"Tropical Past" is produced by Ning Hao and directed by Wen Shipei, Peng Yuyan, Zhang Aijia, Wang Yanhui and Luspan 3span _span _span _span _span _span _span _span _span _span _span _span _span _span _span _span _span _span _span _span _span _span _span _span _span _ , Chen Yongzhong, Deng Fei starring in a crime drama movie.
This film tells the story of a murder case that occurred on a hot summer night in the late 1990s and was hidden in darkness due to a power outage. The three were involved, and their destiny has since changed and a entanglement that lasted for twenty years has been opened.
The film will be released in mainland China on June 12, 2021.
On a hot summer night in the south, the young Wang Xueming (played by Yuyan Peng) had an accident.
The husband of Madam Liang (Zhang Aijia) disappeared suddenly. She sought the help of Officer Chen, but she did not know that she had become the next "target" of others.
Police Officer Chen (played by Wang Yanhui) is responsible for the disappearance of Lao Liang. He found that the development of the case was far beyond his control.
These people who do not know that their fate has been quietly changed are trying to peek the truth about that night, but the memory of this summer night is like a jigsaw puzzle, more complicated and confusing...
"Once Upon a Time in the Tropics" is director Wen Shipei’s feature film debut,The film is a work of "Bad Monkey 72 Film Project".
Director Wen Shipei said that he pursues "aftertaste". The film is very different from previous works. It is more like a song or a dream.
Wen Shipei pursues a more "aftertaste" expression in the genre film, and strives to present a unique atmosphere in the genre film mode and "returning sweetness" beyond the typified narrative to make it more Close to the director's expression appeal.
The story of the film is set in the late 1990s. The art style of the film has a unique "localized" story color. Compared with the classic noir film , on the one hand, It weakens the degree of violence and eroticism, and pays more attention to the psychological expression of people in the modernity predicament;
Secondly, it weakens the criticism of reality, using absurd jokes to attribute the motivation of the character's tragedy to internal Subjectivity construction.
The protagonist Wang Xueming saw this personal memory of innocence before he was released from prison. Struggle in.
Personal memories are strongly subjective. This type of complex narrative mode that relies on subjective narrative perspective and uses non-linear time structures such as flashbacks and flashbacks is actually a common narrative convention in film noir. It is similar to traditional Hollywood omniscient , The objective narrative mode and the continuous and complete narrative process formed a sharp contrast.
emphasizes the subjective perspective of subjectivity is a typical feature of modernist narrative art, expressing doubts, reflections and criticisms of modern industrial civilization by abandoning the unequivocal "guarantee" of narrative.
shortly after the beginning of the film, several sets of shots and paragraphs that undergo spatio-temporal transformation through dissolving and fusion appeared. This "old and rigid" editing method seems to be in line with the film’s modernism. The style is even more out of place.
Only by combining the story of the movie can we discover the meaning of the audiovisual syntax "twisting".
The inappropriateness of audiovisual language actually implies that he and the "twisting" of the hot era.
The language of this shot resembles Schrondorf's brilliant pen in "The Tin Drum", and the narrative method has become an exploration of the film itself and the language of the film or self-referential reflection.
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