Today there are two films about Young and Dangerous , one is the Golden Brothers played by the brothers who have starred in Young and Dangerous , and the other is Jia Zhangke's new work, the children of the Jianghu .
As always, the heroine is still Zhao Tao , and as always, the camera is fixed on ordinary people at the bottom.
But I think this film is not as good as the old guns with similar themes in all aspects , from the characters in the play to the final presentation.
Perhaps as many movie fans have said, this film is actually more like a personal summary of Jia Zhangke. Here you can see the shadows of Xiaowu, the good man of the Three Gorges, the destiny of the gods, the old friends of mountains and rivers and so on.
But none of these fascination elements can add one more point to it.
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The film is a typical three-act structure , and at the end of each scene, there will be that heart-stopping dong dong dong sound.
The first time it sounded, it was Qiaoqiao who shot to the sky in order to save Brother Bin, and then she was imprisoned.
The second time it sounded, it was Qiao Qiao who stole the driver's car and ran wildly on the muddy road - the turning point here came a little later, and finally received a conversation with Brother Bin, and then he was completely heartbroken and set foot on the road. Return train.
The third sound was the ending. When she realized that no matter what, she couldn't keep the man she loved, she leaned against the wall alone.
There are almost three styles of three-act plays, and even three stories. The first act is the best, and the last two acts are obviously much worse.
The first scene is the most suitable for the title of the film, and it tells the story of brother Bin and Qiaoqiao, the children of Jianghu.
The group portraits of the local gangsters and old gangsters inserted in the middle are also very good.
And the actual nature of this group of people has been fully reflected in the private conversation between Qiaoqiao and Brother Bin.
On the surface, it seems that they are all headed by big brothers and big sisters, but in fact they are just two workers in a mine and a machinery factory. They have no dazzling background, and they even have to worry about the relocation of the government.
And Qiaoqiao didn't have much nostalgia for her own home. She saw her father, gave the money, immediately stepped on the bus and left, and in the next scene, she had already started to dance without emotion - obviously, to be a so-called Jianghu Children are just a way for them to escape from life.
The second brother, who has a lot of style, has just one scene in total, which is very exciting. As a result, the national standard appears and the national standard ends. The whole life is just a simple page in the history of Datong gangsters.
These Jianghu sons and daughters actually have a superficial understanding of Jianghu from film and television works. They will even sit in a suit and tie to watch the movies of Young and Dangerous.
Perhaps for them, it is not the movie, but the Bible, the methodology and the highest criterion for their actions and speeches.
Even in the face of the two and a half young men who came to beat people, Brother Bin would open the door and let them go after a lesson.
It even felt that compared to his low-level status, his level of being a young and dangerous boy was higher, and he even had some meaning to go to the godfather.
As a result, when the godfather met the young man who came to seek revenge again, he only pretended to be arrogant for more than ten seconds, and he had to rely on the woman beside him to shoot to save the scene.
Brother Bin, but that's it.
With the beginning of the second act, the style of the film changed suddenly, and the dual protagonist configuration became Zhao Tao's big heroine .
Video quality also plummeted.
Moreover, Chief Jia's personal goods were also exposed. The one who came to visit Qiaoqiao was a dancer who was suspected to have been brought by the second brother before his death. Brother Bin, who was released from prison a year earlier, was faced with no one to pick him up. scene.
Some people say, look how good this shot is, the world is hot and cold, so many people were rushing to light cigarettes before, but now no one cares.
But I think that this almost joking scene is actually a disrespect to the characters in the film.
Section Chief Jia deliberately behaved like this, what bullshit loyalty, nothing, but don't you really think it's too fake?
It's not been ten or twenty years, it's only been one year, and the dancer has been arranged to visit the prison without reason, which is a bit too dark.
Of course, I'm not saying that the little gangster is a good person or something like Yuntian, but he can't be so heartless.
Look at the old guns, they are also outdated old gangsters, and the sixth master still has a few good brothers.
To extend it further, even these bottom layers in Gia Ke's eyes have no bright spots, they are all humble, hypocritical, and heartless.
The only bright light shined on his wife Zhao Tao's face.
So the whole second act is totally a Qiao Qiao adventure .
She attaches great importance to love and righteousness, and wants to find brother Bin, but brother Bin is unsympathetic and is on good terms with others.
The places where the few people in the middle came to make cameo appearances are even more shattered, almost all of them are completely functional paragraphs, so I'm going to give you subtitles to say what's the use here.
With so many people, it is to complement a skillful growth and a skillful character transformation.
But to be honest, Zhao Tao's performance did not reflect the level of this character at all. From Guo'er more than ten years ago, to the owner of the chess and card house more than ten years later, she is still the same.
A dignified face, thoughtful, as if there is a huge hidden secret behind it. At first glance, it is really intimidating, but after so many of them have come down, I have not told you how big the hidden secret behind it is. child's.
In this film, the real turning point of the role of Qiaoqiao is the betrayal of a lover. There are no other things that a person in the world should experience. To put it more ugly, it is no different from the experience of a heroine in a love movie. .
But this part is not useless. My favorite scene in the whole film is in the second act, which is the one on the picture.
Especially when the two were sitting opposite each other, Brother Bin raised Qiaoqiao's left hand and said that you protected me with a gun in this hand, but Qiaoqiao said that I was right-handed, and shrank his left hand and raised his right hand to Brother Bin.
In this section, in addition to the hypocrisy and ruthlessness of Brother Bin reflected in the lines, Brother Bin originally pulled his right hand and left his left hand. This picture is very ambiguous. This is an action in the world of love.
Immediately, Qiaoqiao handed over his right hand, and the movements of the two suddenly turned into a very business-like handshake.
This time, all the changes in the relationship came out, and after that, Qiaoqiao gave up completely, and when she stepped over the brazier, she almost crossed over her past together.
Afterwards, she ran to listen to how much love could come back and shed tears silently. This is also a design that continued the content of the first act. They were gangsters, and they were really deeply influenced by film and television works.
If you want to cry, you can't cry directly, you can't feel it when you cry directly, you have to cry under the music, because that's how it is played in the movie.
In the third act, time took another big step forward.
This time, Brother Bin was down and came to ask Qiaoqiao for help. Qiaoqiao is so awesome. Now, he has opened a mahjong hall, and he seems to be a big man.
And Brother Bin was half disabled, and even the brother who had listened to his persuasion dared to snatch his wheelchair.
And what kind of feelings does Qiaoqiao have for Brother Bin at this time? Although she said it was out of moral help, she felt that it was not entirely because of this.
Until Brother Bin sent her a voice before leaving, I vaguely saw that on Qiaoqiao's mobile phone, the color of the first person in the WeChat chat bar she clicked was dark.
If I read it right, it's pinned - she pinned Brother Bin.
After all this is clear, Qiaoqiao still loves Brother Bin in his heart, but the audience also found out that there is no follow-up to this love story, and Brother Bin has left at the same time.
The whole last two scenes can actually be said to be a bit of Mary Sue .
Brother Bin can't do well, so can't others do well, but she can open a mahjong parlor and become a boss.
Liars can also be deceived, even the driver of the motorcycle has evil thoughts on her, but it is easy to be deceived by him.
The driver of the motorcycle should be another manifestation of Chief Jia’s contempt for the bottom. The bottom is so fucking rubbish. If you are alone with a woman, you want to go. Our goddess Zhao Tao cheated him with one mouth. "Dear", if there is another explanation, "Dear" to let the bottom driver say it is a complete mockery of this character.
After that, Xu Zheng's part should be the most detached in the whole escape clip. Because of Chief Jia's own sci-fi plot, there really came a Xu Zheng who threatened to engage in aliens, and then it was really seen by Qiaoqiao. UFO.
Moreover, this section is not even functional. Before that, Qiaoqiao was already determined to return to her hometown. Here she added an extra person who made her heart move and gave up quickly, turning one hundred and eighty degrees and then another. One hundred and eighty degrees, where is the change?
Xu Zheng's lines will never change, so I won't complain about it...
To sum up, the overall rhythm of this film is still very fast. In terms of the dimension of Kechang Jia’s works, it is highly watchable. The first scene is the best of the whole film, and the last two scenes are all about the eldest daughter of the "goddess". The main play, but from the theme to the performance can't hold up at all.
Perhaps the real highlight of the film is the re-use of imagery and elements of Mr. Gia's own past work—even at the expense of the first act.
However, if it is said that so many films were made to support his wife, this concluding work has indeed completed this sublimation perfectly.
Zhao Tao, Jia Zhangke is truly amazing with you! (In case you don’t understand, this sentence is an irony, the source is the legend of the demon cat
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