Ang Li’s sensitivity lies in the fact that he can always find marginal people in the big age. In "Lust and Caution", Wang Jiazhi is an advanced student, but her humanity has not been completely annihilated by revolution. She can also experience love and vanity, so she is inhumane. Er's iron will feels detached, even a little bit disgusted (such as the revolutionary Lao Wu who died in the family). The weakness of this human nature has made her stand out and become a real normal soul with flesh and blood in the next great age. What Li Ang gets from Zhang Ailing’s novels is this kind of story about people on the fringe in the center of the storm. This kind of story is full of tension. human nature.
"Riding with the Devil" is the last Ang Lee movie I watched. It’s all now. There is not much to say about this movie Ang Lee. It is a masterpiece with a fiasco at the box office (investment of tens of millions, box office One hundred thousand kind of fiasco). Roger Ebert commented that it was a good movie, which gave us a new perspective on the Civil War, but it was too slow for ordinary audiences.
Indeed, this movie made people see a little-known Civil War. I didn’t know this aspect at all. In "Cold Mountain" and "Gone with the Wind", I have never seen some of the "riding with the devil" Fact: Many southern whites are illiterate, and ordinary people on the border between the North and the South are the most unlucky. Southerners came and rushed in and killed all the men. The houses and farms were burned, and so did the northern army.
The film looks at the war from the perspective of a German-American Jake and a black man Daniel Holt. In the eyes of the southerners, one of them is a German (dutchy) and the other is a nigger. The guerrillas fought against the Northern Army. Jake joined the southern guerrillas because he witnessed the atrocities of the North Army (it happened that he was born and raised in the southern camp). Holt's experience was more complicated. The southern white George bought him (and sold his mother at the same time) to free him and treat him as Looking at partners rather than slaves, he followed George to join the ranks of fighting against the Northern Army-and the purpose of the Northern Army's war was to liberate the black slaves. So these two “marginal people” naturally got closer and closer along the way. They are both marginalized people who have been discriminated against. They are also involved in this game to respect and understand their southern whites, which is somewhat “funny” for them. Side of the war.
This film nakedly shows the cruelty of war, the cold blood and cruelty of people in war, no matter the north or the south. Many specific killing scenes were filmed. The men had nowhere to escape and were culled by the cavalry. However, the armed forces of both sides surprisingly respect women and children. This is probably one of the most special places in the civil war. But you will see that a group of people rushed into the house and dragged the husband and father out and shot them to death. They drove the women and children out and stood in the courtyard. They burned the house. Mother and children looked at the home in the raging fire and fell down. What would it be like for a father who bleeds and died in front of the court? Probably only hatred. In another scene, a child who witnessed all of this killed the guerrilla with his gun while he was drunk.
This is war. The southern guerrillas compete to scalp, burn, kill and loot. Jake and Holt in this team hate this kind of inexplicable hatred, revenge, you die and die. Later, the owner of Holt died in a war (in order to protect Holt). Jake's friend died of a tetanus whose arm was broken earlier. They felt that they had completed their "mission" in this war. Jake married his friend's widow. , Cut off the iconic long hair of the guerrillas, and planned to live in California with his wife and children, while Holt planned to find his mother and live a free life. It is particularly worth mentioning that Jake, the German, is the only literate in this pile of guerrillas. They seized the Northern Army’s belongings with a schoolbag letter. After the armistice at night, everyone sat by the campfire with plenty of food and drink. Pitt, a The cruel southern guerrillas asked him to read the letters very rudely. He read a few letters: a mother wrote to his son, and a wife wrote to her husband. These letters contained the warmth and humanity that were rare in those years, even though the content was nothing more than. Yes: The Northern Army came today and killed XXX. Today the southern army came and burned XXX. Your partner XXX participated in the battle of XX and died in the battle. He just married XXX. Under the swaying bonfire, the letters Jake read gave these red-eyed guerrillas a brief calm and warm time, and the next day it was a life-and-death war. After Jake was injured, he was staying in a southern farmer’s house. The host told him that I support the South, but I think the North will win and we will lose because the northern army builds schools wherever it goes, so that whites and blacks will be Reading to read, we can only talk about freedom and equality, and literacy in reading can truly understand freedom and equality.
The rare gentleness in the movie is on a female character Sue Lee. Her husband joined the army (conscripted) and died as soon as she married. The guerrilla, Jake’s friend Jack Bull Chile fell in love with her, and dated her during the guerrilla war. , Jack died soon too. She was living with her child on her ex-husband’s farm. Later, under the auspices of her ex-father-in-law, she married Jake (in fact, she had a good impression of this knowledgeable little boy before). Embark on a new life with the children.
At the end of the movie, Jake and Holt let go of the extreme guerrilla Pitt who shot them coldly because of racial discrimination (Germans, blacks). They could kill him, but the guns raised were put down again, and Pit would soon be alone. Attack the city occupied by the Northern Army and die without bothering them. He and Holt put down their guns and let out a long sigh - they finally bid farewell to this damn war physically and mentally. Dawn came, and they said goodbye by the calm and beautiful lake and walked towards their respective rebirths.
Another: I think the box office failure is entirely a matter of publicity. No matter how bad a movie is, as long as it is released and done well, it will not lose money. The big company Universal may have made money to make money and has no time to take care of this movie, which was poorly distributed when it was painted. (Aren't tens of millions of investments not money?)
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