Above the Cliff was born between black and white, and Yu Hewei performed Tai Chi on both sides of Vientiane. Do you like it?

This year's May Day box office battle staged a classic counterattack. Zhang Yimou's new work "Above the Cliff" has achieved a catch-up under the unfavorable start. This is not luck, but hard power. Half of it is attributed to the theme charm of spy war dramas and the image impact brought by the blood spilled in the ice and snow. The other half is because of the excellent performances of all the actors. They are either good or evil, black or white, heavy or light, thick or light, which together form a group portrait that people can't calm for a long time.

Recently, Zhang Yimou's "Above the Cliff" was released, and there are many deconstructions and comments about this film on the Internet, so I won't go into details here. I personally like this work very much. No matter from the aspects of drama, photography, editing, art, acting and service, the quality of domestic films is excellent. The plot of this spy film is more attractive than one second. The complex and multi-level display of characters, the creation of atmosphere and the grasp of rhythm are all beautiful.

Zhang Yimou can also shoot realistic themes, such as Not One Less, Story of Autumn Chrysanthemum, Love of Hawthorn Tree, One Second and so on. They all show the social features and humanistic feelings of a specific era while telling stories. People say that Zhang Yimou never repeats himself. Today, 70-year-old Zhang Yimou is still trying to break through himself. Above the Cliff is Zhang Yimou's first spy war suspense film.

This is a typical film noir. Although it is the main theme, there is not much preaching. Even the narrative of the final task is only a passing, which is in line with Hitchcock's "McGovern" theory (in suspense movies, the characters are desperately chasing, but the audience can not care), that is to say, what the story says is not important, but how it is said is more important. Just as a writer writes a novel, a second-rate writer can tell a complete good story. For a true literary novelist, the story itself is not important, what matters is the method of telling (how to tell the story).

There are many aspects that can be analyzed in this film, of course, there are also some imperfections, but some flaws in a good-looking work can be basically ignored. As a commercial film, Above the Cliff is much more advanced than similar movies in China. As a 70-year-old director, Zhang Yimou has made various styles of works, and I have a vague feeling that he may be more suitable for this kind of film noir. As a director who is best at shooting films about women, I didn't expect him to shoot films about men, and he is good at it. To tell the truth, there are very few works that can produce coolness and male charm in domestic male movies. Either there is something wrong with work values, or straight men feel greasy everywhere. Although Jiang Wen is also a director who mainly makes male films, the men in his works are always too narcissistic, too greasy and too conceited. I think this is a misunderstanding of male aesthetics.

The actors in Above the Cliff, especially Yu Hewei, played the role of undercover Zhou Zhou, which was the best. The subtle expression in silence makes it difficult for the audience to chew. I think acting is just a matter of acting. The most important thing is that the actors themselves need to accumulate many years of life experience and your inner richness, and they can automatically fill your facial expressions. Even if you don't want any expressions, you should stand there calmly. A visionary director is a discoverer of beauty. Therefore, someone joked on the Internet that the real "looking for a girl" in this movie is Yu Hewei.

First of all, Yu Hewei's acting skills as an "old man". His acting skills are not the kind of overexertion, but a tough guy "calm under heavy pressure" written by Hemingway. Two of the famous scenes are impressive. First, when he received a message from a comrade in burn after reading it, the lighted paper was like a Rubik's cube in his hand, and it was reduced to ashes by his familiar "disk". The skill, fierceness and charm of the technique are expressed by Li Ya's famous saying in Latency: "The Bolsheviks can't do it, and neither can the US Office of Strategic Services." See the true story for details. Sometimes acting doesn't need lines or even expressions, as long as a role action meets or even exceeds the audience's psychological expectations.

The extreme contrast of "the first emperor started his business six months ago, but jumped into the middle of the road" made the dancers feel that the old opera bones were really "wild enough to perform", but with the intensive launch of Awakening Times and Above the Cliff recently, more viewers found that "everything can be Yu Hewei"

For him, this kind of praise is really "amazing" at first, but over time, it will inevitably bring unnecessary constraints and distractions. In Yu Hewei's view, the meaning of "everything is fine" is not to put any label on yourself-? In this fast-paced era, he is willing to take the initiative to approach new things, such as understanding what is called "going out of the circle", mastering a variety of rice circle abbreviations, adapting to the identity of "uncle circle" traffic, and "playing music and dancing" with young people.

It is certainly difficult to portray such a "duplicity" person, a spy who is not just a spy. Yu Hewei, on the other hand, performed an effortless effect, which was not only good, but also very clever, because in the first half of the film, Zhou Yi always appeared as a villain, and he had to wear a double mask to complete the task. First of all, he is a tactful and sophisticated spy. He has won the trust of the section chief with his strong professional ability, and at the same time he has to show his uniqueness.

Of course, other actors also performed well, and the role immersed the audience. ? Nowadays, many people like to say that many films in China are not good at telling stories, as if this is a criticism. I don't think about it. If you want to see a fascinating story, you can choose to go to a story party instead of going to the movies. Film art is a comprehensive art form, and story is just one of them. When I watch movies, I never pay attention to the story itself Maybe I'm a writer. Whether to write a good story is beyond my concern and consideration. I prefer to read things outside the story, the metaphysical part. This part is the keynote of a good work, and it is a good work to judge whether it is literary or not.

In a word, Mr. Yu Hewei did bring us too much excitement, staged a thrilling psychological game with the enemy, and bid farewell to revolutionary comrades in tears. He is very determined and decisive, which is very enjoyable. Of course, Mr. Yu Hewei's talent goes far beyond this. He has created too many characters that are deeply rooted in people's hearts, such as Mr. Zhang, a shrewd planner on the island, who was extremely greedy in the recent Spring Festival movie A Chinese Odyssey, or Zhou Yi today, who speaks with strength and conquers the audience with performance. He expects Mr. Yu Hewei to have more different types of challenges and bring us more wonderful "racing scenes".