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Chapter 404 404. A Movie Without a Villain 【Subscription】

After the movie ended, many people were stunned.

Including many people squinting their eyes,

Obviously, their emotions are also very good. This movie is very good, so good that even Donkey Kong may not be able to match it.

Even talk about the connotation.

"King Kong" will definitely be thrown off hard.

Although the ending of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" was not as they expected, but this movie is the most suitable for China's national conditions.

Yes, being a film critic is a profession.

Because in film creation, the plot must conform to contemporary values.

Cheng Yong in the movie first went to Thailand to buy generic drugs out of the desire to make money. Cheng Yong was not stimulated until he learned that Lu Yiyi had died, and then he wanted to sell drugs without making money just to help more leukemia patients. people.

So if there is no sentence in the movie, everyone will think that selling generic drugs is innocent and allowed, so this movie will not be approved and successfully released.

This is the truth.

for example.

Take "I'm Not the God of Medicine" against "Dallas Buyers Club" and you'll know.

Director Mark is not much smarter than Lu Chen, nor is he much better than Wu Ying.

But "Dallas" looks.

No matter from all aspects, "The God of Medicine" is also a blast.

But that Oscar masterpiece is, after all, a story on the other side of the ocean, which is too far away from the real life of Chinese people. "The God of Medicine" is different, it is a vivid reproduction of the sophistication of the world around us.

Even some viewers can see the shadow of "Schindler's List".

When Cheng Yong, played by Xu Zheng, was about to sell medicine again, he found out the list of patients from that year and asked Liu Sihui to contact him for help.

The people present asked him: "How much are you going to sell this time?" Cheng Yong said firmly: "500".

This scene in the factory, no matter in terms of camera movement, editing, scene design or performance, is very similar to Spielberg's black and white classics.

Why did Lu Chen say that "I'm Not the God of Medicine" is comparable to "Hachiko"?
It's simple, it depends on the subject matter.

"The God of Medicine" is a typical film whose social significance is greater than artistic value, and the subject matter is definitely the only magic weapon for it to win.

Just name the subject.

Anyone can see its potential to become a blockbuster, which is why other studios choose to avoid it.

It is because the subject matter is so special.

The legendary and dramatic nature of this story, the depiction of the plight of patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia, as well as the individual heroism revealed in it, and the faint sensitivity will all become the selling points of the film and ensure its continued popularity.

Including Lu Chen and Xu Guangtou is also an important blessing to this project.

Xu Zheng's previous "囧囧 in Hong Kong" did not disappoint, and the box office also exceeded 20 billion.

Viewers were not disappointed.

There is no such thing as falling down and getting up again from "The God of Medicine".

"The God of Medicine" has all the elements that the audience loves to see.

Including the sense of humor of Wu Ying and Xu Zheng, the view of suffering and reality revealed in the story itself.

The same is true.

After the movie was released.

directly aroused people's attention to CML and the story itself,
Although this story has no prototype in this world, patients suffering from this disease abound.

Besides.

There is also the quality of the film itself, as well as the degree of excavation in the subject matter, which makes it not so impeccable.

In the eyes of many film critics.

"The God of Medicine" is definitely not comparable to "Hachiko".

Even for them, "The God of Medicine" can only be regarded as half a good film.

Again.

These film critics evaluate it from a professional point of view, and many people will subconsciously compare it with "Dallas Buyers Club",

The results are obvious and certainly unmatched.

If it is divided into five levels in terms of sufficient and deep expression of the subject matter, "Dallas" has basically reached the bottom, and "The God of Medicine" is probably at the third level.

but,

These film critics also know that this is not something to write about.

After all, this is only their opinion.

They don't replace the audience.

Although this film is not suitable for them, it is definitely suitable for the audience.

of course.

It is undoubtedly one-sided to judge only by the degree of excavation of the subject matter.

However, it is an undeniable fact that "The God of Medicine" is far behind "Dallas" in terms of expression and artistic effect.

However, the story it presents seems to be closer to the Huaguo audience than the former.

If it is so real, it will naturally give full play to its local advantages.

In addition, it also follows the approach of shaping heroes in a realist framework, and expresses larger propositions in this way.

This coincides with many Korean movies, which start from the perspective of a small person to show a common social problem.

Not only that, but this film is very "Korean movie style" in many aspects such as serving Huadao.

But "I'm Not the God of Medicine" finally solved this problem in an extremely harmonious way, but it lost a lot of lingering threads, and dispelled the entanglement of warmth and coldness similar to that in Korean movies.

Because of the material, "I'm Not the God of Medicine" naturally has a very strong seriousness, but it is not an art film or a purely realistic film in the true sense.

The main reason is that its grasp of a group of small characters completely follows the paradigm of genre films.

We have seen this type of character arc hundreds of times in mainstream movies such as Hollywood.

But it still works, and it still hits the audience.

Three words to describe.

"empathy."

Because of the existence of human emotions in a general sense, movies can use these typified characters to make audiences empathize.

However, the characterization of "The God of Medicine" still gives people a shallow and rigid feeling, with functional implications in it.

Cheng Yong as the protagonist, coupled with Xu Zheng's decent performance, can be regarded as a relatively full portrayal of genre roles.

Why in the eyes of many film critics, "The God of Medicine" can only be called the first half of a good film.

The reason is actually very simple.

That is, "The God of Medicine" is not bad at the stage of story construction. Although it does not have any novel narrative techniques, it is well-proportioned, enough to make people watch with gusto, and the appearances of several main characters are also patchwork.

As a result, after the plot appeared a year later, the author of the film seemed to be unable to hold back any longer, and was eager to export to the audience all the struggles, helplessness, difficulties and hesitation of marginalized groups.

From Lu Yiyi, to Huang Mao, to Cheng Yong himself, the arrangement of several sensational passages is quite radical, unreserved, and very dense.

Until Cheng Yong was finally arrested and brought to justice, the image effect of the ending of "Send Medicine Man on Ten Mile Long Street" with the main melody soundtrack is simply frightening.

To put it more extreme, it already belongs to "dog blood".

Therefore, the biggest problem with the film is that it is not restrained enough, especially in the second half, which hardly gives the audience room to think.

In other words, the content expressed in the latter paragraph and a large amount of emotional catharsis just want to leave the audience with a thinking result, and Lizi is still a simple tendency to divide the event into two.

For a complex and serious source material, especially real events while the real world is going on, the film's treatment like this is debatable.

Not to mention the relationship with reality, the artistic effect presented by this method alone has lowered the level of a work that was originally more advanced.

Therefore, "The God of Medicine" can only be regarded as a half-good film in the eyes of many film critics.

There must be an end to the movie,
But many things in the movie can last forever, such as the touch and thinking that "The God of Medicine" brought to the audience.

Many film critics plan to write it down with careful words, and at this moment, there are still countless netizens in China looking forward to it.

I hope that the first batch of viewers who have watched the movie will give their comments on the long-awaited movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine" on Douban.com.

Soon, short comments appeared.

Among them, the short comment with the highest number of likes is very interesting: ""It will get better and better in the future, I hope this day will come sooner." Masks become a symbol, not smog, but a ritual of human nature. At the end, I actually saw "Schindler's List" "is the same redemption. It is popular and touching, and the theater is full of tears. It is based on the social significance of reality. Maybe "I am not the God of Medicine" is to China, just like "Wrestling, Dad" is to India... It is good to see it "Actually there is only one disease: the disease of poverty""

"It exploded and cried like a dog. From the perspective of viewing experience, it is better than Dallas Buyers Club. The director's debut is so complete. I can only say that the script is really good."

"I think that works of art that can become classics can be roughly divided into four types: the first type, (the plot or lines, etc.) records, reviews, and reflects on the past or history (such as "Apocalypse Now", "Schindler list")
The second type, (its plot or lines, etc.) has strong practical significance, and constitutes a reflection or promotion of the current situation: "The God of Medicine" belongs to this category.

The third type, (its plot or lines, etc.) ponders and tentatively reveals the future life of the human world, material civilization, etc.: such as "2001 A Space Odyssey".

Fourth, the plot or lines give people an experience of extreme beauty, which includes but is not limited to pictures and special effects, but also includes a kind of emotional beauty, beauty of life, beauty of poetics, beauty of human belief, etc.: such as "Titanic" "" "Brokeback Mountain" etc.
Anything that does not fall into these four categories cannot be called art.I sincerely hope that there will be more works of art like this in China. "

"Cheng Yong's choice is great. Regardless of his own future and interests, he still sells medicines for so many patients who cannot afford them.

On the way Cheng Yong was imprisoned, I saw many leukemia patients gathered by the roadside and voluntarily took off their masks.I was in tears, I believe, he does not regret his decision.

Looking back at me, I was always hesitant in the choice, and I always missed good opportunities.

Now I realize: Sometimes you should choose your own true judgment, and some mistakes are not so terrible. "

"Life is not easy, you really have to cherish it, especially your body. Love the person who cherishes you, Lu Yiyi's wife, let me see the persistence of love, cherish the person who loves you, it is not easy to meet. Only when you are good It is the greatest love for her, treating her well, and protecting her with heart is the most precious love. Money is very important, so work hard, because money can bring you a sense of security, and life is short and long.”

"It exposed the reality. After watching the movie, I felt that although the protagonist violated the laws and regulations, he saved many people. When there is a conflict between the law and human life, what should we do? This is something we should think about."

.........

Lu Chen also glanced at these comments.

The evaluation can be said to be polarized. The general audience's evaluation of this movie can be said to be very high, but the film critics are relatively less interested.

For example, from a film critic:
"A good movie should reveal the ethical dilemma of society, but "I'm Not the God of Medicine" finally turned this dilemma into a moral indictment.

The unscrupulous pharmaceutical factory only wants to make money, sets the price of the medicine so high, and doesn't care about the life and death of the patient.And the traffickers who sell illegal drugs have become heroes who help the sick.

In fact, this logic is so absurd as long as you think about it seriously. Who is really treating the patients?Is it an illegal drug dealer?
No, it's the pharmaceutical factory that has no conscience and humanity in the director's eyes. They spent billions of dollars to develop the first bull's-eye drug, which saved tens of millions of leukemia patients.

As for the director, all he is doing is using this bullseye to stir up trouble, using public sentiment to earn what they think is the so-called "warmth of humanity".

Domestic films are still far from truly thinking about our complicated world and life.

Of course, this does not prevent the movie from having a super high box office and making a lot of money. "

Also: "Watching this movie under this trend, maybe I had too high expectations for a movie with a rating of more than nine points, and I was very disappointed after watching it.

First of all, this movie has a very good idea, it is down-to-earth and popular among the public, and it is touching and warm to reflect the realities of society. However, the length of the film is too long, some repetitions are lengthy, and the reasons reflected are obvious but not profound. Only the last few minutes are touching. "

There is also a film critic Jiang Lin who wrote this way. His title is "This medicine can be taken, but it is not magical at all".

"Lu Chen may stop this time, "The God of Medicine" is not a little bit worse than "The Pianist" and "The Truman Show".

Psychologically, mainstream audiences generally reject movies with dark side themes of society.

In the face of these films, they need to face up to the fact that the whole society has been torn apart, and the iron-like cruelty: there is another class, many groups, who are suffering from inhuman, unfair and local death.

The painful torment of this movie-watching experience will have a series of effects:

One is the sympathy made by the heart and soul, and it is also the deep emotion of "who will not get sick";

The other is the shame, the sting and the guilt that everyone feels for not doing something, or not doing something, being indifferent, choosing to ignore. "

Yes.

This is the mainstream audience psychology. Before making a movie, many directors will understand the psychology of the audience.

Then do what you like.

Of course, what Jiang Lin wanted to express was definitely more than that.

He directly wrote: "It's impossible for "I'm Not the God of Medicine" not to take into account the impact of this reaction. Therefore, even if a group of Chinese patients with father and son, mother and son, husband and wife, and family photos are formed, the commercialization of the film is far from enough .

Chasing, slapstick, drag racing and sacrifice, they are all added to the movie to become a group of better-looking and more attractive group portraits.

I even suspect that even the crazy money-spending steel pipe show at night is also for this purpose.

This paragraph also has the effect of assisting Xu Zheng and the heroine's emotional clues, but the treatment that ended up not being seen for no reason caused me to have a different understanding of this paragraph.

Xu Zheng's preference for the trip to Hushan Mountain, facing the weakness of the law, abandoning the dodge of his patients, and witnessing the repayment of the tragic scene, in essence, he used sympathy to drive the plot and moved the law enforcement officers. "

Jiang Lin's film critics love spoilers.

He continued to write: "It doesn't mean that it can't be done like this. It's just that the movie can only be like this? Then what's the use of sacrifice and where does the anger go. The most important thing for such a realistic movie is misery.

An audience is suddenly moved because he does not know, or is not mentally prepared, that the characters in the film will die suddenly.

Sickness is just the cause, death is the end.

Therefore, those who were wiped out and knocked down by iron fists were not only patients wearing masks.

"I'm Not the God of Medicine" goes so far and asks them to rush to the streets, which is obviously not feasible or acceptable. Based on this, it has the courage of "The Defender" or "[-]". A little too contrived. "

Critics seem to like comparisons.

The same is true of Jiang Lin: "You can't deny that in order to right the protagonist, even "Dallas Buyers Club" has to find someone to vent their anger on. But this does not mean that the Food and Drug Administration should not exist, and there will be no negligent loopholes in the law. Poor , it really makes sense. For various reasons, "I'm Not the God of Medicine" didn't go any deeper."

The reading volume of Jiang Lin's long comment soon exceeded [-].One can imagine how many people are so interested in "I'm Not the God of Medicine".

However, what makes everyone puzzled is.

Why are the evaluations of film critics this time opposite to those of ordinary audiences.

For this doubt.

Many viewers answered: "This movie is not suitable for film critics."

……

For an instant.

Countless netizens were stunned again.

Is "I'm Not the God of Medicine" a movie not suitable for film critics?
at the same time.

Many invited viewers on Weibo also expressed their views.There are not a few fans of these people, so there is a lot of attention.

"Two words, perfect."

"Classic movie with no villains,"

"The movie was so touching. After watching the movie, I was deeply touched. Whether it is in terms of images or thoughts, it brings people a more moving shock."

"It's an honor to see such a movie."

"If "The Faithful Dog Hachiko" is a kind of pure emotion, then "I am not the God of Medicine" is a kind of human kindness. In the course of one and a half hours, "The God of Medicine" will suck you into them This feeling can be said to be very wonderful, and I don't believe anyone can refuse such a movie."

……

This kind of rhythm makes people think of "The Faithful Dog Hachiko". I remember that the previous tear gas movie also caused netizens to be submerged in water-like praise. Compared with this time, netizens are not questioning.

(End of this chapter)