Watching this movie is all about JI, and as his crush (has been crushed for a month, I don't know how long it will last), I really want to get to know him. Saying "want to get to know him" is ridiculous and impossible. I once thought it was possible, that an actor could show his intelligence and temperament in his role. Having watched several other films of JI, I am convinced that he is a very elegant and aristocratic man as people say. But this "Chinese Box" disappointed me a lot. How could JI accept such a bad movie? The script is so rotten that I don't want to say more. You don't pursue plot, but always pursue something, right? Always convey some of your ideas, always have an inner passion to support it. But this bad film is like a bland running account written by a person learning to tell a story. Is he trying to achieve a kind of ambiguity, a kind of sadness? Unfortunately, due to the lack of inner thinking, it is only reduced to a poor imitation. Loving someone who is impossible to love, repression finally erupts, and the end is a tragic end. It's such a trick. I actually like this model. But the problem is that the pattern can only provide you with a framework, and you have to fill it with your own flesh and blood to make it alive. And this movie has no flesh and blood. We don't know why the photojournalist has been in love with that woman for so many years. Of course, love has no reason. Yes, there is no reason for love, but this is what the person in love says, and it is the party's desire to talk. As a director, as a bystander storyteller, you have to provide us with a background of love. You can choose the background of this love, and its purpose is to convey a contemplation, a pain or a joy, etc. In short, people must feel life itself in the love between men and women, and realize its complexity, its pain, or its insincere words. Without that, every kissing shot, every sex scene, every close-up of a tormented face would be meaningless, because there is no meaning behind such a shot, the actors are just doing it out of their own natural fleshly advantage or accumulated over the years The performance skills are just broken performance exercises. Ask a question, is the heroine worthy of love like the hero? What exactly does she have? What attracts men? She has no desire to find out, she is not a mystery. Therefore, the obsession of men can not be moved.
All in all, it's a bad movie. I hope that JI will be more careful in the future. Don't destroy my imagination of him. Don't let my current thinking become firm, that is: an actor is an actor after all, and he lacks thought and judgment.
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