High energy throughout, weak ending

Keegan 2022-01-16 08:01:56

The biggest feature of the film is the superb sense of rhythm, and each shot simply drives the BGM of hits and hits.

There is no nonsense about the progress and overlay of the story. Grace asked Lian to help her cheat on the stage-Lian was "sold" to Pat by Grace-Lian was lured by Pat with money to engage in a classical music training class and helped her classmates cheat on a large scale-Ban reported Lian, and Lian lost the opportunity to study at Singapore Tumbo ——Pat asked Lian for help in the STIC test. Lian asked that he needed to find another memory master——Pat found someone to beat the class, causing him to miss the exam and lose the opportunity to study abroad——Ban Helian went to Sydney to take the exam, cheating across the time difference to pass the answer—— There were constant waves in the examination room-Grace and class and a group of wealthy children went to school smoothly, the class was expelled-Lianxin felt guilty, and the class fell since then, and continued to ask Lian to cheat-Lian surrendered to the examination agency and confessed the truth about the cheating.

For 130 minutes, I had to use the slang of "the story is complete, the conflict is constant, the climax is repeated, and the story is complete" to summarize the experience of the whole film. The identity, background, mood transformation, and parent-child relationship of the heroes and heroines are all clearly explained by detailed shots and delicate acting skills. They are not nonsense but also very skillful and artistic. Some people may say that such hints and details are too easy for people to miss or understand. I can only say that even if the domestic movie-watching environment is a dark theater, there are still various whispers, phone calls, and children running around. The sound is indeed easily distracting, and it has also formed the habit of many audiences not being involved when watching movies. In addition, I have watched too many brain-dead dramas, and my heart fluctuates to instill the audience's interpretation with narration, so that many audiences have no idea what the language and posture of the camera convey the message. Therefore, a good movie experience is not only a good movie itself, but also the ability and quality of the audience to keep up. I certainly disagree with Feng Xiaogang’s "third-rate audience" argument. We really don’t have the obligation to learn to pave the way for our artistic perception first when we watch a movie on holidays and have fun, but some basic lens language and psychological cues should be understood as long as everyone has a good EQ and normal aesthetics.

Another manifestation of the sense of rhythm is the sharp editing. There are several major scenes in the whole film. A cheating exam is almost the effect of the filming of Bournemouth. It is exciting and makes people sweat. In the school's entire grade exam, Lian used piano fingering to pass the answers. Unexpectedly, the test paper was divided into AB papers. Lian had to finish another set of test papers in the last 20 minutes and pass the answers to other students in the last 10 minutes. In the last part of taking the STIC exam, Grace and Pat waited nervously for the answers from the Sydney "comrades". As time approached, they had to deal with anxious candidates, troubled drivers, and Lian's father who were in trouble. After Ban's cheating was exposed, Lian went out of the examination room to pass the answer and ran away, chasing with the official invigilator, but also clinging to her nerves, hanging in her throat and never dared to spit it out. The editing and switching of these scenes is simple and refreshing, and the background music closely follows the plot, which adds to the heart-wrenching sense of substitution.

130 minutes of movies with no urine points, this era is really not much. In the last 2 minutes, the plot took a turn for the worse. Lian was full of joy to find the class to attend the appointment, and found that the other party not only accepted the way of cheating to make money, but also had no regrets at the end of the road to school. The equipment has been updated and she is ready to make a big splash in the laundry industry. Depraved and started planning to cheat to make money, Lian was ashamed, but later found out that the other party had no feelings for herself, the first love also disappeared, and the pain of youth faintly struck. Lian confessed to the STIC examination organization throughout the process, whether Thai students will be canceled in the future, it is not known, she still has to face her conscience in the end. The change at the end makes people not in the mood to accept it, and it is even better for them to be a pair of "male and female thieves" in the examination room. Perhaps everyone has the idea of ​​taking shortcuts in their hearts, and they are jealous of these good children who are born in poverty, have no resources, but are exceptionally talented, so returning to the ordinary and correct, it is the audience outside the screen that can't let go.

Thailand’s young actors have very good acting skills. They are true and natural. Although the heroine is not beautiful, she has a supermodel indifferent charm. It turns out that the world's top students have a noble, indifferent, and contemptuous temperament. Little fresh meats all over the world will rise up, and the future stage is undoubtedly yours! In the end, no matter how popular or high the score the film is, I hope that it can only stimulate domestic filmmakers to make more good movies humbly, and don't copy or remake it!

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Extended Reading
  • Stuart 2022-03-18 09:01:06

    The male is the second palace Kazuya, the female is Du Juan, the male second is Peng Yuyan, and the female second is Yui Aragaki.

  • Erling 2022-03-22 09:02:39

    The tension in the two exam scenes was quite successful, almost to the point of wanting to vomit. However, the overall ideological depth is slightly lacking. Whether it is the education system or class differentiation, the film is only scratching the surface. In fact, the relationship between the rich second generation/scumbag and the poor student/scholar can have more narrative tension. However, the director did not discuss it too much. From my point of view, it is a pity, but for ordinary audiences is also sufficient.

Bad Genius quotes

  • Grace: If I had a brain half your size, I wouldn't have done something as stupid as this!

  • Pat: We get to choose the university, the university doesn't get to choose us!