This story template is really good. There are old nightmares, relatives, friendships, and reversals that must be brought in in recent years.
But everything is very simple and the difficulties are great, but the solution is very simple. This is also often encountered, especially in commercial films.
However, for me, who was just holding a watch to pass the time, this film still gave a lot of surprises.
If you make this story realistic and add a little realistic expression, it should be a good film.
for example;
Two childhood playmates, in junior high or high school, because they were young or immature, they did some wrong things out of good intentions. Caused certain consequences. For example, when my father wanted to sexually assault his daughter, he didn't choose to call the police (you can mention why he didn't call the police at the end of the story). Instead, he set out on his own. As a result, one person died and the other suffered later misfortune.
Later, one of them paid some price for this, such as the juvenile management office or dropping out of school.
More than ten years later, the lives of the two people are different. One may have a normal life, go to college, get married, and have children. The other person became a different person, perhaps in order to reduce the time spent in jail, or as in "Billy Lynn’s Intermission," he went to serve as a soldier in order not to enter the cell, and left his familiar hometown. strange place.
A few years later, an old friend came to him, and something went wrong; it was because the child had an accident, and the next generation needed help. This problem can not be solved by money, or it can be robbing the bank together. It feels a bit like "Hot Pot Hero".
This needs to be specific to what happened to this person in the past ten years. He must have some abilities that others don't have, such as being able to use some things, be able to manipulate explosives or something. Of course, there must be some reflections that are in line with reality, such as explosives in Shanxi or Inner Mongolia. But I am not from there, maybe I can find some realities in some places where I have lived.
So they started to act together.
The line between the nurse and his wife in Constantine is very good, telling us what happened before from the perspective of a third party.
So this line is also needed in this story.
The marriage of the old friend and his wife is about to break up. She and one of his female friends are looking at their daughter in the hospital. During the period, they recounted the incident when they were young. . .
Suddenly I found that the screenwriter is amazing after writing this way. Really, although his magical framework makes some creativity easier, the overall story is really good.
To make this story realistic, the problems that need to be solved are how to save, how to sacrifice, and how to establish a villain or a predicament.
The main line is to save the daughter of an old friend, and the B story is self-salvation. The old friend’s B story is forgiveness. Of course there are old friends' wives. Then there should be a realistic expression, a kind of absurdity and helplessness of reality. The villain can be the system or destiny. But how to visualize is a problem. Just like "Dancing with Me" by Shiyaguchi, it also has a magical setting, or in other words, his "Survival Family", which has a high concept. Of course, such as "Swing Girl" or Spike Lee's "Why For" are two better ones, which are completely realistic and express realistically.
So, where should the realistic expression of the above story be placed, I still can't figure it out yet.
I hope I can figure him out one day.
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