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Among my favorite Chinese movies last year, "A Good Show" written, directed and acted by Huang Bo is definitely one of them. In the overhead environment, a slightly exaggerated and deliberate method is used to trap all kinds of human beings in a closed space, so that human nature collides with sparks in the screenwriter's brain, and small characters are used to interpret the complex contradictions of the entire human world.
Of course, "A Good Show" is definitely not the pioneer of this subject area. The more classic films of the same type are: "Lord of the Flies", a classic "Lord of the Flies" in which children who are clean as white paper are exiled to an isolated island and who are "in the beginning of human beings," and how the environment forces people into animals; The adults of the class are trapped on the island, and it can be regarded as an unfinished "Lost"; of course, it must be counted as the "ancestor" of the most popular chicken-eating games now, "Battle Royale".
As the saying goes, Netflix has three treasures — big names, sci-fi, and teens. The story formed by a small society in a closed space can be stuffed into a few familiar starlets, which can create a cheap sci-fi feeling, and more importantly, it can continue the success of "Stranger Things" to identify "growing pains". Powerful - just enough to meet all the requirements for Netflix to invest money. So this new drama "The New Society", directed by Mark Webb and written by Christopher Kaiser, described as a hybrid of "Lost" and "Lord of the Flies", came into being.
Screenwriter / Drama
"The New Society" tells the story of a group of teenagers who, apart from living in a remote town, suffer from growing up troubles like all their peers, return to town after a short trip to find that everyone but them is missing. Whether it was a human or an animal, the whole town left no clues about where other people were going, the phone could not make calls outside the town, and the TV signal stopped abruptly. forest. Even the middle school students knew that they could not do without this small town, and the worse one followed—the rebellion of adolescence made this newly formed new society have no consensus at all.
If you are serious, you will lose. I believe that friends who know movies will not set loopholes carefully when they see genre films with this theme. I believe that most of the audience are like me. When they first came into contact with this show, they could not avoid face blindness in various senses. They could only memorize the characters by stereotyped images: this is the president of the student council, this is a reckless muscular man, that is an innocent girl... The story of the scattered sand becomes clearer and clearer, and it is more clear that "New Society" still hasn't jumped out of Netflix's mediocre American campus setting. Even if there are more than a dozen young men and women with different ethnic and cultural personalities, the conflicts between the characters are nothing more than unrequited love, homosexuality, love triangles, and four-cornered love... These belong to the middle and second broken things of teenagers.
But then again, the exploration of human confrontation (especially the dark part), which is more eye-catching in this type of film, is not badly reflected in "New World". Although different social topics have been crushed and become a foil for middle school students' dramas, it is fortunate that the exploration of moral boundaries does not stop there. Just like the dark side of your human nature is thinking about it, "New Society" uses these facialized teenagers to expand a lot of rebellious teenagers, "old but not that old, yound but not that "bold" is inferior.
Shooting/Special Effects
With Mark Webb in charge, the filming of "The New Society" will not be ashamed of course. The exaggeration and deliberateness that this type of film can't avoid, has been largely offset in the dilapidated town built by Mark. .
The most impressive thing in the play is the church that runs through the story, serving as a forum for gatherings, parties, prayers and even social formations. In the process of the new society in the play, the church, as a symbol of public order and good customs, gradually decays along with the characters themselves.
Actor/Performance
The biggest name in "New Society" is definitely the director Mark Webb, who has been mentioned repeatedly before, with his debut "500 Days with Summer" and his subsequent series including "The Office", "Genius Girl" and "The Amazing Spider-Man". Familiar works are in the lineup. Although the works on the big screen in recent years are a little weak, they are definitely the biggest cast among the small actors.
The remaining actors are more famous and have a very rich resume, who starred in "Mad Men", "Big Little Lies", "Three Billboards", "Miss Bird" and Katherine who is still in theaters "Detective Pikachu" Newton. Although it was disappointing that she did not spark with the male protagonist in "Detective Pikachu", she is definitely one of the most dazzling young actors in this show.
The remaining actors who are relatively well-known to domestic audiences are Michelle Yeoh's apprentice, who starred in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Qingming Sword", "Detective Chinatown 2", "Mumbai Hotel", "The King of the Circus" (yes, Uncle Hugh is the dancer. One of them) Liu Chengyu. Originally, I had a lot of expectations for her because of "Detective Chinatown 2", but as expected, she still couldn't get too many scenes in American dramas.
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