I decided to list "I'm Not the God of Medicine" as the best domestic film I've seen this year, and this positioning is likely to remain until the end of the year. And surpassed many imported films.
I'm not afraid that this compliment will raise other people's expectations, because I believe that many people will give the same evaluation after seeing it.
It needs to be said first: this is not an art film, it is not a niche film that is self-appreciating, it is a standard commercial film with a tight rhythm, an ups and downs, and a lot of laughter and tears. So don't worry about the fun. In terms of adaptability to the population, this
This movie is even like the family carnival movie of the Chinese New Year, it is a movie that can be watched with lovers, family and friends. There is no embarrassing plot, and there must be a little chat after the end.
It's not a film intended to be tear-jerking. Although when leaving the venue, the boy next door and the classmates muttered, "Hey, I'm crying" while cleaning up.
He looked as if he was only fourteen or fifteen years old, an age I didn't think would be touched by this kind of plot.
It's me who thinks too much, how can there be anything real and unmoving.
However, the film is actually very restrained in terms of sensationalism, and there is no scene of pressing the neck to make someone cry.
The greatness of this film may lie in: it is too real.
Foreign factories developed high-priced medicines, but they were imitated by Indian factories, with similar effects but dozens of times worse prices. A patient who has no other choice, a drug dealer who takes shortcuts, the law of dilemma... This is not a movie, but somewhere in the world, a certain streamer is fleeting
time, the "now" that is happening.
Once again, although it is such a theme, the plot is not difficult at all, and the first half is still ups and downs of black humor, so that laughter can be heard from time to time in the theater. Although it is not difficult to guess the direction - it is not difficult to guess because:
It's too easy to understand everyone's situation, so that the audience's memory is repeatedly cut, and the last thought that emerges is:
This person, everyone in this film, I seem to have seen.
I am not an audience, I am a passerby standing on the street, they are not actors, I am a chaotic shadow catching the subway in the morning, I am a hurried walker in an alley with their bodies sideways to give way, I am a faint hear behind the get off work when I get off work. I sigh for some reason, passing by at night
A faint sobbing could be heard in the stairwell of the mall.
In the past few years, the film market has been regular: popular original IP + topical stars + overwhelming publicity, a guaranteed shortcut at the box office. There are even more moves off the set, and any means can be used when the same film is vying for publicity. But we can't kill this industry with one stick.
People only have money in their eyes. Every year, there is still Bao Yu and Hu Jin's team, who are doing their best to present Baishui Jianxin's works.
Just this type of film will inevitably have box office difficulties.
Surprised that this theme was chosen to present such a team. Xu Zheng, who is good at making money-making movies, actually chose such a script.
And then I finally saw a film that strikes a balance between "discussion" and "business." A film that puts a balance between "fun" and "thinking".
I don't want to exaggerate this film, but I sincerely hope that its box office can go straight to the sky.
The fire is real gold, and it should be at the height of the sun.
I also seldom give such a high rating to a film, because it may also be because it is extremely eager to convey a signal other than the film itself:
Don’t fry less, work hard in the movie, make a really good movie, and the income can be good.
There are two details in the video that I really like.
The male protagonist, who made enough money, staged the most standard starting point slap in the face in a nightclub. But he did not follow the heroic beauties that the masses like to see and hear, but instead fled in embarrassment after moving his mind. - Don't worry, it's too fake. but again
Running away is a bit more real than the hero in the novel.
The other is: the worst villain, the most standard villain, and the worst scum in this film, after being caught, the male protagonist was not implicated, but he took the responsibility himself.
This is human.
The maliciousness of good people, the bottom line of bad people, the illegality of good deeds, the justice of evil deeds.
And if there is any flaw in this film, it is that there is no such easy division as "the company is the villain" in reality. The high development costs, investment time, and personnel costs in the early stage are all the premise of their high prices. if unprofitable
, and there may be no company to do research and development. How to strike this balance is another issue that needs to be debated - and being able to argue these things is the hard part of this film.
This film is also the history of the growth of the male protagonist. The gangsters who appeared in embarrassment and bad finally got the highest courtesy that the poor people can give.
Human nature has no way to use the good and the bad to make a final decision. The extremely good and the extremely evil are a few, and most people are like the movie in the film: sometimes malicious, sometimes loyal. Mark a certain place in your heart as a fulcrum to stand on in the world, and drift and change with the ups and downs of the world.
Change.
In the early years, he wrote "Outside the Long Pavilion, Along the Ancient Road" and sang Li Shutong at home and abroad. In his later years, Master Hongyi became a monk. A few days before his death, he wrote his last words in ink:
Sadness and joy.
It is the final summary of this world. That's how I feel after watching the movie.
No one is called a saint, no one becomes a god, the world is suffering from all kinds of hardships, gods and Buddhas have no way to protect them, the sun rises and the moon sets, and the life song of the little people is always played.
There are struggles, unwillingness, and a little bit of chivalry in my heart after being crushed into dust, half a fire, to ignite sadness in the world.
There is this song in the world, please listen to it.
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