Despite the serious polarization of the audience's evaluation, "One Man Lights Up" is a much-anticipated movie after all, and in 7 hours from its official release at 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. the next day, the movie hit a box office of 16.51 million nationwide, which created a new high on the premiere day of Zhang Ran's movie.

Such a rapid box office data has blinded the eyes of countless people, even Wang Zhonglei has to sigh that Zhang Ran's appeal in China is invincible, except for Zhou Xingchi, there is simply no director who can wrestle with him.

However, while lamenting Zhang Ran's invincible appeal, the media also gave their own comments on the movie, which was almost the same as the audience's reaction, and the media's evaluation was also seriously polarized.

The seven words "'A Man Puts on a Lamp'" have a strong metaphor, this is a movie about loneliness, loneliness is a normal state of life, a kind of eternity, innate, like maggots attached to bones. 'One person' is not just less than, but everyone present. 'Lighting up' is the desire to transcend loneliness. Like the catcher in the wheat field, Lao Huang, who watches over the impulse of young people to seek approach, and the three young people—Xiaoxiao, Yu Xinliang, and Steel Slag—all try to escape their loneliness and seek comfort for each other, and such efforts will lead to disastrous consequences. Zhang Ran lit a lamp at the end of the movie, wanting to soothe the loneliness in everyone's hearts with joy, which is a big step for Zhang Ran from a commercial director to a film master. As for whether the audience can experience it, it depends on how deeply they are invested in the story. ——"Peking Daily"

"The first time I saw in the cinema that some audiences couldn't bear the movie and left the scene, the first part of "One Man Puts on the Lights" is too dull, especially the part of Zhang Jingchu, there is no sound, no music, and even subtitles, which is a kind of torture for any audience. Zhang Ran was too confident and overestimated the audience's ability to bear it. A few months ago, Zhang Ran said that Wang Xiaoshuai's movie was seriously self-congratulatory, but his self-congratulatory in this movie was more serious than anyone else's, and he completely lost the audience's favorite thing - telling stories honestly!" - "Xinjing Daily"

""One Person's Lights" is too unsightly feasting and unentertaining, Zhang Ran underestimated the tolerance of the audience who watched the police movie to see this movie. This is a serious art film that is almost completely in line with the status quo of Chinese cinema. Prior to this, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige had more or less challenged the audience's viewing habits, such as "Hero", such as "Wuji", but none of them were as extreme and ambitious as Zhang Ran, completely ignoring ordinary audiences, Zhang Yimou and they all failed, and Zhang Ran will inevitably suffer a more tragic failure than "Hero" and "Wuji"!" - "Southern Metropolis Daily"

The most direct emotional theme expressed by Zhang Ran in "A Man Puts on the Lights" is loneliness! In the flow of light and shadow, it is everywhere: in the eyes that are less than lonely, in the tired expression of Lao Huang, and in the cold murderous aura of steel slag...... It is also full of its breath in the bleak wind, in the misty clouds, in the swaying lanterns, and even in the entire universe...... I think Zhang Ran is also lonely, and he also made a compromise in the second half of the movie, he is afraid that the audience will not understand!" - Wen Wei Po

Zhang Ran rarely reads film reviews, there is a lack of real professional film critics in China, and there is also a lack of real high-quality film reviews, whether it is the film reviews of the media or the film reviews of the so-called film critics, the level of film reviews is not very good, and most of the so-called film reviews can only be called after-viewing.

These so-called film reviews are basically in the same mode, simply retelling the story, pulling the story clues, analyzing the characters, and then praising or criticizing the movie. Whether it is for the audience or the director, such a film review does not have much significance.

In Zhang Ran's view, a really good film review is a bridge between the film creator and the audience, and the audience's doubts in watching the movie can be found in the excellent film reviews of film critics......

It's just that there are almost no such valuable film reviews in China!

In the morning, Zhang Ran took the crew members of "One Man Puts on the Lights" to accept an exclusive interview with NetEase. Now Zhang Ran is the second shareholder of NetEase, and he must take care of it. NetEase reporters are of average level, and they basically ask all kinds of gossip about movies. However, Zhang Ran and they are all old fritters, and they are still talking eloquently in the face of these priceless questions.

During the interview, Zhang Jingchu took out her mobile phone to flip through the media's comments on the movie, and saw Zhang Ran scolding fiercely, and read it to Zhang Ran with a smile. Zhang Ran shot back with a smile: "When your "All the Nights in the World" is filmed, I will take a tweeter and read it in your ear when the time comes."

NetEase's reporter was very surprised by this, this style of painting was completely inconsistent with the imaginary Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu, and asked Hu Jun in a low voice: "Do they usually do the same?"

Hu Jun laughed and said: "They have always been like this, when they are fine, they often make fun of each other!"

After lunch, the crew members sat and chatted. Zhang Jingchu reached out and poked Zhang Ran's arm, handed the phone to him, and said with a smile: "Look at this article!"

Zhang Ran rolled his eyes: "Why did you scold me again?"

Zhang Ran accepted the mobile phone and looked at it, the article was written by a netizen named Qingcheng Wuji, the title is ""A Man Puts on the Lights", Zhang Ran's self-congratulatory psychotic works", he thought, scolded hard enough, he slowly looked at it, and saw the article read: "When I returned from watching the premiere of "A Person's Lights", the biggest feeling was that I was tired, this is really not a good movie, full of boring plots, logical and confusing plots, flashy pictures, in short, the movie is almost useless except for the picture.

More than 20 minutes into the movie, Zhang Ranzheng and Zhang Jingchu were lingering on the screen, and a male audience member next to him fell asleep and snored like thunder. The male audience member was ruthlessly pushed awake by his girlfriend and scolded in a low voice, you can sleep, but don't make a sound!

During watching the movie, I had a strong feeling that this was not a normal work, it was an extremely narcissistic psychotic work made by Zhang Ran after being praised as a god, with a high degree of self-confidence and no regard for the audience at all. Zhang Ran's self-congratulatory self-congratulatory completely runs through the whole film, imitating the black screen of "2001: A Space Odyssey" and imitating the pull camera of "The Godfather". It feels like saying, look, I'm different from those low-end domestic films, this is art, and only when I shoot like this can I force it. But in reality, these shots are meaningless, and instead make the movie extremely contrived. Such artificially set up obstacles to viewing are everywhere in the movie, especially Zhang Jingchu's line, there is no sound, no soundtrack, no subtitles, and it drags on and is lengthy, which is completely a kind of torture for the audience.

I know that Zhang Ran did this to make the film look more artistic and avant-garde, but it was really too deliberate and contrived. Zhang Ran forgot that the audience's ultimate purpose of the movie is to watch a story, and a good story that touches people's hearts is the key to the quality of the movie. After watching "One Man Puts on the Lights," I couldn't believe that this was Zhang Ran's movie, and "The Aviator" and "The Bursting Drummer" were such good movies! Why did "One Man Put on the Lights" be made like this? I was thinking that Zhang Ran was really praised too highly, and that the young director who was most likely to become a master, Bergman's successor, and the new standard-bearer of Chinese films, all these honors were added to him, so that he forgot himself, forgot the audience, and could not get up and down the altar.

Zhang Ran has really stayed on the altar for a long time, regards himself as a master of film, and puts on a lofty posture when making movies, to get rid of low-level tastes, to draw a clear line with the audience, and completely forget that the reason why he was praised to the altar in the first place was because of his down-to-earth spirit and love for movies and his incomparable respect for the audience.

As a former fan of Zhang Ran, I really hope that he can return to himself and tell a good story with his heart, instead of pursuing the so-called master temperament. The works of the real masters are all about calmly telling a simple story to the audience, not making bells and whistles, telling the world, hey, you see I'm a master!"

After reading the article, Zhang Ran felt a little uncomfortable, he has always attached great importance to the audience, never thought of drawing a clear line with the audience, he always firmly believes that any art will lose its vitality without the audience.

Zhang Ran didn't regard himself as a master, and he really didn't completely ignore the audience's feelings. If he is really a director who doesn't care about the audience's self-esteem, the second half of the movie will not be what it is now, Jia Zhangke said that the second half of the movie is too dramatic.

Obviously attaches great importance to the audience, but he is accused of ignoring the audience, which makes him a little sad!

Zhang Jing frowned slightly when she saw Zhang Ran for the first time, her face was a little dark, she knew that he was a little unhappy, so she held his hand and said: "It's okay, we all know that the movie is very good, didn't Director Zhang Yimou say it last night, when "Alive" first came out, there was a lot of scolding in the circle, and no one said it was good, and now it has become a classic!"

Zhang Ran smiled at Zhang Jingchu, yes, there are still many people who can understand themselves, he reached out and took Zhang Jingchu into his arms, kissed her head, and smiled: "I'm not so fragile, I know what I'm doing!"

Zhang Ran knew that there would definitely be a lot of scolding before filming "One Man Puts on the Lights", but he still insisted on filming. This is really not capricious, but he knows very well that to be a teacher, you have to give students a glass of water, and the teacher must have a bucket of water, and this is actually the case as a director.

Now is the age of the Internet, there are too many movies that the audience can access, and the tastes change quickly, as a director, you must keep learning and coming up with new things to meet the unpredictable needs of the audience.

The reason why Nolan is so popular as a commercial film director is that he constantly challenges himself and keeps coming up with new things. His debut film "The Following" is a crime film, "Fragments of Memory" is a thriller, "Deadly Magic" is a classical, "Batman Prequel" trilogy is a purely commercial superhero movie, "Inception" is a suspenseful sci-fi plot with a thousand twists and turns, which is confusing and relished, and "Interstellar" is based on space travel and black hole theory, and each of his films has something new in it.

If a director only has three axes, when the audience is tired of watching your three axes, they will abandon you.

Zhang Ran doesn't want to repeat himself, let alone be eliminated by the audience, he wants to experiment with more techniques, so that his films have more possibilities; at the same time, as a director, Zhang Ran also has his own artistic pursuit, he hopes to go further on the road of art, and even leave a name in film history, no matter what aspice, this experiment is a must.

In the face of the accusation of ignoring the audience, Zhang Ran wanted to explain, but after thinking about it, forget it, any explanation is pale and powerless, and when "Future Apocalypse" comes out, the facts will explain everything.

No matter what others say, in Zhang Ran's opinion, as an experimental film, "One Person's Lights" perfectly reproduces the multi-part montage, which is enough!