Following "Hello, Madman" and "The Nameless", another masterpiece directed by Rao Xiaozhi " crowded" was released in this year's Spring Festival, which was adapted from a Japanese movie. "Methods of Stealing Keys." The film continues the usual style of director Rao Xiaozhi, directly presenting the real life and pressure of marginal characters with absurd comedy narrative techniques, telling the story of the rich, rigorous, and meticulous top killer and the actor who lives in poverty and lives by. Chen Xiaomeng, because of an accident, temporarily exchanged lives and reaped love in each other's life and found the true meaning of life.
First of all, its absurdity is mainly reflected in the assumed story background. The storyline of "Surge in Crowd" is slightly out of the wings of reality, using an architectural model of identity interchange, assuming what the two will experience in each other's life. The identities of the two are exchanged through a piece of soap. The doctor who has never checked their identities, the policeman who was easily fooled by Chen Xiaomeng, and the peculiarities of the comprehensive identities all give the audience a strange sense of absurdity and contrast. This kind of exchange of life settings does not appear in reality, but the emotions and humanity displayed on this basis are real. It is this assumption that makes the audience’s development and The shaping of the characters generated more expectations, and was called "adult fairy tales" by the director. In addition, another source of his sense of comedy is precisely the strong contrast between life and a very different life. Full of a sense of science and technology, the luxuriously decorated large flat floor, and the extremely dilapidated and messy tube building that is still in arrears with rent, a variety of award-winning experiences and a long-term work that has never stopped. The director passed parallel . Montage ’s narrative approach, two lines go hand in hand. Such a powerful and dramatic contrast makes the two people make various untimely performances when adapting to their new identities.Let the audience laugh from time to time.
Secondly, in the creation of characters, it also adds a strong touch to the creation of an absurd comedy atmosphere. The movie eliminates the complexity of individuals in real life, but simplifies and flattens these characters, and the image and personality characteristics of a certain aspect of the characters are deliberately exaggerated. For example, Dahui, the underworld elder sister with a Sichuan-Chongqing accent and an interesting and fierce personality; Chen Xiaomeng, a low-level figure who accomplishes nothing, is lazy and greedy, but is extremely kind; In addition to the main actors, the thugs around Hui Hui eliminate the complex personality characteristics that the characters should have in the real context, and make all-out efforts to create a smile as the main requirement of shaping the personality and behavior of the supporting actors. The comical characters and the barriers in work and life are one of the basic elements of absurd comedy. Xiao Yang’s Chen Xiaomeng fully interprets the death-seeking in the trough and the swelling in the highlights, giving his ex-girlfriend a huge amount of money. Arrogantly paying off debts owed before, the sense of humor brought by this extreme contrast is also a concentrated expression of the drama of the film. The laughter brought by this absurd comedy is not based on the jokes, lines and baggage, but based on the humor brought by the characters' own lines of action.
Since the director Rao Xiaozhi is a drama director, also used a lot of parody in the film, to pay tribute to the classic film of Andy Lau . For example, the confrontation between Chen Xiaomeng and Zhou Quan imitates the classic scene of the confrontation between the rooftops in "Infernal Affairs"; the scene of riding a motorcycle in the tunnel pays tribute to Andy Lau and Wu Qianlian in 1990. "If there is love in the sky".The performance of these classic scenes brought back a lot of memories from the audience, and they couldn't help but smile. In addition, when Zhou Quan was an actor, he made guest appearances in " The Wandering Earth" directed by Guo Fan, and Lei Jiayin, who appeared in "Assassin Novelist", also made a guest appearance as a producer. The exfoliation caused by the alienation effect also adds a bit of absurd effect.
"Surge of Crowds" presents the meaning of reality and the true meaning of life to the audience through a comedy approach, and conveys a certain value and thought to the audience through this absurd and bizarre form of comedy. It expresses the director's various sentiments towards ordinary characters, and embodies the euphemism and profoundness of artistic language. " life is like a play, jokes about life, laughs with tears " can reflect the artistic tension of comedy.
by Chen Hong
edited by Xiao Yang
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