Zhang Yimou, who has no bottom line, still wants to hit the Oscars? Did I hear it wrong?

Ned 2022-03-24 09:02:30

"The Hollywood Reporter" said: In Hollywood, only the crassest producers would inject sex into a disaster like the Nanjing Massacre, but this is the core element of "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling". The film is contrived and unconvincing.

That's right, if Zhang Yimou can greatly weaken the scenes of rape, sex scenes, and massacres, instead of using it as the biggest selling point and gimmick to earn the box office, he spends more pen and ink on the inner struggle and transformation of the characters, even if The arrangement of some bridge sections is a bit hypocritical and a bit unreasonable, and the Thirteen Hairpins is also a sincere work. This is really shameless, and it's not an exaggeration to give it a zero score based on this alone.

In addition, as a war film, blindly expressing the brutality of the enemy without any anti-war reflection, what else can it do except arouse the audience's hatred of the Japanese?

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  • Rylan 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    It's another story under that gloomy sky in 1937. The direct and brutal picture in the first half highlights the brutality of the massacre, and the second half shows the kindness of human nature through the depiction of specific characters. It can be regarded as a sincere work by Laomouzi in recent years, but several scenes including Bell's bed scene are still obvious commercial selling points... The ending is subtle and well handled. The stained glass transition of the church is very beautiful. Bell shaved his beard and said he was so handsome~

  • Kacey 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    First of all, the theme is very catchy, and the discussion of human nature in war has always been my dish; then this script is too good to make a bad film; Bell's performance is excellent, only waving the cross flag in the church and "deceiving" female students Two scenes are enough to win the Oscar in my heart; the use of long shots and hand-held shots is obviously closer to Hollywood, and some shots are restrained and restrained like Clint Eastwood;

The Flowers of War quotes

  • Yu Mo: Maybe with your help, I can save them.