The core of comedy is the first half of a tragic film. For the protagonists, Dream Bubble is beautiful, flamboyant and enthusiastic. Riding in the tunnel, looking forward to the future, thrilling car races along the mountain road and the seaside, nightclubs transformed from abandoned cement boats are no different from big cities, with male and female protagonists strolling on the seawall and cycling by the sea. ...
The first half of the film is relaxed and cheerful, bringing the audience into the beautiful life of the town. Although it is not as good as Xanadu, it is also unique. Until Zhou Huan-Ge had an accident, the dream began to break down and the situation took a turn for the worse. In fact, the cold reality has already invaded the protagonist's life. Debt collection companies are chasing after them, and ghosts and teenagers are hiding everywhere. The dream built in the past was finally broken, boys and girls were forced out, and the cruel reality curtain was finally opened.
Wu's leaving his hometown is like Huan-Song Zhou's fleeing. He thought he could get help from the nobles in big cities, but it turned out to be a blank check, and the motorcycle representing their dream was taken away because of the "prohibition of motorcycles" in big cities, and he was suddenly caught in a dilemma. In desperation, the two had to return to their old jobs, one continued to do motorcycle performances, and the other had to be a cashier again after repeatedly hitting a wall in finding a job.
Not to mention the pursuit of dreams, Wu even had to yield to the bottom line of principle again and again, but in the end, reality gave him a continuous blow. The sudden change of wind direction caused him to have an accident when he jumped over the Pearl River. Almost at the same time, the beloved girl got on his car and wanted to give it to him as a gift, but she died under the wheel and fell into the river he wanted to jump into.
Once comfortable as the wind, they can't escape the realistic predicament and sad color. Fate plays tricks on you, but life is helpless. Unfortunately, when the film depicts the tragedy in the second half, it is too separated from the style in the first half. The contrast is outstanding, but the disunity of the two styles is also disliked by some viewers.
It is also a pity that the construction and display of the relationship between the Wu family and the father is the strength of director Han Han. In the first half of the film, his father Wu Renteng looked unreliable, but behind his move to send watches and money, he was more gratified. His son grew up and regretted some of his mistakes. As an experienced person, he hopes to give his son some guidance, but it is a bit embarrassing to look at his situation. Such a father could have stood up and become a symbol in his son's heart.
But in the second half, I forgot this symbol. For Wu, it should be more fully explained whether to be him or a rebel after meeting his father. It is certainly meaningful for the director to portray the role of father, but knocking at the door to explain the end of their relationship seems to lack weight. Especially for movies, my father is also a member of the wandering world. He is not as simple as a unit featuring NPC.
Thinking and Expression of Foreign Land, Hometown and Social Problems Although the plot of the film Four Seas is the same, some of them are not accepted by the audience. But from the core of the story, there is still thinking and output. An eccentric father left the country when he was young.
In middle age, he briefly returned to his hometown, but finally returned to another family in his hometown. My son, who had a tight life, never wanted to leave his hometown, but he was willing to fly away for love, but he didn't want to run around and finally returned to his hometown. Wu Renteng and Wu, two generations, explained that "when I was young, I traveled all over the world; When you are old, you are home everywhere. "
Looking at the real world, such things happen all the time. Every Spring Festival, a large number of urban migrant workers return home, and then rush to return to their work cities after the holiday. There must be such a "pleasing" mind when the film is released in the Spring Festival. "Hometown you can't go back to, faraway place you can't enter", and the discussion on social problems of "foreign land" and "hometown" has also become a deeper theme that the four seas want to inspire the audience to think.
People wandering around the world are exhausted and travel-stained. Most of them want to "return" in their own way, go to a place where they can feel at ease, and it is meaningless to go abroad or go back to their hometown. Just like Wu Renteng got married in Guangzhou, Wu and his friends returned to their hometown, and Zhou Huansong stayed in the city he yearned for forever. ...
Conclusion Perhaps "Four Seas" is not a brilliant film, but rather than simply and rudely labeling it as a "bad film", I prefer to believe that this is Han Han's unsuccessful "dream-making" action.
In some plots, too dramatic treatment made some viewers unacceptable for a while. Perhaps the interpretation of the young people in the town is not comprehensive enough, or the life in the town is too "beautified" ... All these make some viewers feel "offended", but apart from being "offended", some directors' ideas and expressions are still pieced together-the love and hate of the young people in the town, their stay, the realization and disillusionment of their dreams are so helpless in the face of cruel reality.