In my memory, "Crazy Stone" was released relatively early, so the box office was not particularly high. However, in this world, the Chinese film market has already exploded, and it is also Li Yi's movie.
It was released during the Spring Festival and it was a hit at the box office.
In fact, the audience's requirements are really not high. Even in this era, as long as the story can be told well, the comedy is funny, and the audience is entertained, they are still happy to contribute to the box office.
But putting aside the multi-line narrative, many people are a little confused, what is so good about this movie?
Yes, it obviously seems to be an old story, and the story is not new, but the audience just bought it.
Someone analyzed: "What is so good about "Crazy Stone"?"
"There may be many answers to this question, but my answer to this question is only two words: details.
First of all, the film has a compact lens, each story is separate and connected, there are transitions at different times, and the same event can be viewed from multiple perspectives.
In fact, I was confused the first time I watched it. Really, especially since I don’t know much about the city of Shancheng, I always found it a bit strange.
But after watching it for the second time, especially after understanding the characteristics of the city of Shancheng, you will find that the real movie was shot in Shancheng. As a background, it is very appropriate.
"What the hell is going on?" That's how I felt when I watched "Crazy Stone" for the first time, and it's also the reason why I never tire of watching it.
At first, many of the plots that appeared in the movie felt redundant. What does Brother Bao's inability to pee have to do with the stone?
I can't help but think about it. After all, this is a movie directed by Li Yi. His movies rarely contain useless scenes, so I can't help but wonder... that stone is...
.Gallstones?
I really did think so at first, especially since the "womb" is used to describe the city at the beginning, everyone understands it!
Plus the movie title is "Crazy Stone", so you really can't blame me for having random thoughts.
So what is it actually?
The answer is the pressure imposed by society, or in other words, the pressure faced by a man in mid-life crisis.
Who is Bao Shihong?
He graduated from the police academy and studied criminal investigation, but ended up working as a security guard.
It doesn't matter. There is no distinction between high and low jobs. If you just follow the steps, then it won't matter. However, it happened that the house leaked and it rained all night.
The factory is about to close down. He is a man, a middle-aged man. The salary in this job is not high, and he has to support his family, but the factory can no longer pay wages. What should he do?
The pressure is on this man. He has a man's self-esteem, especially when his wife is so good, he must think about making money.
So I drove the factory car to practice driving, and got hit by a "self-driving car".
He wanted money but no money, career but no career. He gave up a lot of things to protect this piece of shit, but in the end he found out that he had been outsourced.
To describe this person in one word, miserable!
Life is so unsatisfactory, and prostatitis is a symptom of his anger!
It was precisely because he got angry and took longer to pee than others that the sensor alarm was developed.
Don't laugh! I know many people can't help but laugh when they see it at first, but don't laugh.
As a small character, a small person, the resources available to him are too limited. You can make fun of him for using the toilet sensor as an alarm, but you can't deny that in such a situation, he had an idea.
It's just right!
Do you dare to say it’s useless? Maybe it’s not that useful, but in fact, facts have proven that it’s better than nothing!
After getting angry all the way, he finally caught the international thief Mike in a chaotic situation and became a hero.
When I commended him, he was still in the toilet. At first he couldn't pee, but finally he peeed. From that moment of peeing, life was no longer blocked and finally became smooth!
Is it easy for him to be praised as a "hero"? It's really not easy. This is the success of a small person. Is Bao Shihong short of money? Yes. Does he want money? Yes. If he really wants money, as a divorcee
The person closest to the stone can take the jade and make a fortune.
But the characteristic of Bao Shihong is that he is completely upright, until he finally got the real stone by mistake.
There is another detail that is interesting in retrospect. The old man was pulling strings and practicing Qigong by the river. He just watched it, and later he went to learn hey, ha, hey, ha.
In fact, I was thinking that this must be because Bao Shihong has seen through it. All ups and downs are fake and will eventually return to the starting point. Regardless of whether you have money or not, you will grow old and live such a life. Pursue what you want in your heart.
Satisfaction is more important than pursuing anything else.
Speaking of Bao Shihong, we should also talk about the Three Treasures. Fans of the Three Treasures Lottery want to get rich. Speaking of the prototype of the Three Treasures, I think they are young working-class young people in the streets. There is an old woman to support at home, with no education and people.
He is not very clever, but he is blessed. God allowed him to hang out with Bao Shihong, a righteous person in the world. It was not until he was beaten severely that he realized that a person must be down-to-earth.
Next, what are Brother Dao and the others?
Bad guys, thieves, robberies, kidnappings, whatever.
But are they kind? I want to say that the answer is a matter of opinion. They can be so bad that they hit the police with a hammer, or they can be so warm that they hug other people's puppies. They are a group of people who are cast aside by society."
I feel like these words can be applied to them. But they did not commit murder or arson. If Xie Xiaomeng hadn't fallen in love with Brother Dao's wife, they probably wouldn't have received a severe beating. They are people struggling at the bottom of society.
So-called "criminals".
So who is the real criminal? Director Feng, the CEO, the big boss. He sits in the yard and shoots animals wantonly, and orders his men to deprive the people at the bottom of their hard-earned money.
Xie Xiaomeng represents the second generation of rich people. The factory is so unlucky. He still has no skills and goes out to pick up girls. In order to pick up girls, he steals the stone that saved the factory.
I have to admire Director Li Yi's creativity.
Starting from the discovery of the stone, the film begins an ironic and humorous journey. The bald boss who wants to occupy the land of the handicraft factory, the professional thief from Hong Kong Island, the confident and nervous security chief of the Confucian Temple, three sensitive and bold people
The thief in Hong Kong and the son of the director of the handicraft factory formed a complicated and contradictory relationship with each other. The professional thief in Hong Kong obviously had an international label and every move was professional. However, as soon as he got off the plane, he was killed by three thieves.
He stole the suitcase with the simplest child's play, indicating that his emphasis on internationalization and specialization may not be suitable for the mainland.
Among the three thieves, Brother Dao obviously understands the national conditions of China best. When a thief asked where the infrared rays were in front of the booth, Brother Dao said contemptuously: "I have watched too many movies." The film starts from the perspective of these people.
, forming a rich and ever-changing network of stories.
The film's satire is also used vividly, especially the experience of the international thief Mike, which all reveals the irony of the so-called high-tech international professional thief. Mike, who was hiding in front of the transformer in a night clothes, was unexpectedly caught by the road swaggering towards him.
Brother was caught off guard.
The thief who fell from the roof beam with a rope and missed the gem by just a hair but was hidden in a trash can for a day while cursing profiteers was trapped in the sewer.
A few days later, when he came out, he didn't forget to call his employer immediately, claiming that "the situation is still under my control." This kind of international professional thief almost encountered an unprecedented blow in the small Luohan Temple.
After Brother Dao lied about the fire and was transferred out of the mountain, security chief Bao Shihong targeted Bangbang as a suspect. He also convened a meeting with Bangbang to solve the hidden dangers in a way full of loyalty in martial arts novels. Afterwards, he boasted to the security guard:
"Look, Bangbang feels much calmer after the meeting." His way of solving problems with quack methods is in huge contrast with Mike's high-tech methods of solving problems. Both are too outrageous and unrealistic.
, so almost every decision they make is wrong.
The most effective method is actually the most direct subcontracting method by the son of the factory director, which is directly and effective. This is undoubtedly the biggest irony to the security chief, Mike and Brother Dao, when they rack their brains and try every means to protect and steal the stone.
At that time, a simple movement of his hand completely ruined the wisdom of three people. After encountering thieves many times, the security section chief was on the verge of despair and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Is there a public toilet? Come if you want.
Just leave if you want?" It's a classic.
The film uses the ridiculing elements of Internet language to add a lot of color to the drama, such as dialects from various places, such as dialects from all over the world on the Internet, "I'll punch you in the lungs" is bound to become the most popular language this year. For example, the camera shoots from each
Situations of encounters are shown separately, such as the plot of a car crash when a gangster rides a motorcycle to grab a bag, which reminds me of the once very popular posts about car crashes on the Internet. The participants in each incident expressed their own perspectives and feelings from their own perspectives.
Telling the same story makes people laugh.
The madness of "Crazy Stone" is really wonderful.
Because in the whole film, almost all the characters are crazy around a "stone".
Bao Shihong and the people in the factory, for this stone, racked their brains crazily and tried every means to protect this stone, because for them, this is not a stone, but hope!
So they are crazy! They work day and night to create conditions to protect it even if there are no conditions.
The son of the factory director is crazy, but it is also ironic. His madness is that the factory is about to go bankrupt, but as the son of the factory director, he is still flirting with girls everywhere, and even steals stones to flirt with girls, but he still succeeds
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Because of this stone, Si Yan'er directly paid with his life. The boss who did many bad things eventually died at the hands of Mike, who hired him.
The tone of the entire movie exudes a ridiculous madness, but in fact, it is a kind of sadness! The sadness of the times! The sadness of the little people!
Of course, there are also those who are not crazy!
Bao Shihong’s wife, Juanzi!
Mrs. Bao seemed to appear three times in the film. The first time was when she was carrying a bag of steel bangs and said to her husband, "I'm so stunned." The second time was when she was on the riverside and said to her haggard husband:
"Stop sobbing, my voice is hoarse~"; the third time, she didn't say anything at all. In their old place, this woman had the "fake" stone worth more than eight million yuan hanging around her neck, feeling extremely trusting and happy.
He closed his eyes and leaned on Bao Shihong's broad shoulders.
In fact, as an actor and a character, Mrs. Bao really doesn't have much space in the movie, and she is not a very beautiful actress.
Because this is an ordinary woman, but in this movie, she seems so special.
In fact, even in this era, she is such a special existence. This woman's pitiful beauty is like the utility knife that Mike took out. Whoosh! penetrated the screen and hit me.
I spent a long time sorting out my feelings. Bao Shihong's wife is so good. What is so good about her?
Later, I finally understood because she was the only one in the movie who wasn't crazy.
If you study the title of the movie, you will find that it is not the stone that is crazy, but the society... I'm sorry, please forgive me for raising an entertainment film to the level of society again! Look back at the movie
The characters, for money (Director Feng, Mike, Brother Dao), for jobs (Bao Shihong and the people in the factory), for face, and for women, they all went crazy!
Only this woman, calm, kind, without desires or demands, silently guarded his haggard husband, who had not received his salary for eight months.
So, I really envy Bao Shihong. Yes, he is a man in mid-life crisis, but in fact, he is happier than many men. Why?
Because he hadn't received his salary for eight months, and he still had prostate problems, but this woman didn't complain at all, and instead silently guarded him.
At the end of the movie, Heipi, who believes in "just grab it", is chased by a bakery clerk on an overpass. Heipi runs wildly while stuffing the meat floss buns he smashed and snatched from the bakery into his mouth. The scene freezes.
An exaggerated face, like "Brother Dao", like "Director Feng", like "Mike", like "Secretary", like "Director Xie", like "Baotou", like "Sambo", like you,
Like me...
But she didn't look like Bao Shihong's wife, so the director arranged to give the stone to her. Yes, she was the only one worthy of it.
This reminds me of Miss Liang in "Dark War". The ending is actually very similar.
They were all doing it for that crazy stone, but only she and she, they were never looking for that priceless stone.
Fake! I believe they all think so in their hearts, but the stone is fake, but they cherish it very much!
Fortunately, this only non-crazy character finally got her wish. At the end of the movie, she had her own child and a husband to take care of her. Although she still didn't have much money, sometimes happiness is so simple!
The whole movie seems to be a farce, a farce crazy about stones.
