In 2006, a "Crazy Stone" was on fire, and with a solid story, this film eventually became an indispensable work in the development of domestic films. This is undoubtedly a stimulant for the attempters of domestic films, and on the road of black humor, it is still possible to play like this. "Crazy Stone" is revelatory in a sense, and such works should have emerged in the future development of domestic films, but the reality is very cold, and most of the follow-up works lack sincerity, even when Ning Hao himself wants to create a "crazy trilogy", it is slightly weak, and the reason is that success is to talk about probability.
Two years later, one of the same genre films has its own positioning similar to "Crazy Stone", the same unknown actor, the same grounded story, the same with a certain black humor, but the ending is not as good as the former, which makes the audience scream and waste a good story. This film is a black humor film "My name is Liu Yuejin" starring Li Yixiang, directed by Ma Liwen and written by Liu Zhenyun.
"My Name is Liu Yuejin" tells a complex and very logical film. Liu Yuejin is a migrant worker on the construction site, and after divorcing his wife, he had a promised 60,000 yuan IOU, but one day he was stolen from the bag. In the process of finding his lost bag, Liu Yuejin inadvertently became involved in a large net involving collusion between officials and businessmen, gangsters and street thieves. With his cunning, Liu Yuejin was lucky to survive and got a good death.
This is a simple story, but also a test of the director's narrative skills of the story, this film is criticized by many fans is nothing more than the coarseness of the Tao, this roughness in a certain sense makes the positioning of this film too vague, because the essence of the grounding gas is rough, but the roughness does not represent the grounding gas. The design of the image may be derived from the fundamental ruling of the characters in the story, but the setting of the story is based on the script, but the film is out of the situation.
Liu Zhenyun's story is very interesting, but Ma Liwen's ability to guide is doubted. It is not that director Ma Liwen's own professional skills are not too hard, but that when deconstructing such a story, a certain understanding ability is required. Some directors are not suitable for black humor films, and Ma Liwen is one of them.
Compared with the previous two films, "The Two of Us" and "The Man Who Hurt Me The Most The Most", Ma Liwen's expression in this film is not as delicate as before, and some are just rigid. When setting up the characters, the people in this film are very distinctive in terms of personality and personality, and can be deeply explored. However, most of the characters we see tend to be flattened, without that three-dimensional sense, which is the point that Ma Liwen did not do well, and this point led to the final popularity of this film to a certain extent.
A story woven together by a vast web could have had many ups and downs and points that could be discovered, but Ma Liwen did not set his gaze or the core of the film on these points, but instead made the core main line too focused in order to make the story end satisfactorily. The advantage of this is that the film is coherent and complete at the same time, and there is not much to understand for the audience to study. The disadvantages of this are all too obvious. A character with very strict logic and a very plump character in each appearance is set up as an empty shell. They lose their full muscles, but sacrifice their presence for the development of the plot, and although the story is complete, others except the main actor are more like tools.
Ma Liwen is a good director, but when faced with a subject he is not suitable, his skills are reduced. Liu Zhenyun is a good screenwriter, even if he has a wonderful script, he himself has an inappropriate way of guidance, and the power of this script is difficult to play. Not to mention the several actors who are very distinctive in this film, in addition to Li Yixiang, Qin Hailu, Liu Hua, Chen Jin, Liu Xinyi Ding Zhicheng, etc. are all powerful actors, but looking at their role settings in the film, such roles basically limit their space to play, and some ordinary actors can be competent, replace them, and then match such a plot, which is a waste in itself.
Of course, from a contemporary point of view, Ma Liwen can be said to have been very wronged. We use an almost strict scale to measure the ability of director Ma Liwen in order to produce more excellent works in the future, but such a good expectation will naturally be disappointed. Later domestic films are still vulnerable in the field of black humor. Objectively speaking, we think that "My Name is Liu Yuejin" is a wasted film that should be a good work, in fact, after that, there are still not many films that meet this standard. This is the deepest sorrow.
Ning Hao's luck and the environment at that time, "Crazy Stone" gathered the best people and talents at the right time, but today, even if our films have repeatedly set new records at the box office, it is difficult to have an essential improvement in quality. Since the box office has become a quantifiable "script", no one cares about the real script, after all, we watch movies and care about the director and actors, and who the screenwriter is easy to put aside. To sum up, there is the heart of "Crazy Stone", not the life of "Crazy Stone", not only "My name is Liu Yuejin".
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