Zhang Yimou or Andersen, this is the question

Theodore 2022-03-22 09:02:05

I'm a "deep fetish" person, and that's one of the sarcastic comments I don't take much. It means that any good movie I'm referring to has to have some depth. He said: "The Promise" is trying to talk about depth, is it a good movie? "Once" is just plain and straightforward, is it a bad movie? This is before watching "Little Shoes". Afterwards, at a party, I accidentally met a person who even watched "Little Shoes". After my diagnosis, she also suffered from "deep addiction". She said: This film has no depth, and the reason why it received such a high evaluation is because Because I learned from the practice of directors in my country in the 1980s - using my own ugliness to cater to the West.
How much Zhang Yimou catered to the West, "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" and "Raise the Red Lantern" were criticized so much in China, when the people's wisdom was first opened. But fortunately, now this guy has finally learned to behave, and he has made a shiny opening ceremony of the concave, finally showing my vitality. And "No One Less" was born when he was half-earth, and the loess and red cotton jackets formed the ignorant and chaotic little faces of Chinese children. However, using adults' thinking to measure a child's head is a chaotic performance art. Why do you have so much fun playing with mud when you were a kid, but when you grow up, you want your kids to stay away from the sand? Therefore, it is not necessary to understand and tolerate after experiencing it. There is also the single and pretentious child in "Yangtze River No. 7", and the dull and majestic child in "It Looks Beautiful". The child is not a child, but a puppet based on adult thinking.
Children are children, and when they tell their stories, they should be children themselves. Innocence, kindness, and cuteness are children, as are fantasies, selfishness, and mischief. Who didn't have a childhood fear of making mistakes? Whose childhood friends did not have tolerance and tacit understanding? Even if three or eight lines are drawn on the table, it is only a tacit understanding between children. Shooting children's movies from a condescending angle is like translating Tang poetry into English.
I don't know what dark side this movie shows to touch the nerves of patriotic youth because their mother is sick? Because you can't pay the rent? Because the vegetable shop owner chased away the little boy? According to this logic, "Pulp Fiction" is an American flattering to Snake Society? Facing the truth, it is neither to endure the pain to expose the truth, nor to expose the truth disdainfully.
The small ditch that the little girl crossed when running, the shoe fell into the ditch and got stuck under the bridge, and the physical education class was praised by the teacher, and that was the real childhood. What's the hardest rut in movies to escape? That is, always use one symbol to express another symbol. If you run, you must fall, if you steal something, you must be found, if you meet again, you must be ruffled by the wind, if you lie on the grass, you must be a mud horse, and if you cross a bridge, you must be rice noodles. Movies about children must be the same as elementary school students' compositions. "Our friendship has become stronger after this incident." We have made too many elementary school students' compositions under this thinking.
In fact, Iranian films have always had a peaceful temperament. This temperament can be seen on the face of an imam who reads the Koran in a mosque. The narrative is straightforward, even a little tasteless, but the truth is all in it. Other masterpieces such as "The Taste of Cherry", "Where Are My Friends", a subtle feeling of reading the Koran, and even, like at the end of "Little Shoes", the little boy takes off his completely broken shoes, The feeling of putting tired feet in the pool after a 5K race.

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  • Ali: Zahra, I have good news.

    Zahra: What news?

    Ali: I am selected for the race.

    Zahra: What race?

    Ali: Long-Distance Running. The third-best runner gets a pair of new sneakers.

    Zahra: Why the third?

    Ali: The First and Second prizes are something else. If I come in third, I'll give you the sneakers.

    Zahra: But those shoes are for boys.

    Ali: I'll exchange them. I'll get a pair of girl's shoes for you.

    Zahra: What if you don't come in third?

    Ali: I'll be third for sure.