This film is Zhang Yimou's first commercial blockbuster, but it still has a lot of thinking and is a serious work.
Compared with many films today, Zhang Yimou's films have a lofty conception. They use color to tell the mood and tell stories. They need to be watched slowly and carefully, not fast food, and it is not possible to know everything he wants to tell through the plot.
Under the grand theme is the meaning of martial arts. From the confrontation between the four great masters, sacrificing one's life and taking justice, the martial arts masters are also people with a high artistic conception. The people here are all masters and profound people. It is indeed a great talent in history, and the unification is indispensable. Just as it is said in the film that the masters use their thoughts, thinking and rationality replace the clang of swords, everything is a duel between masters. This mood is integrated into the world peace. War and peace, hatred and the world, family and country, in the current era, personal hatred is greater than the sky, but in troubled times, will the building be completely destroyed? Some people criticize that this is ideology, but before the unification of Qin, there were successive years of wars in the seven kingdoms. Isn't this a historical fact? Peace and war have always been the favorite themes of movies, and they are also the stage for the publicity of human nature. Why put on the shackles of meaning?
The films of Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige both have the intention of promoting Chinese traditional culture, which is their ambition and belief.
Why are their films criticized? It is because the current era environment is not suitable for these keynotes for them. Audiences in the flood of market economy, few people take tradition and Chinese essence seriously. And rarely think about China's grand problems. Even people who don't even know who is right and who is wrong, and who don't know each other, why should they ask them to go deep into the artistic conception and intention of the film?
What is on the surface always floats on the surface, and what is on the inside lasts forever.
Just like Promise, House of Flying Daggers and other films, these films will be classics after a period of time, when people's hearts settle down and the environment has calmed down.
As in the film, you choose peace and sacrifice your ego.
If you choose to blindly criticize the crowd, you may no longer think about why you should criticize it.
The stories told by Zhang Yimou can stand the test, at least they are serious and thoughtful.
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