After watching the movie, it didn't feel so good, and of course it wasn't too bad. The standard of judgment is certainly not Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, but Jia Zhangke himself. In his works, I think the standard of "The Good Man in Three Gorges" is only higher than that of "The World." Reality prepared the greatest scene for Jia Zhangke and provided the most shocking subject matter, but he wasted it.
It is a waste, but there is absolutely no distortion. This is what distinguishes Jia Zhangke from those people. He has never lacked the courage to face reality and deal with reality, but he still lacks the ability to deal with reality. It may be precisely because the scene provided by reality is being overwhelmed by illusions that Jia Zhangke can't wait to enter an unfamiliar field. With the confidence to grasp the bottom life, he quickly completes a "northern wind to south". But apparently, he flattened the lives of people in the Three Gorges area. There seems to be only two kinds of people left in the movie, one is the poor people who have been demolished, and the other is the profiteers who profit from the demolition. This simple duality makes people lose interest in inquiry. He did not, and may not have time to explore the rich details of the different classes of the Three Gorges people before the great changes.
When the female clerk of the Immigration Office said in the movie: "This broken computer, it crashed again." I laughed. In reality, people there will never say "broken" at this moment, but only say "bad". In this way, Jia Zhangke's script lines became particularly awkward when he spit out the lines from the Fengjie population, using the northern way of wording and making sentences. The script is too thin. It seems that they are afraid of revealing things, and the people in the movie are very taciturn. It seems that Jia Zhangke lacks a basic understanding of the people of the Three Gorges. You must know that the people there have always had an attitude of life that is not flat, and no matter how painful and tired, they will all speak out loudly. Everyone who has lived there knows that people from Sanxia speak loudly, speak fast, and talk intensively. Because it is not the north of Jia Zhangke, the north may be honest and silent, but the Three Gorges will always be noisy and carnival style. The people of the Three Gorges have a unique sense of humor, and it can even be said that they have a "Bacchus spirit". In fashionable words, they live high. No matter how hard they are, no matter how tired they are, they are all HIGH. In contrast, "Crazy Stone" captures the characteristics of Chuandong people.
Some people are very impressed by the "Little Ma" in "The Good Man in Three Gorges". In fact, that image is just a testament to Jia Zhangke's self-replication of his previous "small town + cruel youth" style, which is not worth mentioning. The UFO that appeared during the day and the buildings that suddenly skyrocketed at night seemed to arouse the audience's amazement, but is this collage-like magic really necessary? Isn't the reality in the Three Gorges area not magical enough? Or is Jia Zhangke worried that the Chinese audience's intelligence is too low, and the UFO and the flying monument must be compared with reality in order to see the absurdity of reality?
Of course, "The Good Man in Three Gorges" is still a very good movie. Both Jia Zhangke and his films are still worth looking forward to. I hope that one day, Jia Zhangke can remake "The Good Man in Three Gorges". By then he will find that those great shocking people are still there, waiting to reappear.
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