I feel that Director Zhou Xingchi has no flaws in the actor's performance and storytelling skills. What he wants to express is so credible and established in my opinion. The problem of "how to speak" has been solved completely easily and smoothly, so it is possible to discuss "what to speak" This kind of purely advanced question. It's just that the core of his movie is getting more and more sad, and it's really not suitable for children to watch.
I think Zhou Xingchi’s humor is no ordinary humor. No matter how crazy and exaggerated it is, it’s because the person is funny at this time. It’s meaningless to change a role to another scene, but because it’s the person in this film, So these lunatics are just like real. There is no stalking and no burden, just straight funny.
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spoiler spoiler spoiler — For example, in an Indian musical, everyone jumps up and starts to sing and dance, but because of the lack of connection between these songs and dances and the personalities of the characters, you will always get tired and boring if you watch too much, but In "Mermaid", what they did and said was reasonable to this person. How crazy is the world in Master Xing's heart. But the world justifies it, and it is shocking.
Except for Stephen Chow, there is no other person who dared to release such a bloody and cruel movie on New Year's Day. This is definitely not a family fun movie, even I even covered my ears and closed my eyes on the way to rush out of the theater. Not because the picture is scary, but because the cruelty is too real, and I also feel heartbroken.
I don’t like the Journey to the West and Conquering the Demons, and I don’t like the Changjiang No.7. Looking back, those two films now feel like transitional works, trying various methods and combinations to express the worldview. But in "Mermaid", all this seems to be let go. It is no longer to express yourself, but to restore a real world with a fictional story and some crazy characters. The structure of the story of "The Mermaid" is very simple. It can be finished in one sentence. The technique is to follow the clues of time and tell it all the time. True, true to the last happy ending, I knew it was fake at first glance, knowing that he had to tell the story because he was upset and unhappy, but after finishing the story, it became even more sad.
I would like to add some details that I like very much below:
The little mermaid Shanshan's dress
is the most "smart" among the fishes. He understands the human world best and imitates people's dress the most. But this is also the view of the fishes, the collective wisdom of the fishes. The plastic flowers in this white skirt suit her heart. There are a lot of retro-dressed films. The strange thing is that I saw some retro-dressed in movies and working hard on retro props, but they would make me play. I thought that they would struggle to find these things. It can be seen that they did it deliberately, the actors and stories drifted away from the scene, revealing the breath of modern people. But this little mermaid's dress, what an innocent and innocent little girl would look like when trying to seduce modern society, she is just like. She was clumsy and beautifully dressed. This is the wonderful wisdom Zhou Xingchi has accumulated in his childhood in the market. It is something that others have to use their minds to barely get through. He can easily do it. Maybe he has never forgotten those scenes, so he doesn't need to piece it together in broken memories, it's natural.
"I don't want money."
Of course, Shanshan doesn't want money. What does she want money for? No matter how much a girl who is not greedy for money, it is not reasonable enough. Only such a mermaid, she really doesn't care about money. Deng Chao said: This bay is mine! Shanshan said: The entire ocean is mine! The girl who owns the ocean, and the ocean that owns this girl, of course don't need money, she doesn't need money like the ocean.
Why are mermaids and octopuses so real
? But the beauty plan failed again and again. Octopus brother just sighed, "Why failed again? Think about it!" In order to save Deng Chao, Shanshan chopped off brother Octopus's paw, and then wanted to commit suicide and was killed by her grandmother. Knife off. Grandma said: You want to save your beloved by nature at any cost. What's wrong with this?
Because it is a fish, I think more directly. You have to do this, and we have to die, it is natural. Yeah, what's wrong with this? The fishes bear their fate so innocently and weakly, but they do not lose their most true judgment because of this. They are confused by the fall of mankind, cannot and do not want to learn real conspiracy from disasters, and they are unwilling to punish and kill each other because of conspiracy.
Grandma was also rescued by "Mr. Zheng". The grandma who once loved is no stranger, and the other fishes forgive her as well. When I saw mermaids appear, I never felt that they were human beings. They didn't have the ability of human beings to carry out conspiracies, let alone deal with complicated feelings. They are protected by the ocean as some talking fish. They are no different from the dolphins slaughtered in the documentary "Dolphin Bay". So it makes me very sad to see them being killed. Because that cruelty and indifference to earth creatures is real, not a movie. So the sunken ship is not only a mermaid, but also an octopus and others, because this is a story about the ocean. Getting rid of the dolphins is the first step, isn’t it the next step is reclamation.
The bad guys
Actually, the bad guys played by Deng Chao are not too different from the fish. He didn't want to live a poor life, he wanted to eat a lot of delicious chickens, when the little mermaid said "I'm here to kill you", he was as stupid as a fish and couldn't handle it, so he had to say "Oh." Then he pushed the knife away and kissed it. Two people went to eat chicken together, because the chicken was so delicious, one forgot to kill and the other forgot to show off. These two things were so important to both of them, but there is no way, it is too simple.
In the ending, the little mermaid gave Deng Chao a bubble so that he could take him to see the beauty of the sea. The ocean opened its arms to the loving fish on the shore. gorgeous.
I think Zhou Xingchi has a world of fairy tales in his heart, and movies are the random door between these two worlds. The evidence that constitutes that world is the same as the real world. So in this world, he can modify the ending, but he can't modify the answer. He cared about the same kind of things in two worlds, but he could only talk and talk in one world. I imagined the producer behind this movie, narrating in a sad tone, hoping with great disappointment, so whether it is gentle or cruel, that kind of sympathy makes me feel like on pins and needles.
But this is not a movie without practical significance. Why does Deng Chao's character become such a crazy person who needs money? Because of the world he lives in, money is so useful. Whenever you encounter anything, just negotiate a price and you can settle it. If you have enough money, you don't even need to talk about it, and you can just write a super high check. People need to adjust themselves based on the reactions of the world around them, just like looking in a mirror. Shanshan represents a world where money is useless. Shanshan took him to see what is in the world where money is useless, what he can't buy with money, but can get with true love. Not everyone can become someone who can change the world with money, but it can still make money useless in this world.
"These two kinds of people are very powerful." I guess Zhou Xingchi thought so.
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