The reason for choosing the massacre should also be one of the eye-catching strategies.
Yan Geling's novel itself is not wise in conception, and the prose is inappropriately frivolous. Moreover, the "life-for-life" in the novel turns out to be an unexplainable weakness, which is magnified and strengthened in the film.
Moreover, Yan Geling's name for her novel is quite like a woman in Fireworks Lane in the Republic of China who named her residence "Xiaoxiang Pavilion", with disturbing and unscrupulous intentions.
The film begins with a D-Day war scene in Saving Private Ryan, but unfortunately, this scene was ruined by the over-dramatic drama. Spielberg emphasized the impermanence and cruelty of war in the landing scene, and many scenes are impressive. The real war scene is most afraid of too many dramatic accidents. For example, John accidentally got into a hiding place, and the two girls he met were the female students in the church where he was going to work. The rapid switching of the camera lens and the sudden sharp turn of the characters are all dramatic in a few minutes, a climax, appalling, but without any tension. It seems that you sing the visual spectacle of my debut, and the only purpose is to manipulate the audience's emotions to earn cheap "shocks".
The reason why the war scene at the beginning is not shocking is because it is unreal. There have been many people talking about the technical unreality here. What I want to say is that the emotions of the characters are also unreal. John, as a person who has just encountered danger in the war, , got into a hiding place, and when the safety was unknown, he began to tease with girls. Even if the character's character was set as "rogue temperament" in the first place, it did not conform to the basic emotional reality that a character should have.
The most incredible scene is that the female students escaped back to the church next time. Here, a group of fireworks women appeared gorgeously. I don’t know how they came here through the corpses. They all have curly hair and delicate makeup. Incomparable, not like refuge, but it seems to be introduced. The black war changed into a flamboyant and colorful one in an instant, and there was no transition in the period. The female student who had fled for her life just a moment ago now has a clean face and curiously peeps from the window with the innocence of a close-up.” Qin Huaiyan The prostitutes are infinite.
The female students in the original novel have never experienced the cruelty outside the church, so they are full of curiosity about these outsiders in a small closed world. If the female students really had that life-and-death escape, how could they have such idleness and expressions?
War plus eroticism is twice as good as Zhang Yimou thinks, but he doesn't know that when these two things are put together, they can only be weird, like the bright colors on a rotting corpse, it is impossible to bring pure beauty enjoy.
The flirtation between Bell and Ni Ni started in this black ruthlessness. The audience has not yet woken up from the heroism of the Li instructors. Bell has already taken Ni Ni's cigarette. At this moment, his eyes are flashing and ambiguous. , is so wrong, it can't drive our adrenaline to secrete quickly, but there is a faint sense of guilt. The thirteen hairpins are not only "businesswomen do not know the hatred of subjugation of the country", but also seem to know nothing about everything, and even do not know where they are. They wear gorgeous morning coats outside, sexy underwear inside, and always have a lazy attitude. There are all kinds of amorous feelings, the breasts are always half exposed, and the spring feelings are rippling. This state, together with Nanjing during the war, a church in hell, gives people the feeling of watching a time-travel drama, like "Secret Love in the Peach Blossom Land". , the two plays are mixed on the same stage, and the only thing that stands out is one word: absurd.
How did the love between them come about? Produced by Ni Ni's round buttocks tightly wrapped by the cheongsam on the left and right sides of the camera? Or those lines without a previous sentence that he spit out resentfully between the pillars while waiting for Bell to pass by? How did their emotional exchange begin? Why did Ni Ni suddenly burst into tears? Can anyone casually get into a state of being with a stranger? Or are prostitutes extraordinarily "sexy"?
If the prostitutes came to the church in vain, they had not witnessed the cruelty of the massacre, so they could play mahjong bored and naked, then saw a bloodstained soldier put a dying and seriously wounded After the child soldiers are placed among them, they can still talk and laugh freely, and then flirt with coquettish coquettishness. The emotions and states of these characters are even more out of the plot, and Zhang Yimou's attempt to eroticism for the sake of eroticism is obvious.
As soon as the Japanese officer Hasegawa appeared, he put on a middle-aged Wenqing's melancholy expression. In a church where someone had just fallen to his death and someone was almost raped, he played his hometown nursery rhyme literary and artistically. Could you be more pretentious? Go out again? More facebook? Regeneration hard and childish?
Probably this is an indispensable accessory for making a platter, and it must have, but in what way, Director Zhang is unwilling to do more credible designs, and his thoughts are almost all spent on "Qinhuai" that can reflect "Chinese cultural characteristics". Atmosphere" up. It is said that those actresses have been "trained" for several years, and Laomouzi is really "serious".
This movie cannot be viewed as a war movie, because there is no real war in it, the state of people in real wars; it cannot be viewed as a love movie, because the emotions are generated for no reason, and the characters are highly symbolic Hua; what kind of movie is Zhang Yimou going to make?
In order to look good, he sacrificed everything, not only the truth cannot be exacted, but also the integrity is despised.
If this film is sincere, Zhang Yimou dedicates his only sincerity to the box office.
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