Please tell me, when you walk out of the theater after watching a movie, do you feel more elevated, do you have a strong desire to change the order of things? In a world that has suffered and still suffers from terror and hatred, there is also little to see love for reality itself, which is merely a political symbol, either denied or upheld, in which only the There is an Italian film that saves a revolutionary humanism in the era it describes. ——Andre Bazin
When we watch a movie, what are we watching?
It could be the plot, it could be the characters, it could be the emotion. All these, but there is no escape from the ultimate goal, that is, we try to obtain some kind of power from the film, this power can temporarily help us escape from reality, like a hallucinogen, to temporarily paralyze people.
Decades ago, Bazin tried to answer what is cinema?
In China in 2018, many Chinese "filmmakers" answered this question (use quotation marks carefully)
That is, movie = profit
But when we try to put aside all kinds of things outside the film, we simply return to the film itself. After dedicating two precious hours of my life, shutting myself in a dark room, and watching this movie patiently, many questions were naturally answered.
The director is trying to show the audience how much he loves the movie
In these three scenes, basically some people who have watched the film can see that the director imitated "Battleship General", "Pulp Fiction" and "Schindler's List" respectively. I will not go into details.
Paying tribute to classic movies is something that every director is willing to try now. Such a bridge setting can not only resonate with the audience, but also show their own taste. But simply setting up for the purpose of implanting bridges can only show his incompetence and shamelessness.
Have you ever seen a scene where blood coagulates after donating to death?
Have you ever seen a US military instructor directing a Chinese pilot alone?
Have you ever seen a cheap CG that only does a black and white shot?
This movie has done it all. The director shows his viewing volume bluntly, just like a fat man who has just been exercising for three months. It is no exaggeration to say that the film viewing volume of the director and the main creative team is basically the level of the second year of undergraduates.
illogical chaos
The anti-Japanese drama that was criticized by everyone in the past two years has been reproduced here again. Especially in the end, Liu Ye's bridal chamber pulled the bomb, I think it can be selected as one of the top ten miracles of my movie watching. Not only did he pull the egg in the end, but he also let Mr. Fan Wei finish a handful of Dong Cunrui. The heroic evolution of the little people has completely turned into the clowning of the little people here.
On the one hand, I am amazed at the brain hole of the director and the screenwriter. On the other hand, I am deeply moved by the power of money. It's really getting paid, what acting!
Inferior CG with exaggerated acting skills
I don't want to say anything more...................................
no final history
Such a historical film has no respect for history at all. If you say in costumes, there are flaws in props. I even said that I have endured seeing William Chan's exaggerated back. For such a movie with the Chongqing bombing as the background, at least you should be more reliable in your bombing, so you can bomb it right next to that street?
And, most seriously,
At that time in Chongqing, how many planes did the Kuomintang have?
Why do I think your mother's Kuomintang has 200 planes, everywhere, like locusts.
Please do a little homework
The second is Liu Ye's collapsing performance, especially at the moment when he fell into a pond after the plane was shot down. This is a complete Stanislavski performance, aren't you afraid of drowning yourself?
Before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Japan had far more aircraft than China, and could produce 800 aircraft a year, while China could not manufacture aircraft. In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the Chinese Air Force planes were almost completely lost in assisting the army, navy and air battles in the Beijing-Shanghai area. Although it was added later, by the beginning of 1939, there were only more than 300 aircrafts, but less than half of them were actually available. At this time, Japan often maintains about 900 aircraft in China, and the aircraft performance is advanced. In the following three years, the Japanese Air Force has always maintained an absolute advantage over the Chinese Air Force . In the spring of 1939, there were only more than 20 Air Force aircraft stationed in Chongqing, and only 10 companies of ground anti-aircraft artillery. Especially after the Bishan air battle in September 1940, it was difficult for the air force guarding Chongqing to organize forces to launch into the air, and the small amount of anti-aircraft guns in Chongqing was even more difficult to stop the Japanese bombing. In the whole year of 1941, only 2 Japanese planes were destroyed and 4 injured in the attack on Chongqing. The Japanese planes were able to wreak havoc for a while, and the people of Chongqing suffered a huge disaster.
Looking at this movie,
It's basically a sub-average movie,
From the screenwriter's point of view, the creative team tried to tell the story from two lines, one is the resistance of officers and soldiers at the aircraft base, and the other is the delivery truck. One is a war movie and the other is a road movie. One is playing for a long time and do not know what to play? One is to drive for a long time and don't know what to do?
In fact, I think the director sitting behind the director's chair doesn't know what he's doing in the end
From the perspective of props, makeup and setting, it is almost a cliff-like failure. Regardless of whether the big stars do not conform to the style of the times, the common people are also white and fat, with neat clothes and hair, but they just carelessly smear some black charcoal on their faces. A slander of the audience's intelligence
From the perspective of special effects of film photography, on the one hand, there is no style, on the other hand, it is CG
From a distribution perspective, offline
From the perspective of popularity, success, thanks to Mr. Cui Yongyuan
In fact, from the lineup, the direction of topic selection, and the overall specifications of the film, we can see that this is a film that tries to imitate the great cause of founding a country.
All-star lineup + important historical events + group display
The investors include not only Hollywood producers such as Lion Cage, but also Shanghai Film Group. Such a film that combines Chinese and Western capital and lineup has the ambition and strength to produce a qualified film.
But as everyone knows,
Back to the beginning,
What did we see when we watched the movie
Remove all the above, remove Bingbing and others,
What do we see?
It is the huge interests of film and television that are swallowing up everyone who wants to get a share of the pie here, it is the frivolity of the nihilistic people who treat the nihilistic history, and it is the process of the gradual decline of the charm of the film.
back to the train station,
At that time, in a café under Paris,
When a group of people saw the train coming towards them on the screen, they fled in horror, and then laughed in satisfaction,
Everyone understands the charm and power of images,
But, today, are we creators still obsessed with such power?
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