Sunflower movie is suspected of using "dirty media" but sales are still sluggish

Recently, fans have focused their attention on the Sunflower project by Trieu Le Dinh, who impressed with her good acting. However, there are still many articles criticizing the film, the audience questioning that the film crew is using the tric.k of "dirty media" to attract attention.

Sohu pig, Trieu Le Dinh's movie Sunflower was released in Chinese theaters on April 4. Before the premiere, experts had very high expectations for Sunflowers, considering this as a "lifeline" for the Thanh Minh holiday, which was the most favored by cinemas.

Some people even predict that the total revenue of the film will easily reach 1 billion yuan. But the reality is quite the opposite.

Maoyan Professional Edition's data shows that after 3 days of the Qingming New Year (4 to 6-4), the film collected 80 million yuan, not yet reaching 100.

Sunflower is a social psychological film inspired by the lives of female prisoners after being released from prison.

Taking on the main role, Trieu Le Dinh transformed into Gao Yue Huong - a single mother who embarked on a criminal path to earn 200,000 yuan to buy hearing aids for her daughter.

Her rash actions landed her a prison sentence. The time behind bars helped her meet 4 women including Hei Muoi (Lan Tay Nha), Dang Hong (Xuyet Ni), Ho Binh (Vuong Cuc) and Quach Ai My (Trinh Tieu).

Although each person has a different personality, they all have one thing in common: not surrendering to fate, ready to collide with life with a resilient will.

The reason why Sunflower failed came from many factors, but the core reason was that the quality of the film did not meet expectations. On Douban, the audience score is only 6.6 - a fairly low rating.

In the current context, Douban is considered an important measure for the mass audience. Films that do not score 8 points or more are often difficult to attract people to the theater, because they are afraid to "try their luck" with ticket prices that are not cheap.

As for Trieu Le Dinh, she is not afraid to embarrass herself, revealin.g her rustic face, speaking in a local accent, swearing continuously, recreating the image of a lower-class gypsy woman.

Although the performance is very lively, compared to the role of The Wind Blows Half Summer, the character this time is still not deep and plump enough.

On Douban, some viewers commented: "The film is like a mirror that reflects the fate of women behind bars, revealin.g the light of humanity in social prejudice, nake.d and touching the heart".

But there are also many people who criticiz.e: "A bad movie, wasting two hours"; "It's all clumsy: the dialogue is forced, the dialect is annoying, the content is long-winded, cliché, illogical.

Rigid characters and acting. It seems that everyone wants to step into the wave of women's storytelling, but all to save mone.y and exploit the image of women suffering. It's outrageous." With the disappointing results from Sunflower, both Trieu Le Dinh and director Phung Tieu Cuong suffered serious losses.

On Trieu Le Dinh's side, she is in desperate need of a movie that wins in terms of revenue - at least from 1 billion yuan or more to prove herself as a box office star.

But a series of recent failures, from Kieu N.ghien's confidant to Sunflower, shows the opposite: she is no longer a name that attracts the audience. For big films, choosing Trieu Le Dinh is not necessarily because of acting, but mainly to take advantage of her huge fan base to attract revenue.

Similar to how the producers invited Tieu Chien to play the role of Quach Tinh in Hero of the Marksman - the purpose is nothing but to mobilize fans.

But in the case of Trieu Le Dinh, the fan effect does not seem to be strong enough to create a box office boost.

The last two movies she starred in were only around 100 million yuan in revenue - a figure that was too low than expected. This makes investors have to consider carefully if they want to continue to invite her to large projects in the future.

According to Sohu, in general, Trieu Le Dinh is at a difficult stage of transformation. The films that helped her become famous such as fairy tales, love stories, myths... now it is no longer "popular".

The previous generation of loyal fans has grown up, and their taste is also getting higher and higher. When she tried to "transform" into a drama or art film to conquer new audiences, she discovered that she still did not have enough acting depth and aesthetics to convince them.

Going back to the old fan group is no longer effective. Going on is arduous. There is no way back, she is forced to come by looking for big directors and big projects to find opportunities to "bounce back". But the paradox is that: if she wants to cooperate with a large crew, she must prove her ability to attract tickets - what Sunflower has just proven is... not.

Trieu Le Dinh has a low intellect, continuously swearing, but still dreams of "box office stars" Hany Đan15:19:40 08/04/2025In the past few days, Trieu Le Dinh has made an impression when participating in the Sunflower project. The film quickly collected relatively good numbers after 3 days of premiere. However, it is still far from the audience's expectations for this type of social psychological film.