Review of The Painted Skin

After reading a work carefully, I believe that everyone's vision must be broadened a lot, and it is necessary to write a review and make a good record. Don't think that you can just deal with the feedback casually. The following is the feedback of "Painted Skin" compiled by me for your reference only. Welcome to read it. Comments on the Painted Skin 1

Originally, I thought that the Painted Skin, which was adapted from the classic novel Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, was reworked by many masters behind the scenes, and there were several big stars, bring up the rear. Even if it was not a classic, it would be wonderful. Who knows that the author was not only surprised but also depressed by the lame plot during the screening hall. Moreover, the whole film is slow, with special effects and martial arts, full of falsehood, and ghost play and love are always incompatible, which even affects the overall fluency.

Probably because Wai Tung, the martial arts instructor, designed it carelessly, Wang Sheng, a captain, started the drama of heavy fighting with sand bandits in the Western Regions. Only when Chen Kun, wearing armor, drew two strokes casually, the enemies fell OVER one after another, and the action scenes were messy and brief, which made the audience lose their appetite in advance. After being rescued by the army, Xiao Wei (played by Zhou Xun), the "Nine Beautiful Fox", pretending to be Miss Kuo, actually lived in Wang Sheng's house for a long time. She won the unsuspecting trust of everyone with her beauty, but only Pei Rong (played by Zhao Wei), Wang Sheng's wife, was suspicious of her. The environmental design was too deliberate!

When "Painted Skin" explains the origin of Pang Yong's identity played by Donnie Yen, it insists on wasting a lot of space, but it is so vague and vague about the reasons for his departure and return. As a result, apart from finishing the martial arts master's love triangle, it delays the plot advance for half an hour. It can be seen that after Xia Bing (played by Sun Li) met him, the conversation between them always wanted to have some comic effect, but the superficial funny sentences were hard to make people laugh completely.

Xiao Yi (played by Qi Yuwu), a lizard demon, kills people every few days to win Xiao Wei's favor, which could have added suspense to The Painted Skin, but his killing moves always make people feel repetitive and gradually cause visual fatigue. The slow rhythm, too much cumbersome plot and too much like boiled water, coupled with the tepid soundtrack, the whole film is loose and the atmosphere is a failure. Even Donnie Yen used his flying skill to chase Qi Yuwu's bridge section on the roof, but because the steel wire fell too slowly, the enemy became invisible and hid too easily, and lost its ornamental value.

The two women tried to test Xiao Wei as a banshee, but because they didn't find the demon print, they failed quite creatively. The most exasperating thing is that Zhou Xun uncovered his own face, revealing the real monster, which simply copied the western ghost image in The Mummy in 1999, but the effect was even more vague. The crude CG technology once again exposed the common fault of false visual effect of Chinese magic films, and this kind of lesson urgently needs China filmmakers to reflect. In addition, the sex scene between Chen Kun and Zhou Xun in Zhao Wei has three levels of cover-up, which not only shows signs of patchwork, but also makes it difficult to be romantic, which is quite boring.

This film tries its best to start a feud between man and demon, brother and brother, husband and wife, and several characters have different temptations, frames and struggles, but in the end they are trapped in the script and are affected everywhere. Zhao Wei, who is over thirty, always looks miserable as a doormat. In the film, when she witnessed the monster digging people's hearts with her own eyes, she actually chose to sacrifice for love, preferring to be poisoned by the demon and shouting "I am a demon!" Character behavior is quite illogical. Chen Kun plays a surname, handsome enough, but not strong enough. Besides, he is always stubborn and insists on listening to the banshee and killing his beloved wife without thinking, which is quite unreasonable. Donnie Yen absently plays the ranger, while Sun Li simply plays the savage sorceress, which is very routine. And Qi Yuwu, the villain and evil demon, was too facetious.

In fact, the original intention of Painted Skin is to tell the true meaning of "love". You don't need to occupy your sweetheart and dare to sacrifice yourself to make others happy. We also see that the outstanding stars have made some efforts, but the inferior plot is that they can't touch the passion and spark. Even if the banshee understands love at the end and chooses sacrifice to revive everyone, no matter how sensational it is, it is still so thin ...

There is no denying that the film's photography, art design and clothing have maintained a high standard, and the classical picture still has a lingering charm, which may also touch some audiences, but it is still disappointing to be called "China's first oriental new magic giant offering" with an investment of 1 million yuan.

The Painted Skin contains too much nonsense, too much silence and too many failures, which also proves that Chen Jiashang, the best director of the Golden Statue, is not careful in grasping the script this time. Of course, we must affirm that the classic nostalgia created by Arthur Wong photographers is really beautiful. The scenery and costumes of the film are not bad, even a small box is carefully crafted and quite exquisite. Gorgeous visual effects can be said to be equal to "The Banquet", but the story is just as false and empty. When the audience is repeatedly laughed at by the inferior lines, when many big stars are sleepwalking in costumes, and when the whole film falls into the strange circle of flashy costumes in recent years, this film can only be used as a mediocre commercial film to kill time during the National Day.

In terms of film quality, "Painted Skin" can be said to create a new urn for brain-dead costume films! 2

When I mentioned the Painted Skin, I couldn't help but say that when I was a child, in the depths of my memory, a serial story and a journey to the west constituted the greatest joy on the screen. At that time, when I saw the Painted Skin, I saw the beautiful appearance of the female ghost and the horrible human skin. Wang Sheng deserved to be eaten, and the final result was that the good man was saved and the evil man was punished.

Xiaowen has always praised Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio as a masterpiece of short stories. Under his influence, I read it carefully and found that the painted skin is only a short article, but the story structure of just a few words has been put on the screen by these great directors three times and four times, which can't be said to be the charm and creative space of the story.

In fact, the new version of the Painted Skin is quite different from the story of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. Not only the dynasties and characters have changed, but even the down-and-out scholar among them has become a general, and he only has his own firm refusal to Xiao Yao. Every character in the story has his own personality, and no one is deliberately highlighted. The whole film is magnificent, the scene is taken, and the visual effect is great. From the beginning, it was a boundless yellow desert, full of exotic sentiment, which naturally gave rise to infinite conjecture and mystery.

When Xiao Wei, a beautiful fox, put her hand into the chest of the desert bandit, she caught the heart that she had to eat raw every day. She doesn't have a deliberate grimace when people do bad things, only a face of innocence. The purpose in her mind is very clear, protecting the skin and practicing. Until she met Wang Sheng, who changed her life.

I believe Wang Sheng was tempted at the first sight of Xiaowei. Yes, as long as any man sees Xiaowei in panic, who will not feel pity and protection from his heart?

Pei Rong, Wang Sheng's wife, is a typical good wife and mother in the new edition. When the two women met for the first time, Xiao Wei squinted at Pei Rong, but Pei Rong smiled and glanced at Xiao Wei and then lowered her eyes. The first encounter between two women impressed me deeply. One is mature and tolerant, the other is full of childishness. Later, the more magnanimous Pei Rong showed, the harder Wang Sheng carved. The husband and wife respected each other as guests, and they were close and distant. There was a thin seam between them, but they fell in love with each other, and no one could help it. On the emotional balance, Pei Rong seemed destined to be a loser until Wang Sheng said: I love you, but I already have Pei Rong.

If we only talk about love, Pei Rong and Wang Sheng can't compare with Wang Sheng and Xiao Wei. They are more responsible and a subtle but indispensable family relationship. My friend said that because of what Wang Sheng said, I felt like a stone was blocked when I walked out of the cinema. If I used to be, I would be upset by this sentence, which is unacceptable to any woman. The topic of mistress caused by this film has also become the biggest selling point of this film.

It is said in the movie that Xiaowei doesn't understand love because she is a demon. In my opinion, she is more of a child who doesn't understand the world and only knows how to love. Pang Ge lost his love, and Pei Rong, who drank the poison, was only silent about Wang Sheng's suspicious eyes. In the face of Wang Sheng's last powerless knife, Xiao Wei wept bitterly and finally chose destruction. Because Wang Sheng was swaying between two women, he chose to accompany his wife to die.

There is no black and white, no right or wrong, and you can't accuse a person of being weak and selfish in the face of love. In particular, a person looks forward and backward in the face of choice, and when all the storms have passed, they return to their familiar tracks. It seems that everything is calm. But in every skin, whether it has really been satisfied.

In the last scene of the movie, a white fox in the yellow desert is accompanied by a lizard that is not my race and has a different heart. Does this arrangement mean that in the director's mind, he has also been moved by this simple and childish little Wei, because Xiao Yao, this elementary school will not ask himself again and again whether it is worth it like a human being? Is it worth it This is a goblin who doesn't understand love. This is a low-level goblin who is satisfied with eating and practicing, but he just learns to pursue love like a human being. And complex human nature, in front of the goblin, also appears so pale.

Finally, I can't help asking myself, is every man longing for such a woman who is desperate to fall in love with himself, and is afraid to push it away? Whether every woman's heart also hopes to have such a desperate man who falls in love with herself to satisfy her unspeakable vanity.