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"The Last Night on Earth" is an honest remake of "Roadside Picnic." They are so alike.
This is not a big mistake. Many directors have been shooting the same work over and over again throughout their lives, and some have failed to shoot even one film. It's just that for me, I don't want to see that Bi Gan has entered the middle-aged and elderly stage of being stuck on the territory ahead of schedule.
From "Tiger", "Diamond Sutra" to "Roadside Picnic", Bi Gan has already dumped his peers and completed the process of upgrading and fighting monsters ahead of schedule. When it comes to "The Last Night on Earth", although there is unprecedented investment from the capital, the key words of the form it relies on and the novelty it presents are conservative and sorry.
Or put it this way, there are very few original/changed/exquisite things this time (I don't know if this is excessively demanding of a young filmmaker). The biggest change is that there is no chanting of poems. Instead, there is more chanting than poems.
Both movies have a long shot that has been completed in a single task and existed like a posture. It disrupted the memory of time and space, played upside down, and permeated each other (you will never be unfamiliar with "Roadside Picnic"). Whether it's the world within the long shot or the life outside the long shot, this film can be regarded as a remake of the previous work. There is also a line repeatedly in the movie, this segment is too old-fashioned .
Kaili’s weather forecast (TV voice-over), leaky house (Chen Sheng’s waterfall house), train tracks (Kaili’s geographic traffic), karaoke concert ("Strong Reason", neon lights), mirror glass ( Reflection and perspective), clocks and watches, dog jokes, grown-up children, reunited lovers, shortcomings to make up, the flow of time...Even the main titles "Dark Green Night" and "Lullaby by Thistle Girl" also correspond The last time "Farewell" and "Little Jasmine".
But "The Last Night on Earth" gave me a bad impression.
For some reason, it is very popular in 2018 that everyone speaks Guizhou dialect. Throughout the film, Huang Jue's narration was struggling to support it. Intensive narration, lengthy narration, and slow camera movement, the information they provide is like being washed, soaked and diluted by rain, causing the movie to fail to rotate effectively, turning it into a click arrow, and forwarding. Page. The reason is also easy to explain. Everything before, the sloshing around before the title was released, was to get into that long shot .
In addition, the characters in more than one scene in the film have similar personality templates. They are lost in one story after another, and telling stories is as natural as breathing air. Everyone has a story and a friend is willing to share it with you. As long as you tap the drift bottle, they will automatically broadcast, not easily stopped.
It's like the protagonist has a strong feeling of owe or obsession with the younger brother and the woman. It seems that in the past ten years, he returned to Kaili, still unable to relieve himself. But where does the unforgettable emotion come from? The film's language is unclear. Uncle Chen Sheng killed the white cat, Huang Jue killed Uncle Chen Sheng-the puzzle story can be taken in one stroke, but the concept of emotion cannot be instilled by force feeding. Watch a movie together, go to bed together. Raised a few mouthfuls, no more.
In "Roadside Picnic", Uncle Chen Sheng's obsession with Xiao Weiwei and his wife also passed through the clouds and mountains, like a dream. The social people who are not good at expressing, but the jerky, silent and lethargic of non-professional actors, are very moving. However, the professional actors of "The Last Night on Earth" are already close to the top of Chinese movies. What the audience sees are some familiar symbolic impressions with unknown intentions. For example, Tang Wei's green, pulling his hair twice. There is also Huang Jue's detective looking for people and black wandering, which are actually spells written by Bi Gan's poems.
Comparing Chen Yongzhong's performance in "The Last Night on Earth" this time, you will find that there are many narrations and lines, which is sometimes not a good thing. They will not tell the story more clearly, but may be more confused.
The images of "The Last Night on Earth" did not provide accurate and effective information. On the contrary, a large number of empty mirrors, occlusions, and dark shadows created redundant and ineffective interference content, making the audience sleepy. It can be seen that the actor is simply performing the director's intention, or is knocked down by the cloud, and does not know what he is doing.
If the actor is just a mannequin, the movie will let Li Hongqi's close-up feature eating an apple, telling you in the dark that the protagonist is crying. It has to be said that the scene of Li Hongqi, coupled with the writing of lines such as the sad man swallowing an apple core, makes the film a bit of an imitation of learning Wong Kar-wai.
Perhaps, a movie can have no story. Many reports also say that the film has been overthrown many times. But after looking at it, I feel that "The Last Night on Earth" is not that the script has not been written, but that there is no script at all.
It exists for the sense of ritual, and the long lens of wearing 3D glasses with the protagonist, without the weird time and space dreams caused by the substandard technology of "Roadside Picnic", and the illusion of collapse, but will directly tell you that the long night is fake (3D glasses are also honest). Last time, this memory is essentially the same thing. Because I was prompted and informed in advance, I couldn't get into the memory maze and prison in the film at all this time. Because I don’t need others, especially the director, to tell me that it’s time, get ready to enter the protagonist’s mental shell, and get ready to start empathy. It's not that I'm indifferent, it's really unnecessary and unnecessary.
The most helpless thing is the entire long shot, which seems to be just to read the bird poem, to achieve the disappearance of a kiss between men and women . The hidden emotion of "Roadside Picnic", this time around, showed openly.
The decoding and guessing games in the film are divided into two categories: one is the names of female singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan, such as Wan Qiwen, Tai Zhaomei, and Priscilla Chan, as well as water plants, cups, stalkers, and Tarkovsky, such as flying into space. element. Actually there is nothing wrong. But Bi Gan played too many times, repeatedly mentioning Carey and poking thought stamps , which was a bit boring.
In order to watch "The Last Night on Earth", I specially selected a brighter movie theater. The light bulb and the moon that can be brighter are not very saved. Plus the dark picture of the 3D glasses (as you know, almost all 3D movies will have a star in my evaluation system). The dark visual atmosphere throughout the story, the main night tone from dark to dawn , aggravates the sense of exhaustion. Personally, I don't feel the need to use 3D.
Fortunately, Bi Gan still retains a few cold humor, such as the big health care section before entering the long shot. As well as a good taste in song selection , you can continue to compete with the section chief for the title of gold DJ in the DJing world.
A "Dark Green Night" and a "Lullaby by Girl Thistle" are great. Before watching the movie, it has been looped countless times. However, Aunt Miyuki Nakajima's lullaby, I would even recommend it in "LULLABY SINGER ~ The Lullaby of Girl Thistle Flower" by "Singing Journey". Regardless of the reputation of "Last Night on Earth", whether Little Thistle Flower is more scented than Little Jasmine, and even if the film hits a low score, Bi Gan has already succeeded -better than his peers, and better than the sixth-generation director (currently At the commercial box office).
But with such a movie to end 2018 of the ghosts and monsters, the mood is always complicated.
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