As some film critics have said, Chinese filmmakers have no shortage of language on camera, no lack of expressive tension, no shortage of good actors and team members, and most lack of storytelling ability; but this time, if "Wuji" is going to fail, it will not be. Not lost in the story.
The idea of this story told by Kai Ge is as clear as his Chinese and English title. Life is Promise, and the source of the story comes from a promise. This is almost the tone of the whole film. The stories of all characters revolve around Promise and promise. It's just that the director wanted to express too many things in a limited number of lines, which made some stories absurd and made many languages pale.
The dialogue is not really exciting, and it is understandable to poach Japanese and Korean stars for the market; refusing to dub is even an improvement, but the rigid Chinese reading of the dialogue like Sanada Hiroyuki and Zhang Dongjian is really too blunt. You must know that language has emotion and even vitality, and rote and ignorant language is undoubtedly a death sentence in advance.
Jang Dong Gun's Kunlun is slightly better, because the characters themselves don't have much dialogue; Sanada's Chinese has weakened many of Guangming's character characteristics.
The prejudice against Xiao Xie makes me, as always, not to be fair to him. Bai Zhi's performance is not bad, not to be in vain. Just think, even people like me have to think about it, not to mention the mighty paparazzi; in fact, what I think about is more of Cecilia's inner feelings, maybe only she can know it.
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