For me, in general, a movie with depth is good for us to write a review, so what is depth?
There's depth in the acting, there's depth in the plot, and if there's one of the two, there's a point where we can cut through.
I used to think that "Human Comedy" should be a good work that could satisfy both.
Da Pan+Allen+Ren Dahua+Jin Shi Jie, a luxurious top-notch cast.
People in their middle age + faggots + old to seek children, very gimmicky plot.
It's a pity that it crumbled, a bit suddenly, but it feels just right, the progress of Chinese movies, in addition to the need for the birth of high-quality works, but also the need for purely commercial, shoddy work exit. On another note, waking Allen up with a stick so he can concentrate on his stage work and performances is not a bad thing.
Prior to its release, "Human Comedy" had all kinds of publicity, whetting my appetite, or at least mine, for anticipation and excitement. After all, just look at the name of the movie plus the introduction of the plot let people incomparable expectation, we know all the all the life may encounter distress and misery can be seen in the movie, "hard to get a salary", "can not afford to buy a house", "children are afraid to give birth", "old age son does not compete" and so on.
Have sworn: this must be a "comedy" cloaked in "tragedy" story, enough to make people sad from the heart, but certainly warm people's chest. It must be like "Viva La Vida", which is painful to the heart, to the soul, and yet memorable.
So I was ready for anything, waiting quietly to walk into the movie, anticipating the moment when I'd be baptized.
However, sadness cannot be snot, laughter cannot be spoken, comedy is not, tragedy is not. So I watched the whole movie with my heart in my mouth, without saying a word.
A good hand has been dealt a bad hand.
The plot level was flashy and not thorough enough.
Three strands of the movie go hand in hand: Pu Tong and Mee Gum's sour relationship, Master Ba's sadness at not being able to have children and not having a son in his lap, and and the Yangs' family's hatred of father and son and the pain of family discord.
Each of these is a point of interest and a point of pain!
The movie uses a "kidnapping" and a "sperm theft" to tie the three threads together, and through clever design, brings everyone and everything together in a meat factory in the suburbs.
At this point in the plot pain, suspense, climax perfect blend , the director of the screenwriter is very attentive, but the details of the handling of the disorders, and ultimately let the pain on the surface, the comedy is overly contrived, and the tragedy is not enough to enter the , and so flashy, and ultimately fell into an incoherent.
Putong half of his life, can not afford to buy a house, can not afford to pay the rent, and even his wife did not dare to give birth to a child. This is a man who, in his middle age, is a loser and whose self-respect is his last dignity. However, the whole movie does not express enough of this kind of weakness, and the desire for self-respect is not enough. This, coupled with Allen's usual stage-comedy acting style, makes us experience not pain, but confusion.
Comparatively, the acting contributions of two veteran actors, James Kim and Simon Yam, are sufficiently rendered to make the movie the highlight it is not.
The model level is not new, but it is enough to form a hit, but unfortunately, the director's pull is not natural.
Two Chinese directors have done a particularly good job in this kind of movie with multiple story lines that go hand in hand.
Geng Hao and his "Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Race".
Xin Yukun and his "Heart Maze" and "Stormy Weather".
They specialize in several different scenes and characters, individually laid out stories, interspersed through a certain subtle point, at an angle you wouldn't expect, unobtrusive, just right, so that the compressed to the limit of the spring instantly exploded, exciting, gorgeous.
From a movie narrative point of view, "Human - Comedy" adopts a model much like these, but fails miserably in doing so. The reason for this is simple: if Geng Hao and Xin Yukun are doing a wonderfully wondrous job, "Human - Comedy" is a forceful convergence of pulling and dragging.
To give a simple example:
The scene in the hospital to steal sperm, in fact, is a very key bonding point, it is because of the theft of sperm triggered by a series of coincidences to the back of the more complex plot.
However, two questions are abrupt and easy to get out of the movie:
(1) Can the hospital be so childish as to let two thieves pretending to be dutiful sons into the sperm bank so easily?
(2) Did the nanny want to have a son for Yang Taijun for the sake of having an extra bargaining chip in her hand, or because of love?
The 1st question involves how to successfully steal the test tubes, and the 2nd question involves another set of thieves coming here in the first place.
And together, these two questions are the starting point and source of where the movie is headed.
Yet both of these questions are given far-fetched settings and explanations in the movie. Whenever this happens, someone always says, "It's a comedy, some people like it, just have fun with it, why take it seriously?
Then let's look at the netizen's comments, one-sided, serious puff.
Evaluation level: Douban 3.5 points, already enough to shock people, but the number of people scoring less than 7,000 people, it is even more jaw-dropping. Looking back, when have we ever seen a movie produced by "Happy Mahua" with such a poor rating and popularity?
There is an interesting phenomenon, it seems that in addition to the very different style of "Donkey Got Water", the rest of the works can not be spared, that is, the shorter Shen Teng's appearance, the lower the score and the word of mouth. So it seems that Alan carries the flag, top beam road, estimate also stop, and strike and go.