high-energy warnings in front of the social class ceiling that you cannot break through, and some spoilers will kill you!
This article is an in-depth interpretation of the film review of "Genius Gunner". The full text is 4000 words and can be read in 7-10 minutes.
There is only one word to describe this film at home and abroad, rave reviews, rave reviews, rave reviews!
What you see is romantic youth, passionate cheating, and entertainment. What I see is that after facing various social injustices, Diaosi has to rely on her own efforts and use some unconventional means to quickly change her destiny and an inspirational story of social class. Entering the mainstream movie market, or for other reasons that I can't know, set the ending of the great harmony of the heroine who wakes up and voluntarily surrenders. Just like the old white in "Breaking Bad", although he deserves sympathy, he can't wash the white, and can only end with "death".
There are actually two main lines in this film. The clear line is that Xueba brings the rich second-generation scumbags to cheat. Although the plot, photography, music, and editing are all very good, in my opinion, this is not all that makes this film popular. If that's the case, it's just a good youth idol film, and it won't have such a high evaluation.
I guess, I can only guess, there is another dark thread buried in the whole movie, interspersed in the movie, various high-level people use money, power, resources, etc. to control everything, and force the bottom of the Central African (li) often (yong) people who can (jia) do (zhi) help them do things. I guess the director took this to express his thoughts on various injustices in society and how diaosi can change their fate.
What are the things that high-level people have done, I will list them one by one:
1) The female principal needs to recruit male and female protagonists. The schoolmaster with excellent academic performance will balance it, and the rich second-generation scum who pays a lot of sponsorship fees to protect the school. The overall teaching quality, after all, the admission rate is an important criterion to measure the quality of a high school. And need them to participate in the competition, to win honors for the school, can reduce their tuition fees.
2) The female principal said to the female and male protagonists, thank you for the honors you have earned for the school, you all have the opportunity and qualifications to receive a full scholarship for studying abroad, but there is only one place, and the final choice is up to you The performance of the two instantly turned their close teammates into competitors, implying that they need to compete with each other to fight for the only qualification. The expressions of the two instantly began to worry, and the contradiction was secretly generated.
This is also a common method used by the higher classes to control the lower classes, so I can feel at ease if you keep each other in check. The principal and the power class behind her have a lot of educational resources, which means they have power. Who she wants to get this place does not rely entirely on fair rules, and there will be a lot of room for manipulation.
This reminds me of the recent New York Times revelations about the sexual harassment of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. He used his power and status to force many actresses to submit, some of them obedient, some of them resisted, and it was the whole Hollywood people. As everyone knows, this kind of thing has continued for decades, and he is fine. But it is said that it was the company partner who had a conflict with him, who was also his younger brother, and finally contributed to the report of the breaking news.
If you want to kill the enemy, you still need to start from the inside. It is easier to succeed, so a domino effect is formed, and many celebrities come out to draw a line with him, or stand up to accuse him, and finally Harvey falls. A few years ago, Feng Xiaogang said publicly in the media: "Harvey is a liar." It is conceivable that Harvey is a person with a bad character, but because of his high position, influence and resources , things have been suppressed, and it is simply covering the sky with one hand.
3) In order to coerce and lure the heroine to help him pass the exam and get good grades, the second male father will give him a new BMW, using two tricks.
First of all, it reveals valuable asymmetric information. If the female protagonist can enter a private school, she needs to pay a sponsorship fee, which is far greater than the tuition and lunch fees that have been reduced. This is a huge expense for an ordinary family like the heroine. Let the heroine understand that there is nothing wrong with her helping cheat, because the school itself is the first interest.
High-level people often know first-hand information ahead of the public because of their resources and connections. For example, when the market was booming a few years ago, Li Ka-shing sold a lot of assets to cash out. Judging from the current situation, Li Ka-shing really ran right.
Then, in a direct monetary offensive, he offered 3,000 baht (nearly 600 yuan, the exchange rate of RMB and baht is 1:5) in exchange for passing the exam. In one semester, there are 13 courses, and there are 6 people in total. The heroine can do math mentally, and she blurted out without even pinching her fingers. The total amount is 234,000 baht, which is equivalent to nearly 50,000 yuan.
Let the heroine feel injustice, but there is nothing she can do, but she can get material and psychological compensation by helping cheating to make money. With the two-pronged approach, the heroine is persuaded.
4) After the heroine caught cheating, she expressed her inner dissatisfaction: I don't think I am the only one who uses the school to make money. Because the school is a profit-making organization, it needs to make money by charging unspoken sponsorship fees. In order to make a better life for themselves, teachers use the guise of extra-curricular tutoring, but they actually sell exam papers for profit.
5) The second female and why the second male is willing to take the initiative to make friends with the female lead. Although their identities, interests and hobbies are quite different, they are valuable, or they provide the rich second generation with value to be used.
In this world, if you don't have the protection, relationships, and resources of your father's family, you are a child of an ordinary family, or even a child in the mountains and villages. If you want to stand out in this society, if you don't break the law, you need to develop a skill or some kind of skill. Skills, such as calling Mai Tianwang MC Tianyou, came from an ordinary worker's family, did not graduate from vocational high school, worked as a cashier in an Internet cafe, just stepped on the rapid development of mobile Internet and mass live entertainment, and then became the first MC in China.
Of course, it takes luck and opportunity to become such a powerful person, but there are so many anchors on YY and major live broadcast platforms that they were originally considered useless to play games. Now you can live broadcast to tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of people. There is an opportunity to cash in and make money, that is, playing games and earning money. The original ordinary diaosi has now become a singer and artist worth over 100 million.
If you take the professional path, gradually upgrade, and be used by people who are higher than your level, you will have the opportunity to build a class jump, and the value of being used is also the value.
The male and female protagonists can help the rich second generation solve their biggest pain points because of their great learning and high IQ. They can pass the exam without studying hard.
But the reality is that the vast majority of ordinary people do not even have the value of being used. How can they change their fate and social class? But as an ordinary person, even if you are recognized and accepted by the elite, you are at most just an agent, helping them to make money. In the end, you are just a senior wage earner.
6) The second male takes the second female to see the parents for dinner. The father uses the traditional Asian paternalistic management to force his son away. I went to study in Boston, USA, and hoped that the second girl would agree on the spot and promise to bear all the expenses.
Judging from the reaction and implied information of the second girl, it is estimated that she is a child from a middle-class family, not a rich second generation. Therefore, in the face of coercion and temptation by people of higher rank than her, it is easy to give in. Although the second male is afraid of his father, he has also learned his father's methods and used them to deal with the male protagonist.
7) In order for the second male to help him cheat, he designed to frame him when he could not get a scholarship to study abroad. After the male protagonist accidentally found out, the long-suppressed resentment broke out, and said that we have to pay more to get what we want, but you rich people can easily get it. The poor are puppets played by the rich.
Based on my many years of movie viewing experience, a director who can shoot such a unique perspective is definitely a person with independent ideas, and it is estimated that he has added his own private goods more or less (detailed later), but in order to ensure the box office and The return of the investor also has to make some trade-offs and concessions, just like Du Qifeng's "Underworld" and "Drug War" were released in China, and the ending was a harmonious version.
Cheating has existed since ancient times. It seems that to a certain extent, it is planted in our genes, and it is not necessarily the exam that leads to cheating.
For example, in order to find a job, get a fake degree; in order to get a high salary, the resume is filled with water; in order to get a promotion and a salary increase, choose to be unspoken or complicit; in order to quickly pick up girls, pretend to be rich and handsome; Open the plug-in and so on.
Aren't these all "cheating"? It's just that they were caught, and the cost of some punishments is very low, so it is worth taking the risk for some people. Everyone has a fluke mentality, thinking that the rewards outweigh the risks, so they do it. This is very much in line with the famous saying in Marx's Capital: "If there is a 10% profit, it is guaranteed to be used everywhere; with a 20% profit, it will be active; with a 50% profit, it will take risks; for 100% Profits, it dares to trample all human laws; with 300% profit, it dares to commit any crime, even the danger of hanging."
Rooted in people's survival genes, people will "survive" better for themselves. It will constantly calculate the gains and losses, and sometimes cheating may bring a lot of benefits, which is easier than working hard, so "various cheats" have been used continuously.
Therefore, this may be the reason why secular morals, rules, and laws are all cracking down on cheating, but they can never be eliminated.
In the face of these various injustices, the male and female protagonists are forced to adopt unconventional means to achieve their goals and become their way of fighting against this unfair world.
You may think that I'm talking nonsense, and the director may not have these meanings. Then I will add a few details of the plot. As evidence of my subjective assumption, I guess it is a small irony detail deliberately set up by the director:
1) The heroine cheated and earned money After paying more than 200,000 baht, he lied to his father and said that it was money made by teaching piano to others, and bought a seemingly expensive shirt for his father. The father smiled gratified and put on a new shirt, which was displayed on the label. The brand LOGO is - IQ.
2) The male protagonist, in order to rest his hard-working mother, uses his mobile phone, listens to elegant operas, sits in front of the broken washing machine, bends down and washes his clothes, which is a huge contrast. Although there are plot explanations later, the male protagonist listens to classical music in order to improve learning efficiency and memory.
But my interpretation is that Diaosi deeply knows that if he wants to change his fate, he can only study hard by working hard and using all his time as much as possible, hoping to counterattack and leap into the elite class, which makes me feel that the director is deliberately ironic , Because the harder the male protagonist washes the clothes, the louder the volume of the opera music, I'm afraid you won't be able to hear it.
3) There are 2 male and female protagonists and 4 people. The place where the STIC exam cheating tools are planned and produced is called "Integrity Commercial Printing Factory", and the "Integrity" signboard is repeatedly given N shots. Director, can you be more straightforward and ironic?
4) When the male protagonist learned that he was framed, he had to get on the boat of thieves. Anger, depression, remorse and other emotions bombarded the three views of the male protagonist. As I was running, I saw a billboard with an advertisement for laundry detergent. The slogan: The future of the laundry.
The male protagonist had just been ruined, and he saw his own predicament. This naturally made him think that he has no way out now. If he doesn't help them cheat, there is nothing left. If his laundry does not want to upgrade, he will It may really be replaced, and even basic survival cannot be guaranteed at that time.
This reminds me again that some time ago, many media, self-media, and technology giants are advocating artificial intelligence. In the near future, a large number of low-level cheap labor will be replaced, which makes ordinary people who are already in high housing prices and high prices. , even more anxiety, which also makes it impossible for people to live.
5) The male protagonist said: After doing this vote, at least I still have money, and the fight is not in vain. The day before going to Sydney for the exam, the hostess said: After tomorrow, the world will be ours. Both of them set up FLAGs for themselves, but in the end they didn't realize it, and the bamboo basket was empty. The hint is clear, if you diaosi want to turn over and become masters, stop dreaming.
6) Towards the end, the male protagonist asked the female protagonist to go to the laundry shop to find him, and specially gave a close-up of the shop sign - Bank Laundry (the male protagonist's name, itself means bank), the female protagonist saw the changes in the store , jokingly, your home has changed the washing machine, are you planning to start laundering money? The male protagonist smiled.
There are all kinds of cash obtained from illegal transactions in the world, all of which need to be legalized and covered up. This is actually a hint and echo. Later, the male protagonist is going to black out to the end, and he wants to pull the female protagonist together, to industrialize cheating, and declare to the female protagonist that we will earn at least 10 million baht (about 2 million yuan) together.
The large-scale illegally obtained funds cannot be directly deposited in the bank. Naturally, money laundering is required, and some ostensibly legitimate businesses are needed to cover up, such as their laundry. The old white in the drama "Breaking Bad" also needs to launder money after he has too much money, so he invests in physical businesses such as car washes and amusement parks. Netflix's new drama "Dark Money Resort" is known as the money laundering version of "Breaking Bad".
7) The second male imitated Steve Jobs at the cheating service recruitment conference. He was generous, passionate, and enthusiastic. In order to convince the audience to pay, Gao Da presented their high-tech answer QR code printing 2B technology in PPT. , the students cheered, like the rabid fans at the Love Mad press conference.
This scene is comparable to Peng Haoxiang's "Youth DreamWorks", one of the male protagonists, imitating and borrowing Martin Luther King's famous speech routine "I have a dream", and finally successfully incited students to donate money to invest in them, please real Japanese AV girls Xing, come to Hong Kong to shoot AV.
To sum up, I think the director said through the heroine, "Even if you are honest (not cheating), the world will still deceive you." This line sets the tone for the whole movie, and uses this to express his concern for this The world's views (dissatisfaction or helplessness?)
The above are all my subjective nonsense. If you have any different views, I welcome you here and do not comment on the thread, I will not listen. In fact, I want to write a lot more, but due to space limitations and indescribable reasons, I will stop here.
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