Emergency Rescue: The Classical And Modern Core Of "Lin Chaoxian Style"

Ren Ming / Wen

Emergency relief, originally scheduled for release on the first day of the Chinese New Year in 2020, was delayed by nearly 11 months before it finally met the audience at the end of the year. Finally, when I saw the 134 minute film on the big screen, the difficult experience of the year turned into a moment of life and death on the screen. It made people feel again the pay of others hidden in ordinary years. This is a movie that makes adrenaline soar, moves people, and also brings people a lot of thinking. Among them, there is "extraordinary Lin Chaoxian" praising and emphasizing professionalism.

From the emphasis on the professionalism, elite attitude and cooperative spirit of the new generation of soldiers in operation Red Sea, to the sacrifice and courage of the rescue team in emergency rescue, Lin Chaoxian's films have a classical and modern core in my opinion, that is, to excavate the motive force to promote its operation and slow progress in a seemingly complex world, which is human beings The spirit of class. This spirit is embodied in the interweaving of good and evil, and the alternation of dedication and selfishness. However, the former always prevails over the latter in the end. This is the reason why human beings have been on the earth for hundreds of thousands of years. After experiencing various disasters caused by nature and their own inventions and creations, human beings can continue to correct their direction, produce and multiply. "Emergency rescue" is about such a "sometimes we have to fight the last breath is courage" story.

At the beginning of the film, the real core behind what people call "luck" is revealed: you can be lucky only if you persist enough. From Peng YuYan's Acting Deputy Leader of the emergency rescue team, Gao Qian said such a "golden sentence", which makes us feel that "emergency rescue" is much more "earthly" than "operation Mekong" and "operation Red Sea". Indeed, unlike the first two films, which are driven by a single specific event, emergency rescue consists of four rescue stories, interspersed with Gao Qian's relationship with his son and other team members such as Zhao Cheng. Some critics think that the life scenes in the four scenes make the film slow down and lose Lin's unique style. However, for director Lin Chaoxian, who shows that he wants to constantly challenge himself, I think these intersperses are appropriate: the rescue team members are also ordinary people, but when they take "saving people" as their mission, life will bloom with different sparks and light. The film shows Gao Qian's happiness in living with his son after his wife's death due to cancer. His courage to accept all the misfortunes in his daily life and his courage to take responsibility for the lives of others and team members when life and death are at stake can be said to be in the same vein - they need the same kind of courage and spirit. The mutual love between Gao Qian and female pilot Yu Ling is also the "proper meaning in the title" between two suitable singles. The film does not exaggerate it. It can be said that the director's ingenuity is to weave the beauty of life, the value of life and the courage to pay for others. In my opinion, this effort has been successful.

Some people think that Zhao Cheng and his girlfriend love each other and shoot wedding dress. Sometimes, the "stereotype" is a kind of respect and respect for ordinary life and daily life. If it is not so conventional, it seems that it is not enough to show how beautiful the future of the life we have sacrificed. In the scene of the doctor performing brain tumor removal surgery for congcongcong, when the camera shows that the doctor opens congcongcong's skull with a scalpel, a middle-aged man's dissatisfaction voice comes from the audience: "this is too much." I guess he didn't expect that he would have to face such a terrible scene as craniotomy in his life. However, many doctors and patients as well as their families are undoubtedly facing such a fact and suffering day and night. They have no choice but to face it bravely. Just like in the film's final scene of a natural gas ship fire, rescue team members have to braved 150 degrees, 180 degrees and even more than 300 degrees to save people in the sea of fire. The dangerous and harsh environment they are exposed to is beyond the imagination and endurance of ordinary people. However, in order to save lives, this is where some people must spare no effort.

In addition to courage, it's technological progress and expertise that makes it possible. This is why I think Lin's films are both classical and modern. He praised the human spirit almost classically, but he never ignored the possibilities brought about by the progress of science and technology.

There is only one place in the film that I think is against the spirit of the film, that is, when Gao Qian runs from the hospital to join the emergency rescue team. A leader specially called him aside and asked him why he didn't stay in the hospital to take care of congcongcong operation? From this, they had a conceivable dialogue. In real life, this scene may indeed happen, but it is unnecessary redundancy for the film narrative. When you say nothing at all. If there is any regret in the artistic technique of the film, it is a distrust of the audience's "understanding ability". It seems that the straightforward and redundant expression of "emergency rescue" is indeed caused.

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