films Written by: Constantine Nicholas / Genevieve Nicholas Director: Ron Fricke Documentary: Baraka, Chinese translate it as "Tian Di Xuan Huang", this translator It's really "absolute". The phrase "Tian Di Xuan Huang" comes from the Book of Changes. The first sentence of the Chinese thousand-character prose: Heaven and earth are dark and yellow, and the universe is prehistoric. The sky is Xuan Cang, the earth is loess, the universe has not yet been developed, and chaos has not yet opened. Use "Tian Di Xuan Huang" as the title of the film, absolutely!
A documentary without a single commentary can firmly grab your attention with its footage and music. It's been called "the greatest documentary of the twentieth century" by film critics, and some even claim that it's the only film you'd be willing to carry if you were exiled to a desert island.
When I was watching this film, my eyes followed the picture and my ears followed the music, but my brain was so busy that it was like solving a mystery. Every time a new scene appeared, I immediately guessed, this is India? Is this Africa? Is this Sudan? …
The two-hour documentary can be described as a feature film among documentaries. I can forget myself, forget it, and forget the time when I see it.
It is imaginative and cultural, saying that this is a documentary about the evolution of the earth and human beings, as well as the relationship between human beings and the environment.
Unimaginative and uncultured, it is said that this is a good-looking documentary with good-looking pictures and all kinds of strange people and animals.
From the point of view of me, who is between the literate and the unliterate, what I admire most is the screenwriter and director. How can they have such a broad and mysterious imagination and practical ability to make such an unusual documentary. Traveled to 24 countries, 14 months, $4 million, these numbers don't matter, what matters is the results. They left this masterpiece with their extraordinary imagination and amazing perseverance.
Five thousand years up and down, and tens of thousands of miles in length and breadth, human beings have been born and destroyed like this, alive and dead. After watching such a blockbuster movie, I thought, the things I care about every day are just a speck of ashes in "The Mysterious Yellow of Heaven and Earth"... So, I am at peace, at peace, and at peace.
The world is big, big and eternal. The world is small, small and eternal.
If I live in the world, I can't be on "The Mysterious Yellow of Heaven and Earth". If China is a big country, a few shots will represent the director's view of China.
Someone asked me, how do you feel after watching "Xuan Huang of Heaven and Earth"?
I say, this is one of the best riddle films in the world! I'm watching and thinking and guessing, but I know so little, I don't know which country 99% of the footage was shot in.
If anyone can guess exactly where the shots in the movie were shot, he must be a master of masters!
"Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang" is good, "Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang" is absolutely amazing!
After you have seen it, you have to watch it again, watch it again, watch it again. It is worth my life time to appreciate and learn.
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