"The Painted Veil" is a movie based on the original novel of the same name (author W. Somerset Maugham), which was already in 1934. On the big screen, starring Greta Garbo, with the same name: "The Painted Veil".
Before watching the movie, I knew the background of the story. In 1923, Kitty (Naomi Watts) met bacterial scientist Walter Fane ( Edward Norton), in order to escape from his mother, married Walter who loved her deeply. After marriage, Kitty followed Walter to live in Shanghai, but never fell in love with him. Two years later, Walter found out that his wife was unfaithful. Take Kitty to the remote mountainous area of China, which is a cholera epidemic area. Betrayal and revenge make their relationship worse. Living in the epidemic area, the couple who are dependent on each other and have turned against each other have the opportunity to get to know each other again, but it is a pity that when the two truly fall in love with each other It may be too late.
Edward Norton ("Fight Club" 1999) and Naomi Watts ("King Kong" 2005, "The Ring Two" 2005, "21 Grams" 2003) are also the same The producers of the film. They all acted well. The film was not as good as expected. Perhaps it lacked the expected moving and moving.
There is this sentence on the movie poster: "Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people." It's poetic and moving. But the movie could be better.
The soundtrack is quite good, the piano is from the famous Chinese pianist Lang Lang, of course it is wonderful. I believe many viewers will consider buying the OST collection of the movie. The movie won the Best Music in the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards in the United States The first prize.
Most of the pictures are Chinese countryside scenes, without the beautiful scenery of rivers and mountains. Except for one or two scenes, the villagers under the plague and the patients on the sickbed are all realistic.
Other actors such as Charlie Townsend (Charlie Townsend, who has an affair with Kitty Fane Liev Schreiber) is also good. Of course, we pay more attention to the Hong Kong actor Huang Qiusheng. His performance with a slight British accent in the movie is also good. He also plays a lot of roles as Colonel Yu. After
watching the film, I feel that life will always be There are regrets. Maybe a life without regrets is a life without meaning.
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