Chapter 1127 "Daytime Rain: A Tragic Revenge" (Part 1)

x-on:Muquan Film Review V

10-8 from V blog PC

Long wait. After thinking again and again, I decided to start the review with this sentence:

"Daytime Rain" is a movie that requires courage to watch in all aspects.

Please note that there are a lot of spoilers ahead. Friends who don't want to know the plot in advance, please avoid it by yourself. Thank you for your cooperation.

Then let's continue with the previous article. The reason why it requires courage is that it has three tests waiting for the audience.

The first is bloody violence.

This element is common in movies and has formed a relatively fixed "violence aesthetics". The rhythm, sense of attack, and effect feedback of action scenes (such as blood plasma bursting or building collapse, etc.) will bring excitement and refreshing feelings to the audience. In special effects blockbusters, plots such as "millions of troops descending from the sky" and "a magic trick instantly massacres the city" make people's adrenaline soar through audio-visual language, and there is also a kind of decompression-style pleasure.

However, "Daytime Rain" is different in this regard. To put it in the most straightforward and simple words, it is too real.

The director dared to shoot, the actors dared to act, and what was presented was as real as a crime record. It was so real that we realized that those who were abused and killed in front of us were living, ordinary people who could be seen everywhere, rather than the mass symbols that were destroyed in the "aesthetics of violence".

The nearly realistic bloody scene seemed as if the audience was not watching through the screen, but in a spectator or even voyeuristic perspective. While watching, they felt an uncontrollable fear, fearing that they would also be "discovered" and suffer the same misfortune as those innocent people.

Based on this, I would like to remind the audience friends who have not yet entered the cinema but want to take a glimpse of the wonderful "Daytime Rain" on my own behalf that before watching this film, please be mentally prepared, because some of the scenes in it will really cause physiological discomfort, which is a different concept from the general "explosive and exciting".

The second test is human nature.

He Xu is a director who is good at capturing and showing human nature. Most of the films he directed before were realistic themes.

The deliberately exaggerated interpretation and slightly absurd plot development in the first half of "Daytime Rain" all create a seemingly suspended but actually pungent irony. Such irony makes people feel resonant and stung at the same time.

For example, Wang Dali at the beginning of the movie, he doesn't care about personal cleanliness at all, rolling on the ground to the door, using his body as a foot pad for an elite whose face cannot be seen.

In reality, such a scene is almost impossible to appear, which is obviously an exaggerated shooting technique.

However, this way of handling it undisguisedly shows that "people at the bottom of society can only polish shoes for upper-class people", because the way it is presented is too direct, it seems very absurd, making people laugh and feel sad at the same time.

As one of the "protagonists", Tian Gang is also like this. He is spiritually empty and confused, has no favorite things, no goals to strive for, and lives a regular and boring life every day. Day after day, he has no special reason to want to die, but he can't find the meaning of life.

Typical image, typical state, in a sense, is the epitome of contemporary people.

When I heard Tian Gang's confession, I inevitably compared him with him in my mind. After the competition and victory, I felt proud.

Then I realized that I was worried that I would become a mediocre person like Tian Gang.

This cognition made me feel guilty. Then Tian Gang was comforted by his colleague and senior Wang Dali. I felt that Wang Dali's theory that "everyone lives to eliminate anxiety, then worry again, and then eliminate it, so don't force yourself too much" made sense, just like Tian Gang. Then I was inexplicably very resistant. When I reviewed the situation, I realized that what I was thinking in my mind at that moment was:

Tian Gang was comforted by Wang Dali's views; I was also comforted by Wang Dali's views

Tian Gang = me; I = Tian Gang

And I "looked down on" Tian Gang in my heart and didn't want to equate him, so I felt uncomfortable at the time and wanted to achieve the self-comfort purpose of "I am different from Tian Gang" and "We are not the same kind of people" by denying Wang Dali's arguments.

I have to say that letting Tian Gang be the "protagonist" is really a sharp stroke.

Because he is the protagonist, the audience will subconsciously empathize with him, but because the protagonist is such a person, the audience will be eager to break free from the empathy.

In the self-tug-of-war, combined with the plot of "Daytime Rain", a wonderful and subtle viewing experience will be produced.

The conversation between Tian Gang and Mo Sen later also gives people a similar feeling.

Tian Gang accepted Wang Dali's point of view and believed that although he is still at the bottom of society, the bottom also has its own happiness and joy. There is no need to be anxious all the time. Learn to coexist with anxiety, be content with what you have, and make progress slowly.

And Mo Sen refuted mercilessly:

"Stop dreaming. Only those who can still fight for happiness will comfort themselves with such reasons. But then again, if they have the ability to climb to a high place, they will not be as cowardly as they are now."

Quite sharp words, not only made Tian Gang, who was sitting opposite him at the time, embarrassed and guilty, but also made us outside the screen feel pierced, disgusted, and even angry.

So, in this regard, I also want to remind everyone to be mentally prepared. When watching "Rain in the Daytime", it is indeed possible to feel that you are "attacked" or "criticized" at such details, and even feel resentful.

In fact, during the three viewings of this film, I did encounter some viewers who left the theater midway, muttering that "the film was boring and I couldn't watch it any more" (laughs). I don't deny that the first half of "Daytime Rain" was "boring", but does this also mean that when our hearts are stabbed, we are not able to face it directly, but subconsciously resist to escape?

This seems to be a self-defense mechanism, but it is off topic to discuss these here, and we will have a chance to discuss it separately.

Next, let's talk about the last test, which is also the core issue of "Daytime Rain" - school violence.

I divide it into three categories: bullies, bystanders, and bullied.

Extending outward, I propose three perspectives: parents, school authorities, and students.

If there are viewers who can completely not substitute any category or any perspective, then first of all, I congratulate you, you must have spent a relatively harmonious and worry-free school life.

Or - please forgive my offense - you may have been a bystander, or perhaps a bully. Because according to the survey, those who have no memory of bullying or do not care about it are often the bullies themselves.

In the face of school bullying, the ones who are truly impressed or even permanently traumatized are always, always the victims.

Therefore, I still only personally remind all audience friends who have suffered school violence, or realize that they have watched or even led school violence,

Be careful when watching "Daytime Rain".

This is a movie that requires courage to watch.

No matter what role you have played, you can get an indescribable viewing experience from it. As for whether this experience is good or bad, I can only say-it is really hard to evaluate.

Tomorrow (4.14) is a single day off and no update