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The cinema's sound effects were very good. As Brother Chen Kai's microphone voice fell, the lights in the cinema dimmed.

The entire cinema was plunged into darkness in an instant.

Many people who were whispering just now suddenly fell silent and became quiet.

Even Han Sanpin was quite curious about this movie.

He didn't attend the film review this time, in order to avoid spoilers. When he attends the premiere, he will be there for two hours.

This time it was better. Watching it for the first time, even Han Sanpin had extraordinary expectations.

Others at the scene were even more excited and opened their eyes wide, wanting to carefully see the specific content of the movie.

Especially Big Dog Brother and others, led by Xiao Ma Pentium, have straightened their backs and are in high spirits recently. They also want to think about it. Every one of Guan Ling’s previous movies was so popular, could this one be the same?
Especially the news about Guan Ling at the previous celebration banquet, in fact many people remember it clearly.

Although they can't be considered enemies, people like Big Dog don't want Guan Ling to succeed so easily.

The easier it is for Guan Ling to make movies, the more it seems that these people are just there to do nothing.

"One billion? Why don't I believe it? You said one billion, so it's one billion? The Avengers didn't even make one billion. You can't give the movie a bonus of three or four hundred million just because it's named after you, Guan Ling, right?"

"Let's assume that this movie is a blockbuster comparable to The Flowers of War. Last year, the box office revenue during the Lunar New Year holiday was only 600 million yuan. Although the competitor has released a monster like The Wind Rises, the level is there. How much better can Brother Chen Kai be than Zhang Yimou?"

In fact, there are quite a few people at the scene who have a similar mentality as Big Dog.

It’s nothing, Brother Chen Kai is such a jerk.

Although not all of Chen Kaige's previous films lost money, he cannot really be considered a profitable director.

His investment is large and the payback period is long. Generally, the domestic box office cannot make back the investment. Then, with the addition of copyright fees and funds from overseas releases, the loss of domestic box office can be made up.

Although it is inevitable that some people pay for his films, the main reason is still because of his Palme d'Or.

It doesn’t mean that Brother Chen Kai makes money.

Relatively speaking, Ning Hao makes too much money.

He has achieved the ultimate in making the most of a small investment. His previous work, "Never Gone," made Ning Hao the most popular actor in mainland China, except for Guan Ling.

"Brother Chen Kai is also a well-known box office failure. Can Director Guan also help him recover?"

"All of this depends on what the movie in front of us is about."

Ma Yufei, a film critic who had not been seen for a long time, also came. He sat in the first row of the film critics' seats. Now, with his unique insights and years of accumulation, he has become a big V celebrity in movie reviews on Weibo, and he has quit his job.

I became a complete independent writer and even started doing some simple screenwriting work.

Anyway, the economy is not free yet, but people are free.

It is also much easier to earn money from advertising than from working.

He knew that all this was due to the fact that he had chosen the right track. If he had not watched Director Guan’s movie, the gears of fate might not have been moved onto this track.

……

The first scene of the movie suddenly appeared in front of everyone.

The Buddhist scriptures say: After a person dies and becomes deceased, he or she must undergo seven trials in the underworld within forty-nine days. The seven Yama Kings will judge whether the deceased is guilty of lies, laziness, injustice, betrayal, violence, murder and family infidelity. Only those who pass all the trials can be reincarnated.

White text on a black background.

Just like the scene in "Infernal Affairs", the text in "Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds" is different from what people know, but it has to be said that it caught people's attention at the first moment.

Then, the story finally began.

A fire scene with thick smoke, ladders, tall buildings, and firefighters. The firefighter played by Huang Bo tried his best to save a little girl, but unfortunately died.

Huang Bo asked with a smile if the little girl was injured, but he didn't know that his physical body had already died and what was being filmed was his soul.

Black and White Impermanence is a long-standing concept in the Chinese-speaking world, so it is not difficult for the audience to understand.

I'm just amazed at how fast the plot of this movie moves.

At this moment, Zhang Shi, dressed in black, and the round-headed little girl Zhao Xiaodao appeared in front of Huang Bo amid the crying and chaotic crowd.

They looked at Huang Bo and spoke.
"Four hundred and twenty-two years later, you who sacrificed your life heroically to save others may be the most likely person to pass the judgment of the underworld. We will accompany you to complete the judgment journey."

This setting throws out another hook.

Zhang Yimou looked at Brother Chen Kai curiously, thinking to himself, according to our history, isn't it the Black and White Impermanence? What the hell are these two people? They are also the messengers of the day and the moon. It sounds weird.

But it has to be said that this small hook did attract Zhang Yimou's heart and made him focus completely on the movie.

At this moment, Huang Bo was in panic and stunned. He couldn't even accept the fact that he was dead.

When he saw his comrades doing their best to treat him, all he was thinking about was his mother whom he had not seen for many years.

He begged them both hoping to see his mother again.

But Zhang Shi and Zhao Xiaodao disagreed, as the laws of the underworld did not allow the dead souls to linger.

Later, at the funeral of Li Zihong, played by Huang Bo, the messenger played by Huang Xiaoming looked at Li Zihong's mute mother and his brother who was a teacher, and there was a one-minute long shot of their faces.

Huang Xiaoming's acting skills are still pretty good.

During this minute, he first showed indifference to this life-and-death separation, then he looked at Li Zihong's mother who was completely speechless, and had a glimmer of curiosity to visit her. After that, although he did not reveal his emotions, he tilted his head, put his hands that were originally pressed against his trouser line into his trouser pockets, and lowered his head slightly...

Over the past thousand years, he has successfully helped forty-seven deceased people to reincarnate successfully. After the funeral on earth, his work has just begun.

Soon, the most magnificent scene appeared.

Outside the Chujun Gate, Li Zihong swiped his card to pass through the gate and entered the trial process together with countless people who were waiting for trial.

When the card was swiped, the word "Yi" appeared on the huge rock display screen, which instantly caused an uproar and envy among the people around.

Many big shots who watched the movie were speechless.

The underworld in our impression has also started to use this kind of weird high-tech and show its divine power in front of people? People can't help but smile knowingly.

As the process continued, people realized that King Yama would judge and rank the deceased according to the severity of their crimes during their lifetime.

Those who have committed serious crimes are very likely to wait outside the Chujun Gate.

And there is no time limit.

This setting is also quite satisfying. Li Zihong, played by Huang Bo, started the trial soon after the huge word "righteousness" on the screen was clicked.

First stop, murderous hell.

In the world of the living, anyone who causes death directly or indirectly will be charged.

The monthly messenger played by Zhao Xiaodao has the right to review the complaint first. She looked at Huang Bo with a worried look in her eyes.

The scene also returned to the fire scene.

At that time, Li Zihong left his comrades in the fire scene.

Then, the ground on the screen suddenly melted, and the place where Li Zihong stood became the only circular place that could be stood. As the camera turned, other places suddenly turned into deep pits, with raging magma and flames gushing into the ground. Only this circular place stretched out from the bottom of the magma, like a pillar supporting the sky.

But when the camera zoomed in on this column, we could see that underneath the cylinder, there were actually people climbing up the wall of the column in a tangled and chaotic manner. Huang Bo looked dazed, but his habit as a firefighter made him subconsciously start saving people.

Lie on the circular ground and pull up those who are crawling.

The sudden change of this shot caused an uproar at the scene.

Then the roar of the coroner Wang scared Huang Bo so much that he let go of his hand, and the person he was pulling fell into the lava.

Huang Bo felt guilty and kept his head down in silence.

The judge began to judge him for his crime of not saving lives. At that time, his comrade's legs were pinned down in the fire. He tried hard to help his comrade, but still couldn't push the boulder away. At this moment, other survivors called for help, and his comrade asked him to save others first. He gave the breathing mask to his comrade and saved eight people from the fire.

But he failed to rescue his teammates.

Coroner Wang burst into tears when he heard this. He declared him not guilty and praised his righteous act.

At this point, the audience has a general idea of ​​the possible flow of the film.

“Could it be that he cheated all the way through the trial?” Ma Yufei also made a note in his notebook in the dark. If that was the case, the quality of this movie would be just that.

Apart from the special effects just now which are worthy of praise, the plot in other places is no different from a popcorn movie.

Without special effects, the scene can only be described as average.

Then in the hell of laziness, Li Zihong worked hard all his life. Zhao Xiaodao was very excited and told Huang Bo that he only needed to recite his deeds in front of King Biancheng aloud.

The setting at this time is still being thrown out. It turns out that the three messengers can help 49 dead people reincarnate smoothly within a thousand years, and they can complete their merits and return to the human world. And Li Zihong is the 48th person they have high hopes for.

The messengers, like slacking employees, began to fantasize about choosing an identity like a rich second generation when they were reincarnated.

Li Zihong shook his head to indicate that he had no interest and only wanted to see his mother.

In the Hell of Laziness, King Biancheng applauded and praised Li Zihong for his deeds as a firefighter during his lifetime, and even wanted to erect a statue for Li Zihong.

The second part is not interesting. And the special effects are not as brilliant as the first part.

Just as Ma Yufei shook his head, King Biancheng asked Li Zihong what his purpose was and what his driving force was. He replied that it was for money.

Suddenly, the situation reversed.

Everyone's eyes became colder. King Biancheng was furious. As the mechanism fell, a large millstone that amazed Ma Yufei again seemed to be spinning rapidly like a perpetual motion machine. Countless people were left in the hell of laziness, driven by the railings on the millstone to run. They seemed unable to escape the disc, and once they stopped, they would be crushed into powder.

Fortunately, the three envoys argued with reason and told King Biancheng that the so-called money was also to take care of his sick mother and his brother who was devoted to studying. King Biancheng accepted the envoys' defense and finally did not throw Li Zihong into the disc.

Then came the hell of lies. The happy atmosphere came to an abrupt end. The celestial phenomena in the underworld changed suddenly, and a large number of bloodthirsty beasts, the hell-ears, appeared. This indicated that there were innocent ghosts among the deceased's immediate relatives, and the wronged souls were wandering in the nine springs, disrupting the order of the underworld.

Jiang Lin, played by Huang Xiaoming, decides to go to the human world in person to find out the truth.

So he asked Zhao Xiaodao to help Li Zihong defend him and started a spiritual connection with him.

The plot suddenly became interesting, and Jiang Lin felt a strong sense of urgency in order to allow Li Zihong to complete the trial process within forty-nine days.

When he returned to the human world, he found out that Li Zihong's brother had died.

After a fierce chase, the wronged ghost escaped.

Things in the human world are complicated, and things in hell are also extreme.

Due to the problem of wronged souls, King Yama, who controls the violent hell, took the lead and gave Jiang Lin an ultimatum. If he could not erase the wronged souls, he would descend to the human world.

This segment was shot on location by Brother Chen Kai. He arranged the light in the dense jungle. From the outside to the inside, Brother Chen Kai captured it with an epic sense of shock!

The next second, Li Zihong ran towards King Yama and started to fuck him. He thought King Yama asked Jiang Lin to erase his mother's soul.

Everyone at the scene was stunned!

As Jiang Lin investigates the human world, a criminal organization gradually emerges.

It turned out that Li Zihong's younger brother was a teacher in a remote area, but because local officials and businessmen colluded to rape and traffic women, he wanted to report it, so he was killed and the crime was pinned on him.

In the hell of lies, Li Zihong was judged one by one for the lies he told about his dead comrades and the children of the survivors he rescued, and King Taishan sentenced him to have his tongue pulled out.

At the critical moment, Jiang Lin connected with Li Dechun played by Zhao Xiaodao and began to defend, claiming that Li Zihong was a liar who not only lied to those children, but also lied to his mother, saying that he married a virtuous wife and that he was not injured even when he was injured, just to prevent his mother from becoming disgusted with the world. But because he lied, his mother finally lived well and was very happy.

Sometimes lies are told for the happiness of others.

The illusory bubble, before it is popped, brings people hope.

After understanding the defense, King Taishan was convinced.

Hell of lies.

On the way to the next hell, the messenger asked Li Zihong why he wanted to see his mother again so much.

Li Zihong talked about the warm past between him, his mother and his brother, and said that he wanted to buy a pot for his mother so that she could cook home-cooked meals.

The messenger said otherwise.

In that pot, there is a letter that you haven't sent for a long time.

The plot of the movie is still moving forward, and at this moment the audience is immersed in the plot.

This movie is not good in the secular sense. The plot is like a diary and looks pretty bad.

Moreover, it is quite different from Chen Kai’s previous films, and the lines don’t have much substance.

But the weird thing is, this movie is surprisingly good!
In this ghostly and magnificent fantasy movie, even if the unspeakable sins can escape the vast net of the living world, they can never escape the sharp eyes of the hell.

Many people did follow Li Zihong's perspective and immersed themselves in the plot!
This movie is really bad, but it's also very good!!
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