I used to watch "The Promise" intermittently on the movie channel, but today I watched it completely again, and it was criticized as a bad film for so long, I never thought it was bad.
Although the story is simple, every step is interlinked. The performance will be exaggerated, but it fits with the overall atmosphere. The atmosphere has always been there and there will be no drama. Chen Kaige's literary quality is clearly visible. It can be said that he grafted some classic passages from the West and expressed it in the form of an overhead oriental symbol. The integration of the East and the West is not bad. The characters are very distinct, the discussion of fate is also diverse, and the picture is beautiful enough.
Spending huge sums of money to destroy the ecology, the cost performance is not good, coupled with the psychological contrast caused by excessive publicity, and the one-sided public opinion caused by the follow-up "The Bloody Case Caused by a Mantou", will many people be affected by public opinion, even if they like it, they will hide it.
Looking at the film and its connotations carefully, I still feel that this so-called bad film, 12 years later, is still the ceiling of Chinese fantasy.
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