Chinese Film Name:da”fan”pai; English Film Name: Solitary Man
An all-star cast of more than twenty comedians in an extremely funny and entertaining film. The film is full of face, acting and hilarity, all you need.
The first major point of view: rich comedy settings!
Bao Bei er this film, let me be most surprised or this film’s comedy setting is really quite amazing!
From the story setting, this film is refreshing.
A small, unpopular actor is given a chance to play a villain with great difficulty.
In order to bring in this villainous role, he keeps brainwashing himself and keeps trying to convince himself that he is the character.
An accident in a car crash, and to my surprise the character loses his memory.
He doesn’t remember who he was originally.
Only remembers his characterisation in the play.
Especially when he saw the car with his wanted poster from the film, he was even more determined that he was a robber and a murderer!
The persona in the film became his identity after he lost his memory.
And he is also prepared to continue the kidnapping plan in the film.
This “mistake” characterisation is quite interesting.
Not to mention the fact that this film has an even crazier comedic twist to it, which is to “make a mistake”!
The main character, played by Bao Beier, mistakenly thinks that he is a bandit, mistakenly thinks that he is a killer.
He really goes on the road to find the tycoon, but his identity is just an identity after all.
When his anger level is pulled up and he is ready to go to the door to find his target.
Who would have thought that as soon as he opened the door, he would be abashed.
Without saying a word, he was thought to be a janitor, and in the end, he was left behind and forced to work as a cleaner.
The comedy of “making a mistake” really came out in an instant.
What’s even more comical is that when he thinks he’s brain-damaged, that’s why he can’t do a single push-up even though he’s got a lot of muscle.
Such comedic padding, such comedic effect, is indeed funny enough!
The second major point of view: the strong style of multi-line narrative!
Which is the ceiling of Chinese absurdist comedy?
It’s that 《feng kuang de shi tou》 film starring Guo Tao, Huang Bo and Wang Xun.
The film’s multilinear narrative advances in a way that really makes people clap their hands.
The villain of the film, Bao Bale, also adopts this multi-line narrative.
The two most obvious threads are that of Baobel, the disillusioned young actor, and the other thread is that of the three bumbling thieves.
A car accident brings these two groups together.
It’s also the accident that makes the disillusioned little actor, thinking he’s a hitman, to kidnap the tycoon!
And what about these three stupid thieves, who want to change their lives and blackmail this little actor for money.
All of them are after money, all of them, all of them are heading towards the same place.
The funniest thing is that Baobao, the little actor with amnesia, finally found out who and where the person he was going to kidnap was in the Internet cafe.
And on the other side the three stupid thieves are also checking his clues in the same internet cafe.
This sense of comedy in the same time and space, coincidentally appearing, is very sensational indeed.
The third most important thing to watch: half of the comedy circuit, and they do all give a damn!
Why am I so excited about this film?
I’m here for the comedians in this film!
Because this film really covers the comedy circle today, the most popular actors.
Especially the appearance of these two really surprised me quite a bit.
The first one is Jia Bing.
The second is Wei Xiang.
These two are definitely the most most characteristic comedians in the comedy circle.
And in this film, these two, also really contributed to the explosive laughs.
For example, Wei Xiang played an actor in the film, saw the reporter in, began to pretend to be professional.
Obviously afraid of heights, but let the director to start over again and again, obviously already to vomit, but also particularly elegant to the reporter said it’s okay.
The director, played by Jia Bing, is even more interesting.
As a director, he suddenly found that the actor under his hand was missing.
In order to stall for time, he had to let the actor start over again and again and again.
In the end, he was embarrassed, but the actor was still elegantly saying it was okay.
That one laugh is definitely a full stop.
Of course, there are more comedians in this film than just Jia Bing and Wei Xiang, in this film, there are also Yu Yang, Wang Xun, Wang Cheng Si, and Yin Zheng and so on.
If I had to give this film a score, I think it would be above 7, because this film is really quite dense with laughs and quite new.
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