[Kidnapping the door dog]: 7.5 points
Since I can't see Feng Junhao's latest "High Parasite", I can only look at his debut. It can only be said that as a debut, this film is indeed a surprise. It is a black comedy full of bad taste. You can never imagine that after three years, he will make the first "Memories of Murder" in Korean film history.
I prefer "Higher Animals" to the translated title of "Kidnapping the Door Dog", which fully expresses the film's precise expression of sociology (Bong Joon-ho is said to be born in sociology). Feng Junhao should be a fan of the Coen brothers. In this film, you can see many shadows of the Coen brothers, the story of coincidence, the fatalism of the characters, the impermanence of fate, and the absurd plot background. These are the usual routines of the Coen brothers. , new directors inevitably start from imitation, all great directors do. And Bong Joon-ho still kept his stuff in the Coen Brothers style.
The format of the film is very small, but the ambition is not small. A simple life trifle was filmed by Feng Junhao extremely interesting. There were three dogs missing in the movie, the first two were because of the male protagonist. Before the male protagonist "kidnapped" the dog, the male protagonist made a phone call about the professor's bribery. A cathartic tool, here the dog is the source of the male protagonist's malice. When "kidnapping" the second dog, the male protagonist faced a problem, that is, should he use ten thousand to bribe the professor. The second dog deepened the male protagonist's malice, and the male protagonist decided to borrow money to bribe the professor. It was the third dog that awakened the hero's conscience. The cruelty of fate lies in the fact that when he feels guilty about his actions, everything is irreversible, and he follows the route to the final result. The male protagonist finally got the position of professor, the black cloth covered the light in the classroom, and he was surrounded by darkness. Correspondingly, the heroine who was dismissed from her post came to nature and felt real freedom and hope.
Story structure aside, the movie is essentially a war at the lower end of the food chain. The male protagonist has always been at the bottom of the food chain at home and outside, so he found a creature lower than him to vent, that is a dog. In the end, how to solve the dog stealing incident is to find a homeless person at the bottom of the human food chain to take the blame for the male protagonist. And who is the real villain here? It is a professor who wants to take bribes, but throughout the film, there is no condemnation of this character. This is the status quo of society. When confronted with oppression, the bottom can only be hurt.
It is strongly recommended that every new director or a friend who is determined to be a director come to see this work. Not every director is Jiang Wen, and not every debut is Citizen Kane. Bong Joon-ho has completed an excellent performance as a rookie director. Maybe the movie itself is not mature enough, and there are many imitations of predecessors, but Feng Junhao has a strong desire to express in the movie. The camera is constantly showing off his skills, and there are movie symbols everywhere. Stuffed inside, the most important thing is that his expressions are completed by choosing a sketch of life, rather than placing them in a grand background, which is Feng Junhao's cleverness. Compared with the "Over Spring" I watched before, it felt good when I first watched it, I can give it 7 points, but now I can only give it 6 points. The biggest problem is that it is too stable and meets the standard line, but it is less. some authorship. The debut is not indulgent to express and show off skills, what else is worth staying?
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