The film follows the line of realistic creation, and successfully creates lifelike group portraits, especially the character of the protagonist Fugui, which is profound and vivid and has rich meanings. Zhang Yimou said in a conversation with Hawaiian college students: Every time I get the script, I always think about the color and style of the future movie. Stuff like this is important to me. The colors of this film are not as gorgeous and gorgeous as in "Red Sorghum" and "Heroes", and there is no red flower padded jacket on Zhang Ziyi's body in "My Father and Mother", but some of the image tones of the 1970s are blue, gray and black. When he was young, Fugui was a playboy who was addicted to gambling. He lost everything in his family and his father was mad. His pregnant wife, Jiazhen, ran away from home with her daughter Fengxia, and a year later, she brought a new student with her. Your son Youqing is back. Fugui started his life anew and started a shadow puppet show with Chunsheng, but was arrested by the Kuomintang and later captured by the Communist Party. They agreed to go back alive. After untold hardships, she finally returned home safely, but her mother has passed away, and her daughter Fengxia has also become mute due to illness. Chunsheng, who became the mayor of the "Great Leap Forward", accidentally killed Youqing with his car. Afterwards, Fengxia met the honest and honest Erxi, and the two tied the knot. However, misfortune befalls the Fugui family again. Fengxia gave birth to a son, but she died of dystocia. Fengxia's son named Mantou. Fugui said to Mantou, "You have caught up with the good times, and the days will get better and better in the future." The bright color at the end clarifies the theme, no matter how difficult life is, life must continue. In the words of the Bible: " Tomorrow the sun will continue to rise." The great success of the film lies in the analysis of the tragic fate of people in a special society and historical period. It records the cultural trends of an era in an almost line-like way, and reflects people's life experiences through a person's life experiences. The pain of life that cannot be controlled by fate has led to philosophical thinking about the meaning of life itself. The film has a strong imprint of the times and an implicit concept of fate. Fugui's life, from the initial gambling addiction, to the fear of five guns, to the shock of his son's untimely death, to the grief of his daughter's deafness and accidental death, the film tries to express the despair, helplessness and powerlessness of the characters in the face of fate. . The film properly uses the artistic techniques of transformation, translation and balance montage, and uses close-up to express the inner world of the characters, emphasizing the theme that living is to endure. Ge You also did his best to interpret a Fugui who had gone through hardships very well. Fugui has a very profound line: "Thousands of good things are good, and it's good to be alive". In addition, there is a sentence he said to Chunsheng: "We all climbed out of the dead, it is not easy to live, we must live well!" Fugui said to his son Words: "If Youqing listens to his father's words, our life will get better and better... Our family is just a chicken now, and the chicken becomes a goose when it grows up, and the goose becomes a sheep when it grows up. , the sheep will become cows when they grow up!" The expectation of a better life may be the spiritual strength that he can bear to survive such a heavy life. In those days, countless silent and tenacious Chinese people lived quietly like this. Fugui is a typical representative of China's little man. A little man has been ups and downs in the ups and downs of history, completely unable to control his own destiny, misfortune and ups and downs are always entangled. They, however, never gave up the belief to live, never complained, and still had infinite aspirations for life and the future. "Alive" has a certain epic quality, which is packaged under the fate of individuals and families, and at the same time, there is a faint sympathy and sad black humor. The film captures the living conditions and sufferings of individuals and places them in a profound historical background, trying to appeal to the joys and sorrows of little people and the absurdity of the times.
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