Directed by Xiao Yang, starring Liu Yifei, Feng Shaofeng, Li Guangjie and others. The fairy fantasy romance film "The Second Generation Fairy: Lucky in This Life" after the founding of the People's Republic of China can be said to be the biggest dark horse in the Lunar New Year's

Directed by Xiao Yang, starring Liu Yifei, Feng Shaofeng, Li Guangjie, etc., the fantasy romance film about fairies after the founding of the People's Republic of China " The Second Generation Fairy: Lucky in This Life " can be said to be the biggest dark horse in the Lunar New Year's word-of-mouth list. It’s not that I intentionally lowered my expectations, but this title is really too much like a big movie broadcast exclusively on an online platform!

"The Second-Generation Fairy: Lucky in This Life"

Maybe everyone went there with the intention of watching an online film. After coming out, many viewers shouted "Far beyond expectations!", and there were also high-profile reviews written by various film critics on Douban. In terms of long-term reviews, the Douban score even surpassed that of "The Ring", "The Ex 3" and "Jieyou Grocery Store" of the same period, rising all the way to 6.3 points.

Outstanding Douban rating

But the author must admit that the look and feel of this movie is not that good. I was on pins and needles for the entire 110 minutes. On the one hand, like all the film reviews who wrote headlines praising Liu Yifei, I was obsessed with the beauty magic that turned Liu Yifei.jpg into Liu Yifei.gif; but on the other hand, I was fascinated by the rhythm of the entire film and some direct lines. The man's comments made everyone anxious.

The most thrilling scene is undoubtedly the sex scene between Feng Shaofeng and Liu Yifei. This can definitely be selected as the most exaggerated sex scene of the year in the Chinese-speaking region. (The following contains spoilers) After forming a blood alliance with Yuan Shuai, a poor boy played by Feng Shaofeng, and forming a blood alliance, the white fox Bai Xianchu, played by Liu Yifei, rose up into the air like a thousand-year-old she-wolf sitting on the ground sucking up soil, and flew up to Yuan Shuai. On the bed, when Yuan Shuai's coat was torn with his hands, the entire quilt was torn off, and cotton wool was flying all over the sky. At this time, Edison Chen's song "The Night Comes Demon" sounded. The familiar voice made people miss their youth, but the lyrics were full of satire on women.

"Ye Lai Yao" lyrics

"If a girl is beautiful and capable, and doesn't want a house, a car, or me to support her, then give me a basket of such a girl." This kind of pie-in-the-sky good thing is for every down-and-out person like Yuan Shuai. A daydream for a diaosi. This reminds me of Han Han's "Straight Male Cancer Song" that was boycotted by the entire Internet - " Riding the Wind and Waves Manly Manifesto". Because he didn't grasp the subtle difference between coquettishness and demands, it became a problem when it fell into the ears of girls. The selfish and harsh "Straight Male Cancer Declaration".

"Song of Riding the Wind and Waves" lyrics

But "The Night Demon" also has a similar problem. While praising the beauty and selflessness of the demon, it labels human women as material vanity. Why are these satirical and diaosi-like demands on women so popular when they are sung by Edison Chen? Where does the double standard

come from?

Actually, this song is just a microcosm and introduction. What I want to say is that this problem exists in the entire movie.

Yuan Shuai, played by Feng Shaofeng, is a coward in life and owes a lot of debt. For this reason, he goes on blind dates with various rich women in an attempt to make money by being kept. He even said, "Whoever gives me money now, I will have sex with." "Children" rhetoric. It can be said that he has regarded his body and marriage as capital for sale, and has no dignity at all. It was this kind of values ​​that allowed him to say to an innocent girl with admiration: "If I were a woman, I would go to work there (nightclub) and make money quickly." The innocent girl believed it immediately and went to the nightclub to touch someone's thigh. . At this time, Yuan Shuai was unwilling again and scolded the innocent girl for making him look bad. exm? Can we stop being so double-standard? Sex workers probably face 10,000 points of discrimination.

The loser Yuan Shuai in life

There are many scenes where characters like this collapse. For example, one second Yuan Shuai injected poison into the white fox in order to save his father, and the next second he said he would save the white fox "at all costs". Get rid of it, you already sacrificed your wife as a price a second ago. So overall, the protagonist Yuan Shuai is always contradictory and fragmented, making it difficult to like, and his love for the white fox is also difficult to convince.

Similarly, the explanation of why the white fox is so devoted to Yuan Shuai in the film is also very careless. Childhood blocked a pinch of sulfuric acid for her, which was actually more touching than the cat demon played by Jingfei Guo who sacrificed his virginity for her. The white lady shed tears after hearing this.

It stands to reason that the film’s poor rhythm and such illogical love are unconvincing. But why did the audience believe it? Even moved to tears by the music. What exactly is it about that covers up these flaws and weaknesses? What about ? also looks like

. To borrow a sentence from the Painted Skin episode in "Liao Zhai", "It is clearly a monster, but it is thought to be beautiful." The story of " Second Generation Fairy " is a modern "Liao Zhai", but the entire movie itself is really like a living "Liao Zhai".

The movie has so many shortcomings but I insisted on watching it because I couldn’t stand Liu Yifei’s beauty! Look at her frown and smile, and occasionally she looks at you like a little fox with grievances. Do you have the heart to give up on such a cute girl?

Liu Yifei

The entire movie hired a Hollywood special effects team to create grand scenes and fantastic visual effects using the most advanced MOCO technology. Do you have the heart to say that it only costs 50 cents?

Hollywood-level special effects

Just like "The Night Comes Demon", Guan Xige, who has been quite successful in establishing a patriotic character recently, has been silent for many years before singing such a song. Do you have the heart to tear it up?

Guan Xige

So we are like the scholars in a Chinese fairy tale. Under the power of beauty, they somehow forgive the shortcomings of the movie and only praise the cute white fox Liu Yifei. It's hard for me to say whether this is a blessing or a misfortune for the film. If this movie just wanted to be such a painted-skinned monster, then it has succeeded now.