The first half of this film is very boring. It is nothing more than an "elephant" type film. The teenager was bullied and humiliated by his classmates at school and attempted suicide. Except for those shots of character interview type, other shots are not very particular about composition, forming a more obvious documentary style. With the extremely restrained film music, the style of film documentary is prominent. Originally this style was not reproachable, but in cases where the recorded content itself is not thrilling and interesting (except for the Blair Witch or Ghost series), the documentary style often means smaller audiences, more restless audiences and more. Distraught audience. I am actually such a viewer.
What's worse is that there are too many scenes of stream of consciousness in the first half of the film, and the plot is flat and straightforward without any modification, which makes people unappetizing. Literary tunes do not tell logical stories, they can come as they want, and they can do whatever they want. In contrast, it seems that those typical three-stage Hollywood films require more thought, because the director pays more attention not only to his own desire to talk, but also to the audience's brain and thinking.
The coloring of the whole film is mainly dark blue, black and gray, and the shooting season is in autumn and winter, so the whole film is interspersed with a bleak, restrained and cold atmosphere. The appearance of the girl brings a different tone to the film, and her red coat is very distinct throughout the film. It's this warm color that makes a major change in Ben's life and a huge turning point for the movie.
It also made a major change in the style of the film.
The first half of the film is a documentary, sad and negative story, but Ben's suspended animation makes the film's style full of mischievous drama, making it comical, hilarious but distorted - no autistic child in life can. So cunning to come up with this drama?
Although I was a little disappointed by such a sudden change in style, it was also such a reversal that brought a completely different color to the scumbag first half of the film. However, the director doesn't seem to intend to keep this suspense for too long, so Ben's suspended animation was full of hints and clues at the very beginning. The snickering and laughter of Ben and Scarlite in the background made the shock and grief brought by Ben's suspended animation to all walks of life lessened. In particular, the conflict in the church scene has basically disappeared. What the audience is waiting for is nothing more than Ben In what way will this hilarious farce be exposed.
To be honest, I like this kind of plot very much, but the director's image processing is not appropriate. The film's hope of conveying the idea of "reflection that people don't understand until they're dead" is broken down by the hilariousness and nonsensical nature of the suspended animation - the director can totally restrain Ben and his girlfriend's smugness after exposing the scene.
The movie is here to get 3 stars. The movie threw a bombshell in the last shot - it turned out that the girl in red went to Brussels and was gone forever. All the counterattacks and planning were just choices made by Ben himself. Ben started to redeem himself, but the price was that he lived in the illusion that he had a girlfriend. It is conceivable that his life would not be much better than before, or it was just a change of "bad life": he might Kissing in the air, talking to the air, laughing in the air, others see him as a lunatic.
Those who saw the sense of discord while watching the movie were answered in the last shot: why the parents never talked to the girl, why the girl hugged and hugged his parents without any accusations. This last divine stroke is really smart.
The final question to consider is: Can a film with such a theme achieve large-scale box office in China? Reflections on school violence, domestic violence, and the social status quo must be able to give the film a deep meaning, which makes the film gain a humanistic character. The ingenious structure and ending, smoother editing and plot arrangement make the film artistic and word-of-mouth marketing possible. But how do you get marketing points from your videos? Pick a well-known actor for marketing? With the help of online games themselves to achieve marketing? Marketing through classic lines such as "I learned everything, but I didn't learn to cheat"? By promoting "cruel youth" and "meaning of life" on social networks? Or make a more lively cartoon to describe the statistics of school violence? Such a film can win up to 100 million box office in today's Chinese film market, right? But anyway, the cost is only 10 million.
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