Regarding "My Father and Mother", I always feel that there is a sentence wandering in my mouth involuntarily, "Zhang Yimou returned from "My Father and Mother" to the world of small words." But this is not true. For Zhang Yimou, small talk should not be regarded as a return, but an innovation. All his previous stories revolved around big topics such as nation, human nature, and suffering; but in "My Father and Mother", he began to focus on the pure love story between two people. Years later, when he filmed "House of Flying Daggers", that can be called a return.
"My Father and Mother" clearly and deliberately eschews big themes such as times or life. Her entire story is told from a mother's point of view. In a few words from his father, he mentioned that after graduation, he had nothing to do. He wandered around the county town, saw someone signing up, and went to sign up, and then he came to this place that decided his life. small village. Here he fell in love, married, had children, and became a rightist. It almost has the meaning of "Dunhuang".
However, "My Father and Mother" eschews such a big theme, and only focuses on the love of a mother's little woman. This can clearly see the choice strategy of the director on this film. But the other side of the story is pulling on the issue of rural education consciously or unintentionally. While I agree that education is an important issue, in this film it's superfluous.
I always have a question about love stories, how does love happen?
Who is the one you should love? Who is worthy of your unshakable promise with your life? When you make up your mind, this is what this life is, how did it all happen? How to judge right and wrong?
Of course this is a modern problem. And "My Father and Mother" is to be nostalgic, to cherish the past love, simple and happy love. So, his answer is simple, "love at first sight". Before the mother followed the whole village to greet the new husband, she put on her best-looking red cotton-padded jacket. Glancing at my husband, I was overjoyed. On the golden ground, I turned back and ran home. This scene is repeated several times in the second half of the film.
What is commendable is that my father was able to see the mother in the red cotton jacket at a glance from the thousands of people, and he kept it in his heart.
Well, this is destined love at first sight, and the world is bigger than love at first sight.
But I always think of Alex telling Emma about his novel in "Men's Books and Women's Love", and he fell in love with her as soon as he saw her. Emma said with a wicked smile, "Oh..., it was love at first sight."
Of course, this is not ordinary love at first sight, but the love at first sight of Zhang Yimou before the hero, so it is a paranoid love at first sight. And the role of mother is paranoid into the field of love, which is also a precedent for Zhang Yimou. I became paranoid in the irrational field, um, so I have some doubts, my father didn't fall in love with my mother at first sight, just a reverse version of "strong women are afraid of men."
The mother's paranoid love at first sight, another more common way of saying, is a female nympho.
Nympho is different between men and women. Male nympho is close to being wretched or rogue, while female nympho, especially beautiful nympho, is a rare treasure that cannot be seen in a thousand years.
So in order to shape this kind of beauty nympho that has never been seen in a thousand years, Zhang Yimou discovered the beauty Zhang Ziyi. Moreover, the movie also faked the makeup, and brought out a little sister Tianxian in a small ravine, and the wind and frost did not leave a trace on her face.
Even so, it can be seen that Zhang Ziyi has put a lot of effort into this movie. Her body movements, her awkward running form (she does run a lot), all seem to be in place.
The cinematography of the film is also very serious, combining movement and stillness, and it is very expressive. It's not as convoluted as Zhang Yimou's current movies.
All in all, the details of the movie are good. Female nympho is still very fascinating. It's just that Zhang Yimouhuai's pure love at first sight is a bit unreliable in my opinion.
The IMDB score is 7.7 (4340 votes) and I give it a 6.
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