Why can the movie "Gorgeous Office Workers" attract the public's attention?

? Gorgeous office worker is a movie full of associations, which can span many time and space. In the era of American film studios, filming was always on the set. Now, it is somewhat unrealistic in a closed environment, but it fits well with the slightly staged literary performance of old movies. Today, it is mostly not feasible to simply set the scenery, because the performance style tends to be natural and the drama is no longer so strong. If you put it on the "stage" where the lights are exquisite and you can't see the sky, you will inevitably lose your credibility. Perhaps there is only one exception, and that is musical movies. Musical films are different from other films in China. Although Zhang Che, a master of martial arts films, and John Woo, a master of Jianghu films, frankly drew inspiration from the action design of western musical films, which endowed the pure violent martial arts and gun battles with elegant aesthetic attributes. However, if we don't count Huangmei Opera movies which were popular in Hong Kong in 1950s and 1960s, there are only a handful of Chinese musical movies in the true sense. The director who makes musical films is either particularly fond of it or extremely fearless.

So I have to praise Lao Du. This famous Hong Kong director, who is famous for his unique style of gangster and gunfight, is also one of the most famous generalists in China film circle. He has been involved in comedy, martial arts, literature and art, love, magic, science fiction and other fields. When making movies, he showed an insatiable creative motivation. With his position in today's film industry, in this impetuous market, like most directors, he can shoot something recognized by the market step by step. But he is still full of courage and keeps trying new types. Napoleon in the film industry didn't change his mind even though he suffered from Waterloo several times. What's more gratifying is that, unlike many directors of the previous generation in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, his creativity is dying out and he has become an aesthetic laughing stock in the derailment era. Through his recent works, we can still see the saturated talent. Now, he uses an expensive office building, a group of behind-the-scenes cards reunited for 25 years, and a gorgeous musical style to interpret a career story that seems to be drained of potential, and finds the corresponding performance style, musical. On the one hand, it is singing and dancing, on the other hand, it is the street view of buildings. It is also illusory and true. It's about the power struggle at the top of multinational corporations. So many elements that are difficult to be grounded are not easy to sew together, but they can fall back to the emotional foothold. Strictly speaking, it is hard to say that it is a musical, and the proportion of lyrics in the dialogue is not high. Even Eason Chan, a professional singer, only contributed two complete tracks. Apart from some posturing body movements, not many people dance, which is closer to MV shooting. While pursuing form, don't distance yourself from the mainstream audience-Les Miserables is a well-known story, and Uncle Wolf and Catwoman are very popular. These two years, the movie version is not as boring as before. Mr. Du took a musical film road with China characteristics.

The beginning of the film is very uncomfortable, to be exact, it evokes a sense of disgust like the evil deeds of the screen villains. When the subway arrived at the station, everyone lined up to join the company. Lack of vitality and artificial excitement constituted an absurd juxtaposition. The appearance of the accounting elite is even more ironic, as if the office elite has become a work machine without personality under the constraint of a highly specialized system. Dystopian films often use this highly consistent group behavior to arouse the disgust of the audience. This gorgeous hell on earth, like the swearing-in ceremony at the beginning of Underworld, is full of sense of ceremony. Everyone follows the rules, behaves in a dignified manner, and is highly professional regardless of age, youth and heart, just like gang members swear allegiance to the death. However, it didn't take long for the underworld to tear it up quickly, and the selfishness and affair of office workers as biological people also broke through the noble disguise of professional people and staged a tearful tragicomedy. Haha, this kind of drama is really Lao Du's specialty. Online comments often describe this film as "the underworld in the workplace". The two films are very close, but they don't engage in endless plot twists and turns. This is just the opposite of the way that Lao Du must have adventures and coincidences when filming Single Men and Women. Those career strategies don't have the unexpected shock moment of suspense movies. Some friends said that she was a little disappointed, and she didn't have the high IQ of mantis and yellowbird as expected in the workplace. Just like watching the underworld, many insiders who claim to be familiar with gangster life show disdain and say that Hong Kong gangsters are not like this. However, this is precisely the feature and charm of Du's films. If we just copy the reality, it will be more than nine to five. You can see gossip and intrigue every day at work, so why spend money to go to the cinema to see the imitation version? More importantly, the story written by Zhang Aijia is interesting not because of its twists and turns, but because it gives us an almost omniscient perspective. How can men and women who struggle between reason, emotion, curiosity and desire inevitably come to the final conclusion? From the beginning of the role singing and dancing, tell us that this is a fable, or a motto, which is unrealistic anyway. This film is full of obvious symbolic meanings, such as the elevator that goes directly to the 7 1 floor, which became a killing machine in Eason Chan's dream. In Du's films, calm people always have a better chance to have the last laugh, just like Jimmy in Gangdom, Harmony and Mr. Hong in the earlier Dark Flower. At the end of the film, the winner seems to have exhausted all his wisdom to show a talent that is not so amazing, but we are willing to revel in the sudden death after the dust settles. In reality, our perspective is narrow, our imagination is limited, and our personal feelings will interfere with our judgment, so it is almost impossible to appreciate such a chorus of China chess.

Corporate executives are cornered by financial gambling, and there is a kind of continuity from "death money" in those paragraphs where the stock market is in great turmoil. What impressed me deeply was the sentence "I want to call the police", which instantly reminded me of those words "Let's turn ourselves in" and "Fire is police undercover". After going through exile, the iron triangle and the embarrassing snake feet of dead money, Lao Du proved that he had mastered the threshold of auditing through the drug war. Gorgeous office workers told us that he further learned to dance with the system. Hong Kong directors going north all have similar demands. Considering the sensitivity of the subject matter, almost no one can do it better than Lao Du. Believe it or not, it is better than the mysterious city of Lin Lingdong not long ago. As fans of Galaxy Image, we have been waiting for Big Guy 2 and underworld 3 for a long time. Maybe it's time.