"Let the Bullets Fly" What are the characteristics of Jiang Wen's films?

So far, Jiang Wen has made four films with different styles. If analyzed by literary genre, Sunny Day is a stream of consciousness, The Devil Comes is realism, The Sun Also Rises is magical realism, and Let the Bullets Fly is even more absurd. But the special "The Devil Comes" was shot for all the people in China, and the other three films are actually about Jiang Wen himself (to some extent, this can constitute an autobiographical trilogy, in fact, I read a lot from "The Sun" after watching the bullets, which I didn't watch three years ago), so many themes are the same. The following are some of my deepest feelings.

Brave deeds

In Jiang Wen's worldview, heroes come first. Heroes change society and heroes make history. The greatest sorrow is that there are no heroes.

So it is not enough for Pockmarked Zhang to take the money. He also wants to get rid of Huang Shilang, give justice to the people, and give peace to Goose City.

Jiang Wen yearned for heroes when he was young, and demanded himself as a hero when he was an adult. In his movies, heroes can do things that ordinary people can't. Heroes must be colored. But when Jiang Wen preached heroism, he knew the weakness of heroism, so Yu Xia was responsible for the large-scale group fight after smashing bricks. Liu Zi's taking bean jelly by caesarean section was at the cost of his life. Only when you know the weakness of a thing can you say that you really love it. When you love a woman, you love a country. Male impulse

In essence, heroism is actually a completely male sexual impulse. But what I want to say here is more direct impulse. Like fighting and sexual urges. Jiang Wen didn't preach these things, but as you can see, he thought these things must be there, otherwise there would be no masculinity.

But the difference this time is that Jiang Wen didn't give this part of things to his own role (in Sunny Days, Yu Xia's role is also an incarnation of Jiang Wen himself), but to a great extent, he put it on Liao Fan's third child, because he would say when he talked about "restraint" later.

A crush on women

In Jiang Wen's films, the protagonist's infatuation with women is partly based on sexual impulse and partly not. It was attracted by the perfect mapping between pure beauty and his inner ideal. From sunny days to sunny days, the sun still rises to let the bullets fly. The former has less and less components, while the latter has more and more components.

On sunny days, the camera will aim at the quiet and plump chest, thighs and feet, from voyeurism to rape. But when it comes to letting bullets fly, there is only a faint line left in Zhang Mazi's infatuation with Sister Hua (Zhou Yun), which is so subtle that many people will feel abrupt at the end when Zhang Mazi shoots Xiaohua. The focus of the lens correspondingly becomes face, smile and eyes.