The English name of the film is Still life, which means that some static objects can be used to witness and show the destruction of the city and the changes of immigrants. Note. An honest Shanxi peasant came to Fengjie to look for his daughter-in-law, Ma Momei, based on an address written down on a cigarette box sixteen years ago. This place has been submerged in floodwater, and Momei does not know which river it is on. Or which way to survive on the highway. People in the city before the destruction were panicked, so there was a treacherous and bandit vibe, and he was not friendly to foreign guests. Han Sanming was humble but very tenacious. Will be very tolerant to light a cigarette for a little boy. In Chinese communication, if you meet a cigarette, you will know each other. After a few glasses of wine, it is an old friendship. some care. There is still the screeching sound of house demolition, and there is still a battle between officials and the people who are justified and screaming. Han Sanming also felt the enthusiasm and arrogance of people in the impetuous and decadent city. He found a house demolished. work, waiting peacefully for his wife and daughter whom he hadn't seen in sixteen years.
There is another story about searching. Nurse Shen Hong's feelings seem to have been exhausted after two years of waiting. She came to Shanxia alone to find her long-lost husband. The two of them on both sides of Jiang also seemed to be far away. The tea leaves left by her husband two years ago kept drinking and searching in the hot and chaotic city, not because he always missed it, but because he had already become untraceable amid power and money. In the end, the two danced side by side in front of the dam, but the distance was getting farther and farther, and finally turned their backs to a future without each other. Perhaps what she was looking for was the first and last dance together. Taste life in tea. There is no additional temperature. The only thing that can be brewed from tea is plain water. Tea that has no taste is worse than pure water. Not every acquaintance has something to say, it is better to start over, although it will be sad and soulless when separated.
After the first acquaintance with tobacco and alcohol, the taste of tea is precipitated, and sugar is an intimate sharing. Han Sanming and Momei shared a big white rabbit in a dilapidated house. In a new life full of unknown dangers, Han Sanming and the Ma Boss family had a steamy drink, and then left together. In the mournful and long singing of "Lin Chong Night Run", a foreigner was infected with the strong nostalgia here when he looked back. Looking at the hometown, the mountains and rivers are far away, what about those who have or are leaving their homes?
In the rushing modernization construction process, there is nothing solid and eternal. Those familiar existences are as big as a reinforced concrete city, as small as the wall Jay Chou's poster and the child's certificate of merit, maybe when you open your eyes tomorrow morning annihilated. For the people who live here, they will continue to struggle and struggle humbly in the new life, and they will occasionally be domineering and cunning. scars. People are helpless and vulnerable in the face of this complete and large-scale destruction, but there is always something to grasp, so the husband who has waited for sixteen years begins to search, and the wife who has waited for two years also begins to search. When we don't sink to the bottom, we should find something tough to rely on. When Han Sanming and Memei were squatting and sharing the Big White Rabbit toffee, they were accustomed to the noise of blasting and smashing, and they stood up startled by the collapse of a high-rise building in the distance. Sanming subconsciously stepped forward and grabbed it tightly. My sister's arm will be destroyed by material things. Instead, what I can rely on is the ethereal relationship that people slowly build up in the midst of tobacco, alcohol, tea and sugar.
On the one hand, the city that has been in the water for more than two years quickly sinks into the water and never comes back to life. Jia Zhangke is not provocative or heroic, but only shows the original life and people. Apart from the protagonist, there is a little boy who sings that mice love rice, a little brother who is obsessed with Chow Yun-fat, an innkeeper who is half-literate and half-gangster, and waiting to go out on the road. The 16-year-old girl who was the nanny, the migrant worker who watched the scenery on the RMB, and the woman who finally went to work in Guangdong... These people all have their own distinct personalities, and they moved the audience in the darkness of the theater with their real details. Jia Zhangke's previous "Platform", "Xiao Wu", "The World", etc. were all centered on paying attention to the bottom-level life. "Three Gorges Good Man" does not have the distinctive so-called sixth-generation style in the lens language, although it is still a simple mass Actors, dialects, long shots, and natural light have also continued and deepened his underlying concerns, but without the roughness of the past, the composition and editing have gradually matured, although the movement of the shots lacks richness (there is basically no close-up and close-up of characters), However, the long shot of the opening film is considered to be an excellent work, and it uses the soundtrack of pop songs and other music just right. The live recording adds a sense of reality to the space (but it is always in the foreground, and there is no layering of background sound). If the sixth generation is a rebellious and growing generation, then Jia Zhangke should not be attributed to the sixth generation.
The realistic style in "The Three Gorges" is suddenly inserted into a few bizarre surreal clips, UFOs, buildings soaring like rockets, Peking opera actors playing games in restaurants, and high-altitude tightrope walks at the end are really puzzling. gimmick or trying a new experiment? I am looking forward to his next movie. How can he continue and change his style when he has reached a certain height and is gradually becoming mainstream?
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