"The Kidnapping of a Dog at the Door" is Feng Junhao's debut. Three years after the film was released, he shot the classic suspenseful masterpiece "Reminiscences of Murder".
It is hard to imagine that the director has grown so fast in three years.
To get to know a director, the most direct way is to watch his movie, and the quickest way is to watch his first movie.
In the virgin work, the director will use all his current talents, and the aspiring director will expect his first work to be a blockbuster.
In "The Kidnapping of a Dog at the Door", some of the preferences of Director Feng Junhao have been exposed. The intense white fog, the intense and fast chase scene, and the kick off the rearview mirror of other people's car, the uniform and coordinated color tone, carefully Designed composition.
At the beginning of the movie, it was a clip where the sound took precedence over the picture. We first heard the dog barking and then saw the picture.
Looking at the title, we know that the film is about a dog-related story. The sound is pre-emptive, and the spectator’s thinking has been mobilized. What kind of story is it?
Is it like "Carla is a Dog", is it like "The Hachiko of the Faithful Dog", or is it like "A Dog's Mission", or is it like "Dog Thirteen"?
Or is it just like "An Andalu Dog"? After watching the movie, I realized that the movie was not really saying that someone kidnapped the dog at the door, but was about to kill the dog.
The male lead is a university lecturer, and the professor's position was intercepted by a man named Kang Minchu through bribery.
The male protagonist's work is unsatisfactory, and his marriage and life are even more unsatisfactory.
A pregnant wife has to work, but the male lead can only stay at home and do nothing.
On the surface, the reason why the male protagonist wants to kill the dog is because when he is in a bad mood, it happens that a dog in the community keeps barking and annoying.
If we look deeper into the reason, it is not difficult for us to find that he killed the dog not just because it affected our mood.
According to normal procedures, or rules, the title and job of the professor could have belonged to the male lead, but someone used bribes to break the normal rules. The male lead was very angry when he heard the news.
He hates those who break the rules, he hates those who don't abide by the law.
The community clearly stipulates that dogs cannot be kept, but some wealthy people know this stipulation and still have to keep dogs.
In terms of observing the law and rules, dog owners are no different from those who give bribes. They are both rule-breakers.
Therefore, men mainly kill dogs, and killing dogs is also an illegal act. This method of using violence to control violence is really the next policy.
Although the dog was killed, the male protagonist finally decided to repeat the mistake of bribery in order to make a living.
When the briber died in a car accident, he immediately went to bribe the dean, just like the previous briber, drinking glass by glass from the dean's wine until he became drunk and returned with bitterness.
When the male lead’s wife is still at work, the male lead will eat walnuts one by one. The first time the husband and wife are in the same frame tells us that the status of their family’s wives is higher than that of their husbands.
This may have something to do with economic income. At that time, the male lead was out of class.
The man hates dogs, so his wife bought a dog home.
This dog has witnessed the transformation of the relationship between the husband and wife. The male protagonist has not yet become a professor and has become a professor, and the wife's attitude towards the male protagonist is completely different.
It should be pointed out that for this change of attitude, director Feng Junhao did not use a single line. He did it through audiovisual language. This is the skill of an excellent director.
It's actually very simple. He just used a strawberry and a dog.
After the bribery, fortunately, the male protagonist did not have a car accident like the previous briber. He sat in the classroom to give lectures to the students, the curtains were closed, the green trees disappeared into the darkness, and the beautiful world in the male protagonist’s mind had been lost. The darkness swallowed, and he could no longer climb the mountain.
Looking at the hostess again, she is a kind person, hoping to get attention from the outside world, and eager to be on TV.
All her wishes were not fulfilled, and her kindness caused her to lose her job.
The life trajectory of the male protagonist is completely different. She lost her job and did not get another job through bribery.
The male protagonist was compelled by life and tried to give bribes, violating his own principles.
Once a person violates his principles once, then he can no longer maintain a pure heart for life.
After the heroine lost her job, she went hiking with her friends, illuminating the audience with the rear-view mirror, as if she was asking: how would you choose.
The male lead took off his glasses in the classroom, and he chose to ignore it.
Finish.
This movie can be more concise and unobstructed, but the introductory speech is a bit procrastinated, I give it 7 points.
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