"Flying Life 2 is not bad. ”
This is the first thought of many people after walking out of the theater. The most intuitive proof is that after more than 240,000 evaluations, the movie's Douban score remains at 78 points. As of the afternoon of February 15, the box office of "Flying Life 2" exceeded 1.9 billion yuan, ranking second in this year's Spring Festival.
At present, "Flying Life 2" will be director Han Han's high-eyebrow work. (Figure Douban).
This is the highest-grossing one of the 5 films Han Han has directed, and it is also the one with the highest score - especially in the previous "Four Seas", which only failed the 5After 3 points, this time, director Han Han finally jumped to the finish line and refreshed his results like Zhang Chi, the driver at the end of the film.
Of course, there is also a lot of criticism.
The most negative evaluation is "repetition", "Flying Life 2" is a repetition of the previous work, the "resurrected" Zhang Chi with his own navigator, technician and new apprentices, the racing dream again.
Some critics also accused that most of the jokes throughout the film are "canned", "sketchy" and "stalk-like", lacking sincerity, and lacking the brilliant humor in Han Han's movies in the past.
Some people even assert that Han Han's works are not only repetitive, but also vain, and the dreams in his mouth have never had anything to do with the real youth in reality.
For these somewhat fierce negative comments, the writer Han Han 20 years ago may reply on the spot, but the director Han Han 20 years later will only face it with a smile in a roadshow.
In the champion wall poster of "Flying Life 2", director Han Han put his position on the edge. Fig"Flying Life 2".Han Han and others had the first all-round success in the film industry, but after such success, Han Han also said goodbye to "Han Han" completely in a sense. This kind of farewell somewhat made the former lovers, critics and onlookers feel a little stunned.
Flying Life 2 is a commercial movie, a standard commercial racing movie.
That's the premise of our talk about it.
It is not an authorial film, so it does not have to carry too heavy propositions and provide too far-reaching space for interpretation. For example, the "dream" repeatedly mentioned in the film is to be a champion, to be ashamed, to make money, and to "prove yourself". Not deep, not complicated, but clear at a glance. So for most audiences, the track competition at the end and the happy ending of the protagonist group to achieve their dreams are hearty enough.
It is a purely commercial film, so the appearance of some self-repetition, some borrowings, and some clichés is not unforgivable. The trick is not new, it works, judging from the feedback from the market, the "old bottle of old wine" taken out by "Flying Life 2" tastes good.
As for the accusations that are divorced from reality, it is even more impossible to talk about. "Flying Life 2" is indeed not very close to realism, whether it is the embarrassment of the protagonist, or the business war outside the arena, or even the struggle throughout the film, it is suspended, but expressing reality has never been the mission of "Flying Life 2".
Han Han's imagination of the downcast always seems to be inappropriate. Maybe it's because he's never really down. (Picture: "Flying Life 2".)Horizontally comparing the other two hot films in the Spring Festival file, "Article 20" and "Hot and Hot", the former has been widely praised for its analysis of legal and human feelings, and the latter has derived a lot of discussions on gender issues around the plot and Jia Ling herself.
The depth of the analysis of social issues in Article 20 makes its evaluation come to the forefront. (Figure 20.)Compared with them, the social attributes of "Flying Life 2" are of course very low, but the audience who walks into the cinema, whether they are coming for the previous work, or for the racing car, or for Han Han, will not have the expectation of seeing reality. On the contrary, it is the setting of "hybrid racing cars have long surpassed pure fuel racing cars in recent years" in the movie and the humorous interpretation of the old man music manufacturer of copycat cars, showing the ingenuity of using social hotspots.
As a supporting role and a spice, Jia Bing's performance is remarkable. Fig"Flying Life 2".
After a long period of downfall, gag jokes and twists and turns, the protagonists' dreams come true and they reconcile with themselves, which is the standard format for sports movies, and "Flying Life 2" is neatly cropped.
The first half of the jokes, although not fresh enough, there are always a few, so that the audience with high laughter can also laugh; In the second half of the competition, the degree of completion is not low, the fictional Bayin Brook Clara Li Race, unfolded on the real Bayin Brook Mountain Road, even if you know how the ending is, the excitement and tension of the process firmly attract the attention in front of the screen.
The racing part of the movie is the part with the most praise. Fig"Flying Life 2".
In terms of actors, each of the main roles has achieved a relatively high degree of adaptability with their actors: Shen Teng, who plays Zhang Chi, is already familiar with such characters who are both solemn and harmonious; Yin Zheng and Zhang Benyu, as his partners, also have very likable characters; Jia Bing, who was originally a sketch actor, took on most of the sketch-style jokes to make them not too abrupt; The young driver played by Fan Chengcheng and the opponent played by Wei Xiang also show a certain level of character.
The group portrait in the film leaves a certain impression. (Picture: "Flying Life 2".)All of the above makes "Flying Life 2" an audience-friendly movie.
There is no opposition between the sexes, no deep thinking, no complicated plot, no heavy social topics, no open-ended ending, it has obvious flaws and mediocrity, but it is extremely appropriate to put it in the Spring Festival stall. As a sequel to the previous racing movie, it is enough to bring an opportunity for a smile, as well as a shallow touch and a little upliftment.
Since 2014's "The Future", it took Han Han 10 years to finally make a mature commercial film, but from another point of view, he finally completely let go of his authorial expression. Han Han, who brought out this commercial film with a clear positioning, looked blurred himself.
*Statistics show that the post-00s have gradually become the main consumer force in today's Chinese film market, while the post-10s movie-watching group is growing rapidly.
For them, Han Han is undoubtedly an extremely unfamiliar name, a name that needs to be turned to search engines, or needs to be popularized by the previous generation to understand a little.
But when talking about "Flying Life 2", we can't help but talk about Han Han.
This is still a movie with obvious Han Han attributes. The racing dream throughout the film continues the struggle path of "small-town youth", in which the presentation of the downfall, the pursuit of restoring the glory of the past, and the desire to be seen by the world have repeatedly appeared in Han Han's previous works.
The exodus and dreams of young people in small towns are Han Han's usual themes. (Picture: "There will be no time after the meeting").The difference is that Zhang Chi in "Flying Life 2", in addition to being determined to fight at the last moment of the movie, most of the time presents a life attitude of "seeing away", "lying flat" and "letting go", "The purpose of doing one thing is to survive", "I am not for grades, just to make money" and other lines abound.
I don't know whether it is intentional or unintentional, this forms a kind of intertextuality with Han Han off-screen today.
It is not difficult for those who are familiar with Han Han to find that in recent years, his expression has become more and more gentle and restrained, especially after entering the identity of a director, he can rarely feel the edges and corners anymore. Take the recent roadshow in Hangzhou as an example, Han Han talked about the new movie: "I believe that the audience can not only be shocked by the high-energy and high-burning racing scene, but also feel the firm love in Zhang Chi's heart." This is true and tepid.
The youthful spirit finally dissipated. (Picture: "Flying Life 2".)Of course, we can't ask Han Han, who has already passed the age of 40, to continue to be angry, continue to be individual, and continue to be maverick, which is neither realistic nor fair. But it is difficult for all those who have witnessed Han Han's edge to accept such changes completely calmly, especially when he makes such a regular commercial film.
Here, there is no need to talk about Han Han in the past, because there are too many of them.
Some people say that Han Han's experience over the years is a cool article, from becoming famous as a teenager for writing, to immersing himself in racing, and then to becoming a director, it can be described as smooth sailing. Just as the writer Feng Tang once commented on Han Han's "myth": "If you don't read or write, you can write like a god helping ......."Thousands of hands are cheering in front of you, the shortcut is in front of you, you can go out easily, and the road is like a blue sky. But back to the starting point of the "Han Han" departure, without the express train of the Internet, their road to fame is always more tortuous and difficult than today, a little less glamorous, and a little more rough life, at least, a road is written word by word.
In the TV show of that year, the newly adult Han Han of the tongue war audience. (Photo: "Dialogue").In 2011, 29-year-old Han Han published a book called "Youth". Since then, the title of this post-80s representative has become "national father-in-law".
Subsequently, Han Han switched to the film industry, using images to continue to tell about youth, continue to express anger, and continue to be yin and yang, but the effect seems to be not ideal. When he finally let go of these obsessions with telling and made a decent commercial film, success came naturally.
Boredom is a common problem of contemporary people, dreams are commodities packaged in commercial films, of course, no new Han Han will be born in this era, and Han Han's own changes also reflect the changes of a generation.
The farewell in the work also reflects the farewell outside the work. Fig"Riding the Wind and Waves".
In an interview last year, Han Han honestly admitted that he was "outdated": "The life experience I gained was applicable to my time, and now the times are different. When it comes to whether a new book will be published, Han Han said: "It's better not to write if it's so mellow." ”
Mellowness is probably the ultimate form of all anger and dreams, so even though "Flying Life 2" holds high the banner of dreams, it has completely bid farewell to its youthful spirit, just like the post-80s and post-90s generations and Han Han together, they completely bid farewell to Han Han.
Flying Life 2 is not a bad movie, but it is a movie that will not be remembered for long.
Will there be "Flying Life 3"? Will there be a new story? (Picture: "Flying Life 2".)Its routine narration of life and dreams is difficult to surpass a passage written by Han Han himself many years ago, which was written to Xu Lang, a racing driver who died unexpectedly and the leader of Han Han's racing career:
He is also a hero of Chinese racing, he is the best professional driver in China, he died in his favorite career and ideals, died on the track he loved, this is also the best way to die of the best hero in addition to the old age and accidents, I hope that one day I will do the same. ”