"The Good Man in Three Gorges": Why is Jia Zhangke so good?

Adolfo 2022-01-24 08:02:15

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I really like this movie. The strange sculptures flying into the sky, the tall buildings that crashed down, the UFO flying across the sky, the men, women, old people and children on the ground passively accepting the joys and sorrows. This is a wonderful film that is both light and heavy. We rarely have the opportunity to see such an interesting film.

After watching "Golden Armor" and came out of the theater, I smiled bitterly and smoked a cigarette, thinking that Zhang Weiping was able to trick me into the theater for the third time. He was ruthless enough. After watching "The Good Man in Three Gorges", I came out of the theater, but I smoked a cigarette affectionately and gloomily, and there was a strong feeling of jealousy in my heart-obviously they are all living Chinese, how can Jia Zhangke be so awesome Woolen cloth.

I heard Jia Zhangke say a long time ago: "Leave Beijing and go south for 50 kilometers, and you will see the real world."

The story of "The Good Man in the Three Gorges" unfolded in Fengjie County, Chongqing City. I happen to live outside the city of Chongqing, not so remote, but I almost understand what Jia Zhangke said about the real world. There are things that you will never believe unless you look at them with your own eyes. Of course, the history of Jia Zhangke's creation is the history of discovery in China's third-tier cities and small towns. I don't need to say more about this. Let me focus on what touched me in this film.

Jia Zhangke's previous works often reveal a sense of humor in the face of humble people. What he laughs at is the men and women in the small towns, as well as the former selves. They are all smart people who are very pleased with the audience and lively atmosphere. People who are good at observing life can do it. He was not very confident in this aspect before, for fear that the audience would fall asleep. But not this time. He did not pretend to sympathize with the barren and boring world, nor did he "sorrow its misfortune and anger it", and did not even show his tolerant sense of humor (the only time he learned from Xiao Ma Chow Yun-fat on TV lit a cigarette with straw paper). As a sign of the artist's maturity, Jia Zhangke did not list the cleverness, but he worked hard for 100 minutes of characters and stories.

Jia Zhangke's last film "World", which went out of Shanxi to the world, was not very successful. This time he moved the story from the Yellow River to the Yangtze River. As a creator, it was indeed a difficult self-challenge, especially for directors like Jia Zhangke who rely on life, observation and feelings to win. The film of Jia Zhangke that has lost the foundation of life will definitely be a failed work, but the Fengjie County that the two Shanxi people face in "The Good Man in Three Gorges" is so real, fresh and full of flesh and blood. The script was written by himself, and I admire him very much. I can't imagine how much energy he put into this film to write the Yangtze River from the perspective of a stranger. This may also prove from one aspect that China, outside of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, does have similarities. While watching this movie, I even had doubts about my career. What is the meaning of the set of values ​​we preached and promoted for this broader China? I digress. What I want to say is that Jia Zhangke at least helped me, a young man who grew up in the city, to see a world that I hadn't really experienced before, especially in this "The Good Man of the Three Gorges" which connects the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. .

The city is full of gold armor, gold and jade are frustrated outside, the scene of life stuffed in and the inexplicable golden wall splendor, and no story is told, the actors have already burst into tears before the audience. This is one type of movie, and at the same time on the theater program list, there is another type of movie: put in a lot of true feelings while restraining as much as possible, ashamed of stimulating the audience, proud of impressing the audience, let the weak water three thousand. Take a sip of a drink and leave the indiscriminate emotions to the indiscriminate. In this age of seriousness as a laughing stock, he insists on keeping the seriousness to himself.

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