This is just the first Jia Zhangke I have watched. It does have real China that rarely appears in other false domestic movies, and a rare and charming scene after "Roadside Picnic". When he stopped the camera on those miscellaneous lives that lacked aesthetic guidance, and the faces of bewilderment, I felt that I found a resonance that mixed memories, hallucinations, and experiences, and the beauty that was still alive in dissonance. This is other Chinese movies. Not to capture or not to capture things with such concentration.
Quagmire
For me, the movie can be finished when Zhao Tao gets off the train. The significance of the follow-up is unclear. If the discussion is about the elderly, it is not as powerful as "Old Beasts", and it is really meaningless to simply describe some survivors and young children who are trying to replay the old days. , Especially to destroy the possibility of Zhao Tao's role, did he have no epiphany after obtaining the divine indication?
Liao Fan’s role is also the same. In the small hotel, when he was so bad that he had nowhere to go in the eyes of the audience, he took a different approach with a convincing performance. This is also the most moving moment of the movie, when he is at the brazier end. Reaching out, we understand that the only thing this old-fashioned figure can do after making a choice. But this choice also does not require a certain directional result: returning to the hometown after failure to accept the illusion of the rivers and lakes maintained by a woman for him or for himself. It was originally painful, but even more to go on separate journeys. It only takes a moment of sentimentality, and the shortness is just right. It was dragged into the high-speed rail era. The foot was sentimentally for half an hour. People like storytelling to have an ending, and the characters have an ending. However, modern novels no longer need such explanations.
ps: After querying, it was found that there are two important abridgements in the public release version. 1. After recovering from illness, Liao Fan worked as a security guard in the chess and card room. 2. With the new year, Zhao Tao's chess and card room was closed down, and the people and tea guests of the rivers and lakes were distracted by birds and beasts. These two paragraphs of content, even if you only read the text description, will greatly change the impression of watching the movie. The former dispels unnecessary affection, and the latter makes Liao Fan's departure less pretentious.
Fate Arrangement
In terms of structure, the first part and the third part of the movie correspond to each other. In the muddy rivers and lakes of the same Mahjong room, the same man is walking on crutches in front of the volcano. When driving on the road, it seems like the same night many years ago. I don't like the heavy sense of fate, but in the second part of the movie, the arrangement of fate is presented in a lighter way.
The story of Zhao Tao's journey through the rivers and lakes alone is intertwined, hidden in mystery, and is the most pleasing part of the movie. Unable to make a phone call, the wallet was stolen by fake believers and lost his ID card. Without an ID card, there is no sense of presence in front of the automatic door. Watch the first few steps of the street performance, verify the sense of existence, and receive a rose. I took a rose as a gift to the wedding banquet and ate a full meal. He was hit by someone and found the false believers being beaten up. He stepped forward to clear the siege and retrieve his ID card. After experiencing a change in his love, he was inspired to swindle money from the wrongdoer. Almost raped by a motorcycle rider, the police used this as an excuse to get through the phone that he couldn't get through.
After bidding farewell to his former lover, there is also another adventure on the train. Holding a bottle of water together, the woman chose to follow Xu Zheng's boastful role because Xinjiang, the prisoner, the slow product, the UFO, and the secret codes were all matched, and she was at a loss as if she had suddenly received the will of God. This fake messenger couldn't stand his sincerity, and tried to get the original shape in one sentence, but his task has been completed, maybe God just wants to borrow his unintentional words to let the woman get off the car at the time and place she should get off. So in the dark night, she witnessed strange celestial phenomena that were inexplicable. The so-called private arrangements are nothing more than this, but how come you have seen UFOs, and have to go back to live a difficult life with the starting point as the ending point?
Blind to the heart, so you still don't know the way to travel thousands of miles, it is better to read a few books. Reading some books when playing mahjong, reading some books when entering jail, reading some books when getting on the ferry, reading some books when riding the train, naturally there is more than one path of destiny, even if you hide in the city, you also sacrifice to Jianghuqiang. Just imagine, if you have watched Calvino’s "Universal Fun", do you still need to wait for the UFO to appear?
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