The film begins with war-torn China switching to extravagant Shanghai. The hero He Ke, a war correspondent, sneaks into Nanjing under the guise of a Red Cross truck driver delivering supplies and medicines to the front line and witnesses the horrific atrocities of the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese army. He was unfortunately discovered during a shooting of violence against the Japanese army, and the Japanese army had to execute Hok. At this juncture, Chow Yun-fat's Communist Party member Chen appeared and saved He Ke's life. Then Hooke was sent to a place called Yellowstone to take care of the children, the children whose relatives were sacrificed in the war. He Ke was extremely reluctant at first, because it was far from his ideal of a great war correspondent, but gradually, he fell in love with it. Especially the appearance of the heroine Nurse Li. Their husband and wife team built the orphanage well until a nearby city fell, because the Japanese would soon take Yellowstone. Hok decided to take the children out of this place and take the Silk Road to Shandan, which is very far away. From then on, two foreign adults and one Chinese adult (Chow Yun-fat) led more than 60 children to the Gobi by horse-drawn carriages and on foot. During this period, I met the help of the censorship of the Japanese soldiers and the Communists, and finally arrived at the theoretical paradise. Meanwhile, Hogg died unexpectedly without the medicines he needed after contracting tetanus during a car repair.
There is a well-known saying in the acting world: adults can't play children, children can't play animals. According to this inference, the best actor in this film should be the goat who was called "Morrel" by Hogg and then looked up with the camera and was laughed off by all the children. However, the children's acting skills are indeed superb, whether it's Shi Kai, who started out as a thorn and then sacrificed to save everyone, or Xiaoqing Yulin who only played a part in promoting the plot. The child is the protagonist of this play, that's right. Other people's acting skills are okay, at least in my opinion as a non-critical amateur film critic. If I really want to say it, I can only say that Miss Yang Michelle Yeoh is a little short of time. Although Chow Yun-fat is a supporting role, his performance is still excellent, and his cynicism when he blows up the house is very chic. Please, don't let such a handsome old guy play ancient costumes again, it really doesn't look good. As for the male and female protagonists, I liked them pretty well, especially the two scenes where the male lead was frightened: one was beheaded in Nanjing and the other was stripped naked in Huangshi (really stripped and even took off his underwear, CK lost his A good opportunity for a movie product placement soft ad) to use lice repellent powder in public, it is very realistic.
This film is known to be released in China as soon as it is shot, which is in line with the requirements of the grandfathers of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. Politics aside, I liked this film from the bottom of my heart, and I was very moved after it was over. At the end of the film, Hok's grave is standing in the faraway desert, and I was thinking, let the surviving Yellowstone children come out and talk. Later, they really came out and said how method, how personable, how perfect Hok is! Yeah, I can't help but be moved by a foreigner who walked thousands of miles (they call it the Little Long March) in war-torn China for those children. Thinking of a text I liked to read when I was a child was about Bethune, such an international friend is not easy!
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