■Reporter Jiang Fang
"What is faith, living is faith, and death is faith." This is a sentence on the poster of the movie "The Eleventh". Around this "belief", Chen Jianbin, Zhou Xun, Dou Jingtong, Chunxia, Dapeng, etc. come from different sources. Actors of different generations and styles have appeared one after another.
The film’s stage-style shooting techniques and chapter-like plot design aroused a lot of discussion, and the indomitable spirit of ordinary people portrayed in the film bloomed in the “firework” performances of Zhou Xun and other actors. .
"The Eleventh", directed and acted by Chen Jianbin, tells the entanglement between Ma Fuli's family and the drama "Brake Killing" by the repertory troupe.
A tractor murder case 30 years ago was adapted into a stage play by the city repertory troupe. As one of the parties involved in the murder case, Ma Fuli's peaceful life was disrupted again.
While he was busy fighting wits with the drama troupe played by Dapeng director Hu Quentin, while looking for a lawyer to reverse the case, hoping to repay his innocence, he was also busy dealing with the tension between his wife, Jin Cailing, played by Zhou Xun, and his stepdaughter Jin Duoduo, played by Dou Jingtong. Relationship... After many years, can Ma Fuli revert the case?
How many truths are there?
The eleven chapters and three story clues together form the narrative structure of "The Eleventh": from the entanglement between Ma Fuli and the repertory troupe, to Ma Fuli's handling of family trivial matters and her stepdaughter’s unmarried pregnancy, to the repertory director The various puzzles faced in the process of arrangement, they seem to be independent but interrelated. Starting from the stories of small people, focusing on the plight of life, exposing many complicated social rules and phenomena.
It is also in the process of Ma Fuli's attempt to reverse the case, one after another ridiculous absurd stories are constantly staged, giving this film the complexity of multi-dimensional interpretation.
It is worth noting that the "Eleventh Chapter" unfolds with the stories of small characters, many of which have full personalities and enthusiastic vitality.
For example, Zhou Xun, who has already received numerous awards, played the role of Jin Cailing, a middle-aged woman who rushes for life chores.
In the film, she fades away her costume and delicate makeup. Not only does she have to work hard for her livelihood, she also has to pretend to be a pregnant woman to help her pregnant daughter cross the sea.
Deep-fried dough sticks, cutting vegetables for cooking, messy wavy hair, wrinkles and stains on the face, and forbearance under the silent expression, Jin Cailing has a lot more "firework" compared to Zhou Xun's previous aura-filled characters.
Some film critics believe that Zhou Xun contributed her most breakthrough screen performance in recent years. Whether it is the inner game with her daughter or the laughter and curse with her husband, she has performed tenderness, perseverance, and sturdyness. The sense of hierarchy.
There are a lot of sparkling rival scenes with Jin Cailing, and Dou Jingtong's rebellious girl Jin Duoduo is very surprising.
In the film, she is either wearing a shirt, shorts, suspenders, or wearing slippers or even barefoot. She is full of unruly, unrestrained and stubborn.
In the amusement park, she smiled with tears and thought of the love lie she had encountered. The seemingly empty but melancholy eyes, and the complex expressions on her face reflected by the neon lights of various colors, vaguely had the shadow of Faye Wong under the lens of Wang Jiawei.
When Jin Duoduo suddenly sat upright on the operating table and threatened the doctor not to have an abortion, there was more girlish joy in his reckless eyes.
It should be said that Dou Jingtong won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the Beijing International Film Festival for his role as Jin Duoduo, and he deserves his name.
Another role that cannot be ignored comes from the new generation of actresses in spring and summer.
In "The Eleventh Chapter", she uses a pair of talking eyes to outline the struggle, confusion, fierceness and decisiveness of the innocent girl Jia Meiyi.
As the heroine of the drama "Brake Killing", Jia Meiyi played Zhao Fengxia, a woman who was run over by a tractor many years ago. She could not defend herself when the crime happened.
Jia Meiyi, who was immersed in the play, was a little foolish. She kept asking about Zhao Fengxia’s true thoughts. This pursuit also penetrated from the play to the outside of the play. She found the truth about Zhao Fengxia’s case and recognized the married director of the Repertory Theatre. Quentin Hu's various bookbag-style confessions to her during the rehearsal were so grand-sounding.
In order to bid farewell to the sincere parting, Jia Meiyi kissed Quentin Hu when the final "Brake Killing" was officially staged. This kiss was both a farewell and re-firmed the girl's pursuit, to love someone who truly deserves to be loved.
Jin Cailing, Jin Duoduo, and Jia Meiyi jointly drew a simple and powerful picture of ordinary people's life: Although life is full of unsatisfactory, they insist on their faith without hesitation.
Grumpy, but will use the utmost strength to protect the bullied family; experiencing the confusion and struggle in youth, but still trying to save himself; the almost persistent pursuit of art and truth not only drives the film plot to a climax, but also regenerates Send out the infectious power that spans time and space and shines into reality... What is interesting is that the real "eleventh" in the film appeared after the lights, and each ordinary person’s own story needs to be opened with faith. write.