Is happiness an emotional value?
Yes, of course. Is grief an emotional value?
Uh......I don't think so......
Anger, is it an emotional value?
No, definitely not.
No, anger is also an emotional value.
Hello everyone, this is "Uncle Xiaowang Movie", I am Uncle Xiaowang. Why anger is also an emotional value, when we finish interpreting the just-released domestic film "Wading through the Sea of Anger" today, you may come up with your own answer.
As usual, let's go through the detailed plot explanation first, which involves super spoilers, please choose carefully**.
Director: Cao Baoping.
Screenwriters: Cao Baoping, Wu Pipi, Jiao Huajing.
Starring: Huang Bo, Zhou Xun, Zu Feng, Zhang Youhao, Zhou Yiyi.
Genre: Drama, Suspense, Crime.
Country of production Region: Chinese mainland.
Release date: 2023-11-25 (Chinese mainland).
Runtime: 144 minutes.
Douban score: 78
In order to support his daughter studying in Japan, Lao Jin, played by Huang Bo, often leads a team to go fishing. In order to make a good income, he dared to throw a foreign coast guard into the water on the high seas. On this day, he just received a ** from his ex-wife, informing him that his daughter Jin Lina, who was studying in Japan, was missing.
Lao Jin left the fleet and came to Japan, where he met his ex-wife and daughter's best friend. I learned from my best friend that my daughter has a boyfriend named Li Miaomiao in Kyoto, so she may know something. Lao Jin came to Kyoto and knocked on the door of his daughter's boyfriend.
The boy who opened the door claimed that Li Miaomiao was not there, and then passed by Lao Jin, who was waiting downstairs, and disappeared into the crowd. At this time, Lao Jin received a ** from his daughter, and only then did he find that the boy who had just escaped was Li Miaomiao himself. Lao Jin chased after him, chased him into the subway, and was almost knocked down by the speeding subway. When he got up, Li Miaomiao was gone.
Just as Lao Jin was about to continue tracking Li Miaomiao, bad news came from his ex-wife - his daughter Jin Lina had died.
Lao Jin rushed to the morgue and saw his daughter's miserable white body. Japan** disclosed that her daughter had 17 stab wounds on her body, and she had been locked in a closet for as long as long before her death.
After six or seven hours, he eventually died of blood loss.
Lao Jin rushed into the next door of his daughter's accident room, hysterically knocked his head in the closet, and grabbed the Japanese police officer who came to public relations, forcing him to ask him about Li Miaomiao's whereabouts. The Japanese police officer told Lao Jin that due to insufficient evidence, the Japanese ** did not file a case, and Li Miaomiao had fled back to China by flight.
Lao Jin chased back to China, directly found and rushed into Li Miaomiao's house, and fought with Li Miaomiao's father, Li Lie. Li Lie couldn't tell where his son was, so Lao Jin drove a truck to track him. Who knew that Li Miaomiao's mother and Li Lie's wife Jing Lan suddenly got on Lao Jin's truck and asked him to give him three days before he could hand over his son.
Lao Jin was not at ease and continued to follow Jing Lan, but was arrested by Jing Lan's police. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Jing Lan asked a German friend to apply for a visa for her son to go abroad, and went to a wooden house in the suburbs to meet her son. Who knows, her husband Li Lie is also sending someone to follow Jing Lan to find his son. When Li Lie's men found Li Miaomiao, they were wounded by him with a shotgun. Obviously, Li Lie and Jing Lan, an upper-class elite couple, have long been conflicted and separated from their son.
In the police station, the detained Lao Jin ostensibly promised the police officer Dai Zhen to return to Japan to attend his daughter's funeral and no longer harass Li Lie and Jing Lan, but in fact, according to Li Miaomiao's love of cosplay, he went to the animation exhibition to find him. Li Miaomiao really appeared at the exhibition, Lao Jin chased frantically, and even caught up with the roof of the venue, and the two fell down the building together during the entanglement, but they both miraculously survived.
Filled with hatred, Lao Jin once again slaughtered Li Lie and Jing Lan's house, Jing Lan designed to lock him in the basement and drive his son on the escape road to the airport.
The most magical scene in the whole film appeared: the sea fish rolled up by the typhoon were thrown on the highway like rain, Li Miaomiao enjoyed the spectacle, Jing Lan drove after her son, and pulled Lao Jin's police car to chase Li Miaomiao and Jing Lan. In the midst of a raging storm, a three-vehicle collision occurred. Jing Lan was trapped in the car, and Lao Jin finally caught Li Miaomiao, who killed his daughter, and hid him in **.
In the police station, Jing Lan painfully asked about her son's life and death, but Lao Jin was tight-lipped like a bottle. Jing Lan offered to give Lao Jin three days and did not ask ** to arrest him, on the condition that Lao Jin must tell him where his son was after returning to China.
Lao Jin returned to Japan to attend his daughter's funeral, and because he received an address from his daughter's best friend, he killed KTV, where he frantically beat three Japanese young people and forced him to ask about his daughter's death. All this is only because Lao Jin once saw the three Japanese **daughters** in his daughter's mobile phone.
The three Japanese were beaten to the point of bleeding by Lao Jin, claiming that her daughter was abandoned by her boyfriend Li Miaomiao, and she took revenge on her boyfriend by self-abuse in the form of physical sacrifice, and Lao Jin's hatred for Li Miaomiao escalated again.
Lao Jin returned to China and took Jing Lan to the fishing port to find his son as agreed. After showing Jing Lan her daughter's **, Lao Jin showed that it all stemmed from Li Miaomiao's emotional abuse of her daughter. After that, Lao Jin lied that he had killed Li Miaomiao and threw her body into the sea. Jing Lan lost control and drove after Lao Jin until the car crashed into the sea. Lao Jin rescued Jing Lan and was finally arrested by Dai Zhen.
In the police station, Lao Jin saw from the conversation between Li Lie and Jing Lan that his father Li Lie was bent on looking for Li Miaomiao, but his mother Jing Lan was protecting her son from being found by her husband.
However, Li Lie just wanted to get rid of his son with the help of Lao Jin, just because this stubborn son had paralyzed and amputated his younger daughter. After being told by Lao Jin, Li Lie actually challenged Lao Jin, but was hit on the head by a steel hook during the fight and died.
The dust settled, and the world returned to peace. The Japanese police officer came to China and brought Lao Jin her daughter's **and** diary before her death, telling Lao Jin: Jin Lina, who was stabbed 17 times, actually died by suicide!In order to show his loyalty to his boyfriend Li Miaomiao, he stabbed himself with a knife. And her act of closing herself in a closet and painting the sun comes from a childhood habit of waiting for her father to return from a sea trip. It turned out that the daughter's suicidal behavior of proving her loyalty to her boyfriend was planted by her father's emotional neglect as early as when she was a child.
At the end of the film, Lao Jin opens the wardrobe where his daughter lived in childhood and finds the inner wall full of sun patterns, which is the daughter's heart to fight against the long night and pray for her father to come home. Lao Jin finally believed the fact that his daughter committed suicide and released Li Miaomiao, who had been detained for a long time, into the sea.
At the end of the film, Lao Jin went to his daughter's cemetery and confessed to his daughter, but he couldn't find his daughter's tombstone ......
The above plot introduction seems to be a bit too long, but it is not an exaggeration compared to the nearly two-and-a-half-hour duration of the original film.
First of all, to admit, is Wading in the Sea of Wrath a good movie?Yes, the whole film was captured by the director's superb audio-visual skills, and in the process of watching, Uncle Xiaowang felt a strong emotional impact and emotional impact.
So, let's go back to the question at the beginning:
Anger, is it an emotional value?”
It has been said that only benign, positive emotions such as lightness, pleasure and happiness have emotional value.
In fact, this emotional value is based on the intimacy of at least two people.
And Uncle Xiaowang thinks,Anger also has a very important emotional value.
Anger is a kind ofSelf-perception, self-entitlement, and sense of self-boundaries, emotions of great value.
Without anger, on a personal level, we would lose our perception of the upper and lower limits of our tolerance for things;
Without this perception, we will lose the impulse to assert our own rights in the social power structure;
Without this impulse, our sense of self-boundaries cannot be formed. In a social system that does not pay attention to rules, we will always be in a position of being tempted, ignored, deprived, and ultimately humiliated.
Therefore, Lao Jin's anger in the film is valuable. But the premise must be - if her daughter was really killed by Li Miaomiao.
With the legitimacy of anger, he will have the motivation to chase the murderer across the sea, and even give him the courage to break through the obstacles of the violent machine.
Interestingly, Lao Huang, the original author of this film, used to be a colleague of Uncle Xiaowang. **Three years ago, I bought it for the first time when I came to read.
In the original work, Lao Jin is a simple angry person, he actually drove his broken boat and sailed across the ocean from China to Japan, wanting to send the ** who killed his daughter to the place where his daughter was killed.
According to Lao Huang's self-report, the story was also inspired by a real case: a Chinese father suddenly received a report from an American policeman, who had never been on a plane for more than ten hours to go to the other side of the ocean to claim his daughter's body. This situation provoked great anger among the author, driving the father in ** to embark on the road of revenge.
Therefore, the anger of the father in ** is very simple, it is a classic Hollywood-style revenge genre film structure - simple cause, simple effect, the original anger of the protagonist drives the plot to develop in a straight line until the problem is solved.
The film directed by Cao Baoping retains and strengthens the anger in ** from beginning to end.
If Uncle Xiaowang is asked to tell the difference between a good movie and a bad movie, then emotional penetration is an important indicator - a good movie gives you the feeling that it was shot in one breath, and you don't feel that the director team drew too many shots in advance;There will be an obvious feeling that the bad movie is shot according to the pre-drawn sub-shots, and after watching it, there is a sense of ingenuity and emotional fracture of the story.
From this point of view, Director Cao's movie is undoubtedly a good movie.
After all, Director Cao is a well-known academic, perhaps because he thinks that the original story is too simple, and it is not realistic to sail across the sea in person, so the original work has been adapted in terms of breadth and depth. As far as I can recall, there are so many content elements filled with the plot:
1.Chinese-style father-daughter relationship
2.Chinese-style husband and wife relationship
3.The contradiction between the social elite and the lower classes
4.The falsity of the feelings of couples in elite society
5.Miseducation of the children of the elite
6.The living conditions of a Chinese girl in a foreign country
7.The psychological and spiritual dilemmas of contemporary youth
8.The "human touch" of China's law enforcement environment
9.Cultural differences between China and Japan
Compared with the "simple" of the original work, Uncle Xiaowang's feeling is that these topics and settings are so fashionable. They are all hot topics in China's current society, or topics that are often **.
The depiction of the differences in social classes in China and the emotional plight of couples from elite families have expanded the perspective and breadth of the individual.
But if these fillings were deliberately designed during the development of the film, Uncle Xiaowang personally believes that it will still damage the purity of the film to some extent.
From the original name of "Wading through the Sea of Anger", Uncle Xiaowang personally believes that the movie version complicates anger, and anger finally turned a corner.
Let's put it this way, after watching the trailer of Huang Bo and Zhou Xun's car accident version, the audience felt a pure black energy, burst with curiosity, and successfully stimulated ** desire. They may have come for the emotional value of "anger" - because the anger of daily life is consumed by forbearance and swearing.
As a result, the ending of the film is that the 17 knives were all stabbed by her daughterShe did such a stupid thing because she was used to her father going to sea since she was a child, and because she was afraid that the darkness would cause the shadow of her childhood.
The theme finally fell on the fashionable topics of "original family" and "psychological education" that have been fashionable in recent years, and Uncle Xiaowang felt a little disobedient.
Combined with the two-and-a-half-hour duration of the film, Uncle Xiaowang thought: The daughter's self-described paragraphs and themes in Japan turned into the alley of "psychological education", and it cannot be ruled out that it is possible that the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television corrected the values of the film, and asked the director to make changes to prohibit the use of violence to counter violence.
But in this way, Uncle Xiaowang's personal feeling is that he has grafted Director Cao's previous "Scorching Sun" and "Chasing the Murderer" with "Dog 13".
This "feeling" is good, I found the above three movies to review, and "pleasantly" found that Duan Yihong's hanging tower scene also appeared in "Scorching Sun", and "Chasing the Murderer" also had a scene of Liu Ye driving down the hill ......
After the outrage, more "profound" themes emerged.
However, I also understand the director's good intentions, if there are not a few reversals in the current genre movies, the audience doesn't seem to buy it. But in this way, the emotional value of the word "anger" in the title of the film suddenly turned around, and it was not too comfortable
What?Fei is so hard, this kid is not **?
The audience had a mouthful of old blood in their throats.
It can be felt that in the short ** era, directors are looking for the lifeline of domestic audiences out of commercial pressure, that is, the pain points of their movie-watching, hoping to provide emotional value and pull the audience from the mobile phone to the theater.
Therefore, male-oriented directors like Mr. Cao Baoping, who are more good at black and cold style, have also begun to express cosplay and the flesh of young women and their thoughts in the film.
This kind of effort to get close to the new generation of audiences and hope that the new generation will agree with it, will it cause the dispersion of the power of the film and insincerity?
In other words, Lao Jin is not Lao Jin anymore, and after Lao Jin was angry, he suddenly repented;Lao Cao is not Lao Cao anymore, Lao Cao provides the emotional value of anger, and also comes with a set of psychoeducational enlightenment courses.
Maybe it's a good thing, after all, male directors have multiple perspectives.
But I also have to say that film and television people are really difficult.
In recent years, Hollywood's political correctness and the rise of women's equality in the domestic film and television industry have made our male directors seriously think about women's issues and disdain to express simple and crude anger.
This kind of creative thinking, from the perspective of the market box office, is indeed good and successful. It can be seen from the fact that the box office premiere day of this film is close to 100 million.
But from the perspective of the director's personal style, it is not easy to judge whether it is good or bad.
It's like adding a scabbard to a sharp knife, will it affect the purity of the male director?
Although director Xu Haofeng once said through the mouth of "The Grandmaster": The true intention of the knife is to hide, not to kill.
As far as the other side of the ocean is concerned, from David Fincher to Martin Scorsese to Ridley Scott, and even Clint Eastwood, who has always shown himself as a tough guy, these veteran male-oriented directors once created a large number of masculine movies in the creative era when gender controversy and youth issues were not very prevalent, maintaining a purely male perspective and providing a simple and crude "anger" emotional value, which attracted countless fans.
This is the true face of the world, men and women match, and they are not tired of working.
Women naturally have female directors and male directors who are good at women's topics to shoot and fill in their works.
But now, whether in Hollywood or in China, people are beginning to be keen on the topic of LGBT and express the idea of women's equality, and male directors seem to feel a kind of existential crisis, as if they do not show the female perspective and young issues in the film, they will face a public relations crisis or even be eliminated by the film and television industry.
To be honest, even Uncle Xiaowang himself, now when he writes something, he can't help but say silently in his heart: "Is it good to write like this?".Will it be scolded by female viewers for 'male gaze' or 'dwarf women' or something?”
I don't know if this is the luck of the creator or the sadness of the creator.
There is no problem with the female perspective, there will be many films that are very moving, and "I Am a Mountain", which was released at the same time as "Wading in the Angry Sea", is handled very well, although it is made by a male director, but it does not show off its skills, it is not forcibly sensational, and it is also an excellent domestic film, and there is a chance that Uncle Xiaowang will write a separate article**.
is a very good movie, just because it is a male director and also shows female alcoholism, he was scolded as a dog-headed Douban and did not dare to score, **The anger and "diode" of the environment are shocking and helpless.
Having said so much about the topic, it may be far away, no matter what, "Wading in the Sea of Anger" is an excellent domestic film, this is Uncle Xiaowang's conclusion.
But the film is definitely imperfect in terms of plot, for example, Lao Jin was suspected of committing crimes several times and was exempted from detention. In addition to breaking into a private house and being released early, Lao Jin kidnapped Li Miaomiao, and falsely claimed to have killed him, just because he took advantage of the defense and suspicion between Jing Lan and Li Lie's husband and wife, and he repeatedly retreated in front of the public security. In the end, he led Li Lie to the boat and caused his accidental death, and he also stayed on the lighthouse on the island and reef without being questioned or detained by the public security. In order to keep Lao Jin's line of action from breaking, these plots are a little far-fetched. Of course, it is also understandable that this is also a plot deliberately arranged by the choreographer in order to create the human nature of the intrigue between the upper-class elite couples.
But the flaws are not hidden, "Wading in the Sea of Anger" is shot with a large number of wide-angle close-ups, shaping the characters' desperate, complex, or contradictory psychological time and space, providing the audience with the scarce emotional value of "anger", which is a domestic film with excellent audio-visual language.
But there is another topic that Uncle Xiaowang also has to mention - now domestic films are becoming more and more dramatic, under the double pressure of ideological propaganda needs and box office, cinema movies are like a big man who is forced to go to Liangshan by a short **, and the whole presents a state of excitement and excitement with green muscles, as if the plot has the slightest slackness, it will be forced to commit suicide by the audience and the box office.
The same is true for the perception of national teacher films in recent years.
The spy war movie "The Tip of the Knife", which was released at the same time as "Wading through the Angry Sea", requires the choreographer and director to push the drama to the extreme.
On the contrary, the rhythmic narrative of the documentary "I Am a Mountain" is eye-catching.
In fact, the reason why film is called film is that it is fundamentally different from the drama with dense dialogue and conflict, and since the day of its invention, film has been "the art of visual narrative".
That's why those high-scoring masterpieces in film history, from "The Godfather" to "The Shawshank Redemption", including Uncle Xiaowang's favorite "Sunny Day" and "The Grandmaster", are not works that dramatically tear down the roof, but works with excellent "audiovisual language".
The first film in film history, "Factory Gate", is simply a single-celled creature, with almost no drama at all.
Perhaps, Chinese literature and art have always had a tradition of "focusing on propaganda and education" and "literature carrying the Tao", coupled with the needs of ideology, so that we tend to regard images as propaganda rather than as an "artistic language".
This will inevitably affect China's exploration of film art. If we overemphasize the propaganda and box office functions of the film, and ignore its language, we will inevitably continue to fall behind in the competition with developed film countries.
How long has it been since we won an award at an international A-category film festival?......
This digression is really big, Uncle Xiaowang will continue with you in the future topic selection**, today's article is already very long, so I won't expand it.
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