The plot mainly talks about the psychological trauma to a family after the disaster and the distortion of their relationship with each other. But unfortunately, the little girl's hatred of her mother was not enough to convince me. A child who has been reborn after a calamity may suddenly become deranged, or even lose his memory. I can understand this, but the complaint against a loved one can be so thorough over the years, it is more difficult to believe. thing. Just because the girl's feelings couldn't convince me, basically the major premise of the whole story couldn't be established. Therefore, there is a certain distance from the characters when watching the movie.
If you hope to understand a little more about the significance of the Tangshan earthquake through the movie, I believe you will be disappointed. Whether the earthquake occurred in Tangshan or not, and in which era it occurred, is not important to the plot of the movie. The same story can be shot in another flood version, or a Sichuan version. Some shots can be reused, as long as the end is replaced by another monument.
Taiwan used to have health realism, now Feng Xiaogang has wealth realism. After the son and daughter were rescued from the devastated ruins, the camera turned to the mother and her family talking about the whereabouts of the youngest son in the fully lit hut. With money from Jinan's husband's family, his son grew up quickly, and he has a prosthetic limb and a refrigerator. The son rushed out, pulled tourists at the pier, turned around and became the boss, driving a famous car to buy a big house and dragging beautiful women back home (no wonder Foxconn workers are under so much pressure). It seems that a broken hand is an advantage. The mother is also a self-employed person, and she spends 5,000 to install a phone without frowning. It is no problem for a daughter to drop out of school and become an unmarried mother, and she can also marry a foreigner and go abroad to live in a bungalow. The mother repeatedly told her son that life was fine, and I believed it was. I can't feel the trauma of my mother's aftermath. She has her own business, friends, and men to pursue. A son is a good daughter-in-law and a grandson. Then I realized that what the film was trying to write was that emotional emptiness is actually due to material excess.
The Tangshan Earthquake is more popular in Hong Kong than the rally, and perhaps themes such as family affection and motherhood are more cosmopolitan and more resonant. Facts Feng Xiaogang has always been good at describing the details and humor of ordinary people's life, and every time he can make the audience smile heartily. Relatively speaking, the film's depiction of the so-called post-disaster psychological trauma feels a little unnatural. But as a whole, it is undoubtedly a feature film with rich material, rigorous production and excellent actors, which has achieved high box office in the Mainland and Hong Kong, which is definitely worth it.
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