After watching "The Great Wall", my biggest feeling is not whether it is good or bad, but that my compatriots are so dead. The big girls jumped down like bait and fed themselves to the monsters, while the young men used their flesh and blood as fodder. Knowing that there was a problem with the sky lantern, he was still willing to ride it. In the end, almost the entire army fell to his death because the sky lantern was burnt out. The lives of our compatriots are so cheap, and what is even more frightening is that everyone is scrambling to die. In front of the word "trust", everyone has the burden of defending their homeland, and they all become chess pieces, which are used to fulfill Zhang Yimou's human wall tactics and group gymnastics aesthetics.
So, to say who I really like in the film, I can only like Lu Han. He is so nervous that his hands are shaking and he lacks courage. Although he is a waste, at least he has a human taste. I don't understand what the character of Ma Ma is thinking, why he stayed, the change of human nature is so sudden, is he really convinced by this huge scene of collectivism?
What shocked me even more was that if the Great Wall was a reality, the lives of the people inside the Great Wall would be like a must, and the gluttons outside the Great Wall would also seem to be under the same curse. When the Beastmaster dies, all the gluttons will not move... if the Beastmaster is alive, the beasts will live, and if the Beastmaster dies, the beasts will die. Why is Hitler like this? I don't understand what's the point of such a big picture, what's the value of such values. Judges, don't accuse me of being too hypocritical.
The creator seems to have built a window for mutual understanding between the East and the West. Through the rivalry of the two characters, Ma and Jing Tian, "We are different", "In fact, we are the same kind"... It's like a country's direct intention to a certain country, It's like the heart of a Chinese director who has gone all the way to Hollywood. But if I were a Westerner, in such a modern civilization, I saw such a movie that did not respect the concept of human life as "outdated", like living in ancient times, would I really reach Qin Jinzhi with us?
Yes, Zhang Yimou, who was born in 1950, was born at that time and grew up with China. Zhang Yimou is indeed telling the story of China to the world, but it is not Qin and Han, not Tang and Song, not ancient, nor modern. within reason.
Before watching it, I was thinking that there are so many English-speaking blockbusters in Hollywood, I really don't need Zhang Yimou to make another one. After watching it, I still think so.
I used to expect that such a story would be like Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which smelts the spirit of the Chinese people. Or like Rob Marshall's Memoirs of a Geisha, deconstructing an Eastern story with Western eyes. This kind of work is a combination of Chinese and Western, although the latter has many flaws, it still moves me.
However, I saw such a "The Great Wall", the middle is not the middle, all the Chinese elements are very superficial, the city walls and palaces are rough in workmanship, go to see the tiles and animals, the weapons and clothing are not as delicate, how can the generals be so ugly. Foreign is quite foreign, and a Chiglish is also smooth.
You know, when monkeys in the mountains dominate, sometimes it's not because there are no tigers, it may be because the tigers are not doing their jobs properly, so the monkeys have no control over them. It's about Chinese movies. I miss Zhang Yimou in the 1990s, even Zhang Yimou in "The Return".
Movies are not good.
(Discussion: In view of the fact that some people say that defending the homeland and defending the country is not with flesh and blood. Let me explain, which general will waste the life of his subordinates, so that he can still recruit troops. Think about whether we are afraid of death or not. Then, for the sake of Why do you blame the movie for this? It's because the movie arranges these people to die for the scene, for the tragic, and to show off the weapons they designed. In contrast, what the hero of the Bloody Hacksaw Ridge is doing. Don't sacrifice anyone.)
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