23 seconds, 32 years. I was impressed by the director's 23 seconds. Dragonflies swept across like a gust of wind at the beginning of the film. The perspective is very unique, and the sound effects are also very shocking. In fact, if I were to cut a trailer for the whole film, the dragonflies must be the main part. part. Then there is the intimate scene between Da Qiang and Yu Ni, which also surprised me. The Chinese disaster films have learned a little bit of emotional adjustment and foreshadowing from Hollywood colleagues before the disaster, which is good. Of course, the most shocking thing was the 23-second special effects of the earthquake. The sound and rhythm were very rhythmic. It was no longer a copycat flood of a super typhoon, and the filming was done in the bathtub, but a genuine 2012-style disaster presented with flesh and blood. Going to the cinema to see such a landmark special effect of a Chinese disaster film, I think it's worth it (although I don't have the money to buy a ticket).
However, for the next 32 years, I could see it in a fog. The two children grew up and the boy rushed to Hangzhou with one arm. In the last scene, he was riding a tricycle to solicit customers, and in the next scene, he returned home in a BMW. ; The daughter grew into a beautiful big girl, and the adoptive mother even continued to eat vinegar for a while, went to medical school for a while, gave birth to a child and dropped out of school, and finally went to Canada with a foreigner who was 16 years older. It took me so long to go to the toilet in between. I know that people and countries can experience many things in 32 years. It is not easy to condense them into one movie. I also know that I know nothing about making movies, but I can feel that the time of this movie is not very smooth. There are always odd places.
These 32 years are the 32 years of aftershocks after the disaster. I saw this kind of aftershock in Xu Fan's performance. She sticks to Tangshan, fearing that the ghosts of her relatives will not find a home, and she will support herself for the rest of her life. Tangshan was reborn from the ashes under the perseverance of countless ordinary people like Yu Ni. I don't like Zhang Jingchu's performance. I didn't cry at all the crying points designed on her. I felt that her feelings were not fully released, and she was a little depressed.
I like, I like the long shot at the end, the melodious Great Compassion Mantra, the 240,000 names engraved on the memorial wall, the old man who rides a bicycle will still come to see his relatives, Tangshan will never erase this history and memory .
To be fair, this movie is not bad, at least there are 23 seconds of special effects, and there is a good idea, but unfortunately I think the realization of this idea is not perfect. The movie that made me cry is hardly a good dish, or it may be tasteless with onions. The Tangshan earthquake is somewhere in between.
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