This movie really can't be compared. Compared with "Farewell My Concubine", it seems that this level is not on the same level. I haven't seen the original work of "Farewell My Concubine", but from the perspective of the film itself, it tells a relatively full story, and there is a character full of contradictions (plus Leslie Cheung's acting skills, this Cheng Dieyi is indeed a very good-looking person characters), spread out to the society, the presentation of the social form and the external conflict between the characters and the society. Look at "Alive" again. I have read the novel. Maybe I read it with a bit of subjective color, but the script has been changed to turn a rich story of an individual's survival in a complex society into a thin one. His personal stories, although they also express the content of the times, are all one-sided, and the expression is extremely incomplete and has no content, which is tasteless.
The film does not explain the background of many characters at the beginning of the story, such as Jiazhen's origin, who Chunsheng is, and the relationship with wealth, all are guesswork. Especially Chunsheng, although he is a secondary character, but he also follows the main line of the plot. Why didn't he explain it? At first, he looked like his horse boy, but I heard people say that he didn't react when they were calculating wealth and wealth. He reappeared in the Fugui singing donkey shadow puppet team and helped Fugui play shadow puppets. Later, he was arrested and enlisted in the army and became a brother. Later, he became the district chief. Finally, he asked Fugui to say that he could not survive. He just walked away in such a confused way. Since he didn't want to express his final ending, why did he repeatedly say that he owed the rich and their family his life, and twice said that he wanted to live a good life. It would be better to say that Chunsheng was not defeated in the end, and survived, it would be better if the two brothers appeared together.
More than half of the whole movie is based on shadow play as a clue and it is far-fetched. Sometimes I want to fast forward, such as Ge You singing shadow puppets, once or twice is OK, and it's endless, let alone Jiazhen and Youqing, I don't like listening to it anymore. . . There is also the episode of Doctor Wang before Fengxia gave birth. It's nondescript. Let's get the professor. Give me some time to buy steamed buns. What can I do? It takes so long for the story to progress, is it because the movie is too long and not enough. . .
It was "Green Hat" and "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle" before, and this time it is "Alive", all of which are famous for their banned films, but it seems that some movies are banned in a confused way, and their fame is also confused.
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