Tangshan Earthquake (spoilers, be careful)

Salvador 2022-04-20 09:02:27

If this is a movie of more than three hours, it will become a classic that cannot be surpassed in China; if there is no advertisement for nearly half an hour before, it will show Feng Xiaogang's sincerity; It will be easier to establish a relationship with the audience.

The fact is that if none of these are true, it does not affect the huge shock it brings. The beginning of the film shows an unusual state. Countless dragonflies galloped past. People looked at this strange scene suspiciously, and his younger brother Fangda opened his mouth to express Feng's humor: "There are so many dragonflies, I don't even want to catch them. "(Tangshan dialect) Everything is a beautiful, happy couple with a son and a daughter enjoying a different kind of happiness. The elder sister always protects and lets her brother down, pushes down the boy who bullied her brother, and reluctantly gives the tomatoes to her younger brother. What should people do? Go home from get off work to cook and do housework. Construction is on at the construction site. Fang Daqiang and Li Yuanni are intimate in the car.

The camera turned to the horizon, and a purple light appeared horizontally in the same sky, beautiful and dazzling, shrouding the entire earth under it, as if telling here: "None of you can escape!" The earth began to tremble, the houses began to crack, and the construction site The construction machine began to tilt, people hurriedly woke up from their dreams, and subconsciously avoided the doomed danger. Only the child crawled on the window and shouted. Li Yuanni wanted to rush in, but Fang Daqiang died. As a husband and father, he needed this. Do. The earth cracked, houses collapsed, and God took 240,000 lives in Tangshan with a method called grandson.

Daughter and son are crushed under the same slate, are you saving the daughter or the son? No matter who it is, it is difficult to choose, just as the mother and daughter-in-law fall into the river and you save which one is the same. The mother chose to save her younger brother in the hysterical pain. The camera cut to Fang Deng, and every word of the mother's words crossed Fang Deng with the tears. The younger brother was rescued, but he lost his left arm. Grandma hugged Fonda who lost her arm and cried bitterly. She wanted to take him away but left him to her desperate mother. What impressed me the most was the scene where Li Yuanni ran to her son. After experiencing the separation of life and death, she knew what was life and what was death.

Fang Deng was adopted by a military couple, and Li Yuanni continued to take care of her disabled son in Tangshan. The two lines are basically juxtaposed to push the film forward. Fang Deng was admitted to Hangzhou Medical College. Fang Da was reluctant to study and go out to work. The siblings had been staying in Hangzhou. Even so, they never had the chance to meet each other. Of course, even if they met, they would not dare to recognize each other. Because the adoptive mother was ill, Fang Deng did not go home for two years. The adoptive father came to Hangzhou to visit his daughter, and it was Fang Da who took him to Hangzhou Medical College. Of course, the adoptive father would not know this person. Sweat soaked his shirt, carrying suitcases and briefcases to show military sophistication. Pushing the door in, the smile disappeared immediately, leaving the embarrassment on his face. The daughter's neckline is wide open, and the boy is still cleaning up the messed up room. After a few simple conversations, he opens the box, which is full of the favorite snacks that the adoptive mother asked to bring her daughter. When the daughter asked about the condition of her adoptive mother, she might not talk about common diseases. Since she couldn't bear to say it, it was time to have to talk about it. Looking at the back, watching him bury his face in the towel, his tears burst like an unstoppable faucet, which was destined to be Wang Deqing's tragedy.

The daughter returned to the adoptive mother, but the adoptive mother was about to finish her life. Seeing the adopted daughter lying in the arms of the wife who had always been wary of the adopted daughter, Wang Deqing could only turn his back to his wife and children. Men could vent at this time. But the family and others must be left with a strong back. When he got home, Wang Deqing, who was sitting on the bench, stared blankly ahead, motionless, his daughter asked his father, "Where should I put my mother?" He just took the photo of his wife and turned his attention to the photo. Loneliness will begin to accompany the middle-aged Wang Deqing. The short-term is the pain of leaving, and the long-term is the inner loneliness.

Fang Deng dropped out of school because he was pregnant and disappeared. Wang Deqing came to the school to learn about the situation. When he saw Yang Zhi, who seemed to be nothing, he played beautifully and relieved. Wang Deqing might not have thought that even if he taught a lesson After Yang Zhi, his daughter couldn't come back to him, and even after returning, it was impossible to stay by his side for a long time. Ten years later, Fang Deng appeared with a little girl by his side, and Wang Deqing's life was nothing more than eating a hundred meals and entering an elderly activity club. Wang Deqing asked where his daughter had been over the years. The worries that had accumulated for more than ten years broke out in an instant. He couldn't face it and had to avoid it. She has a daughter, and she also has a mother and a younger brother. No matter if you were four stars and two bars before, life after retirement is still miserable and desolate. Even so, he still encouraged Fang Deng to go to Tangshan to find relatives, because relatives are relatives after all. This is the end of Wang Deqing's story, and I am thinking that after a short period of happiness, what he will face next is still loneliness. This is not warmth. On this line, what he sees is still despair.

Fonda's later life was smooth sailing. The only dispute came from adjusting the balance between her mother and Xiaohe. Li Yuanni always guarded her husband and daughter, for fear that they would not be able to find their way home after the move. After the tragic and desperate mother and the existence of some variables, she returned to Tangshan. The mother knelt down for her daughter and kept the tomatoes.

This is the end of the story. After all, this is just a movie. Thinking of the previous episode of "Morality Watch", a mother abandoned her daughter with gigantism. She is also a mother, and not all mothers call it great.

In addition to the above, there are two most enticing places. One is that ten years after the earthquake, people who lost their loved ones at home burned paper on the street. Li Yuanni and her son took up a single shot and flashed back to the panorama with sparks of fire. In Tangshan, what gives people is the touch of life. At the end of the film, a witness of the Tangshan earthquake leaned on a bicycle and stared at the memorial wall specially built for the victims, which was engraved with the names of the victims of the Tangshan earthquake. The man said, "I'll see you again in two days!" The bike passed by, and the name written on the wall passed by, reminding me of the lifeless Tangshan after the earthquake at the beginning of the film. Now Tangshan is brand new.

Feng Xiaogang still consciously weakened the clues on his adoptive father's side, but his aura had completely overshadowed the main line. Even Xu Fan's exaggerated performance could not resist Chen Daoming's implicit performance. Is that not objective? You'll know when you go to the cinema. I would also like to mention Zhang Zifeng, she is indeed a genius. Appropriate, the method is natural, compared to the adult Fang Deng, I am wondering if this adult Fang Deng is another person. Feng Xiaogang has always emphasized that special effects are not so important in this film, and it is true. Compared with the special effects of "2012", "Tangshan Earthquake" is more real, and the money is not wrong. The only regret of the film is the editing, the story is not very coherent, often one thing is not finished, and the next thing is started.

All in all, "Tangshan Earthquake" surprised me.

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  • Dong Guilan: [displeased, very quietly] What a disgrace.

    Wang Deqing: Are you talking about me? What have I done?

    Dong Guilan: The child is already grown up. Look at what you're wearing.

    Wang Deqing: [glances at his casual T-shirt and shorts] Huh, I'm at home. Should I be dressed like a king? Can't I even enter my own child's room?

  • Dong Guilan: The two of you are the ones I care most about in my life. But you both... never wanted to be with me.