Film Name: 人生路不熟 / Godspeed
Yesterday, I went to see the “beast” Yi Xiaoxing’s new film “Godspeed”, the overall feeling is that “there are a lot of laughs and interesting, but not a good film”, so the long article about this film will not be written, simply talk about the idea can be.
I should be regarded as a relatively early attention to “Beast” of the netizens, although not much on the catfish, but also in the potato network to catch up with the “Beast” series of funny video one of the people, witnessed him once become a civil engineering brother, and then rely on “Unexpectedness” and other web series. Unexpectedness” and other web series to pull up the years of Wanhe Tiany.
However, once you enter the new field of feature films, you have to start all over again – at this time, the advantage of “good sense of the net” will become an obstacle to further progress.
Strictly speaking, Godspeed is Yi Xiaoxing’s third feature-length film. Apart from the Unexpectedness film, which is an enlarged version of the web series, the last two films, Bath Buddy and Godspeed, are indeed more cinematic in nature.
This time around, Godspeed has a lot of laughs, but the story structure is very sparse, more like a compilation of short films with a common thread pinched together from a number of disjointed vignettes.
As a matter of fact, the film adopts the mode of road movie in which the prospective son-in-law slowly improves his understanding should be very suitable, but the actual view is a hammer in the east and a hammer in the west, one moment is Director Jia’s caravan accident, the other moment is Photon’s Pheasant Villa farce, the front foot is the resistance of the worker Wan Fan, and then the back foot is the Zhou Donghai who shakes the people bravely fighting the oil rats. …… To be frank, these chapters are basically for the sake of specificity. The chapters are basically in the service of specific passages of laughter, ignition, and tears, but they are rarely helpful to the main story development.
But then again, the film does have a lot of high-quality and natural laughs, a lot of bridges alone out of a very good fight, both short and fast comedy light comedy, but also a little bit of domestic comedy film “film sense”, if you don’t bring too much baggage to see, the viewing experience is still relatively easy.
Therefore, Godspeed gives me the impression that the narrative and the ambition of the film are not as good as Bath Buddy, while the actual “laughs” of the film have improved …… so much so that I can’t tell if Yi Xiaoxing is concentrating on his “strengths rather than avoiding weaknesses”. I’m not sure if Yi Xiaoxing is concentrating on “building on his strengths and not avoiding his weaknesses”.
Considering that the audience’s need for comedy films has always existed, coupled with the market feedback in the past few days of release, Godspeed’s box office performance should not be bad.
Repeatedly good lines but not good chapters, that’s my assessment of the film and I hope it helps you.
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