"Gate of Hell" may seem too cheesy for the 21st century, but it's still elegant in the chaos of the seven major color systems of the time. Because by comparison, Gate of Hell is really lackluster artistically, with a superficial story, simple plot, pretentious scenes, and masked characters that make people sleepy. At the beginning of the film, I thought it would tell a love story between Kassa and Sheng Yuan, but finally I realized that it was an educational film, to explain the vulgar truth that "violence cannot win hearts". "Gate of Hell" is by no means a "sex first" movie. The long-lost traditional morality in the film sings the absolute protagonist, making women dedicate their lives to it, and letting reckless men get lost, just like seeing a wild man who doesn't go Fighting and killing, but talking about ethics and morals with a straight face, I feel quite unaccustomed and boring.
The picture of "Gate of Hell" is very gaudy, like the color blocks on the canvas have not been wiped off, making the plot a bit muddled and unable to unfold, and the characters are more like pictographs mixed on the canvas, or a mask At the dance, people who lack the texture of life are so light and thin that they can be carried away by a gust of wind. And the music of the film is a kind of hoarse flute and drum, distant, dim, dilapidated, decayed, empty, babble, like weeping, as if the characters cannot get rid of the vast fate. This music makes one feel like you are in the empty hills of your childhood hometown
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