Before it was released, this film was really hyped up and down, and the director won the award, it was almost the movie I was most looking forward to this month. But the truth that the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment, came true. I glanced at the short reviews, and basically they were all visual, and the black ones were all plot. My personal opinion has always been that movies are about storytelling. Even the real visual giants like "Gravity" and "Youth Pi" have been criticized by many people for their weak stories. It is unreasonable for this film to be pushed to the altar.
How weak is the dramatic conflict in this film? It's over in one sentence - to kill, or not to kill, that is the question.
The most popular visual feast is nothing more than the lakes, forests, and mountains in a large area of still pictures. This shows that the aesthetic requirements for movies are low. Is the beauty of the scenery worth seeing in the theater? It is recommended that such audiences who love to watch nature please visit the home theater Animal World and National Geographic, and those who love to watch cities can choose from many tourism promotional films. Discovery who loves watching space can meet the needs of different planets. But in fact, it is not difficult to imagine that many people who gave this film five stars must have criticized "Little XX" and "After XXX" not movies but PPTs. The same PPT, why is it too urgent to fry each other? The mystery of this is that heaven and earth know that you know it and I know it. And the martial arts scene is even more ridiculous. It's all weak and weak, and it's amazing that you can really be assassins and officers and soldiers? !
Another big rant is the lines. The Taiwanese actors' line skills have always been hard to look at, and this nondescript, half-classical and half-vernacular style of this film is read by everyone without a trace of emotion. It is really a textbook-like "good reading". All the actors seemed to be holding their breath, wanting to spit out their lines without error as soon as possible. The subtext said: "Actually, I don't know what this line is talking about, but I'm not wrong."
If insomnia must sleep is caused by a large number of lines without lines and a large paragraph of good reading, then obsessive-compulsive disorder must be drunk is caused by the screen. It’s okay to change the picture from black and white to color, but is it really okay to have a narrow screen and a wide screen for a while? At first I found that it was 4:3, and it was a little broken, but I tried my best not to fall asleep, and I widened my eyes and saw a screen full of pictures. After that, although it was restored to 4:3, it was really uneasy. I wonder if it will jump to the full screen again. (I'm not sure if it's hallucinations~)
Well, just complain about it, although Shu Qi is not very beautiful and Zhang Zhen is not very handsome, but anyway, it is rare to see Xiao 7 (without lines) in Chinese theaters.
Two stars for art direction, above. It was decided after I left the cinema, I'm going to play "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" again~
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