A Step Beyond (1)
When I watch a movie, it doesn't matter if it's good or bad, I'm more concerned about who made the movie and what he said. In addition to the hilarity of Shi Hang's tweets, "One Step Beyond" doesn't seem to have been criticized very intensely elsewhere.
Jiang Wen is happy, someone has money, and he can shoot whatever he wants, however he wants. This is very much like the shooting of "Titanic" that is to earn enough box office and let the world full of men and women who love to cry their hearts out, the result is in order to but their own long-cherished Cameron. No matter which is higher or lower, just different interests, different intentions. Jiangwen to use the movie to speak, the old card to use the movie adventure. I'm pretty sure it's not the same thing as being able to make yourself feel good and everyone feel good, but it's the most powerful.
Finished watching it, only remember who acted, can't remember who they acted. The story was supposed to be all about very individual people, but it turned out to look like grasshoppers tied to a sub-string. Wang Shuo's name does appear in the end credits. No wonder. The lines are heavy, too heavy, too heavy. Several masters rubbing piles of conversation, want to say a lot of good words, can not afford to delete, are piled up, all said out. It's the same with "Private Engagement". More than talking, Feng Xiaogang can't say Wang Shuo, Jiang Wen can't say it either. But if you talk too much, your mouth will dry up. The movie is not a novel.
The costumes and props are exquisite, and the special effects are very Vanteese. Jiang Wen can think out, foreigners can do it. It's great to have money. Shu Qi's dubbing is interesting. In the scene on the beauty pageant stage, Wanyan's voice and Shu Qi's face do not go well together, but offstage Wanyan wants to marry the horse to go to the day of the scene is a particularly good match. In this scene, Shu Qi and Jiang Wen acted well, the emotion is not buried too deep, but also did not ripple out, so gently contained, and Shu Qi's eyes like teardrops. Ma Zhaori loves Wanyan, but not Wu Liu. He did not marry Wanyan, nor did he marry Wu Liu. In the end, he killed himself, leaving a sentence: who wants to marry you, hurry to marry. Otherwise, two lives will be lost. Two lives, one really dead, one fake alive. The two of them are real, the tears are real love, the gun is real hate. Know each other for a long time, know each other y, say it, do it, are faint. There has to be an end, the end of the face to die in **suspicious fantasy really meandering hallucinations. How can there be such a big moon, how can there be such a big rabbit. No pity, no regret. Really good.
Love or marriage, if there is no respect and admiration between each other, that is to make up a partnership life, no happiness. But in real life, often make do with the always long, serious, but very short-lived.
One Step Beyond (2)
If "Let the Bullets Fly" is a masterpiece of Jiang Wen's black humor. Then "One Step Beyond" can be said to be the most grounded sequel he will ever make after inheriting the former. The narrative of "One Step Closer" is not as rich and full as the story of "Let the Bullets Fly", which is full of heartstrings. So that the audience does not have too much opportunity to rest. The storyline of "One Step Beyond" tends to be more towards the rendering of the atmosphere, the details of the perfect and multicultural superimposed on the embodiment. I do not know the set of many luxury, fiber optic bright appearance, surprisingly appearance wrapped in a fragile man's heart.
If this is one of the most grounded movies of the moment, it is the most appropriate one to reflect the phenomenon of cultural superposition. On top of the fast-paced Jiang's black cold humor that inherited the predecessor "Let the Bullets Fly", the plot development of the story is relatively slowed down, and replaced by multi-cultural arts and culture and a great deal of gang art taste buds of the night Shanghai show. Shanghai is the best combination of foreign culture and local culture. The direction of the story in respect of the reality of the case on top of the artistic processing, the whole around two main lines. One of the main lines, the emotional line, the emotional line of Ma walking day. The other line is the Wu family.
Beginning with a nonsensical idea to start, and ultimately to a nonsensical form of the end, who did not quite read the beginning, and likewise who did not guess the end. The whole atmosphere gives you a breathless feeling yet heavenly, walking on clouds. It's a bit funny to put a classical look on the face of the city and put it in a fiber-optic rich cultural atmosphere. Similarly, there are too many Western products in the movie, some of which are culture, art, customs, gentlemanly manners, etc. Some of which are behind the digital mindset. Some are the stereotypes and hypocrisy behind the digital mindset.
There's something familiar about Ma Go Ri flying to the moon with Wanyan Ying in an old medieval car, isn't there. It's heavenly but déjà vu. Yes, the classic scene from ET, except that ET has become Wanyan Ying and Elliot has become Horse Walking Day. Yes, in a way, Ma Zhuozhi is a child who never grows up. The Chaplin-esque black-and-white video technique also plays a significant part, and it seems like the body language that's just missing just doesn't seem to be as rich as it should be. The Italians definitely didn't expect their "Toast" to appear in the mouth of a warlord and sing it no less well. And I'm sure Jiang Wen timed his search for the role of Wang Tian Tian... remember Wang's three-part mustache? Yes, perhaps the best representative of Dadaism, only this time the beard is on the face of Wang Tianwang instead of the Mona Lisa's face. As for Xiang Feitian, he conveys the French color from head to toe. Whether it's the mercenary-style hat or the pure French shirt. It is puzzling that the horse walks away from the day actually grows a "Jap-style" beard. Or a church full of swallowtail and the traditional noblewoman's military dress, will give people a sense of spatial disarray, perhaps this is just to make people feel that the whole movie is more rich in plot fluidity and the overall ups and downs of it. So much so that the later mother-daughter shootout in Pingyuan is purely to cater to the New Year's Eve movie, giving the audience some nonsensical laughs.
The whole movie from the dazzling colorful slowly transitioned to black and white, and then transitioned to a vast expanse of green, perhaps this is like the horse walks on the day of the fate of the abrasive, began in the colorful neon, hair in neon out of control of the self, lost in black and white friends, and finally disappeared in the vast expanse of the green of the yearnings. This is his life, a life destined to be sad, a life destined to clamor. In front of Yan Ruyu, he may be a rogue, in front of Wu Liu, he transforms into a proper gentleman. Doesn't he love both women? Perhaps not, perhaps from the moment he snapped, he might have known that his own life was no longer in his own hands, but in the hands of someone else, two other women. As he said himself, if he had married Yan Ruyu maybe it wouldn't have ended this way, maybe it could have ended a long time ago. Often it is one step away but rewrites the direction of a person's life coordinates. Make him farther and farther away from the original intention. Until the end, as if a lonely boat, and finally drifted to where already does not matter. And the only thing that can not let go of may be that easily accessible and do not dare to face the feelings of it. This may be the sadness of the horse walking day.
A Step Away (3)
The day before yesterday, I went to the South Second Ring Cade Plaza Lumiere Cinema City to see "A Step Away", the ticket price, half price 40 yuan. The audience is not much, the same viewers have more than 20 people it.
"One Step Beyond", is a comedy love entertainment film, but also song and dance film, or thrilling absurd comical film, children's love, two love stories, dangerous, ornamental.
The title of the film "One Step Away" is what it means, from the semantic point of view, life and death, love and hate, give and take, success and failure, is a split-second thing, a step between the distance. The main characters in the movie, Ma Go Ri and Xiang (bishop) Fei Tian, both names, are taken from Chinese chess terms. The two characters for "day" and "left" together is the character for "field", and for "horse" and "bishop", the bishop has one more day than the horse, and the two are one step apart, one step away from each other.
Horse walking day and Xiang Feitian, in the Republic of China during the Shanghai Bund, on behalf of the warlord's son, Wu Qi money laundering, manipulation of the hosting of the world's universal campaign "Flower Country President" beauty activities. Wanyan Ying, defending his title successfully won. Beauty loves heroes, go day and finish Yan Ying, driving out of the car accident, finish Yan Ying died, go day became a murderer by the pursuit of ......
Ma go day in the pursuit, but also saved the life of Feitian. Later, the plot develops, Fei Tian became the head of the police chasing the murderer! (m.taiks.com) He joins forces with Marshal Wu, a warlord in Shanghai, to negotiate the extradition of the apprehended Horse Walking Day to a certain concession. Marshal's daughter Wu Liu, beauty to save the hero, Wu Liu and walk the day both fled ......
Walking the day and Fei Tian, a pair of mixed heroes in the past, into the past and the incompatibility of the enemy, the two identity changes in the difference between the two people, just a step away.
The two identity change difference is only a step away.
Perhaps, as the title of the film a step away, the writer and director also has another deep moral, to be interpreted, I do not know.
The first half of the movie, the performance of the heroes to hold beautiful women, beautiful women from all over the world gathered in Shanghai, debut, each beautiful eye-catching, gorgeous costumes, light gait, the parade walk the stage, such as the river of the anchors, more than carry on more yeah. Finish Yan folded laurels, delivered an acceptance speech, there is a naked donation comes with the right to marry for the first time in one sentence! The audience cheered and shouted loudly. The second half of the movie, highlighting the beauty to save the hero, Wu Liu risked his life and death, and did his best to save the day ......
Needless to say, "One Step Beyond" has been criticized. It's an overstatement to say it's a bad movie.
Its shortcomings, one is too much narration, in the writer-director lack of visual images and actors performances, the performance of the past plot of the talent mastery of the lead.
Secondly, the details are distorted, the Republic of China during the police drive fugitive ** criminals, the use of walkie-talkies; a martial arts Wu Marshal also surprisingly led the crowd in their own concubines at the wedding, singing a Western opera. The singing technique is not inferior to the professional level of the academy.
Third, the audience can not understand. This is related to the choreographer in a movie, the amount of information provided is too much too much, granting the audience a moment to accept. That is, the creative intention of the writer and director and the original intention, do not take into account the actual feelings of the audience, failed to connect with the audience's perception of the current situation. The audience spends money to see the movie, to buy happiness. Then, if they can't understand the movie or a part of it, their mood will be hard to be happy. Writers and directors can not only let themselves understand, but also let the audience understand. You shoot the movie is a commodity, not to see for themselves, but to get the cultural market to sell money, someone to buy, your money bag to convex up.