The film borrows from the past to satirize the present, and can interpret many symbols and metaphors from the details and dialogue. The film is entertaining, the plot is neat and compact, and the audience's blood is boiling in a few scenes. The character design and interaction are particularly enjoyable. Watching three bad guys face each other is like reading a set of strategy books. In particular, the line "Let the bullets fly a little longer" has the same effect as "Let the long line catch the big fish"
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"Let The Bullets Fly" is a movie that makes it difficult to define and categorize, because Jiang Wen's unique personality and creative talent give this movie a unique personality. This means that it is difficult for people to judge this film with the conventions of existing genres, and therefore various interpretations of it are varied and all-encompassing.
"Let The Bullets Fly" is an imperfect film. Although the charm of the actors is enjoyable, the images of the film are exciting, the humorous characters and language make people laugh, but the plot and narrative are not reasonable and smooth. It's equally obvious. However, Jiang Wen's talent and passion are so irresistible, strong enough to make the audience comprehend his work in his logic, and in his way to forgive the unreasonable flaws of "Let The Bullets Fly". The film is like a live-action cartoon movie. Jiang Wen has made an adult's fantasy dream so innocent and colorful, yet so serious and upright.
The dreamlike beginning of the film-a white horse riding a steam train through the mountains and forests, accompanied by Hisaishi's lyrical and beautiful soundtrack, this beautiful picture seems to be transformed from the film image of the Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki . And then the huge hot pot, bandits wearing mahjong masks, train cars flying in the sky, and even the white-faced women who greeted guests with Japanese Oni drums, quietly observed the newly appointed county magistrate, Goose City Ichiba. No matter the image, the plot, the characteristics of the characters, or the imagination of the picture, there is a strong and exaggerated cartoon style. That kind of fantasy adventure story with the theme inseparable from the struggle between good and evil, seems to come from the same line of Japanese "hot blood" cartoons.
What "Let The Bullets Fly" shows to the audience is indeed a work created entirely under the thinking of cartoon animation. It cannot be said that those wonderful pictures full of wild imagination are the credit of cartoon style, but the utopian world, those exaggerated and symbolic characters, those absurd and out of routine plots, can be in a cartoon-like innocence. Logic can be unfolded reasonably.
