In this era of information explosion, it is really a shortcut to use the convenience of sharing to obtain creative themes. "Crazy Stone" is like a platter in Chinese cuisine. It has a little bit of everything and looks good, but it is not always pleasant to eat. This should be an out-and-out commercial film, combining some elements of relatively low difficulty, for example, the humor of Hong Kong's nonsensical movies, the temporary freshness of dialect use, Feng Xiaogang's Beijing-style humor (this is the A word I created, I don't know if it has any meaning. In Feng Xiaogang, it used to be a type of TV movie style with Yingda and Wang Shuo. I don't like these things at all. They are still used by Feng Xiaogang tirelessly today. Dazao created it, and even, there is a phrase "early death and early life" in it is borrowed from the mantra of Liang He, the brother of Liang Huan, the screenwriter I love my family, who usually plays mahjong and urges the other party to play cards quickly - unfortunately, I happened to be there. I have seen and recorded such a chapter in Wang Shuo’s book), direct copying of the plots of several blockbuster movies in the United States—here we can see some scenes of the complete “disc within a plate”, in a very modified version. The creative concept of "Crash". The music of the whole movie is also a hodgepodge of things, the ding ding bang bang and stop abruptly, which is very lively.
I can't deny that this movie is quite attractive. The key to the attraction is that the young unnamed director Ning Hao has a very broad field of knowledge and is good at using dialogues that seem so refreshing (there are quite a few of them that are caused by Sichuan dialect). freshness) and a relatively smooth rhythm tell a farce-like story of always getting the wrong look. This kind of movie is very immediate and entertaining, and the storyline used is actually not new at all. The embellishment of social hotspots (now it is not a hotspot) is too obvious to have Feng Xiaogang-style traces. If the director is good at telling stories, it is better to say that the director is good at pasting some knowledge (note that it is not the director's talent) relatively quickly to form a story with a relatively tight rhythm. I have reason to believe that the subtle and unobvious integration of some off-the-shelf elements took the director's greatest energy in this film with little innovation, and he didn't show "turned out" in this directorial debut. (as some critics describe it) talent. This is a re-processing of fast food culture, showing many familiar pictures and characters, and the rhythm processing throughout the entire clue of the film is like a Hong Kong shootout film after disguise. Relying on wave after wave of misunderstandings with wrong expressions attracts the audience. I don't deny that I watched the movie in one sitting, or that it was very entertaining, but I can't deny that it didn't touch me in the slightest. As for the term "black humor" that many film critics use indiscriminately, I can't see such a profound thing. This movie is a bit like this year's World Cup, it's very lively, but it feels rushed and can't stay in my mind.
It's so hard to innovate. The chief problem facing Chinese films will still be this one in the long-term future.
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