Cheng Er and Wang Yibo collaborated again on "Mermaid" with a unique dir...

On the first day of the New Year in 2023, the spy war masterpiece "Nameless", produced by Bona Film, directed by Cheng Er and starring Liang Chao Wei and Wang Yibo, was released, and the film achieved double success at the box office and word of mouth. At that time, Cheng Er revealed that his next new film is called "Mermaid", which will start shooting this summer, and will continue to work with Wang Yibo.

On June 11, Bona Film Group held the "Eulogizing the Great Era, Depicting a Better Life - 2023 Bona Film New Film Launch" at the Shanghai International Film Festival, announcing a super luxurious list of 20 films and 5 dramas, and director Cheng Er also Director Cheng Er also arrived with "The Human Fish" as promised.

Cheng Er revealed at the conference that he has been busy during this period of time, and the script of "The Fish" has not yet been completed, so he is very apprehensive. "At this stage the film is still in a huge imagination, the script has not yet seen." Although the script has not yet come out, but has been to many places to survey the scene, hoping to use this way to sort out "what we really want a movie".

Cheng Er also recalled that a few days ago, when he and Wang Yibo were looking at the scenery in Tokyo, they were suddenly caught in an incredible storm. At one point, the rain was so heavy that it was like being immersed in water, but the trip that was thought to be cancelled was completed by accident. The rain poured down and made itself felt and got a revelation: "No matter what, the mermaid will go to his destination".

Cheng Er's films have a very distinctive personal style in narrative and aesthetics, and the audience is relatively niche. He likes to tell stories in a non-linear narrative way, breaking up time and space, and then the audience can piece together the whole story through fragmented fragments and a large number of details, making the film informative and providing the audience with space for imagination and interpretation, but the threshold for viewing is high.

Cheng Er also prefers to use fixed shots, with dignified composition, balanced images, and elaborate details, which are visually extremely smooth and elegant, conveying an objective and restrained visual aesthetic. However, behind this ultimate pursuit of picture beauty, it reveals the complexity of human nature and the dark tide, presenting the director's thoughts on society and human nature.

Therefore, some viewers said that Cheng Er's film is difficult to understand, the picture is dull, and the film's word of mouth shows polarized phenomenon. I like Cheng Er's works very much, "Border Wind", "Romantic History of Disappearance", "No Name", both commercially and artistically, are very successful films.