Why did "I'm Not the God of Medicine" set off a phenomenon-level high score boom?
This is a movie review, not a review book. But I admit to everyone that I am a person who is on the horns, and it is not that I can't watch Chinese movies well.
What I don't understand is: a film that is good, but not that good, has such a high score? It even surpassed the fictional realism "One One" and "Donkey Gets Water", and surpassed the non-fictional realism's "Blood Station Hacksaw Ridge" and "Dallas Buyers Club". Is it an encouragement? Then I would like to say that Chinese films cannot be spoiled. If the creators think that they will sell like this, they will be finished. As for whether this will be the case, we will wait and see whether there will be a large number of non-fictional realism films in recent years. into the market. Of course, this is the opinion of a few people. Most viewers think that this movie is really good-looking, the conscience of Chinese movies. Such an over-the-top compliment would like to ask the creators what they think?
First of all, the excellence of "The God of Medicine".
1. The selection of the subject matter of this movie has exploded, and it is closely related to life. The subject matter is so good that it is a bit like the countryside encircling the city, and starting from the majority to capture capitalism, this trick will win in China.
2. The victory of heroism. There are no heroic movies in China, or very few. It happens that our society especially needs people who dare to come forward. This is the common hope of citizens, but "The God of Medicine" is not stupid enough to talk about individual heroism. , he finally gave all the credit to the motherland, very good! It has also set a social role model, and urged the country to reform, and the people's will.
3. All the first-line celebrities in the film, or actors at the level of drama, and even the old lady who played a few lines are all experienced teachers. I believe that many viewers shed tears when they saw the old lady's play. Why do they cry? Because that's what every vulnerable group of us, even every citizen, wants to say. Good business and content. Empathize with the audience.
4. Putting 4 in 4 is for a reason. You can search on the Internet to see that all the big names in the first-line industry have five-star praise. What should the audience do? Follow-up evaluation is also one of the reasons for the high score. And watching a movie is a very casual thing, and giving five stars is a lot of meat. If you give it, you will give it. It is true, but I think the rating is a yardstick for practitioners. We only watch it if we have it. Know how many feet you are and how far you are from a real good movie.
Okay, okay, I'm done. I also think "I'm Not the God of Medicine" is pretty good, but it's not that good. It's normally between 8.0 and 8.5, and a 9.0 rating is really overrated.
Next I'll explain why it's not good.
The screenwriter's sense of manipulation is too strong, and the director's means are secretly shifted to public welfare films. The design sense I saw in the process of watching the movie made me very uncomfortable. The prototype character Lu Yong got the prototype of the story because he was sick and desperate, which is very convincing. However, the screenwriter set Brother Yong in the film as an unlucky guy who was unintentionally involved in an unknown wave in order to make money, which itself is a very conventional commercial film design. Okay, you can treat these as artistic. There is no problem with artistic treatment in the movie. Let's move on.
After Gong Bibei's "Summary of the Past", Zhou Yiwei appeared and then disappeared again. The story has now entered a moment when these two characters are not needed, and they disappeared. Brother Yong bought medicine, until we met Huang Mao stealing medicine, we did not see that Brother Yong had any compassion for the weak, and felt that he had done a good deed. Until Zhang Changlin came to grab the business, under the coercion, Brother Yong and his teammates broke up, and there was nothing to say, a year later. Brother Yong saw Lu Yiyi's death, he sold medicine again, his teammates returned, he was investigated, his son was sent away, and he was arrested for abandoning his own self. After the main line is finished, a hapless man even beats his wife when he has no money. Don't you feel strange that he has to be a hero among the weak when he has money? If it's not surprising, let's push back: Why does a hero in the eyes of the weak always abuse his wife and lead to divorce? I understand that setting the character to be an asshole is intentional by the screenwriter to make the character stronger. (This is not the original intention of the prototype characters at all, but after all, they have not overcome capital or processed the characters to be "over-the-top".) In addition, how different is this kind of story that goes to public welfare films in the later stage and CCTV's set?
Let's look at other characters, Tan Zhuo, Lu Yiyi, priest, Li Naiwen, Huang Mao, are they all functional characters except Huang Mao? disappeared. I came back when I needed the plot to go down again. Although there were a few good scenes interspersed, and even Tan Zhuo's paragraphs were very moving, it was gone after giving it a second. Obviously, the director did not feel that the patients who were swept up by leukemia were more Xu Zheng is important, and this is also reflected in Huang Mao's death. Isn't the patient's life a life? Everyone knows that this is a relationship between love and law, not a heinous crime, so why must Huang Mao be so heroic? The choice of death is the way of death, or it is not Huang Mao's choice, but the screenwriter created an accident and rendered it tragic. If it wasn't for the screenwriter's intentional exaggeration, I can't think of any other explanation. Li Naiwen is the representative of capitalism throughout the whole process. He is extremely cold-blooded and has no humanity at all. This kind of strong pressure makes Xu Zheng make a choice in the play. The audience can investigate whether this is the case. This sense of design is not the screenwriter's. credit? All the characters are cut off in the film. Their task is to tell the audience how miserable we are, except to reflect the current situation of survival. Only Xu Zheng and Wang Yanhui are complete. Zhou Yiwei is a functional role that synchronizes with the audience's mentality when watching the movie. It's not that the art processing is wrong, but the presence of the screenwriter can be clearly felt throughout the viewing process.
I have to say that Teacher Wang Yanhui did a really good job in a few short plays, surpassing all the actors.
In the end, how dare the plaintiff's lines in the court be designed with less confidence? Is the screenwriter trying to go to the top again?
Xu Zheng was arrested and sent off on Shili Long Street, and even the deceased came to see him off, quite a bit like Premier Zhou. This is because it can't be sublimated without a little freehand brushwork, right? I don't think this director is very smart. There is nothing wrong with such editing, and it is also the direction of the trial, but "Yu does not hide her flaws".
A really good movie I don't think the screenwriter should manipulate the characters, those living and fleshy characters are grown by themselves.
This work has been excellent in recent years, but it doesn't need to be overrated, it's scary to get lost. Phenomenal levels are not uncommon in Chinese films these days. For practitioners, what is good or bad about a film can only be seen by objectively looking at the phenomenon and analyzing the phenomenon rationally. Is it right?
It broke 300 million at the box office in 20 hours. It is expected that the box office will hit 2 billion during the release period. This is very good. This kind of film should be seen by more people and should make money, but I think this is a victory for capital, not all China. A triumph for the film itself. I think the development of the film should be compared with a good one. If you don't compare it, you don't know your own cultural fault and lack of thinking. The cultural industry is making more and more money, which means that the audience can enter the theater, which is a very good thing. Just a reminder. It can make the audience move, and it is far from the works of other countries that really write people!
What we should learn from the phenomenal high score of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" this time is Xuanfa. The super-large-scale screening (too big that it is not a screening already), plus the industry's big V does not know why, let's think it is the encouragement points given by everyone who hope that Chinese movies are good. On the first day of its release, the number of viewers was 15w+. The review base was so large and the number of films released was so large that the industry took the lead in recommending a rating. I feel sorry for the better movies that don't get such high marks, theaters and audiences can't accept them yet. In the words of Lu Yong in the film: "But I believe that there will be a day when it will get better and better."
I love movies, I love China, and I hope Chinese movies thrive.
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