There is really no good or bad in every movie

Jean 2022-07-10 22:11:41

If I had watched this film before translating Jack Smith, I would have thought it was very ordinary, just an ordinary Hollywood film of the 1930s, but what Jack Smith saw was different from what I saw. He admired this director because this director The storyline can be sacrificed to achieve the beauty of a woman. In his films, women are jewels, shining with the charm of other people. The whole film is used to show the beauty of women. The price is very high. In that era, it was true It's a very different approach.

There is really no universal standard for whether a film is good or bad. A film that we think is "bad" may contain extraordinary power, just like this "unremarkable" director, which directly gave birth to greatness. underground movie.

So I often say, "What I like is good, and what I don't like is bad." I'm not denying other people's standards and appearing to be different, I'm just affirming my own standards. It is a real audience with its own aesthetic orientation and value standards.

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