Douban score 91, the comic "Lighting Store", published in 2015, was brought to the big screen.
In South Korea, this manga is known as one of the best manga in the last 10 yearsIt is also the representative work of the well-known cartoonist Jiang Cao.
There may be many netizens who haven't read this work, but judging from the rating, you can feel the quality of this comic.
After all, whether it's in movies or TV series, or in the comic book circle,A score of 9 or more can be called a masterpiece.
Judging from the name, you may think that this is a relatively ordinary story.
In fact, on the contrary, the story of "The Illuminated Store" is very full, because there is no fixed protagonist, so it will bring maximum freshness to the reader.
The story of each character will allow the audience to see a different lifeEspecially people who seem to have no connection, they actually have a great relationship in the back.
In fact, when they learned that "The Lighting Store" was going to be made into a movie, there were still many fans who were a little worried, afraid that the filming effect would not be ideal.
However, judging from the performance on the first day of release,In addition to the low sense of existence of the male and female protagonists, other aspects still greatly restore the original work.
Xu Nian, played by the heroine Zhang Ruonan, moved into an apartment near a store by chance with Zheng Man, played by the male protagonist Bai Yufan.
originally thought it was just an ordinary apartment, but as time went by, the two gradually realized that something was wrong with everyone here, and even they began to have a new understanding of themselves.
The plot of the movie still continues the multi-line narrative in the comics, connecting several seemingly unrelated characters together perfectly through some intricate eventsIf you don't look closely, you may not be able to understand it.
In fact, after the movie was broadcast, many viewers felt that Zhang Ruonan and Bai Yufan were like soy sauce in the movie, but it's really no wonder that the two of them are like this, after all, the setting of the characters is like thisIt seems to be the main character, but in fact it is a supporting role.
Xu Nian and Zheng Man can be said to be the promoters of the development of the plot of the whole movie, they don't have too many stories on them, and the main storyline is still on several other supporting roles, such as "Zhu Xiaomei" played by Liu Yan and her daughter Zhuzhu.
Zhu Xiaomei is a single mother, working hard with her daughter alone, although she opened a clothing store, her life is also very difficult, and her attitude towards her daughter gives people the feeling that she wants to abandon her daughter.
But this is not the case, because it was she and her daughter who had a car accident and came to the vicinity of this "store".In order to allow her daughter to return to the world, she used her last strength to push her daughter away.
There is a close-up of a clip in the movie, Zhu Xiaomei's nails actually grow on the fingertips, when I saw this scene, I also shivered on my body, and I felt a little scary, but when I saw it at the end, I realized that this nail was turned over to save my daughter.
In this film, the advantage of Liu Yan's figure that everyone pays attention to is basically not close-up, and all we can see is the acting skills that overflow the screen, so everyone thinks that Liu Yan has robbed the heroine of the limelight.
Judging from Zhu Xiaomei's story alone, you can see the original author's conception and his style.
And director Cai Er, although he can't say that he can restore the comics perfectly, but at least he is qualified, as for those viewers who say they can't understand it, they have to find the reason in themselves.
At present, the box office of "Lighting Store" has exceeded 100 million, which shows the quality of its works!
Finally, to paraphrase a relatively simple comment from netizens about this movie, that is:The front is terrifying, and the back is tear-jerking.
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