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2022-03-05 08:01
As a commercial story film, "Untitled Remembering 1942 Project" has a complete structure and a full plot
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The adaptation of the film is a good combination of storytelling and documentary, with clear priorities and orderliness. In the form of expression, director Xiaogang Feng effectively utilizes the successful elements of past films, such as the reconstruction of human nature after natural disasters and the white-hot war scenes, and a little Feng-style humor infiltrating it
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"Untitled Remembering 1942 Project" is a warm film, this film is not pessimistic, but believes in the warmth of human nature, giving people the power to move forward, sad but not sad
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Xiaogang Feng made this film with Du Fu's sympathy for the people's livelihood, and Qu Yuan's grief for the difficulties of the people's livelihood. "Untitled Remembering 1942 Project" is a question of how much human beings can maintain their humanity and culture below the bottom line of survival. Fortunately, the director still tries to maintain some human warmth and human dignity ()
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In a sense, this film is the spiritual coming-of-age ceremony of the Chinese nation
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It embodies the conscience and morality of Chinese film art, surpassing the general sentiments of the Chinese nation
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The significance of this film has four main points: First, it has enlightenment value and is the on-screen transmission of Lu Xun's spirit. Second, it has the respect and sympathy for the right of individual perceptual life to exist, and the process of civilization is the relationship between the individual and the whole. Third, it shapes collective consciousness and creates public memory. Fourth, its subject matter is transcendent, not a simple war film, anti-Japanese themes, etc. can be summarized
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