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2. About Tang poetry. I don't think this film "shoots the real Tang Dynasty" or "like Tang poetry" as many comments say. I saw a lot of comments saying, ah, this part is about being alone, and this part is about opening the door for the king, I can't get this kind of synaesthesia at all. If you compare it with rhetoric, there is nothing interesting in this film, and the empty shots are not meant to be allegorical. After all, Tang poetry is metrical, flat and flat, not free. It has to be synaesthesia, which is more like the Book of Songs, but it doesn't make much sense compared to it, because I don't know how to express it after being moved, so I draw a metaphor.

3. About the Tang Dynasty. This film does use a thing from the Tang Dynasty, that's all, but it has less relationship with the Tang Dynasty than with the modern. Ni Dahong does not sit on the sofa, but sits on the ground in a daze. I sometimes do the same, how can Tang poetry be broken? Whether it is sitting up in shock in a dying dream, or falling into a dream with an iron horse glacier, I want to express that although I am dumbfounded, I have mountains, rivers and seas in my chest. But Tang poetry can't express the ineffable part of being in this state of being dumbfounded, not even music and painting. Sitting idle and griefing for the king also grieves oneself.

4 Regarding the ancient times, Xu Haofeng's costume is an acrobatic troupe, and the costumes of the fifth generation are basically theatrical troupes. Nie Yinniang took the ancient times out of everyday life. Yet it is a complete legend.

5. A woman who happened to be born in the Tang Dynasty and learned martial arts. It seems that nothing can stop her. She has something in her mind that she can't tell anyone, but maintains a sober self-awareness. This is the character set in the original book. The movie replaced almost all the plots in the original book, leaving only a few characters. As for paper-cutting donkeys and hiding knives in their heads, it doesn't matter if they are optional or not in the movie. The character is so classical and touching. It is very difficult to convey this kind of emotion. When it is conveyed just right, it is more than the emotion itself.

6. About editing. The melodrama is cutting suits, three-dimensional tailoring, the collar and sleeves are tightly stitched, all kinds of grammar are very mature, Hou Hsiao-hsien cut a robe, wrapped in a whole piece of material, like the one worn by Athena, (I'm talking about Greece Ancient costumes, not the kind in Saint Seiya) I can't tell how thick the waist is or how big the chest is, but the aura is strong, and it is much more atmospheric than a suit.

1. It's over in less than half an hour. Looking down at the phone, it's been two hours. Half an hour is my psychological time, and the big screen sucks my soul. A moment in the film, an hour in the world, how wonderful. The last few times I felt this way, I watched Yang Heng's "Light Spot" at CIFF, and once I watched "Sorrow Ends at Sunrise" at the French League Film Festival. Maybe it's because of the big screen, this kind of film can only be recharged after watching it on a computer. But watching Abel Ferrara's Last On Earth is also on a computer, so screen size isn't the reason.


7. Regarding preaching, Alan Cono's "End of Sadness Before Sunrise" is also very preaching, but it also makes me fascinated. If there is a narrative, there is always reason to be included in it. Don't be afraid of preaching, and say what you want to say. , is better than hiding and tucking. There are actually many people who have done this, and it is not tiring.

8. About the market. Obviously, the more such films are made, the faster Chinese films will die. People who say this are more worried, as if anyone can make this kind of film. There is no way to learn, who expects Van Gogh to draw some illustrations to save the European painting world, or to bring out a group of small Van Goghs, no. This kind of film only develops itself, and it happens that the film has a market, so it enters the market.

9. After spending so much money, with such a large team at the end of the film, the effect is the same as when it was poor before. So many plots were filmed, all of them were cut, and Japanese scenes were also cut. dare.

10. When I went out and got off the elevator, my middle school friend, whom I hadn't contacted for more than ten years, sent me a text message telling me about another friend who had only met once through her. She married 2,000 kilometers away after graduation. We haven't been in touch for ten years, but when I was in a trance, it brought me back to the scene more than ten years ago. This kind of coincidence is like the ancients believed in witchcraft, girls believed in constellations, and parents I believe that, like traditional Chinese medicine, being graceful will only be broken by myself.

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  • Xia Jing: [subtitled version] The way of the sword is pitiless. Saintly virtues play no part in it.