After watching "The Party at South Station", I really like the texture of the movie. The background of the story is set in Wuhan, and the dialect is closer to my hometown. The violence and magic of the southern town can be said to be very realistic. When I watched "Xiao Wu", I thought that if I had the opportunity in the future, I would also like to make a movie about a small town in the south. The wet streets after the spring rain and the boring summer days with nothing to do, those street teenagers fighting with their spirits, and the nameless ups and downs in the river. The female corpse, the alley shootout between the police and the gang, the uneasy girl who lost herself (these are the experiences that happened in front of my eyes or heard about it), until the appearance of this film, the roughness and absurdity have been very close to what I used to be something to express. My favorite part of the square dance. After Yang Zhilie fell to the gunfire of the police, the fluorescent shoes pouring out from all directions are hilarious but a little sad. Diao Yinan seems to like to show dance scenes in movies, and there are also scenes in "Fireworks in the Day", which seems to be influenced by Quentin. It is true that there are too many shadows of other directors in this film, Nicolas Winding Refn ("Desperate Drive", remembering that a French friend said that Drive is a very bizarre film, because the dialogue basically has more than 30 seconds inexplicable. The delay of [covering face]), Jia Zhangke (the scene of the circus with the head and the body made me think I was watching Chief Jia’s movie), Quentin (can the yellow hair be cut off and the blood umbrella can be more Quentin? Not to mention The dance scenes that often appear are you want to recreate a classic clip like "Pulp Fiction"?), Jiang Wen, Jin Ji De (Hu Ge and Gui Lunmei's boat scene on the water reminds me of "Drifting Room"), and even Bi Gan (especially The appearance of Huang Jue made me suspect that he walked on the set), but personally, I still like this movie as a whole, because all this has a long-lost familiarity to me. Very high. As a native of Shaanxi, I feel that Diao Yinan has really done his homework on the bottom society and hardcore violence in the south. This is different from Bi Gan's spontaneous experiential creation. It is not just for reference and show off his skills. Deeper experience and thinking. Just like the violent scenes in the movie, many people think that it is the violent aesthetics of the dramatic treatment of the movie, something that has nothing to do with the audience, but in my opinion (except for the experience that I heard and seen growing up, When I was a child, I had a good friend whose father was a photographer and helped the police to take pictures of crime scenes. I saw some photos in her house [armed and public security cases]), that is the reality. Those barbaric ignorance, indifference and cruelty have been deeply integrated into the blood of some people in reality.
Some people mentioned rivers and lakes, martial arts spirit, strange and grotesque "heterotopia" in film reviews. In fact, there are not so many poetic and romantic things. These city guys have never been in contact with these groups. Naturally, they don't understand their living conditions, so they can only have a vague imagination. In my limited life experience, I have penetrated into some marginalized groups in society. The scene of Yang Zhilie's death made me feel a little sad, just like being a thug in "The Three Gorges" and finally being buried by bricks in a fire. My pony brother also makes me feel sad, many of these people, in essence, they don't know what they are doing, fighting, dying, going to jail, it's all very common, and then some people die inexplicably and unconsciously , as if it had never been in this world. They may be "evil", but they are also very sad, and this is an aspect of the reality of Chinese society. Wan Qian's performance was well done. She called the police herself to provide clues, and then her brother was beaten to death by the police. She was not hysterical or even showed great grief, but was a little flustered in the crowd, crying, and her husband Along with the news, epilepsy had a sudden attack. This performance is excellent, because only people who have really had a similar life experience or experience, who understand these groups or have been in them, can understand that many of these young people who are doing nothing People really die when they die, including their relatives, no one cares, grief and regret, put it in the bottom of my heart, the next life will face more struggles to survive. The biggest flaw in the movie is the failure in casting the leading role (so the overall can only be given to three stars). If the director and screenwriter Diao Yinan are the ones who have done their homework, then Hu Ge and Gui Lunmei are obviously not. Hu Ge is very hard, Gui Lunmei is very poor, their performances are out of tune with the temperament of southern urban villages, like foreign intruders, very stiff and tense. On the contrary, Liao Fan is lighthearted and truly integrated with the characters and the background environment. Wan Qian is also very good. Maybe because they are all from Hunan, and because of the similarity of the dialects, they also have a certain advantage in the dialogue.
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