The Floating city mystery

A 2012 thriller directed by Lou Ye
The Mystery of Floating City is a thriller film co-produced by Dreamers Film and Television Media Group and Dream Author, directed by Lou Ye, written by Mei Feng, Yu Fan and Lou Ye, starring Hao Lei, Qin Hao, Qu Ying and Qi Xi. The film was released in China on October 19, 2012. The film is based on the hot Internet post, tells the story of Qiao Yongzhao and Lu Jie married for many years, because of dislike of plain husband and wife life, seeking fresh and new love, became a spurned "cheating cheating women's feelings of the man", resulting in a bizarre car accident murder case, which led to a love secret incident. In 2012, the film was selected for the 65th Cannes Film Festival "One Kind of Attention... >>>
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Poster of the Floating City Mystery
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Film "Floating City Mystery" launch party

Basic information

"Floating City Mystery" is jointly produced by Dreamers Film and Television Media Group and Dream Author [22] , Lou Ye Direct, Mei Feng , Yu Fan, Lou Ye screenwriter, Hao Lei , Qin Hao , Qu Ying , Qi Xi Starring in the thriller, the film was released in China on October 19, 2012 [23] .
The film is based on popular Internet posts [24] Tells the story of Qiao Yongzhao and Lu Jie married for many years, because of aversion to plain husband and wife life, seeking fresh and new love, became a despised "cheating cheating women's feelings of the man", resulting in a bizarre car accident murder case, which led to a love secret incident [25 to 26] .
In 2012, the film was shortlisted 65th Cannes Film Festival "One Kind of Concern" unit [33] And get The 49th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards Best New Actor and Best Original Film Score [28] . 2013, obtained The 7th Asian Film Awards Best Screenplay and Best new artist [29] . As of May 20, 2024, the film has grossed $1.833 million worldwide [27] .
Chinese name
The Floating city mystery
Foreign name
Mystery
Mi [22]
Other translated names
mystery , Double life [22]
Generic type
frightened [23]
Producing company
Dreamers Film and Television Media Group, Dream Author [22] (etc.)
Production area
China, France [23]
Issuing company
China Film Corporation Beijing Film Distribution branch
Wild Bunch Distribution
Festive Films
Alamode Film
UPLINK Company [22]
Direct performance
Lou Ye
dramatize
Mei Feng , Yu Fan , Lou Ye
Producer
Kristina Larsen
Rémi Burah [30]
Main performance
Hao Lei , Qin Hao , Qi Xi , Qu Ying
Film length
98 minutes [31]
Release time
October 19, 2012
Ticket office
$1.833 million (as of May 20, 2024)
Dialogue language
Mandarin [22]
chroma
Chroma [32]
imdb coding
tt2369127 [31]
Major awards
Best Screenplay Award at the 7th Asian Film Awards
Best Newcomer Award at the 7th Asian Film Awards
Best New Actor Award at the 49th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards
The 49th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards Original Film Score Award

synopsis

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Young woman mosquito on the highway was unknown person tracking, chasing and hit and suffered a car accident, was rich second generation driving impact, died, and finally under the pressure of wealth and power of the case private. But police officer Qin Feng ( Zhu Yawen Play the role of) And the mysterious Tong Mingsong ( Zu Feng Play the role of) But in the crime scene found suspicious clues, feel out of the case.
Lu Jie and Qiao Yongzhao is an enviable couple, a happy family has a daughter, and runs a company, food and clothing. Lu Jie because her daughter in the kindergarten playmate aerospace children met their mother Sangqi, but in the process of contact with her husband accidentally found the affair, but in the follow-up and investigation, Lu Jie found that all this is not accidental, husband Qiao Yongzhao and Sangqi has a relationship that is not ordinary. In the face of sudden family changes, Lu Jie disheartened and began to implement a series of plans; Qin Feng and Tong Mingsong identified Lu as a suspect in the case. [1]

credits

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casting

Hao Lei 饰  Lu Jie
DUB-
Qin Hao 饰  Qiao Yongzhao
DUB-
Qi Xi 饰  Sanchi
DUB-
Qu Ying 饰  Lu Jie bestie
DUB-
Zhu Yawen 饰  Qin Feng
DUB-
Zu Feng 饰  Tong Mingsong
DUB-
Chang Fangyuan 饰  Mosquito seed
DUB-
Song Ning 饰  Europe
DUB-

Staff list

Production MANAGER: Kristina Larsen
director Lou Ye
WRITER Mei Feng
shoot Zeng Jian
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The above content is from [2]

Role introduction

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Lu Jie
ACTORS Hao Lei
DUB Hao Lei
Qiao Yongzhao's marriage, two people fell in love in college, and then Lu Jie found her husband derailment, after confusion, disappointment, set foot on the road of woman's revenge. Not only to the small three suppression and hand to play small four, but in the end its disheartened, chose to divorce. [3]
Qiao Yongzhao
ACTORS Qin Hao
DUB Qin Hao
At the same time, he has two complete families, he loves these two women, two women also gave him a son, a daughter, has walked on the edge of the cliff, but also contaminated with small three, small four, and even a one-night stand. [4]
Sanchi
ACTORS Qi Xi
DUB Qi Xi
Sangqi ruthless in order to get love, can not help but kill "small four" mosquitoes, and with the original exhibition to take husband war, two people in order to guard their love, thoughtful, step by step. Although the final victory, but also face legal sanctions. [5]
Qin Feng
ACTORS Zhu Yawen
DUB Zhu Yawen
Qin Feng is a police officer, he launched an investigation into the accidental death of his ex-girlfriend mosquito, in the investigation process he encountered resistance from all sides, but still a persistent pursuit of the truth, a little "single-minded".

Acoustic music

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Theme song [6]

Behind the scenes

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1. The film is director Lou Ye's first work after being banned from making films [7] .
2, the lead actress Hao Lei in the shooting of this drama, the whole time is no makeup, and the whole crew is no makeup. [8]
3, September 25, 2012, Lou Ye announced through the micro blog reached a compromise, and said that he gave up the director's name, which is the first time that the director gave up the name of the film released. [9]
4, the film is the third cooperation between Qin Hao and Lou Ye, Qin Hao said Lou Ye to find him to shoot, do not pay a penny is also willing to act. [10]

Award record

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Award time
Award name
gainer
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May 10, 2012
The UN Certain Regard section of the 65th Cannes Film Festival
Mystery of the Floating City
nominate [11]
November 24, 2012
The 49th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards for Best Feature Film
Mystery of the Floating City
nominate
November 24, 2012
The 49th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards for Best Director
Lou Ye
November 24, 2012
Best Actress Award at the 49th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards
Hao Lei
nominate [12]
November 24, 2012
The 49th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards for Best Original Screenplay
Mei Feng
November 24, 2012
Best Newcomer Award at the 49th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards
Qi Xi
Win a prize [13]
November 24, 2012
The 49th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards original film music
Hai Liang
Win a prize [14]
November 24, 2012
Best Editing Award at the 49th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards
Zeng Jian
nominate [15]
March 16, 2013
The 7th Asian Film Awards for Best Film
Mystery of the Floating City
Win a prize
March 16, 2013
Best Screenplay at the 7th Asian Film Awards
Mei Feng
Win a prize
March 16, 2013
Best Newcomer Award at the 7th Asian Film Awards
Qi Xi
Win a prize [16]
March 16, 2013
Best Actress Award at the 7th Asian Film Awards
Hao Lei
nominate
March 16, 2013
Best Director Award at the 7th Asian Film Awards
Lou Ye
nominate

Behind the scenes production

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Creation background
"Floating City Mystery" is adapted from the Tianya hot post "See how I clean up cheap men and concubine", the original post tells a complicated story of polyamory strange love, and the resulting murder case. [17]
Film renaming
On March 13, 2012, Lou Ye announced in Beijing that the film was officially named "Floating City Mystery", and he said that he had always felt that the person and the prospect of the film were a "mystery", so he used the working title "Mystery". As everything gradually became clear, I still felt that "Floating City Mystery" was more appropriate. [18]

Broadcast information

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Broadcast platform
January 30, 2019 [21]
CCTV6 Movie Channel

Film evaluation

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Starting from Suzhou River, several of Lou Ye's works have been shot in Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, Chongqing and other places to travel China. I don't want to inflate the allegory of the Yangtze here, but Lou Ye's use of a river-connected way to string together the modern story of several cities without obscurating it is definitely purposeful. You know, most domestic films generally lack realism and modern flavor, but Lou Ye, who only talks about love between men and women, is looking for something below the calm water, tracing the source of contemporary people's emotional life.
Regardless of business or art, above or below ground, "Mystery of the Floating City" is still a personal author's film, and its scenes have a violent impact that can't be summarized by the censorship storm before its release. "Floating City Mystery" selected a city by the river, a common middle-class family, around the truth and lies and confused character relations, continue to do a sand a world analysis and deduction. The sudden rain, it's like out of Purple Butterfly.
The film follows the hand-held photography that has become a style, and the camera is sneaky and hidden, reinforcing the sense of scene, as if hidden in everyday life, always following the characters. The choice of this lens language is also in line with the film itself, the protagonist has a secret that cannot be revealed, the characters are hiding their whereabouts, and the mantis catches the cicada and the yellow sparrow behind. Lou Ye continues to choose the low-light environment, peeking into the shadows of life, and penetrating into the shadows of everyone. From a series of efforts to approach reality, the director is tantamount to constantly emphasizing that the story of "Floating City Mystery" happens in life, and these people are inseparable from the city (overlooking and aerial photography).
"Mystery of the Floating City" has only losers, and several characters seem unlikable. Perhaps Lou Ye is trying to say that living in this era, no one is innocent. If the death of a female college student was an accident, and several people acted as the cause of evil, the accomplice and the final terminator, then when Qiao Yongzhao chose a rough solution, he let himself be involved in greater trouble. This active, middle-aged man who wants to be done with it, he's proactive with women, he's holding two families together, he's guilt-free, he's enjoying it. The evil in him deserves no sympathy, the film portrays him as a hypocrite and sadist with violent tendencies, and some friends describe him as an ugly patriarchal figure, superstitious in violence and insatiable. He gave himself reasons for his mother's desire to have a son - a reason for the emergence of a character who had never appeared. Whether true or not, it should be treated as an excuse. There are other women behind the two women and two children, especially a dead woman, and these are not to be used as excuses.
All men are created equal, therefore, the death of the college girl is not a condemnation or retribution, she is killed by the combined force of this dirty world, and the others seem to be safe. Behind the police searching for the truth, The Floating City Mystery reveals the ugly emotional game and the naked law of desire. The audience can see disillusionment, fear and struggle, a heart palpitation, a storm. Whatever you see, that's what you see. There's no truth. It doesn't matter.
Love is a story and an accident. This sentence is explained incisively and vividly by Lou Ye in the Mystery of Floating City. At the beginning of the film, Lou Ye openly expressed his feelings for Wuhan city. On the gray highway, cars ran wildly in Ode to Joy, flocks of white doves flew over in the haze, and the mottled beach carried a strong sense of environmental enthrall. This is the label of Wuhan, but also Lou Ye.
Lou Ye's films always have an emotional power that is greater than the narrative. Compared with his previous works The Summer Palace and The Drunken Night of Spring Breeze, Lou Ye's emotional power released in the Mystery of Floating City is more obvious. Although both of these films focus on some pathological love in extreme conditions, it is obvious that Lou Ye's analysis of society and human nature in the Mystery of Floating City has become more profound over the past year. Because he added more environmental, ethical, and subtle thinking of The Times to people in the latter, love is not a thin story, what's more, every story can become an accident.
The story of "Floating City Mystery" is undoubtedly extreme and heavy taste, a man walking in the female world, his body is affixed with the label of success recognized by the secular concept, but it is incompetent to love, until the end of the film, he does not know who he loves most, or who he has the ability to fall in love with. In "Flower", Lou Ye portrayed a woman walking among many men, from the plot point of view, "Floating city Mystery" completed the counterattack of "Flower". Women are the protagonists in this film, the conflict between them constitutes the driving force of the plot, the woman's ruthless is devastating, which is the biggest feeling left after watching "Floating City Mystery". The film revolves around three women and a man, they are all the victims of a love story, but also are the makers of love accidents, more often, we can only lament the cruelty of human nature.
Hao Lei's character line in "Floating City Mystery" is the most full and complete, from shock to struggle to finally let go, her emotional state changes, driving the development of the whole story, compared with the male lead Qiao Yongzhao's spiritual blind movement, Hao Lei played the wife Lu Jie, under the face of patience, completed the initial hatred ambition and the final self-redemption. For female college students mosquito, Lu Jie and the third Sangqi with the same enemy, this kind of things in real life look incredible, by the Hao Lei pair of always red swollen eyes quickly often physics, may be in the first half of the film will let people think that Hao Lei is willing to bend for love, until the back flashback and back to the scene of the accident, suddenly, she violently broke out. Hao Lei's role is like Fan Bingbing in "Double Exposure", a person's performance holds up a story, but she is much more sober than Fan Bingbing, and much more planned, her anger and struggle are high-end abdominal black, combined with small three to eliminate small four, which is similar to Bismarck's iron and blood wrist, she can also in front of her husband as if nothing had happened ordinary posture, have to say, It's a modern version of the legend of Zhen Huan.
The feeling of the camera in "Floating City Mystery" is similar to that in "Double Exposure", which is to force the audience to focus on the actor's face at the moment with a large field of view and a sense of shaking, and the physiological feeling of the stomach is accompanied by the psychological experience of tension, and "Double exposure", "Floating City Mystery" is also a psychological and physiological style film. Because the story itself has a natural "bosom friend" feeling, so the whole plot texture of the film inevitably seems to be a little network and mouth, whether it is a micro blog selfie or a car race, whether it is a female college student's fall or a junior year such as a day of abdominal black lurking, can only reflect the thin plot itself. Although Lou Ye infected many viewers with the emotional power outside the screen in the film, but the film itself, the adaptation of forum posts, still need to be more cautious. (NetEase Entertainment review) 19-20] [