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This year's summer film market still seems to be in a bad mood.
"Catching the Doll" exceeded 2.5 billion at the box office, and it still seems to be the biggest winner among all the current works, but it is actually affected by the blockbusters that come one after another.
And the filmmaker seems to be opening the way for other works, and the publicity has long been exhausted.
I thought that Director Wu Ershan could bring another wave of climax.
What I didn't expect was that the word-of-mouth and box office of "Under the Stranger" were not very optimistic.
Including Chen Sicheng's "Decryption", although it has only been officially released, the feedback and investment during the screening period are completely disproportionate.
You must know that the last year was a frequent hit, and the three competitions of "Disappearing Her", "In the Octagon Cage" and "All or Nothing" are very interesting.
Is this the end of the summer of 2024?
That's absolutely impossible.
The former comedy brother Xu Zheng made a strong comeback, and "Retrograde Life" finally opened the screening.
The audience's evaluation is still as sharp as ever, as for the results, let's predict this time according to the freshly released first wave of word-of-mouth, whether the movie can add another fierce fire to the hot summer-
Seeing the word "retrograde" in the name of the film, and seeing the rider costumes worn by all the protagonists in the trailer, I think that the public's biggest concern for "Retrograde Life" is just one word-
Bitter.
In order to create an effect, he forcibly poked the audience's lung tubes, and cried when he watched the movie happily, and it was not a taste in his heart after watching it.
Today's audience is not so easy to deceive.
And seeing most of the comments, I think the hanging heart can be put down.
Flooding the comment area, there is such a sentence -
"I really didn't expect it to be so funny."
"Retrograde Life" focuses on the group of "delivery people" closest to our lives.
It is also through the depiction of several protagonists with different fates that the ups and downs of the lives of the people at the bottom are shown.
Of course, such a hard career will always touch some tears, but, judging from the clips in the trailer, Xu Zheng will still cleverly add some laughs to it.
For example, when the takeaway brother is not understood, and even the other party inexplicably vents his anger on him, the sudden sentence "kill you with a fist" can really make people laugh directly.
In a behind-the-scenes interview, Xu Zheng actually emphasized that the performance of the actors hopes to show more optimism and stubbornness.
"I don't want to be bitter and hateful, to play such a character."
At the same time, coupled with Jia Bing's blessing, it is difficult to suffer from beginning to end.
And the comedy that wraps the core of the tragedy is more touched by small people, such as "Falling Leaves Return to the Roots" and "I Am Not the God of Medicine", when the focus is on the narrative of the characters themselves against fate, rather than an empty plot, then it is actually difficult for this movie not to make people smile.
And Gao Zhilei played by Xu Zheng, although he has middle-aged unemployment as a foundation, the huge contrast and the process of integrating step by step are exactly the embarrassment and embarrassment shown by the "Embarrassment" series.
I think Director Xu will dedicate his masterpiece again after many years, and he has also added innovation to his original creative ability.
makes people resonate, laugh with tears, and savor it and find the shadows of the people around them, isn't this a powerful response made by many people who criticize comedy for "floating on the surface"?
will choose actors, this is the key reason why Xu Zheng's transformation into a director can be successful.
His acting skills, I think there is no need to say much, when the names of Jia Bing, Wang Xiao, Xin Zhilei, Ding Yongdai and other actors appeared, they had already given the audience a reassurance.
The comment area is full of high praise for the actors, and Director Xu has gone really high in this step.
First of all, the most eye-catching is still Xu Zheng.
It is said that now Mesozoic actors have opened up a "nest" track, in fact, Xu Zheng is a pioneer on this road.
There really is no one who can play the frustrated "bear-like" (non-derogatory) of a middle-aged man better than him.
As a director, of course, he is the most insightful person among everyone, and with his acting skills, he can indeed interpret his understanding to the fullest.
In the front of the film, Xu Zheng opens, and he wants to show Gao Zhilei's unspeakable state of suffering very heartily, and the back step by step is the integration of high-end comedy.
Wang Xiao can come, it is simply the icing on the cake.
I dare to say that Wang Xiao is one of Xu Zheng's most effective assistants in the whole movie.
This brother is simply too unburdened, as soon as he appears on the stage, he really can't tell that he is an actor who is already famous.
Unkempt is no longer enough to describe Wang Xiao's image in the film.
He really played the old pick's "picking and searching" to the extreme, dressed in a wretched bag, his hair hadn't been washed for I don't know how long, and he seemed to be really tired all day after eating and gobbling up.
Especially when he smiled, his puffy eyelids, rough skin squeezed out wrinkles, and there were still a little scars on his face.
He is obviously laughing sincerely, but I can taste a little sad, which is really integrating myself into the character.
Similarly, Feng Bing's performance was also extremely outstanding.
His performance will be more like a delivery man in life than you think.
Before filming, this old brother actually went to experience life and ran errands for a while, saw fans come to take a group photo, and hurriedly said that he still had to deliver an order.
Therefore, the performance in front of the camera is also completely handy, and a smile can pull people directly into the play.
and Xin Zhilei.
In this kind of theme, the heroine is usually gold-edged, and Xin Zhilei can portray the character beyond the original color of the character.
In the play, she played Xu Zheng's wife, and as soon as she entered the painting, she instantly stood up in the play, she seemed to be really an old husband and wife with Gao Zhilei, and every sentence was very consistent with the state of the characters.
With the help of Jia Bing, Liu Meihan, Ding Yongdai and Ding Jiali and other actors, it can be said that everyone has not dropped the line, the old actors have played steadily, and the young actors are even more surprising.
This time, "Retrograde Life" may really be able to win the championship.
epilogue
Realistic themes are always the focus of the film market, and many people want to seize the suffering of the people at the bottom to win attention, but the public doesn't like to deliberately endure hardships and sensationalism.
There is no doubt that Xu Zheng can always perfectly poke the audience's preferences, not as a traffic password, nor an empty praise, but really depicting and telling the story of the little people.
There is no doubt that "Retrograde Life" certainly has a dramatic treatment of group portraits, but in each character, the audience can feel the shadow of reality, and at the same time, in the collision of characters with different personalities, the laughter is extremely dense.
Therefore, what the audience said was not the simple four words "laughing with tears", but "I didn't expect it to be so funny".
Perhaps, the real king of this year's summer file has come. #记录我的2024 ##电影逆行人生#
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