23 seconds, this is the duration of the Tangshan earthquake; 32 years, this is the time difference between the Tangshan earthquake and the Wenchuan earthquake. In fact, I want to add 240,000 people. This is the total death toll of the Tangshan earthquake; the death toll of the Wenchuan earthquake is more than 80,000. The special effects in the earthquake part of the film are like a horror movie. If a little blood is sprayed out, it will definitely be considered a category 18 banned. If these things are watched on the big screen of IMAX, they are really scary enough to make you cry. It is also very likely that this should not be considered a tear. Of course, Comrade Zhang Guoqiang died heroically, and he is also the first familiar face in the whole film except Xu Fan. When the mother carried her son to the first aid team of the People's Liberation Army at the airport, the color of the picture suddenly brightened, as warm as an old Eastern European film. Next is two parallel narratives. The two children are pressed on both sides of the same slate and can only protect one. The mother chose the son, and God chose the daughter. The mother continued to raise the son, the daughter was adopted, and the two parted ways. , have their own lives, the first meeting of fate was when the son came to Hangzhou far from his hometown, and happened to meet the adoptive father who came to visit his daughter (this character relationship is quite complicated). I thought there would be more content, but then it became a family drama. Until the Wenchuan earthquake, the daughter in the United States and the son of the big boss in Hangzhou rushed to the front line of disaster relief at the same time and met each other. Indeed, even if the main line of this story is sincere and moving, it weakens the feeling of the entire earthquake, especially those heavy numbers. What matters is not 32 years, but 240,000.
I think as far as screenwriting is concerned, as a commercial film, it is already very good, and this has nothing to do with the purpose of the whole film. As a period drama that spans more than 30 years with the content of the Tangshan family as the main theme of crying, there are many details that show the intention. When Chen Daoming adopted the little girl Fang Deng, the little girl didn't speak. She didn't speak when she was cheered by the crowd on the truck. When she returned to the army, everyone said hello and didn't speak. After the earthquake, she was rescued by the People's Liberation Army. After a long time, the sentence "My name is Wang Deng" when registering at the beginning of the school contains the content of "王" and "Deng" to be seen separately. The children of Fang's family do not forget their parents and accept the meaning of adoptive parents and adoptive mothers. The unforgiveness towards the mother is shown later, but the whole film keeps talking about this, which makes the situation seem small. Why is it called a period drama? First, the death of the great leader in 1976, followed by the college entrance examination. The posters of Zhang Yimou and Jiang Wen flashed through the camera. It was about 1987's "Red Sorghum". Later, the two brothers and sisters did not take the college entrance examination and the other university After dropping out of school, he still had a prosperous life, and probably also had Feng Dao’s personal bad taste in it (if I am wrong, don’t blame me, I will look back at the original novel). Later, there was a Spring Festival Gala in 1997, but the impression was not so deep. It was around that time, in the singing of holding the banner high and creating the future, the daughter of the unmarried child and the adoptive father Chen Daoming met again, and tears were flowing. Some of the important years are decisively ignored. It can be said that the plot is not needed. After all, 2008 is still there, which is also a major selling point of the film. Of course, there are also many bugs. The six major or several major piercing shots are going viral on the Internet, including the Red Bull drink Giant Bike and the like, but it is also reasonable.
In this film, Xu Fan plays Li Yuanni, the mother of the twins. I always think that Xu Fan is a comedian. Maybe it is a mindset. Whenever I hear her high-pitched voice, I always have an inexplicable urge to laugh, so I used to think that when Xu Fan doesn't make up like herself, then it is really possible to be touching. The specific support for my argument is the blood and dust of the heart-piercing mother after the earthquake in the opening chapter. But then I overturned this argument myself. When my daughter met her and went home, her mother said, "She hides so far from me." My impression of Zhang Guoqiang is only from "Soldier Assault", but I really appreciate the stammering tone, and even this time I have a high opinion. Zhang Jingchu and Li Chen are also the two main protagonists. Zhang Jingchu was very old when he was pretending to be a student, but that face was born with tragedy, which made people feel sad. I really like Li Chen, it's just my personal likes and dislikes.
Then talk about tears. The scenes that can make the audience burst into tears are many and scattered, but often one tear is not settled, and one tear comes again. However, when I watched it, there were few people in the hall, and there was no particularly powerful voice from the audience. I think I, as a man with an unusually strong nerve, almost couldn't hold back in two games. The earthquake in front of me, the rest of my life after the catastrophe, and the arrival of my child’s aunt and his grandmother, my emotions are still very stable. What moved me the most was that during the Wenchuan earthquake, an unknown mother's child had one leg pressed under the slate, but the top was about to collapse. For the sake of the child's life and the safety of the rescuers, the mother decided to saw the leg. Holding the stretcher and crying, crying to retrieve the child's broken leg; the second is the final mother and daughter reunion, Xu Fan knelt down, Jing Chu cried, and the daughter's original photo framed with black borders was removed Next, echo the tomatoes that my daughter loves the most. When my son talks about his mother's life over the years, even I, even I, can't accept it. This comes from the mother's choice at the time of rescue, and sometimes the choice is the most painful. The film ends with the picture of the memorial wall for the victims of the Tangshan earthquake. An old man who lost three relatives stood silently and walked out of the picture frame on a bicycle. Perhaps at this time, Feng Dao thought of the weight of 240,000 people, which is also a directional ending. , silent and firm.
Finally, I have to say that what I can't bear the most is the indiscriminate placement of advertisements, such as Jiannanchun. The two episodes are inexplicable, how they look like the lines of a vulgar soap opera. Especially when I was in the company, the secretary said what insurance should we buy for our tour group this time, and my son said China Life Insurance! Then shake the earthquake twice, "You don't have to run for a small earthquake, and it's useless for a big earthquake to run away." Just like I put this stuff at the end of the article and it totally ruined the atmosphere, these commercials in the film have the exact same effect.
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