This film reflects the officialdom, especially China. It is Xiaogang Feng's luck to dare to shoot like this, and it is also the liberalization of the film censorship department. Especially the shooting of NPC scenes, such scenes were unimaginable in previous movies.
However, movies still serve the class. There are so many officials, big and small, that there is nothing particularly bad. This case is not a misjudgment, and its behind-the-scenes is not so much the official ukiyo-e painting as the weakness of human nature. The real officialdom is far more dangerous than the movie. At best, the movie is a scratch, which is neither painful nor itchy.
For the needs of the plot, the overall IQ of Fan Bingbing's role goes up and down. A woman who can think of a fake divorce to cheat the house and put all the houses in the country under her name before the fake divorce suddenly wants to find someone to help her kill (several people have been found). This kind of plot design is meaningless for plot promotion except adding some effects. Including Fan Wei's last appearance, is just a joke to extend the film time, which is meaningless.
Compared with the novel, the film adds and deletes a lot of content, which weakens the satire on the government petition system and increases the mayor's reflection. Xuelian runs a restaurant in Beijing and accidentally meets the former county magistrate. Xuelian tells the truth of the fake divorce because she wants two children. At the end of the novel, Li Xuelian tried to hang himself, but he was saved by the fruit farmer, and there was nowhere to hang himself. I think this is also the measure taken by Feng Dao and screenwriter Liu Zhenyun to let the film pass the censorship and be released! The wonderful performances of Fan Bingbing and many big-name actors add a lot of color to the film. The circular and square lenses of the film change naturally and have a special aesthetic feeling.
From the topic selection, it is completely out of the public taste; The content is empty, there are too many characters, and the main characters are not constructed. Look at Guo Tao, the geometry of the scene, and the whole movie. Guo Tao won't shoot the scene of No.8 man. Seeing the ending, the theme is very vague. Finally, Li Xuelian and the dismissed county magistrate meet in a restaurant. What do you want to express? The county magistrate was not at fault, but he was removed from office. Is he going to sue, too? In short, the topic is not good, and there is no good beginning and end. The main idea of the content is unclear.