The movie is only 108 minutes

Shakira 2022-03-23 09:03:12

If this movie didn't have Gong Li, or if it didn't star in Gong Li, I really don't know what it would use to support it.
In terms of content, just like the lines in the play, she can make more than a dozen men fascinated,
she supports the nation's highest spiritual patriotism, and she supports the hero that all men in the play want to be, but Soames wants Helping friends get revenge while finishing work, Chow Yun-fat wants to round the field, communicate and maintain the power of gangsters, Tanaka wants to eliminate spies and traitors, all men are busy with their work, all men are busy with their love, but all men are not busy with the rise and fall of the nation. , so they need women and women like Gong Li to express their emotions and longings through her secretly.
So Chow Yun-fat shot Tanaka and didn't allow him to take away his woman. She was not only his woman, but also a display of his pursuit of heroism. He wanted to protect him with all his might, and he could tolerate her casual teasing. He can indulge her freedom and behavior, and he can finally yell at the Japanese soldiers! If Soames wants to prove his tact or wit by getting Anna, then he is too superficial compared to Anna, and if the director wants to use Soames to create a successful role of Americans who have both career and beauty, it is too artistic , If Tanaka wants to prove his true feelings through the departure of Soames and Anna, then he really shouldn't be a Japanese official, let alone a politician and diplomat. Although the whole play is full of humorous dialogues, flirtatious flirting and ambiguity, all of Gong Li's tears seem too false and small, but meticulousness cannot achieve completeness and greatness, because the center of gravity is biased, which is heavy The focus of his patriotic sentiments is too heavy and too heavy for Anna alone. Although Gong Li tried her best to give her killer look and tears, 108 minutes could not complete the image of the three countries of the United States, China and Japan that the director wanted to create perfectly. Maybe it would be better if the director made a romance. If there is no contrast in everything, there will be no problem. It is precisely one woman who contrasts the cowardice and narrow-mindedness of so many men. The contrast is too strong, and the director's ambition loses to the expression, because the film is only 108 minutes long.
Finally add a sentence: Don't always make Americans the winners, Soames actually doesn't even have half of the firmness of Tanaka and Chow Yun-fat!

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Shanghai quotes

  • Paul Soames: The heart is never neutral.

  • Paul Soames: Conner and I had joined the Navy like our fathers and grandfathers before us. Our lives were set. Birth, school, Yale, war. The great American tradition.