The omitted lives of widows

Renee 2022-03-29 09:01:03

I thought it was a widow's stunt, "Hiding the Sky: The Beauty's Plan"; I didn't expect the core to be full of realism and self-deprecation: not every widow is Mu Guiying who avenged her deceased husband. After the fluttering sweet words, she acted as a cash machine and a nanny. She thought she was living in love. Before she was immersed in her dream, Huang Liang was awakened to collect the body for her husband, and was burdened with the debts and grievances imposed by the world.

The cruelty of reality is that there is no absolute good person. There are too many political stalks in the film; gun bribery for gangsters, excessive enforcement of racial discrimination and pornography, these realities have kidnapped all possible good people and turned them into seemingly selfish "bitches".

You may never see a band of robbers with such discordant wills, who are troubled by each other, suspicious of each other, and not even empathizing with their common grief! They live for themselves, and although they seem to be embarrassed—but the idea is great!

Everyone's motivation is not to be displayed in a facialized assembly line, but to unfold slowly in the complex relationship between characters, and it is even slow to guess a woman's treacherous mentality process after 3/4 of the film. This kind of unhurried rendering It's too advanced to use to depict group portraits separately; even if it reduces the "blockbuster" feeling that vulgar audiences are accustomed to.

The storyboard design and ending treatment are exquisite and capable. Scene selection is also neat and typical. I really like it!

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Widows quotes

  • Fuller: [on Harry] I always said he should burn in hell. But Chicago will do.

  • [last lines]

    Veronica: Alice! How you been?