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The themes of this year's summer movies are very comprehensive, but the quality is average, and the works launched at this time in previous years are all works of the level of "Fengshen", "Disappearing Her", "All or Nothing" and "Octagon Cage", but too many movies this year have not been broadcast with the expected results.
The reviews of the movie "Under the Alien" are extremely polarized, and the audience can hardly believe that the movie was shot by Wu Ershan, who took out a masterpiece like "Fengshen".
As for Chen Sicheng's "Decryption", which is still in the screening period, the reviews are even more mediocre, and the disappointment is greater than the joy. At present, the box office performance of "Decryption" is excellent, but the word-of-mouth performance of "Decryption" has indeed fallen into a trough.
Click on the Douban comment area of the movie, which is the audience's various doubts about "Decryption".
"There is no new spectacle, I'm not afraid of bad shooting, I'm afraid of boring shooting", "The story is not told well, love and love are not understood", "The most like sitting on pins and needles in the cinema", "The old man in the subway looks at his mobile phone throughout the whole process..... Capital lineup...... Nothing new".
And the fact is that Chen Sicheng made a mistake in the new theme this time.
The first problem with the movie is that the lines are very stiff.
"Decryption" tells the life of the genius Rong Jinzhen decryption, who dedicates himself to the country and is engaged in deciphering codes in the secrecy department.
Rong Jinzhen's story is destined to be eye-catching, but many of the lines presented in the movie express the idea of "patriotism" very bluntly.
Especially when the adoptive father played by Wu Yanzu explained the meaning of the word "country" to Rong Jinzhen, I really felt like I was dreaming back to high school politics class.
From the perspective of themes and characters, patriotism is the eye-catching attraction of the movie, but Chen Sicheng, who is used to making commercial movies, is obviously not handy enough in this regard, and the connection of many lines is not smooth enough.
Movies frequently give people the feeling of instilling values in the audience's mind.
The second problem with the film is that the professionalism is not strong enough.
The story of genius must have a threshold, and the most worthy reference movie is Nolan's high-scoring masterpiece "Oppenheimer" last year, which also tells the story of genius, "Oppenheimer" revolves around major historical events and the achievements of the characters, paving a movie with strong professionalism and drama.
"Decryption" is even very similar to "Oppenheimer" in some aspects, and the gap between the two lies in professionalism and plot.
In terms of professionalism, the way "Decryption" shows the strength of genius is very thin, solving the homework of a mathematics professor, playing chess with a mathematics teacher who became close friends, and Chen Sicheng used some dream fragments with a strong stream of consciousness to tell the audience that Rong Jinzhen completed the decryption.
Throughout the movie, Rong Jinzhen seems to be a person who achieves purely by dreaming. Where is his genius, in fact, there is no specific embodiment.
As for the plot, "Decryption" has set two thresholds from beginning to end, both of which are from Rong Jinzhen's teacher Hiys, the first door is the mechanical code purple secret, and the second door is black secret.
Rong Jinzhen, who almost collapsed in these two gates, was tortured to the point of a trance, but every turn of events did not have an actual story, no contradictions, no pulling, and various stream-of-consciousness pictures intertwined with reality and dreams were spectacular and beautiful, but they were empty.
After watching the movie, I only think that the later stage of "Decryption" is really hard.
The third problem is the abruptness of the casting.
As a mature director, Chen Sicheng really likes to use his old friends. To be honest, every actor in the play is successfully portrayed, but those familiar faces really lose the mystery of the actors.
When Ah Bing, played by Wang Baoqiang, appeared, the audience wanted to laugh.
When the chess maniac played by Xiao Yang came on the court, the audience also wanted to laugh.
These actors, who work closely with Chen Sicheng, have no problem with their acting skills, but they don't have a strong sense of entering the play. In addition, some actors who do not work closely with Chen Sicheng also have a poor sense of substitution.
Qian Lao, played by Pan Yueming, deliberately imitates Qian Lao's accent, but it is particularly blunt. The English vase played by Zhu Zhu seems to have come out to walk the red carpet.
Xiaomei played by Ren Luyao gradually got better in the later stage, but many of her performances in the early stage were very deliberate. Especially when she went on her first date with Rong Jinzhen, the sense of adoration she played was too much.
There is only one actor in the whole movie who really does the whole thing, and he is John who plays Heys.
As for Chen Sicheng, who only appeared at the end of the movie. is more dramatic, and he is still suitable for staying behind the scenes than acting.
To put it bluntly, the theme content of the movie "Decryption" is very explosive, but from the plot, rhythm, to the shaping of the actors, and the later presentation, there are imperfections.
At present, it is not difficult for "Decryption" to get a passing score or above, but it is very difficult to become a word-of-mouth masterpiece, especially compared with "Oppenheimer", which is consistent with the temperament of the movie, "Decryption" has no advantage.
All in all, the content of the movie "Decryption" and the box office performance once again made me realize that Wu Jing's words were really not a joke.
Wu Jing once said in an interview that "a high box office does not mean that his level is high", Chen Sicheng has indeed created a lot of popular movies over the years, including this "Decryption", which has achieved very beautiful results during the screening. But none of these works can prove Chen Sicheng's strength.
At least from the perspective of movie scripts, Chen Sicheng's creations have generally appeared with a lot of packaging in the core over the years.
This is what Wu Jing said, filmmakers should often worry that their knowledge and experience cannot keep up with the audience's appreciation. Perhaps this is also the reason why Wu Jing has participated less and less behind the scenes over the years, but has regained his pure identity as an actor.
Take the movie "Decryption" as an example, this kind of highly professional movie needs something to support, and without something to support, it is just a patchwork of stream-of-consciousness dreams, and it can't talk about the level of character biography at all.
And this time Chen Sicheng not only lost in the content, but also in the casting, some actors are tired of watching the lineup with the audience, no matter how well the actors act, the audience's first reaction is the previous hit movie.
The content is not eye-catching enough, there is no plot, there is no freshness in the lineup, and there is no adaptability, such a movie is destined to be disappointed and overwhelmed by expectations.
According to the current trend, it is still very difficult for "Decryption" to surpass the box office of "Disappearing Her", after all, the movie is decent, and it really does not have the advantage of attracting the audience to enter the plot and stay in the cinema.
Finally, what do you think of the content of the movie "Declassified"? Can you get Chen Sicheng's strengths or flaws? Join the discussion in the comments section and talk about your evaluation of the movie.