When Jay Chou first became a director, he didn't expect him to be serious and serious. From the beginning of the film, the scene presented in the picture is very bright (at least for me): the school buildings are European-style antique, and the school uniforms are also British. As the film develops, we see that the students in the music class of this middle school (a middle school, not a conservatory of music) are all elites, and everyone plays musical instruments, either the piano or the violin; During the competition, all the students in the school, including the music class, were present to cheer. In addition, in the classroom, some teachers teach in English, and in the auditorium, the British (American) principal also speaks to all the students in English. We don't know if the middle school in the movie actually exists in Taipei, but we can see that Jay Chou carefully manages the middle school in his mind. According to the information, it was his alma mater, and he must be very serious and persistent in order to present the middle school he thought of.
Jay Chou made his first movie this time, obviously not to please his fans, nor to consolidate his image to win more fans. He combined the stories and pictures in his heart (a humanistic high school, an ideal father-son relationship, a civilized mother and daughter, a mysterious woman, a clean, neat, natural and beautiful town) and classical music on the screen. presented above. These seem to be more important to him.
In the past 20 to 30 years, Hong Kong campus movies have tried to replicate the atmosphere of a British classical (aristocratic) campus. However, because the Hong Kong school building and campus environment were not ideal, and the director was not persistent enough, none of them achieved their goals. Unexpectedly, the goal that Hong Kong movies could not achieve in the past is now completed by Jay Chou in Taipei. He not only copied the environment and atmosphere of the humanities campus, but also created a humanities town with a reasonable living environment.
In his first directorial film, Jay Chou, with the development of the plot, borrowed a middle school to show the beauty of cultural connotation, and at the same time showed the ideal living environment of a Taoyuan town, which is not a small film achievement. If this is not an achievement, please tell me that there was a similar scene in that Chinese movie.
Jay Chou deeply understands the culture of life, as well as the way of family and interpersonal relationships. The film depicts various relationships between father and son, mother and daughter, teachers and students, same-sex friends, young men and women. His work is not just another youth campus movie.
"Unspeakable, Secret" was mainly invested and filmed by Hong Kong Anle Company, so don't be careless to assign it to the "Taiwanese film" category. The people behind the scenes of this film come from all over the world. The art director is Taiwan Guo Zhida; the styling design is Hong Kong Wu Lilu; the screenwriter is Hong Kong rookie Du Zhilang; Hong Kong Zhang Jiahui, whether it is romantic or terrifying, he cuts the scenes to be concise and accurate. The scene at the end of people playing the piano while the building collapses and the wall collapses is particularly outstanding; the radio is Taiwan Du Duzhi, who is famous in the Chinese film circle; The important element music of the film was made by Thai musician Terdsak Janpan, which met the requirements of the film and achieved good results. Jay Chou led a group of behind-the-scenes elites and successfully produced a first love story that was different from other Chinese-language films.
What I admire most about Jay Chou's first film is that he seems to be shooting casually, but the scenery, environment and atmosphere can match the content of the film. The place he photographed, Tamsui, was actually in front of him (it takes half an hour by public transport from downtown Taipei), but it was a little exotic, remote yet accessible, and very interesting. Compared to Wong Kar-wai and Tan Ka-ming who persisted for a whole day, a week, or even a month or two, Jay Chou seemed to be able to create a good effect with ease. We really don't know how to comment.
In addition, "Unspeakable, Secret" has a special arrangement where two students "fight the piano" (playing the piano to overwhelm each other with skillful effort), which is not only fresh, but also has the fun of youth comics; the rare scene is It develops along the plot, and the actors, pictures, and editing are all natural and smooth, without any artificial or chisel marks, and have a compact and competitive atmosphere. The effect is very exciting.
Jay Chou's role as a middle school student in this film is of course overage, but the problem is not too big. As long as people who understand today's commercial film ecology will understand more and accept him as a middle school student, otherwise this film will not appear at all. He plays the piano in the film, which is convincing, while the actress Gui Lunmei has inner beauty and has a different attraction. She is rarely convincing to play the piano. Her "Blue Gate" is fortunate to find an ideal audience in mainland China, so we see her many fans online. After this movie, her fans on the mainland should increase further.
The climax at the end has a frightening effect, and the piano playing has developed to the point where the wall collapses. Some people are too smart to say that the scene is similar to "Harry Potter", which is of course just a coincidence! Today, anyone who copies other people's achievements will not be stupid enough to copy the most popular movies in the world, or even the Hungarian novels and Mexican TV series that few people have seen.
The important element of "Unspeakable, Secret" is classical music, and the spiritual classical music can travel through time and space, and it can also take the people in the play to travel in time and space between 1979 and 1999. The plot of this film has unexpected twists and turns, and it is not just an old-fashioned youth first love drama. Whether the narrative is obvious or vague is not an important issue, because the significance of a surreal storyline lies not in its appropriateness, but in its mood. How reasonable the story of this film is, please leave it to those who have no interest to discuss it! (over)
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