During the two hours of the film, the director comfortably grasped the overall rhythm of the film through the excellent soundtrack. Through the narration of the narration, he introduced the background of the times in which the film took place, and the abstract time and space gave the most straightforward introduction. The tone of the hero was established. At the beginning, there were corpses everywhere, and the helpless children looked at the corpses eaten by wild dogs. There was no hope in their eyes, and there was even a sense of indifference in their eyes. It can be seen that at that time, the people had long lost The ability to pursue rights can only be slaughtered by corrupt officials. I really like the slogan that the thieves in the movie call for the people: if you unite, you will be the people, and if you divide, you will be thieves. Those people who have been oppressed and dare not resist, their inner awakening is always It takes a long time and a huge impact event. The most powerless people trapped in the cage of the times are these people. They cannot break through the class restrictions, they cannot destroy the corrupt upper class built by the dignitaries and nobles, and even lieutenant generals for unknown reasons. The title deeds at home were given to the officials and merchants thanks to Dade. They were oppressed and could not even fight back. And those thieves who escaped from the big society and were called "thieves" in Zhiyi Mountain, all experienced strict assessment and repeated certification for their talents. Hiding in a paradise and confronting the outside world. Corrupt officials and free-spirited thieves can't be said to be clearly divided into good and evil. What can be done in these thieves is only part of the corrupt officials and corrupt officials. Food and property are returned to the common people. Righteousness is not their code of conduct. For example, when Zhao Run tortured the evil monk and asked him to reveal the specific stronghold of the thieves group, he only arrested a few people and threatened their lives in front of them in an attempt to be moral. At the same time as the kidnapping, the massacre started after knowing the specific location, the damage was far greater than the loss that was used to threaten the monks before. Although this comparison is a kind of moral dilemma, it is only a dramatic conflict deliberately created by the director. On the other hand, such an obvious comparison is slightly inappropriate. When introducing the psychological changes of the character Ha Zhengyu, the straightforward explanation makes the picture lose its original tension. Even forcibly explaining the expressions revealed by the actor, This caused some disconnect between the actors' performance and the plot, but fortunately the director did not continue the explanation.
In the introduction of the backgrounds of the characters in the first two chapters, the weight of the offset makes the originally designed group portraits not prominent enough. Although in the image of the character selection, the expressive power and image characteristics of the actors will be expressed by their own characters. However, the masked characters cannot really resonate with the audience except to play a role in the promotion of the plot. They only stay on the surface of the setting, which weakens the tragedies of the characters of the thieves. Although the director tries to make the cruelty of reality It reaches the level of irony in a joking way, but maybe limited to the length of time, it seems really powerless to fully show the mentality of each character. As for the villain setting, I went all the way to the black personality, suffered humiliation when I was a child, and grew up ten years later. Nian Cai returned home because of the death of his younger brother, and the brutal governance methods and the degree of inner distortion seemed too narrow. At the moment when he finally decided to kill his father, the knot in his heart that had been stagnant for many years turned out to be the desire to get his father. A compliment. Instantly return the villain's character image to the weakest type of role, the evil deeds after growing up are only because the father's approval is not obtained, and the lack of family environment leads to the deviation of the level of behavior, which in turn makes the group portrait play. The cliché setting created for the sake of shaping in the film comes up. Especially the most speechless thing is that in the final duel, I was moved by seeing the baby in my arms, resulting in not dodging the fatal blow, so the film's The biggest contradiction and conflict have been resolved. The ending of the drama will not achieve the sublimation effect even if the awakened people make a stab at the villain. Instead, the role of the villain is deliberately raised, which is disappointing. The villains do not have the correct guidance and the antagonism of the roles is not enough. The villains do not get the most straightforward punishment, and the seemingly righteous side is always a reckless man. The changes in the personal heart and the growth of the characters are the most superficial and superficial. Superficial conflict. The director relies too much on symbolic elements to try to explain the characters. For example, the short knife used by the butcher, with both hands holding the knife, on the one hand, combined with the inertia of the original butcher's profession, to express the character's fierce, pungent and rigid behavior. The tattered clothes and the Tourette Syndrome who cannot restrain the twitching, the director added all the abnormal elements to the butcher, but he did not express the moment when he got the bright spot. From a life-and-death little person to a robber who acts for uncomplicated and profound motives of revenge, Ha Jung-woo's role still failed to escape the name of a reckless man. But at the end of the villain, the director tried to keep him a little bit of humanity, trying to do Such a heroic character is really unacceptable.
The core of the story is very similar to "Water Margin", but limited by the local political situation, the development of the pattern is not grand enough. The setting of the Zhao family's posthumous son or the rights that the villains are fighting for reveal the nothingness with insufficient historical connotation. Throughout the whole story, the background is always the local people's struggle against the collusion between officials and businessmen in small areas, and finally a group of people who run towards the sunset will be called the new "divide and steal". The problems of the times they face are always There is no solution, even if the director wants to express the ultimate goal of chasing hope and freedom, but detours to the limitations in the history of North Korea. Too much emphasis on the distorted growth process of the villain makes the solution of the final contradiction unable to support the overall pattern, which is kind of anticlimactic. feel.
In the processing structure of the whole film, the director integrates the elements of the specific era that the eastern masses rose up to resist, and in the chaotic times, the human nature is wiped out, and the officials force the people to rebel. It is a little out of place to connect the eastern core with western expression techniques. When the action design and the handling of fighting scenes fully reflect the idea of fast-paced and multi-camera, the scene is more full and full.
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