problem of class solidification and the gap between the rich and the poor in modern society. Attention, sympathy for the middle and lower classes of society who are kind and hard-working but their lives cannot be improved are all reflected in the film.
In a sense, Xiaolin embodies a certain kind of revolution. She saw the hypocrisy of school education and the class nature of society very early, and adopted a relatively extreme way to fight against it, trying to take shortcuts and quickly achieve class leap. , but in the end he almost let himself doom. After finding that this road would not work, he finally chose to become a teacher, enter this education system, and improve even a little bit of this system with his already perfected personality. And Bank is the part of the people who are swallowed up by the educational system and deformed social formation. For them, the world is mean, so I deeply sympathize with Bank.
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