How old is it, how come there are still so many people with political leadership in their brains

Rebeca 2022-09-18 22:30:43

I admit that I am LAG. I just went to the cinema to watch it. I insisted that I didn't read any comments and spoilers

. The only feeling after watching it: This is a simple movie, and Director Feng is seriously talking about a family in the three post-quake Ten years of stories, while reflecting the changes in these three decades by evoking the collective memory of the audience. The status of "Earthquake" in this film has been weakened to a considerable extent. It can be said that it is just an entry point

. It has been more than 30 years since the Tangshan earthquake that occurred at the end of the Cultural Revolution. How come there are still so many people who are full of Cultural Revolution thinking and political leaders? Including so many pretenders who commented on this film on this website,

what does it mean to be politically in command? The film has no political stance, except for the People's Liberation Army that appeared in the disaster relief, and there is not even any content that can express the director's attitude towards the government. However, it is precisely so many pretenders who set themselves a preconceived political stance early on: since this movie is about earthquakes, it must be anti-government, anti-system, attack and satirize. , against anything, otherwise it is "politically incorrect" (even commercial activities such as placing advertisements have become one of the reasons for its "politically incorrect"), you must criticize; you can even see comments like this: "I Acknowledging that this movie can move people and I was moved by it myself, but it's politically incorrect, so I have to find out what's wrong with it"

Isn't this the Cultural Revolution mindset? Who stipulated that a movie with an earthquake as its theme must attack and oppose something? Director Feng wanted to tell a simple story, and the investors who invested 120 million also agreed with him. Therefore, he told the story very well, and the audience also bought it. What could be more important to a commercial film?

—If the movie is good, what’s the harm in being politically incorrect?

——If the movie is not good, just say it is not good, what does it have to do with being politically incorrect?

I just feel that it is very boring to leave the story of the movie behind and only discuss whether the "political" correctness of the film - of course, the discussant will indulge in his own "political correctness" and become complacent - it is very boring to do so. , at least I'm sorry for the dozens of dollars spent on going to the cinema. (If someone really spends tens of dollars, at least two and a half hours, just to do this kind of thing... please, how distorted is that?)

In addition, I really don't think this film is sensational. How sensational, in the film, it's more of a show, not a lot of indoctrination. It's at least a lot better than the "I set a tear-jerker somewhere, I'm going to make the audience consume three handkerchiefs here". As long as you watch this film naturally, it is easy to get wet eyes, and it is not surprising that people with low tears will cry

. Finally, a little criticism. The film is not yet refined enough in structure, and there is room for improvement in many places. In addition, I personally think that, for whatever reason, the living cannot be subject to the dead, but that is my own value and has nothing to do with this film.

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Extended Reading
  • Coby 2022-03-16 09:01:08

    Sister Fan, you have one of the most exciting roles in your life.

  • Jeff 2022-04-23 07:04:20

    The introduction shot is also the subjective perspective of the dragonflies flying into the picture, which made people think that Feng Xiaogang was going to make a large-scale film of the disaster of insects attacking humans this time? In fact, it is just a common pass-through lens that shows the omen of an earthquake. The director's flaws have been exposed here: the more the director is a screenwriter, the less he understands the meaning and consistency of the visual style. Anyway, he has enough resources to do whatever he wants. But the biggest problem with this film is that this family, broken and reorganized story is just a false name for the Tangshan earthquake as a commercial hype. It's not that Feng Xiaogang wants to make a name for himself, but the characteristics of the subject matter determine that it can only be so, because the earthquake is no better than the war, it cannot provide the narrative continuity with the conflict environment and atmosphere required by the main genre of the film, and the war can last for several weeks. It takes a few months or even years, and the earthquake is over in tens of seconds, so once the post-earthquake reconstruction and family reorganization are entered, the film quickly becomes a short-lived annoyance among the parents of a TV series. And what is Fonda Fontaine? Is the Beijinger in New York sequel The American in Tangshan? ..."Old cow, sit down". Director Feng, take a break too!

Aftershock quotes

  • Li Yuanni: But I'm against it precisely because of your dad and elder sis. The last time we moved, I had to tell them exactly how to get to our new place. And I've been telling them constantly for more than 20 years. If I were to move again, I would've to tell them the new directions. I can't keep telling them anymore. I'm tired of telling them. End of discussion. I'm not moving anywhere.

  • Fang Da: The 1976 earthquake destroyed my mom's entire life. Her heart... was shattered like debris. Do you know what my mom often says?

    Volunteer of Tangshan rescue team at 2008 Sichuan earthquake: What?

    Fang Da: Only after you've lost something, then do you truly know what loss is. The houses that fell had been rebuilt. But the house in my mom's heart was never put together again. 32 years have passed, yet the old lady continues passing the days guarding the ruins of her heart.