A dog's college time film review

The day before the national release in Inception, I decided to book a ticket for the premiere of A Dog's College Life that night. I hope it can rival The Stone in Ning Hao, and I also hope to witness a moment when a grassroots director from the folk network really surprised the big screen. After watching the movie, I realized that online video is not a movie, and it is obviously not enough to have ideas.

Rough photography and editing, plot full of loopholes, unrefined lines and poor rhythm control, this is an immature work, and it is a joke that such quality occupies the cinema screen together with a masterpiece like Inception.

After all, Lu Zhengyu doesn't come from an ordinary class. When he was in charge of a 90-minute feature film, he lost his composure after shooting a 9-minute online short film. Maybe you can still feel the fun of hip-hop quartet, but at the same time, you will find that this fun seems to belong only to the mouse in the office. When you finally see a funny sketch after a long and boring wait, you can't laugh if you want to. This feeling is almost equivalent to watching three shots.

In fact, this kind of road film should have been more crazy and exaggerated. It can be as unconstrained as "pig's head walking down the street" or as embarrassing as "people on the road". A dog should not be as simple as a children's movie. The warm scene specially created in the film deliberately makes people look down, and the suspense setting is too easy for people to see through at a glance. Social responsibility and humanistic care are not what a movie like a dog should do. It really should be more open and not take the usual road.

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In the creative pattern of the world film industry, youth films and road films are two creative fields where various high-quality products often appear. The road film with youth theme produced by the combination of the two is a very eye-catching film type, and many excellent works have emerged, because "youth should be on the road". In terms of domestic films, youth films and road films have been rarely involved, and the creation of youth road films is even more lacking. However, under the background of the vigorous development of the domestic film market, many filmmakers began to explore those corners forgotten by history. As far as Youth Road movies are concerned, looking for jackie chan, which was churned out last year, has initially shown the basic elements of this type of movies, but its pioneering significance in this respect is completely submerged in the torrent of criticism caused by poor quality. This year, a youth inspirational road movie "A Dog's College Time" created by a group of post-80s young people is ready to be released, and will be reviewed by the audience, especially the young post-80s audience.

A Dog's College Time is a real post-80s movie. The protagonists in the film are all post-80 s college students, and the main creators of the film are also post-80 s, all young people who are famous in the post-80 s group. You may not have heard the name of director Lu Zhengyu, but you must have seen the hip-hop quartet, a popular sitcom on Youku. Its director is Lu Zhengyu. As for the actors, Joker Xue, a handsome guy who came out of my program, the "Thunderbolt" forest garden in my youth, and Xiao Pang, a celebrity in the internet industry in China, all belong to the post-80s youth army. At the same time, the film also incorporates a lot of trendy and avant-garde elements in the plot. The fresh elements shown in the film, such as parkour, real kung fu, "pure men", racing, rich second generation, filming and naked marriage, are all topics that young people are very keen on, which can easily resonate with young audiences.

"Seeking" is the eternal motif of road films, and "dream" is the eternal proposition of youth films. As a youth-themed road film, the theme explained in A Dog's College Time is naturally "seeking dreams". Although it is called "A Dog's College Time", the film actually has little to do with dogs and college time. This film tells the story of five college students who are about to graduate, and they are on a dog-hunting trip to find a lost dog. The narrative focuses on the experiences of five people along the way. Five people realize some life truths through those unexpected and bizarre people and things, which is a typical narrative logic of road films.

Five people met four different people in the process of looking for dogs, and each story had different connotations. Wang Xuebing made a guest appearance as a mysterious and eccentric gas station owner, revealing the loneliness that modern people generally suffer. He strongly recommends discount cards to customers and refuels five times a month, which reflects his inner desire for interpersonal communication. "Jigong" Benchang You plays an old man riding a tricycle and taking his wife to Beijing to see a doctor, eulogizing the eternal truth of the world and the "enthusiastic help" of five college students, which shows that caring for others is such a simple thing. The masquerade ball in the resort symbolizes the original dream. When images such as Smart Rest, Dinosaur Express, Beautiful Girl Warrior, Sheriff Black Cat, Shuke and Beita and White Snake appear in front of us, I believe that every young audience will return to the happy memories of childhood like the five protagonists in the film. These are all memories of our childhood.

In the present era of mass media, how can individuals realize their dreams at the fastest speed? Chen Yingjun, the "God of Strategy", plays a professional photographer, which reminds people of a "broad road", that is, a free and open space with the help of the Internet. It is through the promotion of online video that Brother T and Grapefruit in the film became online celebrities and successfully realized their dream of promoting Parkour and real Kung Fu. Not only Brother T and Grapefruit, but also the other three protagonists realized their dreams through this "all the way to thorns" dog-hunting trip: Qi Jun completed an animated short film of his own and successfully married his girlfriend YOYO naked; Kosai raced happily and realized his wish to be a car god; The "rich second generation" bear became the chef of his own restaurant, reached a settlement with his father and successfully embraced the beauty. Find the lost dream and try to realize it. In the interpretation of the theme of "dream", a dog's college time has reached the level of mainstream orthodox youth films.

Different from the elegant and soothing narrative style of movies with the same theme in Japan or Taiwan Province Province, A Dog's College Time adopts a crazy and nonsense narrative way, which is very cheap and very pleasing, because the best-selling low-cost crazy comedy has clearly told people that in the current domestic film market, unscrupulous spoofs are more popular with the audience than serious literary voices, which is both sad and helpless. May be limited by production funds. Many hardware indicators of a dog's college time are insufficient, such as rough scene artists, rustic characters, sloppy lighting effects, blunt lens editing, inadequate music rendering and so on. All these make the film look like a student's homework with tender breath in many aspects, full of a fresh texture of the original ecology.

There is no exquisite out-of-touch beauty in Japanese or Taiwan Province youth films, no exquisite lens language in landscape films, no exquisite music in nature, and no exquisite lyrical freehand brushwork in prose and poetry. The film presents a kind of original ecological texture that has not been deliberately carved, which is slightly rough but extremely infectious, enough to resonate with young audiences after 80. For a commercial film with a small budget, it is quite good to do this, and its attempt to create a youth road film will also become an unexpected fortune on the road of domestic film development. Although it is very small, after all, "talking is better than nothing."