Why do I think "Wu Xia" is a bad movie and "Snowflake Fan" is not that bad

Bethany 2022-03-23 09:03:07

This film just came out yesterday. To be honest, it's good-looking. Who can't be incited by Jin Chengwu's face, Donnie Yen's skill, and Dou Wei's superb soundtrack?



This story is actually good innately. The bad guy who has done all the bad things, keeps his name incognito, but because he could not bear to live with the neighbor who was killed, he offered to help, but was accidentally run into by a particularly stubborn detective (?). Detectives are determined to uncover his past and bring him to justice.



Such a good story went completely wrong. It can completely go in such a direction: in the process of further investigating him, the detective found more and more people who were opposite to their original inferences. He has indeed killed a village; it can also go in this direction: that is, the bad guy is really bad, but he conceals it perfectly, and the detective who is cute and dead fights his wits while suppressing his sympathy. No matter which direction you go in, as long as you take care of the details and scrutinize the ins and outs, you can develop a good story.



But what kind of place did this film go to? This bad guy has completely turned into a hero, just because one day he inexplicably realized, retired, gave birth to a baby, and then he became a completely good person , is admired by others; and this deadly detective suddenly stopped fighting. After seeing the bad guys being chased and killed, he immediately changed his stance and sacrificed his life to save him.



The separation of the content before and after, and the transformation of the characters' personalities, are almost to the point of arbitrary.



It is really so difficult to develop the details of the lines laid out in the front, and finish it bit by bit. You have to start anew, come up with an ultimate big boss, slap it, and then develop a completely different relationship between parents and children. What should the relationship be like? Can you really finish it, director? ? ? The movie is almost over and you suddenly say something that you haven't said before. Can't the beautiful "all living beings be accomplices" in front of you just fail to catch your heart? You have to give up on a movie.



Not to mention that the title is called "Martial Arts", but this "Martial Arts" was completely forgotten by the director after it appeared on the title!



Some people say that this is a commercial film, some people say that the audience just likes to laugh after watching it, and some people say that watching a movie is so heavy. But that's not the point at all, is it? I can't understand it anymore. If I can bear this, why can't I endure "Snowflake Secret Fan" in Chinese and English, ancient times, modern times, and ancient times and modern times? Although these two symptoms are light and important, low-level and high-level, they are actually one symptom at all, right? That is, Chinese directors are totally confused right now. Apart from piecing together, they can't make up the two hours in the movie. Each director has developed a different ability to hide his inability to tell a story. Zhang Yimou relies on scenery, Feng Xiaogang relies on jokes, and Chen Kaige has not figured out what he can rely on after thinking about it for a long time. As for Chen Kexin, he was confused after "If Love". He always wanted to explore the right and wrong, to explore the love between men and women, to explore brotherly love, to explore and explore, and he was also confused.



At the end of "Snowflake Fan" at least one thing is said, the feelings between people, compared with self-righteousness, I do this for your own good, and there is another kind of good for you, at the expense of myself.



But what about "Wu Xia", what did it say at the end?


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  • Charley 2022-04-24 07:01:22

    Who are you lying to! ! !

  • Shannon 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    As a child's shoe who doesn't like to watch martial arts movies, I have to say that I am amazed by the movies.

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  • Xu's investigator: [referring to Liu Jin-Xi] He's a reformed man.

    Detective Xu Bai-Jiu: We're not here to reform criminals.

    Xu's investigator: Then what's our purpose?

    Detective Xu Bai-Jiu: [sternly] To serve the law!

    Xu's investigator: If the law doesn't help reform people, what good is it?

  • Detective Xu Bai-Jiu: Is the law really more important than humanity?