The story is very simple, so simple that it is thin, in other words, the emotion of the whole movie cannot be sustained. However, Feng Xiaogang's storytelling ability has always been relatively poor, we can understand. As for the screen shots, this film is still remarkable.
Let's talk about the story first. Liang Xiaoxiao (Shu Qi) is a beautiful flight attendant, with a good face, good figure and good temperament. When he falls in love with a man who has a family, he becomes a mistress. That sad, tangled, depressed, and hesitant, so he went out on a blind date to see if he could be realistic, get rid of the relationship that shouldn't happen, and be a new person. So he met an old returnee - Qin Fen (Ge You). To be honest, when I saw Ge You, I wanted to laugh, even more than when I saw Fan Wei. There was a sense of humor in his eyes.
Turning back and talking about the plot, Qin Fen, an older returnee who "falls below the issue price", had an online blind date, and the appointment was not satisfactory. Although this Liang Xiaoxiao didn't seem to have any potential for development, he was beautiful! In the eyeball society, everyone loves beauty, and Qin Fen, an "old woman", is also planted. But what Feng Xiaogang wanted to say was that Qin Fen was planted on Liang Xiaoxiao's infatuation, not his face and body. But in my opinion, the plot and foreshadowing is a little less. The relationship between Xiaoxiao and that man is described as far-fetched, or rather thin, but rather like a woman's unrequited love, so when it comes to Qin Fen, it's hard for me to understand how he treats Xiaoxiao as a mistress to that man. In terms of a man's feelings, there is no such thing as the so-called infatuation in love with her.
And Qin Fen's own feelings for Xiaobai, and the crying scene, in my opinion, can only express how good an actor Ge You is. He completely said what Feng Xiaogang wanted to say—— You are so impressed! Of course, I'm not mocking Feng Xiaogang, the director is unavoidably impatient when he wants to express it, and I can understand it. Feng Xiaogang's language on camera has always been direct, which can also show a person's temperament, so it is not surprising that he used this paragraph to express Qin Fen's emotional experience, and Ge You's performance is meticulous, Shu Qi's pouting and crying It's in place. Generally speaking, this part is actually well shot, but there is a bug, which is the advertisement of Jian Nanchun. The LOGO printed by the two shots is directed towards Ge You and Shu Qi at one time.
Speaking of Jian Nanchun's LOGO, there are some flaws, I just want to talk about Feng Xiaogang's movie advertisement placement in "If You Are the One", it is quite domineering! The effect is also quite good! Tsinghua Tongfang, Jiannanchun, Windsor Whiskey, Motorola, Hainan Airlines, China Merchants Bank, Jasmine Restaurant... These are not only logos directly in the camera, but also dialogues, as well as real estate advertisements and travel classics. In my opinion, among modern Chinese filmmakers, Feng Xiaogang's attitude towards advertisement placement is the most direct, true and domineering (this sentence is praise~). Originally, making a movie is not as cheap as buying a pack of cigarettes. Someone sponsors, someone throws money, and it has to be rewarded. This is a business world, and Feng Xiaogang is not someone who devotes himself to the art of film.
Okay, talking about it, Xiaoxiao met Qin Fen, and the two of them got together by accident. In fact, Qin Fen fell in love with Xiaoxiao wishful thinking. He wanted to jump into that fire pit, but Xiaoxiao did not stop him. , you dance and I dance too, so the two of them went to Hokkaido together - the place where Xiaoxiao and the old man made a love ). The lens of Hokkaido is very beautiful, and the beauty is a bit like Wong Kar-wai, but to be honest, Hokkaido is not only shot like this, it is really beautiful and picturesque. The emotional pursuit along the way has not been shown in many specific scenes, just a Liang Xiaoxiao lying in the arms of that person, saying will you marry me?
It's not easy to be a mistress or a mistress. In fact, our generation is already very open. Just like the issue of homosexuality, we can all tolerate it. But the issue of the minor three is not the same as the issue of homosexuality. Homosexuality is God's fault, while the minor third is the fault of human beings. To be fair, I have no problem with the mistress, but I have an opinion on the mistress who poached my man. Maybe it's the same for everyone, maybe some people have strong moral values, and they're cold to those third parties that have nothing to do with them, but I don't. I think it's hard to say about love. I once robbed someone else's boyfriend, and then the two of them had a relationship and then broke up. Does this mean that the relationship is fake and the relationship is wrong? Of course not, it's just that sometimes the people are wrong, and sometimes the time is wrong. So, to put it bluntly, it is yours that cannot escape, and what is not yours is not yours after all. To put it too far, it is said that this mistress shot by Feng Xiaogang is too perfect, but I am not saying that mistresses in this world cannot be perfect. In front of morality, the main room is always the main room, and the third is always the third, but morality doesn't matter who gets that person. Shu Qi's acting is very good, at least I think that the degree is well grasped. Ge You and her are playing the story of two people in the movie. They don't love each other. They have nothing to do with each other. Both seem to be very talented.
Finally, jump into the sea. I mean Liang Xiaoxiao jumped into the sea. This is too much blood spilled! I bowed deeply to Feng Xiaogang. Korean dramas are not for nothing~ If I were him, the blood of this dog has been spilled, and it will be thoroughly sprinkled, dead and clean, but also fucked up by others, 囧, depressed, depressed, collapsed! Professionally speaking, it is not too difficult to write or shoot a Phoenix Nirvana, but to express it with such abrupt rhythm and plot, I really doubt Feng Xiaogang's literary attainments and grasp of human nature. And that ending is not an ending, it's just the last shot of the whole film, the aerial photography, which is awesome.
On the other hand, the characters in this love triangle are all interpreting their own stories. It's not easy for older young people to fall in love, and they want to get married and have some basics. This kind of anxious mentality is captured by Qin Fen. Well done, but still makes me feel like I owe something. Maybe it's the unrealistic nature of the whole drama that caused this feeling, but I don't deny that there are still some good plots. My favorite scene of confession in the church is Feng Xiaogang himself. Watching Feng Xiaogang's movies may really not be true to emotional dramas. ╮(╯＿╰)╭
I really like Feng Xiaogang's views on some phenomena in society, from "Party A and B" to "Big Name", from "Mobile Phone" to "If You Are the One" (but I really don't like "Night Banquet"), he has changed, can't It has become better or worse, but I think Feng Xiaogang is always a director who can tell the truth. In this day and age, which art artist doesn't want to please the audience? Even when I write something cold, I will consider whether the publisher will like it or not, and whether the reader likes this genre or not, so what's wrong with bowing to the audience in the original idea. Film, in the meaning of media, is not only an art, it also has many other meanings, including mass communication of course. Throughout the film, there are a lot of spoofs, a lot of dog blood, and a lot of philosophy. If you only use brain damage to evaluate "If You Are the One", then I think the people who evaluate it are also mentally disabled.
But in terms of the structure of the whole film, I was disappointed. Nowadays, directors and screenwriters in China are less and less capable of narration, and it is difficult to tell 100-minute stories in a row. Instead, they are more about piecing together a small section of the story and letting the audience integrate it by themselves. What I saw in this movie was an incomplete story, but I saw everything the director wanted to say. There is still a difference between seeing it and seeing it. It can only be said that this is a film that wants to be sincere but still lacks heat. A kind third party can't win the love of the audience, but a movie that makes people feel awkward after watching it will still lead to some thought. There are indeed many people around us who are unmarried and need to find someone to talk about complex marriage. There are also many young women who are proud or helpless in front of the mistress, but the ones who are really helpless are more people who can’t think of it in the emotional world. .
People are greedy, so people like Liang Xiaoxiao and this relationship are precious in reality. This is also Feng Xiaogang's unconventional love.
Having said so much, the lens did not analyze a few more. But to be honest, I don't want to analyze any more shots at this point. Like when the movie started, I thought I was sitting in a movie theater watching Hugo's spoof cut. Feng Xiaogang's film is not well done, and the language of the camera is copied and copied. However, Chinese directors do not have their own style of film lenses, they are all copying. Zhang Yimou is the most brilliant copy, so I go to the bookstore in the UK to see the cover of the book about Asian movies, and it is Zhang Ziyi that he holds out. There is also a rare scene where Shu Qi has no desire and nakedness, just showing his back in the hot spring. In fact, these are not the reasons why Shu Qi is not showing any passion. The reason is that Feng Xiaogang's film is about pure love. Kind of pure love that has no signs of it. I think at this point, he failed.
If You Are the One. I think the English title is more appropriate.
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