Life is individual, but identity is made up of "the collection of others"

Christa 2022-03-25 09:01:14

I thought that there would be a lot of so-called "foreigners' curiosity", but in fact they handled it quite comfortably and naturally, the emotions were delicate and just right, and I could feel the sincerity. Digression: My grandmother was also in the late stage of lung cancer. At that time, everyone chose to hide it and pretended that it was not a serious illness, but in the end, my grandmother passed away after only half a year, and the dying days were very uncomfortable. When I was watching this film, I always thought of my grandmother, so I couldn’t hold back many bursts of tears. I also wondered if my evaluation of this film would be different if I didn’t have such similar experiences and emotions.

Nathaniel 2022-03-25 09:01:14

Four and a half stars. If you have not grown up in the Northeast, even a native Chinese, it is not easy to appreciate the suffocating feeling of the details of the film. Wang Ziyi really wants to present a sense of art too much, and his techniques are sometimes a bit fancy, sometimes creating a kind of visual embarrassment. But if you think about it a little bit, this kind of choking taste is not at all a disgust for dazzling skills, but your shyness in the face of those too vivid vulgar and indecent. You know from the bottom of your heart that many of the behaviors shown in the film are caused by a lack of civilization from a social perspective. But because he is Chinese, such dazzling becomes a self-esteem conflict. Just like the people in the play use the play to cover up their loss, but they can also glow with kindness, which is very two-sided. The role of mother is the sharpest, yearning for freedom but unwilling to bear the secular world of the East, but every corner of her is branded with traces of the East. And the grandma, who is the core of the discussion, doesn't know what happened? How could it not know? But her momentum is the best illustration of group empathy. I really hope that Awkwafina and Zhao Shuzhen can touch the Oscars. Maybe the West is still just looking at it as a novelty, but it's not bad, it's already here.