Some people say that "Crazy Stone" is essentially a story about a thief.
That's right, after all, the story in the movie always revolves around "stealing" and "protecting" stones.
There is nothing complicated about the story, it's just that some people want to steal the jade, and some want to protect the jade. If it were shot in order, it would be really difficult to have anything outstanding, but the advantage of multi-line narrative lies precisely in this.
There are also people who carefully and comprehensively analyze "Crazy Stone".
Zhou Qingquan wrote in his personal column: "The title of "Crazy Stone" - why is "Stone" "crazy"?"
"We first analyze this stone. It is jade. Its chemical composition is sodium aluminum silicate. Red is jade, green is jade, and the bright green one is the most valuable. But its essence is still a natural ore.
There are countless natural stones. I don’t know why humans favor jade. Maybe it’s a rare commodity. Jade makes people forget its true nature.
Stones are speechless and cannot sing. It is countless thieves who have made jade crazy. "Crazy Stone" reflects the strange current situation of society. Whether it is Chinese coins or US dollars, they are nothing more than dirty pieces of paper, but people are
I don't even think about it, I am obsessed with it, and I even become crazy.
So let’s look at the theme of the movie. What is the theme?
Some people say that it is a story about thieves and those who cannot steal. In fact, there is nothing wrong with this summary. The theme of the movie is the return and subversion of the "stupid thief story".
In my memory, in the folk stories passed down from generation to generation, be it robbers or thieves, they are all "stupid thieves" without exception. This may be an important part of Sichuan regional culture.
Some people divide the human world into three worlds: temple (imperial court), rivers and lakes, and folk worlds. The codes of conduct, values, and cultural characteristics of each world are very different. In works of art, the author is more or less influenced by various concepts.
The dominance and subtle influence of norms.
Judging from the prototypes and motifs of "thieves" stories in film and television art, in temple culture, thieves do all kinds of evil, burning, killing, looting, and running rampant in the countryside. Cowardly people dare not speak out against them, but thieves are only ruthless and have no IQ.
Good people are always ugly in front of them, and the warriors of justice
When they see injustice on the road, they draw their swords to help, but they often encounter difficulties. In the end, it is the pen of an upright official who redresses the grievances of the people. If kind-hearted people unite, there must be a call from the spokesperson of a justice organization to deal with thieves.
They can be defeated easily.
The distant ones are like the "Capture of Thieves" series in the Bao Gong Story series, and the more recent ones are like the encounters of the invaders (who are also considered thieves in a broad sense) in the early days. In many early Anti-Japanese War films, the Japanese were always deceived by three-year-old children.
He made some stupid mistakes and often strayed into the ambushes of our army, guerrillas, and boy scouts. In the end, he always came out for revenge in anger and suffered disaster.
Another example is the mainland police and gangster movies after the 1980s. Most of them are about the devil being as high as the road, and the law enforcement officers can always solve the criminal mysteries of the thieves and arrest the thieves and bring them to justice. There are many examples in this regard, such as Nuqi Thief
No matter how clever the "Thousand-Hand Avalokitesvara" is, she can't compete with the wisdom and courage of the female police officer "Anti-Pocket King".
In the Jianghu "Thieves" series, "thieves" are mostly enemies of the ruling class. They are mostly gangsters. They are either highly skilled, or they come and go without a trace, flying over the walls;
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Or save people in danger. This is especially prominent in Hong Kong films. Even the title of the film reveals the author's admiration and admiration for thieves. For example, Andy Lau in "Dark War". In fact, this kind of thieves are often
It is the transformation of the knight and the embodiment of justice.
In the folk discourse system, a small number of thieves' stories are the sprouts and blossoms of the Jianghu series of thieves' stories left in the folk, which entrust people's expectations for thieves. Most of the thieves' stories are the evolution and replication of the "Stupid Thief Boy" story. Especially in the
In the special regional culture of "Sichuan Mouse", big thieves are rare and are usually petty thefts, but
None of them are as smart as the common people (actually, the storyteller thinks that "the thieves are not as smart as me"), as Bao Shihong said: "There are no thieves smarter than me in the world yet." Therefore, in "Crazy Stone"
"In ", whether it is a rural thief or an international thief, in the eyes of a small security section chief, they are all characters who lack IQ.
Maybe we can compare the past movies about thieves. Many of the thieves rely on technology to make a living. They are really people in the world. Robbers who lack technology and IQ are not only despised in these movies, but often just
If you take action, you will fail.
To paraphrase Hong Kong’s quackery, who among the gangsters these days still cares about morality? They all care about money!
The story of the "Stupid Thief Boy" in "Crazy Stone" is a subversion and rebellion against the "thief stories" in temple culture and Jianghu culture, and it is also a return to folk culture.
In the film, the law enforcement officers were completely derelict in their duties in this anti-theft campaign. Although Bao Shihong graduated from the police academy and majored in criminal investigation, he was not a member of the state violence agency. He was just a guard of a state-owned enterprise that was about to close down.
Section Chief, but he was the one who battled wits and courage with the thieves and thieves from beginning to end, and in the end it was he who used the most uncivilized law enforcement to catch Mike.
There are four law enforcers in the film. One is where the traffic police were dealing with illegal parking when the three thieves, Brother Dao, were committing theft in the name of moving. The traffic police were unable to see through the thieves' tricks, and we did not see that in the news broadcast on the bus later.
The traffic police intervened. The second was that the fire law enforcement officers questioned Bao Shihong seriously after discovering that he had lied about the fire alarm. The third was that Bao Shihong went to the police station.
Reporting Xie Xiaomeng's kidnapping, their reconnaissance was "stuck" by Xie Xiaomeng's father. The last time was when the law enforcers appeared when Bao Shihong caught Mike, and the law enforcers pointed their guns at the elevator.
Like the popular police and gangster movies in Hong Kong, the scene where corpses are strewn with corpses is always cleaned up only after the "war" is over. This is completely contrary to the main theme of the movie.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! At the same time, the chivalrous thieves no longer exist in this film. From the cool and stylish behavior of the international thief Mike walking out of the airport, the director's stop-motion shooting almost gave him away
He was transformed into a model. As soon as he met this professional thief,
When he is a thief, he is always the one who suffers. The moment he leaves the airport, he is "cheated" by a thief and steals high-tech crime tools. The thief seizes the jade first, and finally kills his employer in a stupid manner.
, it is really a ridicule and subversion of the "thief" in Hong Kong Island.
Brother Dao and his men are typical representatives of the "stupid thieves" in Sichuan folk. The two words that Brother Dao talks about most to his men are "quality" and "IQ":
In the jade exhibition hall, when his subordinate Heipi danced and said that he wanted to smash the glass and take away the jade.
He said: "Quality, pay attention to your quality."
"What kind of qualities are you? What kind of wall are you knocking on in the middle of the night?"
When Brother Dao and the other three were studying the topographic map of the treasure temple, Sambo, who was just next to the wall, nailed the security map to the wall and knocked down Brother Dao's topographic map. Brother Dao cursed. Heipi said to go take a look, and Brother Dao said:
"Forget it, a little impatience will ruin the big plan."
When the three of them checked into the hotel to steal jade, Brother Dao said to Heipi and Xiaojun: "It's not difficult to do our job. You have to have an IQ to get to the top."
Brother Dao's girlfriend Jingjing was picked up by Xie Xiaomeng. He tortured Xie about whether the jade he gave Jingjing was real or fake. He firmly believed it was fake, but Xie said it was real. He beat Xie and had to say it was fake.
"You insulted my character and insulted my IQ."
Brother Dao, who is very confident in his "quality" and "IQ", can only lie to his girlfriend that he is busy with work, saying that he is in the rising stage of his career and has no time to accompany her, and often engages in some un"professional" ways to defraud money.
——Three people teamed up on the bus and tried to trick people into using cans to win prizes.
No one in the car believed them about their money. Later, Sambo fell into the trap of being a dead rat hitting a blind cat, but because "a small impatience leads to a big plan", he replaced the real jade that Xie Xiaomeng gave his girlfriend with a fake jade;
Later, because he was eager to snatch Bao Shihong's bag while driving, he accidentally crashed and died.
His two subordinates, Heipi and Xiaojun, are also "stupid thieves". Their looks fully meet the needs of the facial makeup characters. They have sinister features, malnutrition, and are teased everywhere. Xiaojun is Brother Dao's favorite subordinate.
, but he likes to poach Brother Dao, and wants to eat the tofu of Brother Dao's lover. He also says that outsiders can't take advantage of others if they don't have money, and he talks about "professionalism" at all times;
Heipi is a complete "guawazi". He doesn't use his brain when encountering any problems. His mantra is "Why bother?"
After failing to stage a fake show of "winning a prize" on the bus, Xiaojun said: "We have been acting all morning and still have no results. We are not professional."
Heipi said: "Whatever you want to do, you can just steal it, why bother?"
If under the leadership of Brother Dao, they could still compete with the international thieves Mike, Bao Shihong and others; then, when Brother Dao crashed and died, Xiaojun was accidentally caught, and Heipi was completely reduced from a thief to a beggar.
At the end of the film, when the bakery owner chases Heipi on his motorcycle, it becomes a cat-and-mouse game.
The comical performance of the three little thieves caught the appetite of all audiences. However, the director's erroneous selection of actors and character dialects turned the three "local thieves" into foreigners. The three thieves formed a "Bangbang Army" in the mountain city.
They were frantically "moving" on the property, colluding on the bus to swindle money, and competing with international thieves to steal jade. It was really a bit arrogant. This coincided with the common problem in most dialect films and TV dramas that the perpetrators were mostly outsiders.
If Bao Shihong represents a man in middle-aged crisis, then Lao Xie and Feng Dong also represent the fate of state-owned enterprises and the rogue nature of real estate developers of that era.
The municipal handicraft factory in the film is a representative of small state-owned enterprises in the mainland. It began to restructure in the 1990s and implemented the factory director responsibility system. The government was out of touch, and the factory was responsible for its own profits and losses and fend for itself. After struggling for several years, the crisis
Still has not been alleviated. In the new century, the city's handicraft factory
The predicament of not being able to pay wages and going bankrupt. Fortunately, the factory occupies a good piece of land in the city. Real estate developers are coveting it and want to defraud the land through borrowing, loans, etc. But Xie, the owner of the handicraft factory, is an old ginger and can’t wait to see it.
On this occasion, the handicraft factory discovered another piece of valuable jadeite.
So jade became a life-saving straw to save the lives of more than 200 people in the handicraft factory. Lao Xie wanted to turn the tide through "emerald setting up a stage and economic opera". Although the exhibition took great risks, he relied on Bao Shihong, the factory's lifeblood.
, Lao Xie gave it a try.
Obviously, Lao Xie had no confidence in using jade to increase the weight of the game with real estate agent Feng Dong. Therefore, when Feng Dong promised to pay 8.5 million to buy the jade in the factory and merge with the city's handicraft factory, Lao Xie was "eating" the exchange.
He readily agreed under the sign of "cooperation".
Lao Xie had no choice but to agree to Director Feng's request, because even after repaying the debt by selling jade, the handicraft factory had "only an empty shell left" and "more than 200 mouths to eat." In the factory, dedicated people like Bao Shihong
There are not many workers. Workers go to work and paint every day. To maintain order, they rely on
It is also Sanbao's fist. Sanbao left his job to claim the reward without anyone asking. As the head of a factory, letting the factory "die early and be reincarnated" is really "a good deed". Let a powerful enterprise "eat" itself.
This is the fate of all small state-owned enterprises and their inevitable outcome.
What about Xie Xiaomeng?
What does he represent?
Personally, he represents a pseudo-artist, the kind of person who pursues the satisfaction of personal desires at all costs.
Artists are high up all day long pretending to save all sentient beings, playing with cameras and word games all day long to defraud manuscript fees, and then get drunk in bars and discotheques, and they also talk shamelessly about paying attention to the bottom. Just look at how virtuous you are when you are drunk.
hypocritical!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In comparison, Xie Xiaomeng is still a relatively simple liar.
Xie Xiaomeng firmly believes that "fighting with daddies is endless fun" and often defrauds his father's money to pick up girls. And his method of picking up girls is nothing more than art. He said to Bao Shihong:
"I specialize in body art in Hong Kong, but I was forced to become a tabloid reporter. Do you think it's like forcing a good girl into prostitution?"
Feeling dissatisfied with his identity and status, he had no choice but to seek pleasure in women. He clung to Brother Dao's girlfriend Jingjing, showing off in front of her what he was researching on "maternal city and uterus", and always worried about himself.
creation
"The signboard is exactly the same as those of pseudo-artists in today's society. They use sweet words, supplemented by money and jewelry, and even subcontract real jadeite from their father's factory to please women. In Brother Dao's words, "You guys really spend a lot of money to pick up girls.
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In fact, the opening paragraph about seeing a doctor seems very ordinary, but it is indeed very interesting.
At the beginning of the film, there are only three blurry shots of the doctor, one is a close-up shot, and two are shot from above. One of them is used as a background when examining Bao Shihong's illness. I thought it was the director acting as a "doctor".
"Diagnosing" the protagonist of the film, he said to Bao Shihong:
“Besides not being able to urinate but also wanting to pee, what other symptoms are there?”
"Come, let me check it for you."
"Don't be afraid."
In three lines, Bao Shihong's prostate was diagnosed as he was lying in the hospital bed screaming in pain.
From the following plot, we can infer that the doctor did not give Bao Shihong any cure for his inability to urinate, but just asked him to go back to cupping ("treating internal fire and external treatment").
Later, Bao Shihong solved his physical illness by himself.
The audience can't see the shadow of the doctor even when Bao Shihong and others are beaten to a bloody head. This seems to be understood as a metaphor: for others and this era, each of us can easily name it (such as "Era").
"Disease") points out their symptoms, but we are unable to prescribe them a cure. It is a hobby of each of us to think of ourselves as doctors, but the doctors in the film are self-aware.