Nothing but pursuit

Roel 2022-03-25 09:01:20

A movie with form over content.
The movie uses Bingziran and Renjun as the background anyway, but it only plays the role of the background. If the story is changed to a historical background, there is no problem with changing the protagonist to a Japanese. . For the final pursuit battle, the film spent a lot of ink to describe the emotions of the characters and explain the subsequent pursuit, but it still felt that the foundation was not enough. The brother and sister's relationship is still thin, and the groom's love for his wife is inexplicable and irrational. What's even worse is that the whole movie can't see what it wants to show, showing the deep brother and sister relationship? Not enough bedding. Show Manchu's ferocity, don't forget national humiliation? But the protagonist didn't do anything to save the country and the people. Is it valuable to express humanity? There is no plot where the protagonist has an inner conflict at all. This kind of shriveled content makes the protagonist's sentence "My bow is not used to kill people." or the villain's "Do you look down on me if you don't kill me?"
The most eye-catching of the whole film is the final chase. The protagonist uses various methods (sacrifice teammates, jumping off cliffs and luck) to kill one chaser after another. By the way, he shows off his bow skills and various odd-shaped arrows. The performance of this part, whether it is the camera, the rhythm, or the control of the atmosphere, is still very good for the director's skills. But to this extent, the gripping parts of the plot still cannot make up for the substantial defect of the empty content of the entire film.

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