涉过愤怒的海

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分类：剧情悬疑犯罪地区：中国大陆年份：2023

简介：老金（黄渤饰）为供女儿金丽娜（周依然饰）留学终日捕鱼，却换来女儿身中17刀离详情

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涉过愤怒的海影评：[Film Review] Across the Furious Sea (2023)

Cao Baoping is a Generation Xer who has been sinking his teeth in this line of work for over two decades, crime genre is his forte and ACROSS THE FURIOUS SEA is his seventh feature. Shooting completed in 2019 but not released until late 2023, it is a fervid pursuit of a father to catch the boyfriend of his daughter, whom he believes is responsible for her shocking death.

ACROSS THE FURIOUS SEA has no frivolity to dispense as it opens with a blood-soaked scene of a young student Lina (Zhou Yiran, a bracing presence blended with innocence and world-weariness) in the last gasp, who is bled to death after 17 non-fatal stabs. Jin (Huang Bo), Lina's divorced father, a fishing trawl captain, is going to pull out all the stops to find Miaomiao (Zhang Youhao, solid in presenting the maniacal side of the role), Lina's abusive, cosplay-addictive boyfriend, who is the prime suspect of the crime, which leads him butt heads with Jinglan (Zhou Xun), Miaomiao's overprotective mother. Their face-off includes a basement set on fire, a tripartite car crash on a highway during a fishing-raining tornado and a cliffside murder/suicide attempt. Cao's directorial prowess, especially his supervision of the action sequences and his selective visual atmosphere, is hors concours among his peers.

Everything goes according to a stock revenge tale, Jin is inexorably headstrong but is also fortunate enough to always appear in the right place at the right time, and has enough resources to even carry out mayhem in Japan without much hindrance. The script has the penchant for taking coincidences for granted, the upshot of Li Lie (Zu Feng), Miaomiao’s father is misbegotten. Customarily, the law enforcement is depicted either ineffectual (easily talked down by a composed but hard-hitting Jinglan) or too sympathetic (letting Jin out of the joint after his violent break and enter) and a suffixed coda is obviously emplaced to appease the censorship (no crime shall go unpunished).

However, the film's epic 144-minute length foreshadows a turn-up for the book near the end. The truth of Lina's death is too hard for Jin to swallow because it never occurs to him that he is a lousy father and he is accountable. Incisively, ACROSS THE FURiOUS SEA juxtaposes the two pairs of parent-child, both from a broken family, to demonstrate the two types of defective parenting. Jin's machismo negligence results in Lina a fathomless wanting of love and affection whereas Jinglan's mollycoddling should be directly answerable for Miaomiao's antisocial and malevolent proclivities.

Huang Bo, a Chinese household name who is mostly bankable for his comedic bent, really goes off the deep end in his most intense role to date. His hellacious application in anguish pays off remarkably near the end, when Jin is whacked by guilt and grief. Zhou Xun, reunited with Cao after THE EQUATION OF LOVE AND DEATH (2008), has a less prominent presence than Huang because Jinglan’s story is sadly sidelined, but Zhou remains memorable in every scene. Jinglan may sound like a cliché on paper, but Zhou makes good use of every opportunity to show there is an omnipresent inner battle raging inside her, and Jinglan may still have a second chance to rescue her son from perdition. That is the kindest message Cao’s gritty film can dispense.

referential entries: Cao Paoping's THE EQUATION OF LOVE AND DEATH (2008, 7.2/10); Kong Dashan's JOURNEY TO THE WEST (2021, 7.8/10); Gu Xiaogang's DWELLING IN THE FUCHUN MOUNTAINS (2019, 7.0/10); Hu Bo's AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL (2018, 7.7/10); Dong Yue’s THE LOOMING STORM (2017, 7.4/10).