Film review: "Ice and Snow", a feature film with deep and solid narrative skills
Many people don't like to watch feature films, they only like to watch action films with visual effects as the mainstay, and some people like to watch delusional films, and "Ice and Snow" definitely does not suit the tastes of these two types of people.
The film declares at the beginning: This film is adapted from real events, except for the fictional names, the rest are all facts. But it's actually a joke, and the film is completely fictional. As a creator, can you tell such lies to deceive people? I personally think it is possible. An author's creation should abandon all logical and moral constraints, and write what he most wants to write in the field of creation, although it will bring a lot of unnecessary troubles.
In fact, there is no need to delve into whether the creative material is true or false. For feature films, what matters is whether the story is wonderful, or whether the story is told wonderfully. Like the real events, there are many very interesting and thought-provoking events, but they are poorly told, and the result is mediocre, like "Mumbai Hotel", "Boston Attack" and so on. Fictional stories are particularly good and there are many.
Frozen is a good story. A man who is short of money wants to direct and act in a kidnapping case, in order to defraud his father-in-law of money. As a result, due to one accident after another, the small things that were not serious turned into big disasters. Similar things are not impossible in reality, just like the Hangzhou arson case a few years ago, the arsonist just wanted to burn the evidence left over from her theft, but ended up burning the whole family.
In this film, the car sales manager told the two kidnappers to abandon the plan because he couldn't get in touch with them again. Since then, everything has deteriorated sharply. I really like this part of the film because in the film it's narrated less than that. Of course, almost all the turning points of the whole film are told in this way.
This technique belongs to both personal style and creative skills. Of course, I think there are more attributes of style. Its biggest advantage is that it has a good sense of rhythm. In this tone of narrative, the pace will be particularly stable, and there will not be too fast or too slow, but the atmosphere of the film will not be loose.
The process of the kidnapper's line and the female police's tracking had no intersection at all, and only the car sales manager went back and forth and struggled in the middle. The weaving of several story lines does not feel cluttered, and each part can maintain integrity, and the characters are quite distinct (but not particularly prominent). This style ended up winning an Academy Award for Best Picture for No Country For Old Men as well. In fact, To Qifeng's narrative tone is very similar to that of the Coen brothers.
But this kind of feature film will not have many audiences, it is not hot, not nervous, not exciting. Today's cinema movies are basically made according to formulas, "how many minutes will there be contradictions", "how many minutes will there be reversals", "every minutes there will be a major show"... these The writing formula is obtained after analyzing the big data of audiences of all ages.
Frozen doesn't fit into this formula, so it's hard to resonate with most audiences. So the popular vote is really stupid. "Truth is in the hands of the few" is aimed at them.
I remembered the first time I watched "Forrest Gump", the story of the whole film was lingering in my mind, so I woke up the next day and re-watched it again. People want to grow up, and when they grow up, they will sit down and watch those stories that can precipitate. It's stupid to indulge in gorgeous special effects, and it's not stupid to not grow up, it's stupid.
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