The word of mouth of [Sunshine] goes without saying, but I never felt the pleasure in the comments when I read it. A good movie is a good movie. Except for the plump Milan, there is really no urge to watch it a second time. why? The answer I got today is because this film is full of hypocrisy. With reference to the profoundness and tragicness of [The Devil Is Coming], I believe that the root of this hypocrisy should not be attributed to Jiang Wen, but to the irreversible congenital insufficiency of Wang Shuo's original work. [Once Upon a Time in America], which has many spiritual connections with this film, its resonance and lasting influence is to a large extent a true description of a specific era and an insight into human nature. The ups and downs of Noodles, Max's mutiny, Deborah's vicissitudes, Dominic's fall... Many characters are unable to control themselves because of desire and the times, and are truly played by fate in the American dream. On the other hand, the past events in China are covered up by the arrogance of the courtyard and the old man. Pleasure and enmity and juvenile feelings all stop at block meaning, juvenile feelings, and their authenticity is as debatable as Ma Xiaojun's fantasy. Therefore, Jiang Wen's efforts have created a good film, but it doesn't stop there. Like the comments of netizens excerpted by Mr. Su Mu, the Chinese ones are also written by Chinese people, and the English ones (from imdb) are also written by Chinese people (at least they still use 163 mailboxes), youth is the common memory of everyone, and more cannot be expected.
I'm wondering if this kind of estrangement and incomprehension is because the era I came out of is too far away. In my eyes, at that time, the compound was really not the place to arouse goodwill. Looking at it now, the compound is at least the source of privilege. Whose memory is that kind of utopian memory? It may be because it is far away that this past can bring so much "resonance", goodness and reward. Che Guevara, seen as the embodiment of revolutionary idealism, lived and died without the Soviet Union, China, Bolivia, Argentina, or even Cuba, where his comrade-in-arms Castro was in power. It is the members of the bourgeoisie that he wants to overthrow, the future rulers, the "Chinese girls", the Chinese boys who spontaneously march in the streets and mourn. why? All the happy and sober young people need is a change in reality, they have nothing but helpless cries, they don't know what the Pol Pots and "Charles" are doing, they only know the word revolution and that patch of red, they Only know that it is the banner of the revolution but do not want to see the blood under the banner. These are idealism, the idealism of the May Storm, the idealism of Mao, the idealism of Ma Xiaojun, and the idealism of Jiang Wen and Su Mu. Mr. Su's historical logic is so terrible that it is scary, why do you insist on writing it?
Wang Shuo/Jiang Wen/Ma Xiaojun's ridicule, or a unique perspective on the world, society, life, and youth, has its own power. But this is powerless in the end, it is more of a dream-like void, and it is of little benefit to real society and civil society. The equally popular TV series [Blood Romance] is also a tribute to vain idealism and the same protection of vested interests. In fact, the sun and the bright sun are all obvious. The great figure at the top of the pyramid in an authoritarian society, his dazzling is the credit of a machine. According to the content of the film and the real situation, this kind of world might as well be called sunshine bullshit. A soft tragedy that has been carefully tailored, whitewashed, and deliberate. In this way, it is really ironic.
To borrow Shankly's words, cinema may be higher than life. But obviously [Sunshine] is not, it may be born at the right time to save it from being overwhelmed by many sentimental youth movies. Such individual cases under the shadow of the great man/power complex are difficult to go beyond a certain scope, and their acclaim is somewhat unconvincing. The dreams of a small number of people have become the common feelings of the majority of people, at least like the common feelings of the general public on the Internet, which seems more like a real tragedy.
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