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  • Filomena 2023-07-30 05:55:06

    When Youqing died, Fugui shouted in front of Youqing's body, "Daddy is here, Youqing called Dad Youqing", Jiazhen was stopped by the crowd, desperately wanting to see Youqing one last time, crying and shouting "Let me see, Youqing, let me see", then she looked at the blood-stained white cloth covering his Youqing, and walked past her. I remembered that night in the novel, Fugui carried the dead Youqing back. In the middle of the night, he sat on the ridge in the west of the village, watching...

  • Amely 2023-07-28 20:57:29

    What is it like to live? Living in the present, we should be more than a little...

  • Maiya 2023-07-28 17:12:19

    [A] As expected of Zhang Yimou's second best film, the script, actors, photography, and artistic achievements couldn't be better. The script has the blessing of Yu Hua's original work. Although the ending was greatly changed due to the pressure of censorship, it is still a top-level movie adaptation script, and it is still full of power to directly hit the heart. Ge You and Gong Li are worthy of being one of the best actors and actresses in China. The long age span of the characters, the great...

  • Maxwell 2023-07-25 14:15:27

    The book was read more than ten years ago, and it made me cry several times. A few years ago, my wife also read this book, and then hid in the bed and cried endlessly, saying it was too miserable, too miserable. I said that the worst was yet to come, so she cried even more vigorously. In the end, her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and she said how did she die? So I decided to stop watching. In the end, I watched the movie version today...it was really good. The ending was changed a bit...

  • Fatima 2023-07-17 23:01:52

    I think it's Zhang Yimou's best work, not to mention the acting skills of Gong Li and Ge You. Really suffer in life, unwilling to...

  • Catharine 2023-07-17 04:57:18

    Precarious social unrest is no excuse. You have to tell me how oppressive that era was, how embarrassing that era was, how unfair that era was. I want to say that all you have shown me is that everyone has not changed their thoughts of resistance even a little...

  • Desiree 2023-07-08 01:54:09

    Living is the best explanation. I found Gong Li's style in this film. A movie that still makes a lot of sense without the hormonal...

  • Marcelle 2023-07-04 11:18:55

    Half a century has passed, and we are still in this ridiculous society. We have always been alive and never entered...

  • Nona 2023-07-02 09:49:28

    In 1966, the day after Bian Zhongyun, the vice principal of the Women's High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University, was beaten to death. Bian Zhongyun's husband Wang Jingyao came to Wangfujing Department Store, spent all the family's savings, bought a 120 camera, and took pictures of his wife's tragic death. In 2008, an interviewer asked him why he thought of buying a camera to take pictures of the dead. The old man was silent for a long time, then suddenly raised his head and said -...

  • Trycia 2023-06-20 11:23:22

    Zhang Yimou's best work, even though many broadcast slogans and even backgrounds cannot be translated and conveyed to foreigners, still won the Cannes Jury Prize, and Ge You also crowned the actor with his extraordinary acting skills. Even if novels and themes have a lot of innate advantages, Lao Mouzi's adaptation is still a great contribution. The soundtrack of the film is very entertaining, the photography is calm and majestic, the black humor is full of political satire, and the plainness...

Extended Reading

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  • Xu Fugui: What did you name our son?

    Xu Jiazhen: "Don't Gamble".

  • Xu Fugui: If Youqing does as daddy says, our lives will get better and better. Our family is like a little chicken. When it grows up, it becomes a goose and that will turn into a sheep. The sheep will turn into an ox.

    Xu Youqing: And after the ox?

    Xu Fugui: After the ox is Communism, and there will be dumplings and meat every day.