Berlin 2023: Green Night Movie Review Chinese Actress Fan Bingbing Makes Audacious Return After Tax Scandal In Koreaset Tale Of Sex And Violence

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2 Mar, 2023

Berlin 2023: Green Night Movie Review Chinese Actress Fan Bingbing Makes Audacious Return After Tax Scandal In Koreaset Tale Of Sex And Violence

Set in Korea, Thelma & Louise Meet Blue's warmest hue in Green Night stars Fan Bingbing as an exploitative migrant worker with a vengeance.
Although his performance was one of the strongest in Fan's career, the film itself, which was directed by Han Shuai, had a weak story and heavy structure.

2.5/5 stars

Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, who was exiled to the desert for nearly five years by the Chinese authorities on charges of tax evasion, is back in the spotlight with her appearance in Green Night .

The film, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, sees Van as a migrant worker who is exploited, strangled, and raped before becoming an avenger who defeats one of her attackers and sets the others on fire. .

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Filled with all of this and more — including sweaty, sultry sex scenes you'd never imagine Van would pull off in his image-conscious days with so much sincerity — Green Light feels like a bold, drawn-out statement of intent to re-imagine yourself making a real comedian.

While the performance is arguably some of her strongest in her career, the movie itself fails at every turn, the story is weak and the structure is unusable.

About two women's explosive descent into crime, violence, and death in a chauvinistic world, Green Light is a 21st-century Asian remake of Thelma & Louise ; Meanwhile, the blossoming relationship between the two main characters highlights all the hallmarks of a French romantic drama , Blue is the Warmest Color .

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Green Light is basically a movie looking for a story that matches director Han Shuai's influence.

Fan plays Jin Xia, a Chinese woman living in Korea, who suffers from an abusive marriage and lives as a security guard at the airport.

His life changes when a green-haired young woman (The Broker's Lee Joo-young) responds to his wild pursuit by pressing her tattooed breasts into Jin's face and whispering in his ear.

When Gene comes home from work that day, the young woman follows him home with a bag full of drugs.

Minutes after Gene reports to his superiors, a squeaking car pulls up in front of his building and thugs appear.

This marks the beginning of the Women's 24-Hour Race through Seoul, as Jane and an unnamed crazy drug mule try to unload the loot, deal with Jane's fanatical religious husbands, deal with intrigues among the men around them, and ponder feelings. we have for each other.

Fan Bingbing in a photo from Green Night.

Belgium-born but Beijing-based cinematographer Mathias Delvaux brings much-needed urgency to the story, and the energy on screen is palpable.

However, the thinly drawn characters are hard to work with - not much is known about where they come from or where they're going, and there isn't even a name for one of them.

Even the film's main theme — about women struggling in a world shaped by visible power and the invisible hand of men — feels forced and shallow.

The green light may be a calling card for fans in the future, but the film itself will likely be impressive for Han, who himself launched into the Summer Blur festival success three years ago.

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