Many people once criticized Zhang Yimou’s aesthetics for being at the level of exaggeration in rural areas. This time, Zhang simply only played black and white yin and yang styles, and he brought up a long-time useless deep style. Unfortunately, art is not imitated, and art does not need to be dressed. Qiang, "Shadow" is so empty and boring, it's empty when you see the light.
Watching this movie does not remind me of Akira Kurosawa, but it reminds me of Feng Xiaogang’s Waterloo work "The Banquet" ten years ago. The same formalism, the same expressionism, the same thick black philosophy, and the same hypocrisy. .
In fact, the secrets of the palace and the life and death shown in a large number of court dramas over the years have been common, and it is difficult to break through. The theme is also entangled in personal grievances and it is difficult to sublimate, but why is there a market? The dark one thinks that success depends on maneuvers and tricks. People who are too kind will not end well and will only be framed. This kind of ideological dross has seriously polluted our national spirit and misled our simple nature. In "Shadow" I saw dull, depressed, intrigue, stabs, and blood dripping. The whole movie gave no hope, just like watching a few small beetles crawling on the sand table chasing me and I chasing you. , You bite me and I gnaw you, like the animal world, it doesn’t make any sense.
Both the exploited and exploited in the play are played by Deng Chao, and this movie has almost become his one-man show. When playing the bad guy, he was hysterical, staring and exaggerated, which made me almost laugh. When playing the good guy, he was paralyzed, pretending to be awe-inspiring, and I really couldn't see that he had the slightest breakthrough. To make matters worse, Lao Zhang did not hesitate to let the real husband and wife go into battle, and asked Sun Li to deal with the real and fake Deng Chao. Is there still a way to watch the emotional drama?! It's as boring as the left hand is holding the right hand, and it makes people drowsy. Except for these two guys, the others have so few dramas that they blinded the All-Star team for nothing.
The very short martial arts scenes in the film also make people laugh. The "strange umbrella" invented by Lao Zhang is not very useful. How funny it is to use it with a drag knife. Fortunately, there are many uses of the strange umbrella, and the last trick that killed Hu Jun's "switch knife" almost made me laugh to death! In addition, countless slow motions, close-ups, and water droplets all seem to be pure water advertisements or products of the last century.
Friendly reminder: Don’t use "Shadow" as the opening movie of eleven, it will really make you feel bad. The easter egg in this film is a trailer for the filming feature film "Zhang Yimou and His Shadow". If you want to see Lao Zhang's feature film, you have to buy another ticket.
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