Dilapidated and dirty street shops and stations, dark and eerie casinos, all kinds of exotic buildings, noisy and chaotic docks, gloomy and damp Shanghai, all kinds of characters are floating in the shadows, and you can't see the whole picture...
The storyline mainly revolves around the entanglements and love-hate relationships between characters from various countries in Shanghai on the eve of the Pearl Harbor incident...
This is not a spy war movie with the theme of the Anti-Japanese War that ordinary people are accustomed to. There is no passion, suspense, wit, common hatred, and some melancholy romantic love movies with war themes shot by neutral Americans. Therefore, it is difficult for Chinese people to accept such expressions and inevitably criticize them. one slice.
The Hollywood-style blockbuster style is matched with the familiar faces of the oriental Hollywood fritters, Du Bianqian, Chow Yun-fat, Rinko Kikuchi and Gong Li, as well as the dark, gloomy and beautiful atmosphere created by the Hollywood-style scenes. The Hollywood blockbuster "Memoirs of a Geisha" and Shuji Terayama's "Shanghai Foreign Prostitutes", even thought of the oriental screen in Ms. Chanel's room, very artistic and mysterious oriental style, this mysterious and romantic exotic feeling is Western The Far East, which is only seen in the eyes of people, is a wonderful and indescribable colonial style, which reminds people of the East India Company, opium, and the distant and seductive oriental beauties. ...
But for those who live in this land, only what Gong Li said in the film is: "Ten million people die every day!" and: "Today I left the motherland for my husband, but one day I will return."
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