Still Life

Tyson 2022-01-24 08:02:15

The Good Man in Three Gorges: Everyone’s hometown is being submerged.

On the evening of January 5, 2007, at the "Good Man in Three Gorges" screening and exchange meeting at the Beijing Film Academy, Director Xie Fei said that "The Good Man in Three Gorges" won the 2006 Venice Film Festival gold....

Anissa 2022-04-24 07:01:23

Still life is the English translation of Jia Zhangke's "The Three Gorges".
Still is a polysemous word in English. When used as an adverb, it means "still, still, still". So I thought at first, to translate this film as "life is still" or "life, but so". It is also appropriate.
　　
A man in Shanxi who...

Annamae 2022-03-16 09:01:08

Those who have lost their wives struggle to find their wives but return empty-handed, while those who have wives avoid their wives intentionally or unintentionally. The biggest contradiction of people is that you want what you want, but you can't get it; what you can get, but you don't want it.

Daniella 2022-03-17 09:01:08

"Xiao Wu" sees talent and love, "Three Gorges" shows skill. The details, the rhythm of the narration, and the symbols of the era are all placed just right. The only discomfort is the emergence of surrealism in the depiction of realism. Jia explained that Wushan was cloudy and rainy, which gave him a strange feeling to the Yankee. Perhaps the director enters from the perspective of the protagonist—two Shanxi people; while for the viewer, all the characters—Sichuan people and Jin people—are on the same narrative plane.