In 2022, Zhang Yimou will enter the Spring Festival file for the first time with "Sniper" and win 60.8 billion box office.
In 2023, Zhang Yimou will enter the Spring Festival stalls for the second time, and the box office of "Man Jianghong" will counterattack all the way, and finally earn 454.4 billion, becoming the box office champion of the schedule.
In 2024, Zhang Yimou will make persistent efforts to continue to enter the Spring Festival stalls, and he will play new tricks-
Article 20
Down-to-earth is the most intuitive feeling I have after watching the movie.
It is one of the most down-to-earth proposition movies directed by Zhang Yimou in recent years.
Douban has a score of 80 (currently 7.)9) It also proves that most people have a similar viewing experience to me.
Especially compared with last year's "Man Jianghong", which made a table of dumplings for vinegar, the judgment was made.
Three seemingly unrelated stories eventually led to a legal popularization of science about "justifiable defense".
The effect is definitely much better than if you directly watch legal programs such as "Today's Statement".
At first, when I looked at the poster, I thought it was a platter-style movie like the Hong Kong film "The Night Banquet of the Wealthy", in which star actors made up a few motions.
After all, one or two random actors in the same frame can dreamily link recent hit dramas and movies, including but not limited to:
Hurricane", "The Long Season", "Man Jianghong", "Solid as a Rock" ......
However, after reading it, I didn't find that some paragraphs must be hard inserted into the sense of separation of who and whom.
This is due to the fact that the actors play roles, which are basically very close to their previous screen images (except for Zhao Liying's role), and they all serve the plot arrangement, and there are no cameos for the sake of cameos, so the audience will not feel disobedient and playful.
This time, Zhang Yimou did not choose a grand narrative and no longer sang the praises of his family and country.
Behind the three stories in "New Twenty Articles", the real plight of most of the current low-level people is reflected.
After many years, Zhang Yimou once again aimed his perspective on the class he was once very familiar with.
Sometimes you can never guess Zhang Yimou.
The last one you thought was about a suspenseful detective "Man Jianghong", but it turned out to be a pure comedy.
This time, I was ready to watch a comedy in "Article 20", but he used comedy as a cloak and made a work with a realistic theme.
Han Ming (played by Lei Jiayin) and Li Maojuan (played by Ma Li) connected the three stories, using dense and hilarious lines to dissipate the heaviness of the subject matter.
How funny the first half is, how heavy the second half is.
Zhang Yimou used two "unexpected" shocks, which caught everyone off guard.
Zhang Guisheng (played by Yang Haoyu) is a bus driver.
In the process of going to work, I saw two hooligans ** a little girl and helped out.
Zhang Guisheng acted bravely, but in the end, he accidentally smashed the hooligan's skull and was sentenced to three years in prison for intentional injury.
The wife took her daughter to complain everywhere, and she was exhausted and died.
After being released from prison, Zhang Guisheng, at the insistence of his daughter, went to Beijing again and again to petition.
Han Ming held down Zhang Guisheng, who was petitioning, again and again, so as to save the procuratorate the trouble and get praise.
Therefore, he was able to transfer from the county seat to the city for a "temporary post".
Han Ming asked Zhang Guisheng to sign a letter of guarantee that he would not petition again, promising to arrange a stable job for him after signing.
Zhang Guisheng agreed on the surface, but he still wanted to try again one last time.
As a result, he died on the way to petition.
Before this scene, Zhang Yimou had been aiming the camera at Han Ming and Li Maojuan to shout Zhang Guisheng at the top of their voices, and the audience relaxed their vigilance while being amused.
Then, without any psychological preparation, Zhang Guisheng was arranged to die unjustly.
I distinctly remember that after this scene, the laughter in the movie theater abruptly stopped, followed by sporadic sobbing.
An ordinary family of three, because of a righteous and courageous act, was shattered, leaving only the daughter alone, facing the cold society alone.
Few people can afford this price.
I still remember that in the movie, there is such a line:
"What kind of future do we want to give to the next generation? ”I haven't seen such an issue in a domestic movie for a long time.
Now it actually appears in a Spring Festival movie.
On this point, Zhang Yimou is still the same Zhang Yimou.
The second unexpected is Hao Xiuping played by Zhao Liying.
The role of Hao Xiuping can be said to be full of bitter buffs.
I was born with a hearing defect, and my daughter was born with a lifelong disability.
Although it can be cured, it requires a large ** expense.
The husband has no choice but to borrow loan sharks from the village bullies. In exchange for half a year, it was ** and abuse.
In order to prevent the village tyrant from continuing to ** his wife, the husband missed until the village overlord died, and faced the prosecution of intentional homicide.
Hao Xiuping and her daughter were harassed and threatened by the village bully's family all the time.
The hemp rope is broken in detail, and bad luck is only looking for the miserable.
In the face of the aggressive posture of the village bully's father, she does not have any bargaining capital.
knew that it was a humiliating agreement, but for the sake of such a fluke that could save her husband, Hao Xiuping tearfully took a pen and wanted to sign it.
Later, Han Ming and Lu Lingling, who were rushed over, stopped it in time.
After knowing that her daughter was kidnapped by the village tyrant's family, Hao Xiuping broke down and ran to the top floor and jumped.
This impact was even greater than Zhang Guisheng's car accident.
I must also praise Zhao Liying here, among the actors and actresses, it is really impressive that she can have such a big breakthrough in her acting skills.
After this scene happened, there were many voices of surprise and regret in the theater.
When I watched this scene at that time, I still sighed in my heart, Zhang Yimou is ruthless enough, laughing and scolding, he always gives you a fatal knife.
He seems to be reminding the audience all the time:
This is not a comedy that only wants to make you laugh.
According to what Lu Lingling said, how desperate a mother must be to leave her five-year-old daughter behind and die a bright death.
Zhang Yimou's grasp of the living conditions of the low-level characters is still so to the point.
The most controversial in the whole film is also the role of Hao Xiuping.
Many people expressed discomfort and even disgust for the ** scene that appeared at the end.
thinks that Zhang Yimou has been repeating his old tricks in the past few years, using such dramas to objectify women and satisfy the audience's curiosity.
But I think this scene is indispensable for Article 20.
The movie explained from the beginning that Wang Yongqiang (played by Pan Binlong) was **, and their family was violently collected for debts.
Mainly relied on Han Ming's dictation.
Finally, attach the picture, and the impact is quite large.
When I saw Wang Yongqiang being leashed like a dog, and Hao Xiuping crying disheveledly and saying that she didn't want to live, I don't know what other people would think. Anyway, when I watched it, my nose was sour, and I was more sympathetic to the experience of Wang Yongqiang's family.
But without this scene, the movie would not be able to express the conflict between Wang Yongqiang's "intentional killing" and that he is a good person.
Similar scenes, Korean movies are not missing.
Take "The Melting Pot", which everyone regards as a classic, the picture about the principal's disabled children is even more shocking.
At that time, the comments all said that "Korean movies really dare to be made".
Article 20, like "The Crucible", the original intention of the camera to focus on the victim is to allow the viewer to strengthen the sympathy for the victim and hate the ** behavior even more.
However, some people have labeled such scenes as "insulting women" for such scenes in "Article 20".
It doesn't stop bad behavior.
Sometimes, we should face the darkness.
The starting point of the film is to criticize violence and give a just trial, which is of great educational significance. Suppress malicious thoughts while knowing the serious consequences of being brought to justice. has its positive effects.
At this level, "Article 20" has an additional layer of social responsibility in addition to the attributes of Chinese New Year films.
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The one I watched, the audience burst into applause twice.
Focus on Lei Jiayin's final passionate speech.
When Han Ming said, "My opinion is that legitimate defense....In the clear! The whole cinema began to applaud.
At the end of the hearing, the whole cinema again remembered applause.
The impression and coolness that gave me are similar to Huang Zihua's closing arguments in "The Bad Tongue Lawyer".
Of course, without the blessing of Cantonese rhyme, the sharpness is lacking, but what should be said and pointed out is also said through the mouth of the character.
A lot of lines give me goosebumps.
In today's environment, perhaps only Zhang Yimou has the courage and courage to shoot it.
In general, the bottom of Article 20 is serious.
Zhang Yimou did not give up his expression because it was a Spring Festival stall.
Several plots and soundtracks remind me of realistic works such as "No One Less" and "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" at his peak.
Twice with tears in his eyes, twice with applause from the audience, Zhang Yimou made a move, and broke the ceiling of the Spring Festival theme.
Through the fermentation of word-of-mouth, I assert that the box office counterattack of "Article 20" has just begun.
But this time, he didn't be cruel to the end.
In reality, Hao Xiuping jumped like this, and the person must be gone. I believe that Zhang Yimou in the early days would definitely shoot like this.
Article 20 gave the only remaining tenderness to the role of Zhao Liying, giving this hard-working family a faint hope.
Yes, as long as you live, there is hope.
In the new year, we all have to work hard and live well.