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1. This film review is just because of my personal love for this movie, I want to write down my feelings while I still have memories. The version I'm watching is the international version, so don't tell me that some of the things you haven't seen are my obscenities.
2. Secondly, when I watched it with English subtitles + Wuhan dialect, I didn't plan to write a film review before watching it. At that time, there was no chance for a second brush, so the relationship between the characters was a bit messy. Thank you for your reminder, the name of the role has been modified in the article.
3. The critics still retain my own understanding of the plot at that moment. I hope it can help some viewers (anyway, you won't just watch my film reviews, hum).
4. Thank you all for correcting that the explosion sound is the sound of fried rice bubbles, um, I love fried chestnuts.
[Original film review]
It is the first time to participate in a local film festival after going abroad for ten years. As the only Chinese film we have released, I have special expectations for this film. Of course, my best friend is more for Hu Ge, and I am for Gui Lunmei. Unexpectedly, Chinese faces accounted for only half of the audience, and most of the rest were white-skinned and blue-eyed whites. When I secretly wondered whether they could understand the film, I discovered that the whole film was in Wuhan dialect. In the development of China, I, a non-Wuhan native, can only rely on simple English translation like foreign movie viewers.
There was a heavy rain on the day of the movie, and it slowly turned down when the movie started. In conjunction with the rainy night in the first scene of the film, I instantly became a little confused between reality and illusion. In the play, Hu Ge changed his usual gentle appearance and played a dark-skinned Zhou Zenong with a beard. At first glance, he looks very similar to the master who is driving on weekdays. Although Zhou Zenong occasionally flustered out most of the time, he was always thinking about something most of the time. Even when he was being hunted down, he kept a clear head. The sweat and blood are mixed with strong male hormones. The occasionally exposed chest muscles and abdomen caused slight exclamations in the theater, which made people swallow unconsciously.
Gui Lunmei, I saw her pure female student in "The Untold Secret" when she was still in my junior high school. I accidentally discovered that she was going to be 36 years old, and it was already past her acting "Blue Gate". For 17 years. Over the years, I have grown up on time without knowing it, and Gui Lunmei has matured on time as scheduled. In the play, her accompany girl Liu Aiai is truly distressing. As long as a man pays a little money, she will go "swim" with the man. In fact, it is doing the most primitive transaction in the name of accompanying tour. In the low-level society dominated by men and violence, the power of a woman is too weak, and the power of a wandering girl is even more low. Compared with Zhou Zenong, who is one of the leaders of the car thieves gang, Liu Ai'ai has no brothers, no force, and no bargaining chip with others. Therefore, in the play, she always walks with her head down, and she feels very flustered when she meets the police. Even in normal times, she can see her forced composure from the erratic eyes. From beginning to end, her real family and friends have not been seen, and she represents the abandoned low-level people among the reinforced concrete buildings of the University of Nova Scotia. Helpless, but not unrestrained. Different gangs can only keep pulling her for their own interests.
[Spoiler, those who haven't watched the movie should be cautious! ! 】The following story description is developed in chronological order, and it is specially stated that I have only watched it once (because the film festival is only screened once, and cannot be replayed twice...), I can only construct memories based on the fragments in my mind. If the description is wrong, please correct me .
Zhou Zenong is a member of the largest car theft gang in Wuhan. With his extraordinary courage and strength, as well as years of experience, he has a place in the gang and has many followers. He has become one of the largest gangs in the gang. However, where there are benefits, there are disputes. Another gang, headed by "Maoyan", has been coveting a street that Zhou Zenong has been in charge of for many years, and the benefits brought by the street have driven the rival gang crazy.
At this time, Zhou Zenong had just come out of jail. The hostile gang used Zhou Zenong’s technical misconduct to apply to the gang’s boss "Ge Ma" to take over the street. Ma Ge initially declined with Zhou Zenong's more experience, but the hostile gang refused to follow him. Not forgiving. In the end, Marco advocated that the two gangs engage in a car theft competition, and which gang steals more cars within a specified time, which gang can obtain the jurisdiction of the street.
The hostile gang was still fighting for nothing. At this time, Zhou Zenong's "Huang Mao" (forgot his name) was young and vigorous, and suddenly took out his gun and shot the clamoring gangster in the leg of the hostile gang. The two gangs were originally fighting secretly, but at this time they were forced to put on the table by the gunfire. The two sides immediately fell into a bloody chaos. There were males and females among the onlookers, and they were still talking and laughing watching them fight, as if it was not people watching but animals playing around.
From the beginning to the end, Zhou Zenong stood in the corner of the party hall watching the show, as if these disputes had nothing to do with him. Seeing that the fighting had entered a white-hot stage, Zhou Zenong slowly left the wall he had been leaning against, picked up a car lock and entered the fighting crowd, and easily knocked down several rival gangs... ...
Afterwards, Ge Ma told Zhou Zenong that he needed an explanation, and Zhou Zenong said that he would deal with disobedient subordinates. Unexpectedly, when I asked my subordinates, I discovered that I didn't know when they all bought guns. Maybe Zhou Zenong didn't expect that the situation in Wuhan city began to fluctuate during his time in prison. At this time, Zhou Zenong silently put a gun confiscated from his subordinates into his trouser pocket. At this time, his heart may be: Since I can buy a gun under his hand, it means that the other party is also very likely to have a gun. And this car theft race may not necessarily be that simple.
The car theft competition began, and both sides were in a fierce see-saw, and battery cars were pulled to the designated location. The dazzling car lights represent the fact of crime one after another, telling everyone that crime is so simple and rude. And Zhou Zenong had been preoccupied from the beginning, but as expected, his concerns were right. The enemy gang members deliberately lured Huang Mao into a drag racing competition and placed obstacles on the road, causing Huang Mao to be cut off by a safety rod when he passed the tunnel. Then he fired a shot at Zhou Zenong, who was following in the direction. At this time, Zhou Zenong lost his subordinates and became unconscious in the pain of the gunshot wound. Panicked, he mistakenly regarded the police patrolling as an enemy when he fled, blindly. The shooting resulted in the death of a policeman. And it was this shot that gave Zhou Zenong a reward of 300,000 yuan, and countless people had a ghost in their hearts.
Zhou Zenong knew that he had no retreat, and he knew that he could hardly fly with his wings. Rather than being arrested directly, Zhou Zenong hopes that his wife Yang Shujun will report him so as to receive a reward of 300,000 yuan. Zhou Zenong asked his wife's brother to find his wife. However, the eldest brother-in-law was being monitored by the police, so he had to ask another friend, Hua Hua, for help, hoping that Hua Hua would let Yang Shujun go to see Zhou Zenong. Huahua was inconvenient to come forward and asked her companion Liu Aiai to persuade Yang Shujun to see Zhou Zenong, and everyone met in the square.
Liu Aiai and Yang Shujun walked to the square with their feet behind them. The two spread out to conceal their eyes. Liu Aiai was integrated into the square dance team, and Yang Shujun pretended to be a customer in front of a small vendor. It is ridiculous that when the gunshots sounded, the audience realized that the people on the square were actually policemen. It was the policemen who accompanied Liu Aiai to dance, and the shopkeepers who bought things were arranged by the police. The square dancers who danced in fluorescent shoes at the beginning suddenly turned into agile figures in the dark, taking pictures of Liu Ai'ai and Yang Shujun's cleverness at the beginning so stupid: It turns out that their every move has long been exposed to the police. Pay attention.
There are a lot of gunshots in the movie, and each gunshot promotes the development of the plot. For example, the gunshot of Huang Mao at the beginning, for example, the gunshot that Zhou Zenong killed the policeman. The director is like playing a game with you, using all kinds of real-life blasting sounds, so that you never know when there will be real gunfire. After you discovered that it was just the blasting sound when frying chestnuts, before you breathed a sigh of relief, there was an intense gun battle. A heart of the audience has been hanging, unable to let go. Finally, Yang Shujun's younger brother died in a gun battle in the square.
Shocked by the loss of her younger brother, Yang Shujun confessed that it was a bureau made by the police, and she herself suddenly became epileptic. Huahua had no choice but to let Liu Aiai go to see Zhou Zenong and tell him this. The film goes back to the moment when Liu Aiai and Zhou Zenong met at the beginning. The two were discussing countermeasures. Zhou Zenong knew that his wife could no longer come to him, and he might be caught at any time. Once caught, the 300,000 will not be in the hands of his wife. Zhou Zenong hoped that Liu Ai'ai could report her, and when the time comes to share the money with his wife, Liu Ai'ai fully agreed.
This scene at the station undoubtedly showed Zhou Zenong's wisdom and courage. First, through the temporary chaos at the station entrance, he swaggered into the station with Liu Aiai. When Liu Aiai asked him why he chose to go to a crowded station, he said that the police must be searching in remote places and do not care about crowded places. Sure enough, the police even searched remote places such as zoos and private gambling establishments, and made a few minor contributions along the way. Second, he asked Liu Aiai to report him to the police. However, when he was about to go into the station to throw himself into the net, he suddenly considered that the police might suspect that Liu Aiai would not be near the train station at all, so he suspected that they would cheat the bounty. Third, Zhou Zenong feels that Huahua cannot be relied on at this time. Just ask how much Liu Aihuahua promised to give her. Liu Aiai faltered and said 20,000. Zhou Zenong understood at this time: Even Liu Aiai who charged into the battle can only take 20,000 yuan, so that Huahua would not be allowed to embezzle the money and would not leave it to his wife at all.
Zhou Zenong knew that he had to do something for his wife, but his current situation was too passive. In fact, Liu Aiai also knew that she was busy doing her dowry for others. But helplessly, his strength is too weak. She knew well that even if she got a bounty of 300,000 yuan, in Huahua, under the eyes of hostile gangs, she had no ability to protect the money. At this time, a train roared past, and Liu Aiai thought of a way. However, as the audience, under the muting effect of the director, we could not hear a word in any way. But only 15 seconds after hearing the roar of the train, it indicates that Liu Aiai and Zhou Zenong are about to start a big layout for us within a limited time.
First of all, Zhou Zenong and Liu Aiai went to the bathing place she usually accompanies. Liu Aiai and Zhou Zenong stayed on the boat for one night, after which Zhou Zenong gave Liu Aiai a ticket. This can help Liu Aiai stand firm when facing the police's inquiry, and can confidently tell the police that I met Zhou Zenong while serving him, so that the next thing can happen more believable. On the other hand, Liu Ai'ai also observed that Huahua secretly met with Ma Ge in private. Facts proved that Huahua did not really want to help Zhou Zenong's wife to win the 300,000, but wanted to take it alone.
Liu Aiai pretended to join Zhou Zenong's hostile gang, telling them that she had received the 300,000 reward for helping Huahua, and she knew Zhou Zenong's whereabouts. The hostile gang therefore eliminated Huahua and helped Zhou Zenong and Liu Aiai solve a major problem. Immediately after Liu Aiai pretended to lure Zhou Zenong to the hostile gang’s lair, the hostile gang feared that Zhou Zenong would be caught by the police and would expose their crimes, and wanted to kill him beforehand. However, Zhou Zenong did not expect to be killed by Zhou Zenong. Several core members of the hostile gang were successively killed solve. Zhou Zenong used a gorgeous umbrella to kill people, and after showing off his superb anti-tracing ability, he successfully escaped from the police chase.
Why I think these are actually discussed in advance by Liu Ai'ai and Zhou Zenong, the key is Zhou Zenong's attitude towards Liu Ai'ai afterwards. If Liu Aiai really betrayed Zhou Zenong and took refuge in hostile forces, I think Zhou Zenong, who has a few lives in his hands, would not mind taking Liu Aiai's life in the anger of being betrayed and nearly killed. However, Zhou Zenong didn't show his due anger towards Liu Ai'ai except for riding around with Liu Ai'ai on a motorcycle and letting the motorcycle make a rumbling noise. Liu Ai'ai's avoidance and begging for mercy also appeared to be very artificial, more like acting for the onlookers, so that they would also become their own witnesses.
In order to escape Zhou Zenong’s “catch up” and “misplay”, Liu Ai’ai entered another place where the boss “Ge Yan” assembled. The identity of Ge Yan here has not been clearly explained, but it is most likely to take over the Huahua forces. People who are, may also use their own calculations on the bounty. Yan Ge recognized Liu Aiai as Huahua's person. As Liu Aiai expected, Yan Ge followed her out of the workshop. (Why I think this is also arranged in advance, It is because Liu Aiai, who has always bowed her head, said a few ruthless words at this time. According to her status, she would never dare to turn her face against Yan Ge, so it was only possible that she had other plans.) Sure enough, Yan Ge said. Very angry, dragged Liu Aiai to a remote garbage dump to "learn" her, but Zhou Zenong punched her head from top to bottom. So far, the last threat has been eliminated. All threats to Liu Aiai Those who get the bounty have completely gone to another world.
Finally, Zhou Zenong and Liu Aiai went to a noodle restaurant, and Zhou Zenong suddenly said that they wanted to eat. Liu Aiai was shocked, and then realized that this was Zhou Zenong's last meal. She ordered a bowl of noodles for each of them, and Zhou Zenong gobbled it up after he got the noodles. Liu Aiai stood up at this moment, she knew it was time for parting. She walked out of the noodle restaurant slowly. Although the footage was not taken, it can be guessed that she directed the police to the noodle restaurant to arrest Zhou Zenong.
At this time, Zhou Zenong had finished his bowl of noodles, and then took Liu Ai's unfinished noodles over to eat. He ate so fast and anxiously, compared with most of the calm performances in the play, it made me wonder if he was really hungry. Later, when I thought back, I realized that he should be trying to be a ghost in a limited time. After eating the noodles, Zhou Zenong took out his pistol and fired a shot that made the police swarm up. After pretending to escape, Zhou Zenong was shot dead. The triumphant police felt that they were capable of catching Zhou Zenong, and they took a group photo next to Zhou Zenong's body. The corpse of Zhou Zenong lying on the ground was in sharp contrast with the cheerful policemen. The art of black humor was vividly displayed at this time.
In the end, Liu Aiai received a reward of 300,000 yuan. The appearance of Yang Shujun surprised the audience as much as the police captain. It was only at this moment that he realized that it was a round before. The only comfort in the whole film is that Liu Aiai has not failed Zhou Zenong's trust. Two weak women took the 300,000 cash and disappeared into the thoughtful gaze of the police captain...
The story is over here, I want to share a few points with you. First of all, as one of my favorite actors, Hu Ge has made a great breakthrough in this drama. I praised his acting skills and affirmed his face. I personally have some thoughts about the role of Zhou Zenong. From Zhou Zenong’s calm expression when he killed a member of a hostile gang, it can be seen that he is accustomed to killing. A person who kills often will definitely change a person on the aura. However, Hu Ge is always very calm. As an audience, I can’t feel it. The cruelty and cruelty of his character will only give the feeling that he is walking for the heavens. In the early stage, in the gang and in the process of fleeing, there was basically no time for Zhou Zenong to panic. Compared with Huahua and Maoyan, Hu Ge's Zhou Zenong lacks a sense of the market, so that the audience cannot fully integrate him with the character. As a enthusiast of crime films, I personally have high requirements for criminal performance. Of course, it does not rule out that I subconsciously think that Hu Ge is too handsome, and has no connection with the image of criminals in my imagination.
Second, this layout was proposed by Liu Ai'ai, and I personally find it unacceptable for a traveling girl to propose such a plan. If Liu Aiai has such an IQ, then she would not be just an escort girl. In that environment, it is so difficult for people to live normally. Most of the thinking has been solidified. It is difficult to suddenly think of these ideas, unless these ideas have always been in her mind, but there is no foreshadowing in the film. I personally Think this is a bug. But it can also be explained that Zhou Zenong put forward his suggestion, and the two people designed the plan better, which is not a bad idea.
Third, Liu Ai'ai and Yang Shujun had actually been exposed to the police in the square, and the police could infer that Liu Ai'ai and Zhou Zenong had colluded to receive the bounty. However, the police didn't seem to know Liu Ai'ai in the later period. This is a place that I don't quite understand. If it is not a bug, I hope someone can answer it.
The movie-watching experience is still very good in general, regardless of the shooting technique, lens arrangement or dialogue, they are all at a relatively high level. The pictures and themes of guest houses, square dancing, car theft, and escort girls are all very grounded, but they don't make people feel weird. It's rare to see this type of Chinese movie, and I am proud of being made in China again. I highly recommend a movie that everyone is going to taste. I hope to discuss it with friends who have seen it, and fill up the fragments in my memory, the stories about the South.
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