In 2000, I was still a high school student, and for me, movies were already a motivation for me to go to college. I followed Wang Chao, Hou Hong and other teachers in Jinan to study the content of the professional part of the college entrance examination. I saw such a VCD with a strange name in a small bookstore at the back door of the old campus of Shandong Art Institute, so I bought it.
When I saw this film for the first time, I was absolutely shocked. Compared with the film expressions that I was familiar with at that time, this film was simply subversive, or it broadened my film thinking all at once, because at that time I was researching They are all about writing art test films, domestically produced, with the main theme, higher artistic value, and more exciting stories... that's all. Later, when others watched "Warm Spring" and cried, I was so emotional, but my stomach hurt from laughing, and I didn't forget to hand tissues to those people.
So later I saw Jiang Wen's "The Sun Also Rises", and the admiration and respect for Jiang Wen went up a notch. At least I know that there are people in China who can tell stories like Kusturica. I also wish I had a film with such rhythm and expression.
You can absolutely say that this movie is a love movie, because the main line of the story is connected by love, and the friendship and family affection are relatively weak but done very well.
Animals and people are the protagonists. In fact, people are also animals. Whether they are dead or living, people, pigs, ducks, cats, and mice all have their own roles. The music, Yugoslav with a distinctly regional character, fleshes out the rhythm enough to watch the film with eyes closed.
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