The crew of "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb", Song Zheng took Xu Huaiyu to stand behind the staff, watching Uncle Ge and Shu Qi play, one was in a serious sad spring, and the other was in a serious way, Song Zheng looked at it, and the corners of his mouth turned up unconsciously.

This kind of road is right, a pathetic drama like "1942" is not Feng Xiaogang's forte, and returning to his own unique Feng's comedy can be regarded as returning to the right track.

In the minds of many people, Feng Xiaogang is the big winner of the Chinese New Year, the guarantee of the box office, and the synonym of funny. However, since the beginning of "Night Banquet", Feng Xiaogang suddenly put down what he is best at, holding back a lot of bullish energy, and he has to let people see his different side.

Many people say that Feng Xiaogang is impetuous, but in fact, it is not true, in those years, several major directors in China rushed to make costume blockbusters, but in exchange for only a moment of beauty on the screen, fleeting, word-of-mouth and box office are completely out of proportion.

In last year's "1942", Feng Xiaogang tried to transform into an epic blockbuster, but the result was still not good, the audience didn't buy it at all, and was used to watching Feng Xiaogang's New Year's comedy.

Sometimes, the psychology of the audience is so strange, you don't change, everyone says that you are conformist and don't know how to innovate. You change, and people say that you have deviated from the course and lost your style.

Feng Xiaogang is even more so, in the hearts of many audiences, he has always been the civilian director who is good at capturing the moving moments of small people, and his brilliance comes from the ordinary.

Probably after experiencing two unsatisfactory experiences, his mind settled down, so after Song Zheng's proposal, "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" came into being.

Feng Xiaogang finally let go of everything and decided to make movies in a down-to-earth manner and return to the path he is best at.

Although "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" transforms the story from the ordinary life of ordinary people in the market to the journey of modern people chasing love in a metropolis full of high-rise buildings and busy traffic, the core of the story is still to refract a certain aspect of this society with the ordinary.

In the story, Shu Qi plays a lover, while Uncle Ge plays a returnee who wants to find true love through marriage. During this period, he met all kinds of people, and after several twists and turns, Qin Fen finally met Liang Xiaoxiao, a beautiful woman in love. Helpless, the beauty has a heart. How did Qin Fen swim against the current? After a few episodes of sorrow and joy, where there is a will, there is a way, and Qin Fen finally started a new journey with his true love.

The story is ordinary, but the extraordinary can be found in the ordinary, and Feng's humor is fully revealed, and the simplest is often the most real.

Few Chinese directors can remember this.

Life is often more dramatic than movies, but it is a real life.

In fact, strictly speaking, the main Uncle Ge's "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" does not follow Feng Xiaogang's Beijing-style comedy routine in the traditional sense.

In his previous life, when "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" was released, Song Zheng also went to Feng Xiaogang's unique Beijing-style comedy, but after watching it, I felt that "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" and Feng Xiaogang's previous Feng's comedy had undergone a great change, and it can even be said that Feng Xiaogang's previous Beijing-style comedy routine was abandoned by himself.

For a long time, Feng-style comedies have established their own comedy style with the ridiculous Yanjing Hutong, starting from the relatively early "The Story of the Editorial Department" to the three masterpieces of "Party A and Party B", "See You and Leave", and "Endless", all of which follow the authentic Beijing flavor to create a comedy style, even if it is a drama style of "Beijinger in New York" and "A Sigh" , is also to tell the story of authentic Yanjing people, but as the so-called success is also Yanjing, defeat is also Yanjing, Feng Xiaogang's Yanjing style once limited the imbalance in the popularity of his films in the northern and southern markets of China, especially in the past, he relied too much on Wang Shuo in the style of the script, and added the unique ruffian flavor of Beijing style to his films.

Until the appearance of "Big Names", Feng Xiaogang was the first time to broaden his horizons to the southern market, and even the international market, although the joining of the beautiful actress Guan Zhilin and the American actor Donald Suserland was out of commercial considerations, but it turned out that Feng Xiaogang's move was quite meaningful and very far-sighted in business, precisely because Feng Xiaogang was not only satisfied with being a box office director who sold commercially, therefore, finally getting rid of Wang Shuo's style has also become an inevitable result under the general trend.

Of course, for the first time, putting aside Wang Shuo and returning to the comedy route, the painful period is inevitable, from the perspective of comedy effect, "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" can only be regarded as qualified, and most of the comedy parts are concentrated in the beginning of the movie.

The beginning of the story is that Qin Fen, a returnee from the three no-seas played by Uncle Ge, sells his so-called invention to Chef Fan to the big money played by Chef Fan, in fact, it is a cylindrical iron box, so that the two sides can guess in the dark to decide whether to win or lose, the so-called winner is king, such a simple and rough adjudication method seems to be really effective in avoiding the so-called disputes.

Of course, this is a very child's play setting, but the beginning of comedy often starts from child's play, the big-money Fan chef spent a sky-high price to buy Uncle Ge's child-like invention, and Uncle Ge, who suddenly became not worried about food and clothing, decided to solve lifelong events for himself in the form of marriage in the inevitable emptiness of material life, so he played a marriage advertisement.

So all kinds of characters appeared, and the audience continued to see familiar types of characters from the crowd of people who came to marry Uncle Ge, such as Feng Yuanzheng's homosexuality, stock speculation madman Hu Ke, Xu Ruoxuan, who was pregnant with Liujia and came to find a father for the child in her belly, Luo Haiqiong, who played a minority girl, a woman who came to promote her cemetery business through marriage, and a young woman who was extremely cold to sex.

And Liang Xiaoxiao, a flight attendant played by Shu Qi, carries Feng Xiaogang's extreme sympathy for a woman who has no result and can't extricate herself in the movie.

Xiaoxiao and Qin Fen's marriage began with their own momentary swaying and hesitation, but the beauty of love is here, precisely because the two parties do not have any purpose when they meet, therefore, they can open their hearts to each other, Xiaoxiao confessed to Qin Fen the pain of falling in love with a married man, Qin Fen also told Xiaoxiao about the unbearable past hidden in his heart, this scene is very inconsistent with Feng Xiaogang's original narrative routine, not like a comedy but like a literary film.

The passage of Xiaoxiao and Qin Fen's acquaintance also seems to indicate that the two will continue to sway between comedy and drama on the road of love in the future, although Feng Xiaogang has put a lot of effort into Uncle Ge's lines as usual, but the too heavy love has mixed the legs of comedy, and in the face of the bitter and sad Shu Qi, Uncle Ge's humor and amusement are obviously not as effective as against Xu Fan.

Maybe Shu Qi has played too many roles of the same type in literary films, so in "If You Are the One, Do Not Disturb", Feng Xiaogang seems to continue to rely on the roles that Shu Qi has played in the past, and the result of this is to constantly weaken the atmosphere of comedy, but Shu Qi's one-man show is a passage with a very dignified atmosphere in the movie.

The marriage solicitation at the beginning of the movie seems to be nothing more than a commercial gimmick Feng Xiaogang used to ensure the success of the movie, and it seems that Feng Xiaogang believes that the love scene between Shu Qi and Uncle Ge in the movie is the main axis of the movie, so he had to end the humorous passage of Uncle Ge's marriage in a hurry, so although Uncle Ge went south from Yanjing to the south and finally traveled to Hokkaido with Shu Qi, the style of the movie moved all the way from comedy to literary and artistic roads, especially in the passages in Hokkaido.

At the beginning, the plot of the funeral of the underworld boss by mistake had a slight comedic effect, but in some places it was obviously overused, especially the confession part, which was very dramatic, Uncle Ge's endless confession to the priest in the chapel, obviously added in order to balance the comedy and drama in the movie, although it was humorous and funny, but it was meaningless.

The high tide scene of the movie is Shu Qi's suicide by throwing herself into the sea, although she was rescued in the end, but in a comedy featuring Feng Shi's New Year, such an unconventional plot once again shows Feng Xiaogang's determination to break his previous narrative routine, perhaps what he wants to express means that only by dying once can he completely forget the love that made him feel open to his heart in the past.

Although the effort is heavier, it is not so abrupt because of the enough foreshadowing of the emotional drama between Shu Qi and Fang Zhongxin before.

Although Shu Qi wanted to forget her past love by traveling to Hokkaido with Uncle Ge, it backfired, and the desolation of things and people did not make Shu Qi forget her feelings, but became more and more inextricable.

It doesn't seem to be enough.

However, it is not really necessary to do this, a definition must be given, in general, "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" is definitely a work of conscience compared with those bad movies that are flooded on the screen and accept the crazy complaints of the vast number of melon-eating people.

At least, the whole movie made the audience laugh when it should have a comedic effect, and it did move people when it should use lyricism to set off the atmosphere, although this kind of comedic effect and dramatic moving is somewhat superficial, but at least there should be, all of them.

Especially after experiencing "Night Banquet" and "1942", Song Zheng believes that "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" can definitely bring enough surprises to the audience, Feng Xiaogang, who has returned to the comedy route, believes that the audience's requirements for him will not be too high, so that the audience will be happy and comfortable, which is enough.

The whole film basically continues the funny style of Feng's comedy movies, Song Zheng still remembers that when he went to the cinema to watch this movie in his last life, every time Uncle Ge opened his mouth, he could almost trigger bursts of laughter in the theater, and in the first half of the movie, the dense jokes were dizzying.

It wasn't until Xiaoxiao played by Shu Qi appeared that the story gradually had a real main line, instead of letting the audience watch Uncle Ge's poor mouth all the time, and the beauties came one after another, wouldn't that be "Love Call Transfer"?

The appearance of Shu Qi can be said to have started a qualitative change in the style of the whole movie, and "If You Are the Truth, Do Not Disturb" is not just a comedy.

The story is about the flight attendant Xiaoxiao and an extramarital affair, and then Xiaoxiao's "special" requirements for Qin Fen also make these emotional threads begin to intertwine and complicate more.

But Feng Xiaogang did not explore these loves in too much depth, but slowly unfolded them with a bystander mentality. In the end, Xiaoxiao's suicide is an attempt to turn the film into a love tragedy.

But after all, this is a typical Feng comedy, laughing and laughing was rescued, dissipating many of the previous unhappiness, at the end of the movie, the "divergence terminal" appeared again, Qin Fen saw the future from it, and Feng Xiaogang brought the audience the warm hope in life as usual.

Therefore, although the funniness of the film is not as good as the film version of the cross talk joke compilation series such as "Party A", the marriage passage in it has a little shadow of the satirical comedy that Feng Xiaogang likes, but compared with the unscrupulousness of "Big Names", "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" is obviously not enough, as for the degree of sensationalism, if it is compared with "Never Lose My Love", or even the tear bombs in the last paragraph of "No Thieves in the World", it is far inferior.

But this is also the best thing about "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb", this is a movie with no ambition, so the film is not like "Party A" to force you to laugh with a stiff neck, nor is it like "Night Banquet" must say something, want the audience to admit his profundity, this film is very casual and casual, but in this casualness, Feng Xiaogang is funny, sarcastic, sad, Idealism, through a journey between an older young man who is asking for marriage everywhere and a young woman who is dead set on a married man, is expressed more naturally, and they are mixed, the insight in the ridicule, the generosity in the insight, the loneliness in the generosity, and the desire in the loneliness.

When Feng Xiaogang gave up his ambitions, his films were less contrived and deliberate, and more of a more light but real expression of human emotions.

The most obvious change is that Feng Xiaogang has become introverted, so in the movie, the audience saw Uncle Ge suddenly crying and wanted to hold back, but they couldn't cry for a long time.

Seeing that Liang Xiaoxiao wanted to avoid Fang Zhongxin's comfort, after struggling, he cried and slapped him on the shoulder again and again.

Seeing the repeated Qin Fen and the coach practicing badminton, his lonely sweaty face.

These silent shots give the film a calm temperament, and the empty shots that often appear in the film make the film farther away from those roaring Chinese New Year films.

"If You Are the One, Do Not Disturb" is different because of this sense of distance, it filters out the overly fat part of Feng Xiaogang's film, and the kind of spectator perspective gives the film a sad undertone.

The previous Feng Xiaogang movies were very full, but this movie is better than having blank spaces, the previous Feng Xiaogang movies were very heavy, and "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" has more subtle emotional control.

The best shot is naturally the trip to Hokkaido, and every scene in this half of the road movie is very subtle, with a slight sense of banter, but with warmth, like a shrewd and sophisticated person who has experienced the vicissitudes of life, looking at the life that has passed.

For example, Qin Fen went well with Liang Xiaoxiao in order to ask the Buddha to bless him, but he mistakenly entered the funeral of a Japanese gangster, for example, he went to the chapel to confess, and the generous priest couldn't hold on to save him again and again.

Several emotional scenes between the two were also filmed quite interesting but subtle and restrained, one was Qin Fen and Liang Xiaoxiao had an awkward quarrel at the bar, Qin Fen, who felt panicked, decided to go to the four sisters' izakaya to let his body "desert", but he didn't expect that the four sisters on the signboard were actually four kind old ladies, Xiaoxiao didn't worry about going to the wine house to find them, seeing Qin Fen wearing a funny mask, he punched Qin Fen with a smile, and the turmoil passed silently, and a warm and life-like texture arose.

The other scene is Qin Fen pretending to be a bear to show his true feelings, interesting scenes, funny outfits, real love words through the fake mask, Xiaoxiao was moved and remembered the despair of her absent love, and the tears shed by the superposition of the two made this scene meaningful.

The most touching thing is the scene where Liang Xiaoxiao and Qin Fenjue say goodbye at the end, Liang Xiaoxiao lights a cigarette for Qin Fen, back to back, and then there is a dialogue, which probably means that he wants to repay Qin Fen with his body, Qin Fen said: You just let me be stupid.

Liang Xiaoxiao's expression was complicated, but he leaned his head on Qin Fen's shoulder, for a long time, the picture was calm, the waves were still there, and the lighthouse was silent. At this moment, the wordlessness of the deep love, the heart-to-heart connection as if they have known, and the comfort between two lonely people soaked the screen together.

In this film, Feng Xiaogang devoted all his efforts to these details, or in other words, Feng Xiaogang, the most storyteller in the mainland film industry, consciously began to abandon the story this time, and began to devote himself to the daily emotional state of the characters.

There should be some Feng Xiaogang's own feelings in it, and Qin Fen played by Uncle Ge has a part of Feng Xiaogang's own shadow, which is a middle-aged innocent man who uses oil slip as a shield.

Qin Fen's meeting with those various marriage seekers can be seen as a projection of this deformed real world, and the dead-eyed woman played by Liang Xiaoxiao is the embodiment of Feng Xiaogang's idealism, and her determination to die adds a layer of elegiac feelings to the film, that kind of mourning makes all the details glue together, so that the loose plot converges into a more real force.

It must be admitted that "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" is still a work labeled as "Feng Xiaogang's New Year Comedy", a return work full of sincerity.

If the audience wants to be entertained during the Chinese New Year, "If You Are the Truth, Do Not Disturb" is obviously the first choice.

After all, Feng Xiao's movie just now mainly brings us joy, sitting in the cinema and laughing easily for two hours, in this regard, "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" still does it.

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