Film review of Bad Genius

I had never watched a Thailand movie before, though I knew about Thailand creative advertisements. However, after watching Bad Genius, I find there are also some awesome people in the filmdom.

Bad Genius is revised from a real incident that a Chinese examinee cheated by taking advantage of jet lag. It is a pity that there is no Chinese people revised it into a film, while Thailand people caught this opportunity and performed miracles in the filmdom. The heroin, Aokbab, is a famous model and this is her first time to act in a movie. Nevertheless, it is hard to identify this. Besides, other actors and actresses are all have both good appearance and consummate skill, which establish foundation for the film’s success. Background music’ up and down add the immersion and realism, while Lyn and Bank’ subtle changes about their eyes make audience feel tense and worry about them. At the same time, when they are preparing for cheat in the STIC, thoughtful and well-organized process with a few of contradictions bring shock and realism.

Lyn is from a lone parent family, and her father send her to a noble school aiming to let her get better education. In the new school, she meets Grace and from her experience, she knows that a teacher tells students answers on purpose in his tutorial class just before the exam, to attract more students to attend his class. Besides, she knows that father pay school much sponsorship money. These settings foreshadow the series of cheat later, including help Grace cheat out of friendship at the beginning, help classmates cheat in the name of teaching them piano to make up her losing scholarship and help more people to pass SITC to make fortune. Bank is also from a lone parent family, and his mother has a small and scruffy laundry. He is excellent as the same as Lyn. He is honest in the beginning and shops a classmate’s cheating, which involves Lyn in, thus Lyn lose the opportunity to get scholarship. Later his agreeing to join Lyn and her companies is out of a little guilt, Bar’s trick and pressure to support family.

Besides surprising methods of cheat, there are other impressive scenes. Lyn says to Bank: even though you are honest, life still cheats you. Thinking about his experience and mother’s work, this sentence plays a role in Bank’s change. And nowadays there surely are incidents about good people don’t get deserved repay and bad guys are still out there, such as pence, corruption and lifting a granny up or not. Another scene impressing audience greatly happens when Lyn and Bank face sea, speaking and smiling, even take a photo together. At that time, they must be looking forward to their bright prospective and imagining studying overseas. However, reality is always cruel, they could hardly guess that they are losers later.

This film reveals bad social habits, such as some educational institutions make money from students, teachers run tutorial class, good people are cheated by life and so on. At the meanwhile, its ending tells us that no matter what mistakes we make, it can take a turn for the better if we confess we are wrong.

《天才枪手》 影评

之前从未看过泰国电影，最多的也只是对泰国的创意广告有所了解，而在看完《天才枪手》后，我感受到泰国的电影界也有着一群了不起的人。

《天才枪手》是根据2014年的一名中国考生国际作弊案真实改编的，比较遗憾的是，中国没有人将其改编为电影，而泰国就抓住了这样的一个少见题材，创造出电影界的一个奇迹。女主角琳的扮演者是一名名模，这是她第一次出演电影，但是在影片中却丝毫看不出这一点，她的表现可圈可点。除此之外，其他演员也都颜值、演技在线，为这部影片的成功奠定了基础。跌宕起伏、把握精准的背景音让观众更有代入感，琳和班的眼神变化让看的人不仅为他们捏一把汗，而在准备STIC考试时分工的明确，心思的缜密，准备过程的条理以及偶尔出现的矛盾点也让整部影片给观众带来震撼和真实的感觉。

琳是单亲家庭中的孩子，与父亲相依为命，对她抱有希望的父亲为了让琳收到更好地教育，不顾琳的反对，把她送到一所贵族学校上学。在这里，琳认识了朋友格蕾丝，看到了校内老师为了让学生们都来上他的辅导班，故意把考试题目提前透露给辅导班学生，也意外地获知，自己能来这所学校，父亲背着她给学校交了不菲的“赞助费”。这些背景的交代为琳决定出于友情帮格蕾丝作弊，为了弥补因作弊免去的奖学金而开“钢琴课”帮同学作弊，到后来为了赚钱帮助更多人作弊STIC做了铺垫。班也是单亲家庭中长大的孩子，母亲开着洗衣店勉强维持着开销，同样优秀的班在刚开始是十分正直诚实的，在发现同学作弊后将其告发，牵扯出琳，使琳失去了评选奖学金的机会，班因此心怀愧疚。后来班同意入伙也是一部分出于愧疚之情，当然还要靠小巴的略施小计和家庭的经济危机。

除了让人意想不到的作弊方法，影片中有几个让场景让人印象深刻。琳对班说：就算你诚实，生活依然会欺骗你。刚开始不同意加入作弊团队的班，被小巴找来的人打了一顿，还因此失去了拿奖学金的机会，想到母亲的劳累和自己的遭遇，琳对班的这句话，适时地成为他做出改变的巨大推动力。在感叹班不幸经历的同时，也不禁想到现在的社会中，确实有善良的人得不到好报，做坏事的人却逍遥法外的事件，比如这几年的“扶不扶”问题、碰瓷手段和贪污恶习。还有一个场景也让人回味无穷，就是在琳和班刚到达悉尼后开心面对着大海，说笑着，还拍了合照，那时的他们一定心怀憧憬，在想象着干完这一单后，可以有钱出国留学，可以开启自己的美好人生，但现实往往是残酷无情的，他们不会想到之后胆战心惊的经历，和几乎被毁了的一生。

这部电影揭示着赤裸裸的现实：教育单位赚取学生的“赞助费”、教师开辅导班并采取不正当方法鼓励同学们都来上、善良的人也会被生活欺骗……但也在结尾用琳的自首有些突兀地告诉我们，不管犯了多大的错，回头是岸。