Is the movie Contract Lover good?

This film is vivid, humorous and relaxed enough, and it has not lost the early level of Zhang Jianting. What is commendable is not only the brilliant director and acting skills, but also the successful transplantation of pure Hong Kong-style comedies into mainland films. Luxury, even a little excessive jokes; As well as exaggerated, almost crazy jokes, people are quite emotional while laughing. Such a distinctive Hong Kong-style humor is not only found in Chinese mainland, but also extremely rare in Hong Kong movies in recent years.

In fact, the story of the film is nothing new, and it has many similarities with a TV movie that was popular in No.6 Middle School earlier (in the film, a prostitute was hired to visit her hometown and then became attached for a long time). Liu Zao (Fan Bingbing), a college student from the countryside, applied to be Huo Qifa (Richie Jen)' s contract lover for two weeks in order to pay off her mother's debts, on condition that her mother would torture her parents to the end and force them to give up their son's marriage. The attractive detail of the film lies not in the fate of Liu Zao, the fake daughter-in-law, but in the process that she is forced to sacrifice her own color and make a fool of herself everywhere. In the meantime, there are many erotic jokes interspersed, and there are also exaggerated spoofs on mainland blockbusters (Golden Flower, Huo Yuanjia, Banquet). This series of hilarious links not only makes the process of returning home to visit relatives lively, but also gradually becomes crazy.

Seeing Liu Zao, a rural college student played by Fan Bingbing, and her own experience in body double, I still found that Zhang Jianting, who was engaged in comedy practice for the first time in the Mainland, restrained a lot. Otherwise, this character must be crazy enough, accurate enough and eccentric enough to compete with his early mainland cousin. As for the explicit yellow jokes in the film, it is still surprising. It is basically impossible for such a film and such a plot to be reviewed in the film bureau earlier. Even if it is, it is inevitable that the scissors and head will be deleted. Fan Bingbing met Bole this time and was tortured by Zhang Jianting. He not only showed off his breasts and legs, but also danced pole dancing and played SM show crazily. Although the theory of sacrifice is not thorough, it is also a manifestation of nosebleeds.

Besides, Yuan Wah's father, Master Huo, is also quite entertaining. Not only the lines are funny, the behavior is perverse, but also the strong play of singing romantic poems in the competition arena is meaningless. That foreigner's name is Lelix, which is also quite funny. His triangle admiration with the elder brother and younger brother, as well as Romeo and Juliet with ulterior motives, have also become valuable comedy highlights in the film. The subtlety of the script lies not only in the fact that it creates a group play with everyone's material and everyone's color, but also attaches great importance to its extremely mature comedy dialogue. It can be seen that Zhang Jianting has made great efforts in this regard. After all, the Hong Kong-style humor that he was best at earlier has no room for arrangement, and he can only revolve around authentic Mandarin. Fortunately, the dialogue of the whole movie is beyond our imagination, not only coherent, but also shows a concise and neat comedy movie.

Seeing the true meaning behind madness and not forgetting feelings in spoofing is more in line with the consistent style of Hong Kong-style comedies. The contractual relationship between Liu Zao and Huo Qifa has been melted by the long-term true feelings, and that feeling seems to be nothing, which makes the whole movie warm a lot from the middle and late stages. Until the two met again, it also brought some sadness and sighs to the audience. Light comedy? The ending is naturally happy. In this hot summer, how does the director make people bear such an emotional burden in such a relaxed and happy viewing experience? It is natural to find opportunities to bring the lost Liu Zao back to Huo Qifa.

This is a good film that won't let you down, but it can't be said that it is suitable for all ages. At least, explicit eroticism in the film should be avoided by children. I think Zhang Jianting's work of reopening the mountain gate this time is very valuable, which is beyond my expectation. After all, in the decadent era when Hong Kong films lost their souls and traditions, there were too few practices of thinking like this, and too few talents like Zhang Jianting who were good at "have it both ways". As for the box office of this movie, I still dare not expect Zhang Jianting. After all, mainland fans who are spoiled by golden movies are not willing to spend a little money for fun, just buying some capital worthy of online abuse. Moreover, there is no so-called luxury star lineup in the film to attract fans, and even this director Zhang, who used to be a cow in Hong Kong, is quite strange.