I really think this movie is great. It has been a long time since a domestic movie made me concentrate and watch it completely from beginning to end, and I still think it is very exciting. The director's perspective is very good. He did not choose the big era and complex organizational relationship, and locked the contradiction on five people. A typical mystery suspense drama. It's interesting to see the humanity of five people in the face of danger in a closed environment.
Moreover, the director has designed rich hidden backgrounds for each character, without too much brushwork, and they are all shown without delay through the conflict of the drama.
Because recently I have been reading the analysis of the drama structure, and the book "Pull the Film", which includes the hints of the scene, etc., also tried to analyze the film.
When I watch it, I often think, "Are there really any hints?" Through my observation of this film. These hints were found to be fully valid.
Xiaomeng: Xiao, dawn. A dream, a dream in the dark. It is also said in the movie: "This is a nightmare."
The darkness before the dawn of the nation's survival.
From the beginning of the wind to the title, to the water shading at the beginning of the film to imply that this film is a psychological struggle film, using Xiaomeng's white dress to imply the purity of her dedication to the revolution. Rubbing her legs apart over the twine alludes to the rape and sexual abuse of her by the spy organization, and so on. .
And five people were detained. It just hints at five people with different identities in the complex social environment of that period.
Xiaobai represents "people from the entertainment industry" who are attached to the disguised regime. The Peking Opera he sings shows that his identity is originally a person in the literary and art world. He's snobbish, he wants to climb up, and he's gossipy. It's really embarrassing for Su Youpeng. He's also a good functional character who makes the first half of the drama laughable.
The director of the military aircraft represents a class of ordinary people from the puppet regime, who rely on nepotism to gain an important position in the puppet regime. Timid. (I just think he cut himself off a little too quickly. But it also indirectly shows that the spy agency's methods are cruel and even such people cut themselves off)
Yu Jie represents the confused generation, and it can also be said to represent ordinary people. They live in a chaotic society, just do their own thing well, but somehow get involved in the torrent of the times. Love and dignity have been violated. It shows that in such a turbulent social environment, no one is safe.
Officers represent the vast number of soldiers who died for the revolution. The sentence he said to the traitors, "I think I was born in a bloody battle, now people like you have gained power" is the author's sympathy for the vast number of these warm-blooded soldiers and a cry for their unfair treatment. He represents all those brave soldiers, and is the representative of justice and strength.
Xiaomeng represents the young people who dedicated their youth and wisdom to the revolution at that time. Her unrestrainedness in the bar made us feel that she was completely different from the human side of the heroic characters who had been stereotyped in the past. Seeing the shadow of contemporary people on the body, it evokes emotional resonance. She represents the people who will lead the hope of that era, and the intellectuals of that era. Their sacrifices and the physical torture they were subjected to represent this group's sacrifice in the Revolutionary War.
Enough of these rationales. The good thing about this movie is that it still has moving emotions.
In fact, it still raised a question: "It is worthwhile to give your life for these beliefs or not." In the
end, what moved me most was Xiaomeng's last words:
"I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid that those who love me do not know why I died. ..."
There were not too many rhetoric, just a daughter's apology to her mother, a friend's guilt. Let the whole film return to "human nature".
The last shot is Xiaomeng's youthful face with a slight smile. At this time, we all understood that she knew from the beginning that she would never leave here again.
She knew her life was over. But so peaceful.
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