Chapter 788 Everyone Is Drunk but I Am Sober
Many actors have had similar experiences in playing a patient in a mental hospital. It is not a difficult performance for an actor. But when the movie started, when everyone saw Chen Hao for the first time, they felt palpitations for no reason, and they felt that their breathing was not smooth. Unknown pressure rolled in from all sides. Some people even wanted to leave their seats. This movie cannot be watched any longer.
This is not a movie with ups and downs in the plot. The plot progresses step by step. Zeng Zhiwei took his son home and hid a hammer under his pillow. When Chen Hao walked into the room, when Zeng Zhiwei introduced everything here in an awkward manner, his expression was blank, but you would not feel that he was acting vaguely. You can clearly perceive another emotion from this blankness, the suppressed emotion.
"Have you always lived here?"
Many people, through this line of Huang Shidong, concluded that he was not mentally ill. Even if he was sick before, he is fine now. He doesn't care about how broken or small this place is. He cares about his father who once thought he escaped for a better life, but in fact he has lived a hard life for so many years. So why did he escape? An interesting answer: "I have lived here for a long time."
When Huang Shidong was first mentioned in the film as the person who killed his mother, the audience's hearts tightened. Is this plot so cruel? Was the male protagonist sent to a mental hospital because he killed his mother?
All of a sudden, the style of this play was raised several levels. If the plot can be designed like this, then the subsequent plot will inevitably be particularly depressing, and the actors' acting skills will reach a very high level, otherwise there is no way to perform it.
That small room, a father and son
Zeng Zhiwei's acting skills are beyond doubt. Everyone is fixated on his funny image. In fact, his acting skills are definitely among the best among male actors. If he really has a good role, it will be a matter of minutes for him to win the Best Actor Award like Zheng Zeshi.
Chen Hao's performance is quite satisfactory. It seems that he is not as eye-catching as Zeng Zhiwei, but after watching for more than ten minutes, everyone found that it is this standard that is really scary. He plays a mental patient. Even if the plot proves that he is a normal person, how does he perform when he faces everyone's doubts about him?
He behaves normally and does everything according to normal standards. His eyes and expressions are not affected by the outside world at all. It seems that the aliens in the eyes of others are not him, and he has never regarded himself as an alien.
And this standard makes ordinary audiences feel different. In a scene of memories, Huang Shidong and his girlfriend are at home, discussing the repayment of the mortgage and discussing things about his mother.
Dilireba's image in recent years is inseparable from fashion and beauty. Whether it is a modern drama or a costume drama, she is presented in front of everyone with a state of extreme beauty. The role of Fengjiu in "Three Lives Three Worlds" co-operated with Yang Mi has attracted a large number of fans for her. In "Charlotte's Troubles", Qiuya showed a little sexiness.
She has never had a very ordinary image. This time she starred in such a play. First of all, her image is out of the play. In order to play this role well, she tried her best. Not only did she not wear makeup, but she also had to make herself very ordinary, in order to live up to Chen Hao's trust at the time.
Here, her performance is brilliant, but being next to Chen Hao is destined to cover up the brilliance of her role. During the filming, she still felt that she acted well. When it was really played in the cinema, the plot before and after the face, and then watching Chen Hao's performance was really shocking.
Huang Shidong, who was also quite ordinary, appeared in the state of a real ordinary person. Everyone realized how terrible his acting skills were hidden in the performance that was considered ordinary before. He performed the image of a person in the middle state of existence. Every look and every movement had drama in it. Many people wanted to go out now, buy another ticket, and watch it again.
Huang Shidong's first explosive scene was in the scene with his mother. Jin Yanling's performance, the accumulation of old drama bones, every move was a play. When Huang Shidong finally couldn't help but slapped his mother, he thought about how to slap her for several nights during the filming.
Going with the flow in the mutual pulling can also be a natural reaction of the body under anger. There will never be large movements, and there will never be movements made specifically for the slap. It should be in the pulling with the mother, angry, explosive, the hand is in the pulling position, very close to the face, and then a slap is hit, with power, no distance, sound, and pain, but no scars, enough to wake up the fool.
At this time, Huang Shidong seemed to have a little sign. His angry roar was not the kind of anger and roar of ordinary people. It was a little weird. Think about his performance at a friend's wedding.
Everyone is drunk, but I am sober.
Everyone is sober, but I am drunk.
Respecting other people's weddings and quietly listening to their words of gratitude, is this awake respect?
The host of the wedding is speaking, everyone should eat, drink and chat, and no one pays attention to what the groom is doing on the stage. Is this the awake state?
The film does not have a complicated story. Perhaps the only suspense is how the mother behind the door died. When the blood flows out of the bathroom, there will be a little horror, but this horror becomes not scary at all in front of another shot after a plot.
Huang Shidong stood at the door of the bathroom, looking at the blood flowing out, indifferent, as if all this did not happen to him, as if he was watching a plot on TV, which had nothing to do with him.
The atmosphere of the whole film is very depressing, and everyone feels like a lump in the throat. Some sad films will move people to tears, but this film does not. It has a feeling of wanting to cry but not being able to cry, including the scene where Di Lieba confessed in the church. She really acted well enough, beyond her normal level, and made everyone recognize her acting skills. But even so, she cried a lot, and the content of her exposition was indeed touching, but when the camera switched to Huang Shidong sitting in the audience, the audience really couldn't cry.
Is it sympathy for Huang Shidong?
Is it because of the protagonist's perspective that we pay more attention to Huang Shidong's feelings?
No, the girlfriend on stage is a kind of release, it is to open the inner depression, it is to vent all the anger, and at the same time she also thinks this method is effective for Huang Shidong, she still has feelings for this man from the bottom of her heart. However, she does not understand Huang Shidong, and does not know that her behavior has deeply stimulated and hurt this man. He admitted that he owed his girlfriend too much and hurt her. All the explanations of the other party during the dinner meeting increased his guilt. He just wanted to repay the other party well from today, restart the relationship, and not let the other party get hurt again.
He thought very well, and his heart was not so fragile, but fate played tricks on him. Before he came out, he saw the news of his friend jumping off the building at home. This was like a sledgehammer hitting his heart, but it did not break. The confession of his girlfriend on the stage was like a needle, piercing his heart that was already on the verge of breaking, making Huang Shidong completely out of control.
From this second on, Huang Shidong in all the scenes is the top-level explosive performance. Before, everyone thought that Chen Hao's acting was good, and there was an explosive point in a few scenes. Now there is no need to count. Every scene is a big explosion of acting skills. Whether it is eating chocolate in the supermarket, sitting there silently, curled up in bed, or facing the world helplessly, in every scene, everyone will feel that Chen Hao's performance has reached the extreme. But every time this thought comes up, the next second, there will be a scene of the same level, which makes all the audience feel frozen and fanatical.
Simply watching the movie, it is frozen to the extreme. This movie is too depressing and too cruel. It is gray from beginning to end, and there is no feeling that will make people ignite hope. Although it is just a movie and has nothing to do with life, we also want to enjoy this more than an hour, not to be tortured here. In more than an hour of movies, what we see is not hope, but despair. In the film, the washing and dressing to meet the girlfriend, and the several conversations with the father at the book stall, these may be the few warm points in the film.
Everything was shattered by the cold at the end of the film. First, the father called his youngest son. The cold Pacific Ocean separated not only the distance, but also the ruthlessness of never seeing each other again. The neighbors "decided" to drive the father and son away, and then stepped on them a few times after the cold shattering. The last cruel thing was that they had to sweep away the ground after stepping on it, for fear of polluting the ground. On the rooftop, even the father could not keep his trust and protection for his son. When he saw his son's hands on the neighbor's child, he subconsciously shouted "no", and he had the same idea as everyone else, fearing that his son would hurt the neighbor's child. This harm is very huge for the audience. Everyone has watched the plot and knows that Huang Shidong just wants to hold the child and is afraid that he will be in danger. As a result, in the eyes of the world, what he may do is dangerous.
Everyone is drunk, but I am sober.
Leaving aside the factors of the movie and looking at the performance, Chen Hao has given too many people reasons to be crazy about him. His acting is really great. If you don't look at the plot and only look at the performance, every part of his performance is worthy of applause. It is wonderful. He has already done everything that can be performed to the extreme. As an actor, he deserves the applause and praise from countless viewers.