About my criteria for judging good films

Johathan 2022-09-25 18:30:05

For me, the criteria for judging a good film has never been about winning an award, or raising the heights of the souls of all human beings.
Just need it to make me think of my own life from the plot at a certain moment. And the movie really conveys that emotion that I can't express in words. So. I would say, this is a good movie.

Not to mention the obvious advertising marks and some rough special effects in [Tangshan]. These don't matter, really don't matter.


Some feelings are ordinary and simple, and everyone can understand. Some big-name directors can't
interpret it. And Feng Xiaogang once again succeeded in finding out the most subtle feelings. And let everyone find their own crying point in the film.

Speaking of the mother finally made a choice: save the younger brother.
My mother cried. She said it was a feeling she could only experience. When she was a child, her grandparents always favored her younger sister between her and her younger sister. At that time, she thought that she must only have one child when she grows up.
People all have personal preferences, how can it be possible to equally distribute a love to each child. There is always a favorite in my heart.

After playing again, Deng finally forgave his mother. Go to the cemetery to visit Dad together. But from her own grave found a lot of textbooks. That is when my mother buys textbooks for her brother every year, she also buys one for her.
Dad said it was the most moving here.
It was probably related to the fact that my father left home since he was a child and lived with relatives. He can better understand the feeling of longing for home. Even if a neighbor jokes, Dad thinks it hurts his self-esteem. As if reminding myself all the time that I am not really part of this family.

Our life is like a movie. Movies come from life.
Small details always make people feel special.
Small details seem so big when everything is calm, whether it's my mother's little grudge against my grandparents or my dad's loneliness for leaving home since childhood. In this peaceful age, it is known to be particularly abrupt.
But about Deng's resentment towards her mother and her stubbornness not wanting to abort her child seemed so insignificant under such an unavoidable disaster.
We can always see a shadow of ourselves in these characters.



I haven't cried in the cinema for a long time.
It's been a long time since I looked at the life I have now.
suddenly felt. A lot of things are gone. And only when it's gone can you experience that feeling. Life cannot be repeated. Just try to move forward.
There will always be new stories.
Everything will always be fully answered.

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Aftershock quotes

  • Dong Guilan: [displeased, very quietly] What a disgrace.

    Wang Deqing: Are you talking about me? What have I done?

    Dong Guilan: The child is already grown up. Look at what you're wearing.

    Wang Deqing: [glances at his casual T-shirt and shorts] Huh, I'm at home. Should I be dressed like a king? Can't I even enter my own child's room?

  • Dong Guilan: The two of you are the ones I care most about in my life. But you both... never wanted to be with me.