Song Zheng said that "I Am Not Pan Jinlian" is a pit, but he is not wrong at all, movies like this that reflect reality and focus on the most sensitive events in today's society are very common abroad, but in China, they are absolutely rare.

The scenes depicted in the story are actually not unfamiliar to most people, such as the annual meeting, whether it is in the place or above, there are many people who have to be busy for a while, and transportation, food, and law and order will be affected.

The problem is that no matter how abnormal things happen, as soon as they happen, people get used to them and learn to turn a blind eye.

Even, in the previous life, when this movie was released, when Feng Xiaogang and the main creators of the movie put all the practical problems in front of them, people would subconsciously choose to avoid them.

paid attention to the appearance of the actors, discussed the sudden confrontation, denounced that this movie affected the schedule of other movies, and even "this theme is not pleasant to listen to, don't watch it", in a variety of postures and colorful.

Because of such a reality, "I Am Not Pan Jinlian" has greater value, whether people like it or not, whether they are happy or not, it unavoidably pushes the facts that people ignore intentionally or unintentionally, as well as the things that people want to say, but are not easy to say, or simply dare not say them, and cannot avoid pushing them to the front.

Let everyone see that there are still such things happening in this world, and there are still people living like that, so that people can see and remember the real life.

Feng Xiaogang made this movie in his previous life, which can be described as bold, and no director has ever dared to expose all the social problems that exist in reality so violently.

The realistic themes touched on in the whole story include housing, limited purchase, policy, and second child. Policies, petitions, interceptions, petitions, prevarication of responsibilities by officials, evasion of mass issues, and detention of non-legal, personal, personal, and detainees.

Especially regarding the matter of "petitioning", as far as Song Zheng knows, no director in China has ever dared to take the risk of filming this sensitive subject.

If nothing else, just because of the incomparably powerful and powerful mythical beast river crab, after all, no one wants their hard-working work to end up in the production company's warehouse covered with ashes.

"Brother Xiaogang, you can think about it!"

Feng Xiaogang's eyes were quite disdainful: "What's the matter, Zhengzi, you don't dare!"

, this inferior agitation!

But Song Zheng is still decisive, and he deliberately hit the plan, the key is because it is a pity that such a good movie is not made.

In recent years, Song Zheng has indeed rarely made this kind of film that focuses on realistic issues, but this does not mean that his mind is full of money, Song Zheng asked himself that he is still a very conscientious Chinese filmmaker, and the sense of responsibility in his heart is not missing at all.

At present, the Chinese film industry is indeed becoming more and more prosperous, but it seems to be getting farther and farther away from reality, which is obviously not a good thing.

Therefore, this movie has to be made, and it must be filmed well, but the difficulty, needless to say, Song Zheng and Feng Xiaogang are clear.

In the previous life, this film was full of disasters from the beginning of the project, and there were many obstacles that were difficult for outsiders to submit the script for review. Fortunately, Liu Zhenyun and Feng Xiaogang are well-connected, and they are persistent enough, coupled with the efforts of the two CEOs of the producer Huayi Brothers, the script started filming after a long time.

The filming process is also low-key enough, the outside world knows that this film is being filmed, but there is very little news that can be released, and almost no media is allowed to visit the class.

It is in this state of hiding and covering that the story filmed is not much different from the original book. But when the film is cut, the text that has gone through three reviews and three proofreadings and turned into legal publications has become images, and the trouble seems to have just begun, and it is continuous review, comments, revisions, reshoots, editing, and subtitles, and this process is not over until the film is scheduled for the first time, the publicity is launched, and the posters are spread all over the bus stop.

In the middle, the schedule was adjusted, and Spain won the award, which caused a lot of speculation about the content from the outside world, until it was released, and a new version was finally released after a round of adjustments.

Let's not talk about the quality of the movie, Song Zheng expressed his sincere admiration for Feng Xiaogang, who made such a realistic theme despite difficulties.

"Okay, you're awesome, you're going to shoot, right? I'll accompany you!"

When Feng Xiaogang heard this, he immediately felt happy in his heart, and said, "Seriously, don't fool people!"

Song Zheng spat on the ground: "A mouthful of spit, a nail!"

Manly man, the water that is spilled out of the words that are spoken, how can there be anything that does not count, and there is no need for words to corroborate, the two of them have said it, and it has been decided.

Feng Xiaogang smiled: "Na Cheng, you can come up with this manuscript first, and also help Lao Liu come up with ideas!"

Song Zheng didn't shirk it, but if he came up with an idea or something, Liu Zhenyun had already set the core of the whole story, and he was still mixing something.

After the release of "I Am Not Pan Jinlian" in his previous life, there were many debates around this movie, especially that Feng Xiaogang wanted to say something through this movie.

Some people say that it is to expose officialdom, some people say that it is to pay attention to vulnerable groups, but in fact, in Song Zheng's view, the most thorough thing in this movie is a question of credibility, to be precise, how people are untrustworthy.

The beginning of this absurd story stems from the husband Qin Yuhe's dishonesty to his wife Li Xuelian, who said that he would fake the divorce, whether it was to divide the house or to have a second child, the husband and wife decided to do one thing, and mutual trust is the foundation.

However, Qin Yuhe deceived Li Xuelian and married a new love after the divorce, this humiliation of being deceived was Li Xuelian's decision to sue, "unreasonable", and turned over the matter that had no problem in the legal process.

The first step in the escalation of the matter was for Li Xuelian to go to the county government to stop the car and file a complaint, because she really could not turn over in law, and there was nothing wrong with what the court did. But the county magistrate who was blocked at the door didn't ask anything, directly deceived Li Xuelian, ran back to the county government and slipped away through the back door, so the originally righteous official had his first dishonesty.

Soon, the second breach of trust also came, and he said that he would find someone to solve the problem, but not only did no one solve it, but a car came, and Li Xuelian was arrested and sent to the study class. Just as the county magistrate later lost his temper and said, "Which provision of the constitution says that ordinary people are not allowed to sue", at this point, Li Xuelian's reasons for making a big fuss are even more sufficient.

In the third step, Li Xuelian went to Yanjing to complain, did not dare to tell the truth to Zhao Datou, lied to him that he came to Beijing for tourism, and found an opportunity to stop the chief's car.

Because of this dishonesty, Li Xuelian felt guilty about Zhao Datou, but she also became vigilant, so she and Zhao Datou almost became a good thing, but in front of Zhao Datou's selfishness, she lost trust again.

The fourth step is that the complaint is successful, the chief is angry, the pressure is from top to bottom, and the mayor, county magistrate, and court president are all removed from their posts and replaced by a group of people. It is said that Li Xuelian's problem should be solved, but they have all seen that people can withdraw, and the fake divorce is not resolved, which is equivalent to the official dishonesty again.

The most paradoxical thing is that why Li Xuelian sued is no longer the focus, and the focus is that she can't be allowed to sue anymore, especially not to go to Yanjing again. Even if the chief has slapped the table and removed the officials, it seems that the right of the people to sue has not returned. If it is not resolved, it will not be publicized, this is the dishonesty of the officialdom system to the top and bottom.

The fifth step is that no one believes anyone, and the matter becomes a dead knot. Li Xuelian said that she would not sue this year, and the official did not believe it, so she had to give a written guarantee. The official said that we will help you solve the problem, but Li Xuelian doesn't believe it, and if you want to solve it, you can only go to Yanjing.

Vice President Jia Congming of the court didn't want to take the normal legal route, but asked Zhao Datou to trick Li Xuelian into getting married and press the fake divorce.

Although Zhao Datou really loves Li Xuelian, he has his own little abacus, so after the revelation, there is no chance to explain at all.

Li Xuelian went to the hospital and had no money to pay, saying that she was looking for relatives to borrow money, but the ambulance driver didn't believe her and urged her all the way.

When the county magistrate and others found Li Xuelian, the first thing they did was to drive away the ambulance driver first, but the hospital didn't get the money, and Li Xuelian forgot about it.

Only Qin Yuhe died, this accident was real, and no one could not believe it, so there was no reason to complain, believe it or not, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the matter was solved in a confused way.

But if you look back, the cause of the incident, Li Xuelian should have suffered by herself, because this cycle of dishonesty started with her.

It was she who filed for a fake divorce, tried to deceive the law and the state, and brought things to a dead end. The mutual dishonesty of the individual and the state is a cycle.

In this story, no one is completely clean, not even Li Xuelian, who is the most sympathetic. A story that can't distinguish between good guys and bad guys, and makes it impossible to tell who is right and who is wrong, but everyone in this story has the shadow of every viewer who has seen this movie.

Therefore, it is more realistic, and the hypocrisy that prevails in the entire social class, mutual deception, and the "dishonesty" that can be done but cannot be said are the internal causes of this absurd story.

This is also Liu Zhenyun's consistent method of making up stories, often starting with the family, the people who should be closest to each other, deceiving each other and breaking their promises, using one lie to make up for the other, the lie is getting bigger and bigger, and finally it becomes a disaster.

"Mobile Phone" is like this, "One Sentence Top 10,000 Sentences" is like this, and "I Am Not Pan Jinlian" has a larger pattern, extending from the family to the social system, and is still talking about this problem.

The family is the cell of society, the most basic unit of composition. If there are always such problems in the family, then the social disease should not be light, let alone the officialdom where the contradictions are most concentrated. A society that was supposed to be governed by the rule of law could only rely on accidents to solve the problem in the end, and everything became a joke.

What's even more interesting is that a prominent metaphor is also made in the movie. The old president of the court and his wife walked hand in hand for 50 years of golden wedding, and their subordinates congratulated them with wine and asked what was the secret?

The old president replied: "Bear with me!"

The wife slapped the table and said angrily: "No, it's to endure again and again." ”

Legal workers have to rely on the vague word "forbearance" rather than the more explicit words "understanding" and "reasoning" to explain the 50 years of cooperation, which Song Zheng finds very interesting and in line with the reality of the Chinese.

If Li Xuelian endured it at the beginning, wouldn't it be like these things later?

Who TM can know!

The two of them decided to shoot, and the next question is how to shoot.

How to shoot?

Song Zheng's first thought was the unique composition of the original "I Am Not Pan Jinlian".

In the previous life, the "circular composition" can be described as a new attempt in the picture of "I Am Not Pan Jinlian", which is said to be the product of a dispute between Feng Xiaogang and director of photography Luo Pan.

In the whole movie, the story that takes place in the small town adopts a circular composition, leaving the town to go to the field, it adopts a square composition, and at the end, the problem of the complaint is solved, everyone returns to normal life, and the picture returns to the normal full frame.

After the release of the film, in the face of many questions, Feng Xiaogang gave the explanation that the change in composition was to reflect the Chinese saying that "there are no rules and no circle", and the circle and square form the most direct picture hint in the story.

In Song Zheng's view, this change in the size of the painting also reflects the gradual opening up of Li Xuelian's life, from the beginning of being trapped in the problem of complaining, to finally returning to normal, and the visual constraints are slowly opened.

Because of the attempt of "square and circle composition", the whole story reflects a strong style on the picture, but also has a great restriction on expression.

In the circular composition, the camera mostly adopts a calm spectator perspective, mainly still shots and simple panning, and mostly uses medium and long shots, without strong push-pull changes, and lacks close-up close-ups, as if it is a stage play that cannot change the perspective, and the mood is very restrained.

Coupled with simple subtitles, low-contrast dim yellow tones, and Feng Xiaogang's quiet and leisurely narration, a "earthly style painting" is completed.

In the following square composition, there is more vision, emphasizing symmetry and uprightness, reflecting the strict order of the system, and at the same time contrasting Li Xuelian's personal insignificance and powerlessness in the system.

However, the picture of Fang Yuan's composition is fresh and good-looking, but also because of the limitations of the picture and the complexity of the characters in the story, it forms a great constraint on the performance of the actors, and also puts forward higher requirements.

The lack of close-up close-ups makes the majority of action performances in the performance, and there are few scenes of subtle expressions, so the posture, pace, and posture of the actors are the main means used by each character to express their emotions.

I can't fail to mention Fan Bingbing's Li Xuelian, this play can probably be said to be the most wonderful performance she has ever given since the film.

At first, I complained, and life was a hurried step, with a slightly bent waist, a head stretched forward, and a posture of anxious talking. Until she returned from Yanjing and brought down a group of officials, she straightened her waist in the conversation, neither humble nor arrogant, and after feeling deceived by Zhao Datou and hopeless victory, she returned to a state of weakness and procrastination.

As the only female character in the whole story, it is also the driving force that drives the whole story forward, and all the dramatic conflicts in the whole play revolve around Li Xuelian alone.

Liu Zhenyun also spent a lot of effort when designing this role, Song Zheng felt that Li Xuelian was very interesting, she lived in a lonely environment that was not understood and felt that she "had nothing to do", no living person could communicate with her honestly, and if she had anything to say, she could only talk to the cows in the bullpen.

It is very difficult to present this state perfectly, because it lacks sufficiently distinct external characteristics, and silence, avoidance, and insincerity are the norm for this character.

In the movie, Fan Bingbing bowed his head, shrunk his shoulders, gritted his teeth, and sat paralyzed, with different scenes performing differently, and the characters' depression and stubbornness were expressed in place. Until he learned of the death of his ex-husband, the complaint was hopeless, and he sat on the ground and wailed, completing the emotional outburst.

It can be said that Fan Bingbing was able to win a Best Actress award at a film festival in Spain, partly because of the advantages of character setting, and partly because she did reach the soul level of the character, creating an ignorant and stubborn peasant woman.

The only fly in the ointment is that Fan Bingbing is too beautiful, and the excellent external conditions are obviously not completely covered by makeup, which leads to the lack of persuasion of her, a peasant woman, until the second half of the makeup is old.

Thinking of Fan Bingbing, Song Zheng couldn't help but think about what happened to this woman now, just because he heard a story he said, Fan Bingbing rushed to experience life, and now Song Zheng didn't know where the person was.

However, this is also a good thing, at least Fan Bingbing has now begun to really face up to her profession as an actor, she used to be like a speculative gambler no matter what she did, but now she is much better, at least she has begun to respect her profession.

After filming "Ten Thousand Arrows Through the Heart" and then filming "I Am Not Pan Jinlian", I think she can completely get rid of the title of vase and truly become a domestic first-line actor, rather than a first-line star.

In addition to Fan Bingbing, the only female character, among the many male characters in the original movie, Dapeng and Yu Hewei have the most scenes, and Dapeng is more eye-catching, because the contrast between his front and back is too obvious, and with his higher and higher hairline, the innocent suffering of a judge is very straightforward.

The county magistrate played by Yu Hewei interprets this role very well, the head of the soldiers, the position of a thousand lines falling into one person, every day by the trouble below, and the pressure of the superiors are forced to be almost cornered, slapping the table and scolding the street to his subordinates, and always self-criticizing his superiors, Yu Hewei fully embodies the pain of splinting, every time he holds his forehead and laments, before he speaks, he can cause laughter from the audience.

Relatively speaking, Chef Fan's fruit farmer, Zhang Yi's Jia Congming, Zhang Jiayi's mayor, Huang Jianxin's governor, and Gao Ming's chief, all have distinctive character characteristics and are in good shape, but unfortunately there are few scenes, too thin, and they disappear when they complete their due functions, and they do not have the plump and meticulous character image of the county magistrate played by Yu Hewei.

Even if the roles are different, in this scene of a woman and a group of men, a commoner and a group of officials, all the actors contributed their best performances.

The absurdity, sorrow and joy of this life are truly restored to everyone's eyes. After the movie was released in his previous life, Song Zheng watched it more than a dozen times before and after, and every time he watched it, he could still be the same as the first time, sometimes laughing, sometimes sighing, because the real life he knew was like this, and it was staged in front of him every day.

is like such a good movie that is so real that it hits the heart every minute and every second, why shouldn't Song Zheng be moved?

"Brother Xiaogang, follow Lao Liu, the script will come out as soon as possible, and in addition, the role of the county magistrate in this play will be reserved for me!"