Jing M.Guo's best works are still bad movies!

In China film circle, director Jing M.Guo is absolutely the most unique.

Despite the disputes and scandals in creation and life, Jing M.Guo's films have also created a strange phenomenon of being bombarded by public opinion and selling well at the box office.

The series "Tiny Times" he shot opened up the unhealthy trend of youth films with the tearing of youth, dog blood sitcoms and money worship.

He said yes! Teacher Shang, let the audience see how terrible an actor without acting skills can be with a boring and mindless plot.

However, his masterpiece "Grampy", known as China's first CG film of innocents, invited a group of big-name actors, but the effect was only page-tour-level special effects and all the facial paralysis characters like dead fish eyes.

Some people say that Director Guo has created a brand-new film-Wax Film for China Fine Arts Film with his own efforts!

Therefore, when Jing M.Guo gave up directing his masterpiece Regret for the Past, many people even expressed their expectation for this film.

That's what happened. Although the Douban score is only 5.8, One River Spring Water has become the most popular film and television work of Jing M Guo.

But after watching this movie, Fan Yingjun believes this statement even more-

It's really the best work of Jing m Guo, but it's still a bad film!

Cry out a river of sadness for me

The film is adapted from the novel of the same name written by Jing M Guo in 2006, and tells a typical "Guo's sad youth story".

Yi Yao (Ren Min), a plain-looking and poor heroine, and Qi Ming (Zhao Yingbo), a school flower from yowza, are childhood friends.

The two families lived in the same alley, grew up together and had a good relationship.

All this has undergone earth-shaking changes after the emergence of transfer student Tang Xiaomi (Zhu).

In Jing M. Guo's novels, there is always a need for a female villain who can be all kinds of demons, and Tang Xiaomi is such a typical one.

She was jealous of Qi Ming's concern and care for Yi Yao, and because Yi Yao had witnessed being bullied by the school bully, she held a grudge against Yi Yao.

When Tang Xiaomi accidentally learned that Yi Yao was infected with an ulterior sexually transmitted disease, he trumpeted the rumor that Yi Yao was "disorderly in his private life".

Overnight, rumors became a weapon to destroy Yi Yao's life, and her life immediately fell into darkness, suffering from all kinds of cruel bullying on campus.

Generally speaking, at this time, the heroine's life will have a warm man to protect him. Another person's name is Gu Senxi (Xinyunlai), and he is a naughty bad student.

For no reason, Gu Senxi began to help Yi Yao and warm her life. His appearance gave Yi Yao a glimmer of light.

He taught Yi Yao to fight back against campus violence, and occasionally he was full of love stories and contracted jokes.

But accidentally, Gu Senxi's sister Gu Senxiang (Zhang Ruonan) accidentally fell from the building, but her life was pushed into darkness again. ...

Compared with the original, the film has made many changes to the plot, to some extent, it has lost the dog blood scenes in the original, but at the same time it has found a more realistic topic for the film-

Pay attention to school bullying.

I have to say that this theme greatly broadens the depth of Jing M. Guo's original work, making the film no longer a simple campus youth film.

Fan Yingjun believes that some of the audience's good feelings about this film may be the source. The film deliberately removes the style of Jing M. Guo's previous works, and there is no dog blood plot in the novel. As far as the script is concerned, the content is up to standard.

But unfortunately, the film will stop at some highlights at the script level. After watching the movie, the audience will find-

The film "Regret for the Past" is essentially an artificial Guo youth film.

As the original author, Jing M.Guo is still the screenwriter, producer and main producer of this film, although he is no longer the director.

The director of this film, Luo Luokui, is a screenwriter trained by Jing M.Guo. He completely and accurately understands the essence of the original novel-

Unexplained mood swings, unformatted story turns, ineffective and gorgeous shots and text piles are all MV-style soft light photography plus overhead slow motion.

The original work itself is a routine of a campus youth idol drama, which is essentially a multi-angle sadistic story of "He loves her and she loves him". The only difference is that the director and screenwriter added the theme of school bullying to the film.

This is of course the cleverness of Teacher Guo.

After all, the routine of the traditional dog blood youth film has long since been abolished. It is better to implant the story into a positive social topic and humanistic care. This summer's Desire for Survival proves that the success of commercial films based on realistic themes is not accidental.

However, in Jing M.Guo's films, this element of realism becomes very pale and routine in the face of typed tasks.

If Tiny Times, directed by Jing M.Guo himself, is an extended version of MV, then the film A River of Sorrow is more like a PPT inserted in the middle of MV, which also exposes the hole in the core of the film and the dryness of the plot.

When Yi Yao was bullied on campus, Qi Ming, the monitor who always cared about love, disappeared. As a classmate and monitor, how could he not know about Yi Yao?

When Tang Xiaomi and Yi Yao had an argument, Qi Ming's once warm man attribute disappeared instantly, regardless of the reason, Yi Yao was taught a lesson.

In the bullying incident in Yi Yao, which almost the whole school participated in, the teachers of the school have always ignored it. What school is this?

However, at the end of the film, a scene suddenly appeared. Ren Zhong, the head teacher, took the initiative to write an investigation report on the incident and called on the school to boycott school bullying.

Such a plot turning point is simply blunt, forced to sublimate, and the most deadly.

In addition, another big problem of the film is that the realistic theme of the film is incompatible with Jing M.Guo's novel style.

Although the film speculatively touches on a realistic topic about campus violence, it lacks real feelings in story details and character design, which is also a consistent problem in Jing M.Guo's works.

Jing M.Guo's writing itself is a melodramatic style, which is understandable as a youth literature. Because the novel is aimed at young people, whether it is literature or melodramatic, at least the positioning and audience are clear.

But in movies, this becomes a big problem. Don't forget, this is a campus youth film with a realistic theme coat.

However, in a film focusing on reality, almost all the characters don't speak human words, and a few lines of Jing M.Guo-style melodramatic dialogue really make people play with their hearts.

The first scene of the film also deliberately kept the sense of reality in the cool tone, and the next scene suddenly became the aesthetic style of the studio under soft light photography, which made the film look very divided.

There is a line in the movie that impressed Fan Yingjun deeply. When Yi Yao angrily asked why Qi Ming's life was so cruel to him, he blurted out:

I also want to be like other girls, and the sanitary napkins used are all fragrant!

WTF？

Such lines can only be expressed and played in Jing M.Guo's works!

In addition, compared with the embarrassing lines, what is more embarrassing may be the performances of several young actors in the film, especially the performances of the two leading actors in the film, which is simply a disaster.

Debuted as a talent show singer, he has been paralyzed and read his lines mechanically, while Xin, who plays Gu Senxi, has never entered the show, although he can be his teacher.

In retrospect, Jing M.Guo's Tiny Times was criticized by public opinion because it showed the youth of the post-90s generation, but today's Mourning for the Past is more like an opportunistic work, creating a false realistic concern for the audience.

Even more embarrassing, who would have thought that China's first cinema film about school bullying was written by Jing M. Guo.

Do you think this is ironic?