Everyone who has attended the wedding banquet has this feeling. If all the strangers are sitting together, they are somewhat uncomfortable, and everyone can only eat and drink. Geoffrey Blitz's "Wedding Table No. 19" (2017) recreates a group of strangers sitting at the wedding reception of Francie Miller and Douglas Grosky One table, the most down-to-earth group, and the one with the least sense of existence, made a lot of jokes during the wedding banquet.
Agers, played by Anna Kendrick, sits at the last table number 19 with these weirdos. The numbers before the 18th are all related to the newlyweds, and only their 19th table is a bit crooked. Franny, an old nanny with a bright hat, claims that she brought up the bride, Francie Miller. Thin Bamboo Walter calls himself a successful businessman, and this is one of his most spoken words. The boy Zuoren is a mother and a boy who claims to have formed "that band", wrote lyrics for the band, and his mother is the bass. Since he is a mother and a boy, he has to listen to his mother in all his actions. After a while, he will receive a call from his mother to teach him how to hook up with girls.
The only husband and wife, Black Fat Jerry and his wife Bina, have lived together for many years, but they are not harmonious. Jerry always flips through detective books. Obviously, he is more interested in detective books than his wife. As his wife said later, the last time we had sex was three years ago. Well, the heroine Ellis is the ex-girlfriend of the bride Francie Miller's brother. She didn't want to come this time, but when she set fire to burn the invitation, she changed her mind again. He gritted his teeth, but he still couldn't forget.
The interpretation of the film still commits the old problem of looking at the flowers in American movies. Originally, this is a very good card, but it can be played well and gradually become popular at this table, but it is in a hurry in the water. skip. It seems to be a running account. If you don't flop immediately, you will be unhappy. Think about how hilarious "Four Weddings and One Funeral" is, the feeling of tears in laughter, the eager running in the wind, even after more than 20 years, there are still secrets that time can't tell.
In this way, only focusing on the form of narrative and ignoring the hearts of these characters, even the emotional changes are superficial, this is the common problem of small production films such as "Wedding Banquet Table No. 19". Originally, the beginning of the film was quite interesting, but when I arrived at the wedding banquet scene, I quickly cut it, and had to follow the hall with a plate and shuttle through it, without any calmness.
In fact, each character can be revealed slowly, without having to be so hasty, making movies purely for the sake of making movies, without considering the texture of the movie itself. For example, Ren Zuo, the mamabao boy, the only memorable detail in the film is that he ran to another table to express his love to a girl and wanted to make friends with her, but the man beside him said that I was not her father, The girl didn't accept his invitation either, so he had to go to another table foolishly to express his goodwill to another woman in red, but he was also rejected. At the end of the film, the lady in red came over and smiled and said to him, wait a few years, we will make friends again, he foolishly said that I will find you in a few years, which is really dizzying, there is no collision at all. Nonsense.
Forcing the plot is this kind of abuse that is not applauded by small productions. Just as being blindly slow does not explain the psychology of the characters, and being blindly fast is not fast-paced. Too fast, but it affects the narrative of the film, giving people the feeling of breaking the chain. Originally, the couple, Jerry and Bina, could dig well. After they quarreled, Bina picked up Walt, who was single, and left. Just when we felt there was a drama, it turned out that she just asked him to take something with her. Then there was a sharp turn, and the couple met in the shower with heartfelt, no fun, clichéd poverty.
As for the heroine Ellis, it was the biggest failure. Her ex-boyfriend, Frances, who was the best man, had only a few embarrassing conversations at the wedding banquet. Apart from the abruptness, there was no suspense to set up, just because she vomited. Everyone knew that she was pregnant, and everyone made trouble for her and stopped France. Fu said it wasn't that I didn't want to be nice to her, but that she always made fun of me for not being a good father. In that case, I might as well leave.
Finally, when Frans got on the newlyweds' cruise ship, Eros was calling to express his love on another boat, and then they reunited at the wedding banquet, which was extremely vulgar. The only bright spot in the film's plot is Walt's character. Whenever people ask him what he does, he always says I'm a successful businessman and keeps drinking water, obviously to hide his insecurities. On the way to the wedding banquet, after getting familiar with the table, they returned to the hotel room, and everyone gathered around to talk about their own embarrassment.
Walter said that I was not a successful businessman, but a parolee. It turned out that he stole a sum of $120,000 to 50,000 from the groom's father and went to jail. The reason is that the wife of one of his good friends was seriously ill. When he was in prison, he realized that the good friend had cheated on him. His wife was not sick at all. Hua Te was anxious for his friend's anxiety. It's interesting.
On the whole, the film is still unavoidable and morbid. It is a little bit like catching sesame seeds and throwing watermelons. It seems that everything is said, but nothing is said properly. Extensive coverage is a taboo in this type of film in a specific situation. There must be trade-offs, highlighting the main theme, and focusing on the big and letting go of the small. Another setting in the film is that Ellis was tricked into a passionate kiss by a handsome scumbag. After that, the guy ran away quickly. It turned out that the guy was specially at the wedding banquet to cheat kisses and hook girls, just like there are always thieves in and out of the wedding banquet in China. . If you go deeper into this plot, it would have been a good show to watch, but it came to an abrupt end, and it was so dry that it was unclear why.
Of course, "Wedding Banquet Table No. 19" is not useless, I'm just picking on faults and saying that the good thing is that it creates an overall humorous atmosphere. At least this person at Table No. 19, from strangers to familiarity, the joy of hair growth is still more or less. It's worth watching, and it's a lot better than that kind of made-up thriller. Besides, the style of the film is not decadent and sluggish. It's not bad for a small production to shoot like this, but such a good card was quickly broken up.
The director of the film has made documentaries and TV dramas before, but this is the first time that he has made a movie. This reminds the new director to a certain extent, how to make more subtle and interesting light and shadow, this is indeed a topic that must be faced. It is not just that it is safe to shoot less, but to make the film denser and more brilliant, it is necessary to build more highlights in literature, that is, the polishing of the script must be thorough. Anxiety is a common problem, and it is also the enemy of movies. Slow work and careful work is the truth and the true meaning of creation.
2017, 6, 22
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