This year’s May 1st movies are a bit like fairy fights, and there are many high-scoring movies. Among them, Yang Mi starred in "Nothing Can’t Be Solved in a Hot Pot". However, this film is facing the downward screening. A malicious netizen said mercilessly: Is it useless that a bad-looking movie will become better if it is rescheduled? But is this movie really that bad?
You may not know what it’s about just by looking at the name. It’s actually a suspense comedy, which is somewhat similar to a well-received movie "Make a Famous Name". It’s all a script-killing mode, and there are not many scenes (there are only two scenes in total), and there are not many characters (only five important characters, and other characters have no names or faces), but there are many reversals to catch horses.
As long as the plot is not too far-fetched, the multi-reversal movie is quite attractive and can realize the whole process without urine. "Nothing can’t be solved in a hot pot" tells the story that four netizens decided to steal the corrupt money hidden by a corrupt official at home. It seems that all four people confessed to each other before they acted, but in the end, they didn’t expect that all four people had their own secrets, and three of them were inextricably linked with this corrupt official. The more they got behind, the more unexpected they were.
From the experience of watching movies, because the film adopts a mode similar to script killing, plus a very rich reversal plot, for example, I thought I was going to make a fortune, but I didn’t expect to bring another suitcase with a person; The chicken played by Yang Mi is actually the lover of a corrupt official. There are also many exciting plots, such as doing bad things and almost being found out. Therefore, overall, it is very substitutive.
But is there really no loophole in the plot arrangement? If it was really perfect, there wouldn’t be so many bad reviews! As I said at the beginning, I may not know what this movie is talking about when I see the name. In fact, even if I look at the whole movie, there will still be a sense of disobedience that hot pot and plot are difficult to blend together. This tense plot is advancing, suddenly sitting down to eat a hot pot, which greatly affects the thinking, deliberately and abruptly.
The reversals mentioned above are the same as hot pot, which seems to be a plot designed for drama. There are too many coincidences and they appear in full swing at the end. This shock wave is so big that people think that this movie is just to catch horses. In fact, this is not a comfortable narrative way.
Having said that, the shortcomings of "Nothing can’t be solved in a hot pot" are really obvious, but the author still wants to say that the film as a whole can get an "excellent", thanks to its core theme. An excellent film can’t be separated from its plot presentation, and it can’t be separated from its "lining". What does it want to explain through this story and what the audience can easily understand?
There are not many characters in "Nothing can’t be solved in a hot pot", but they have a lot of hearts! Unlike most movies, which like to create absolutely positive characters, this movie tends to highlight the dark side of the characters. The four protagonists knew that it was not simple when they first appeared on the stage. After all, who can understand the hint of Jiubing in WeChat group?
As the plot progresses, their images become more and more three-dimensional, and everyone has their own characteristics. The chicken played by Yang Mi is very "ghost", rushing to do it for his own benefit, pushing it to others for his own disadvantage, and his force value and camouflage power are super high; The nine cakes played by Yu Qian are also quite scheming, and they are greedy and will lie. Yu Ailei plays the role of making a fortune, others want to solve it by violence if they don’t follow their own wishes, and they also love to challenge others’ bottom line; The 70,000 played by Li Jiuxiao is more simple, with no brains and a headstrong man.
Later, Director Fu, played by Tian Yu, was pure bad, greedy and unfaithful. To some extent, they are all villains. Facing the huge amount of corrupt officials, the four-person leading group stole them and planned to take them for themselves. They lied about how to divide the money. But when the relationship between these five people was clarified, when everyone’s inner mystery was uncovered, the leading group finally woke up and made the right choice.
In fact, people’s good and evil are only between thoughts. Don’t be greedy and hide evil thoughts. What is your own is your own, not your own, so you don’t have to force it. This is the truth that "Nothing can’t be solved with a hot pot" wants to make clear with a winding plot. It is simple but not superficial, but many people can’t do it, and may not agree. But after watching this movie, I have an epiphany on this matter.
Therefore, the film is wonderful and profound enough. If you don’t just stare at the reversed plot, but think deeply about the truth behind the comedy, "Nothing can’t be solved by a hot pot" will not be so unbearable.