"Qin Wang Yingzheng, have you forgotten the great wish of the Qin Dynasty's predecessors to rule the world?"
Chen Kaige can also make such a good movie. Although there is still some controversy about what he expressed, his artistic achievements are certain. The former Chen Kaige and the current Chen Kaige are no longer the same person.
I have seen the original work on Riman, so it is not easy to comment on Chen Kaige's contribution to the screenwriting, although the play does have his style, that is, the dialogue is pretending to be advanced or only half. The play is full of humanistic care, but also has individualistic intolerance. The combination of the two is the Madonna plot, which often appears in Little Bourgeois. On the other hand, this is a modern story written with modern morality. Although it is very important to re-interpret ancient stories, it is easy to become historical nihilism by only reading rather than deconstructing them. Instead of criticizing the morality of the past with the morality of the present, the film uses the morality of the present to criticize the morality in the false history, so the whole shows a very different situation.
The picture of the film is very beautiful, the art and soundtrack design are excellent, and there is a special section of hair on the hairstyle. Is this the source of the common styling of ancient puppets now? Everyone in the film seems to be seriously ill, crazy and acting strangely. Although there is a sense of drama, the way of speaking and behavior in such many strange places is extremely awkward. The only and obvious advantage is that the character arc of Ying Zheng, the core of the film, has a high degree of completion. The multiple roles of Ying Zheng are constantly tearing him apart, and the heavy mission he bears does not allow him to be kind and weak. Death to all the roles, externalized as killing or cutting off the people who gave them them, can only be fulfilled by being truly lonely, and such great self-sacrifice is also a common narrative of those who achieve great things.
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