The low-cost literary film is comparable to the ugly picture quality of the film made by Jia Zhangke's small DV; there is basically no art design, and the scene is strongly shaking. The scene of the mermaid on the Suzhou River is comparable to the post-modern life of the great aunt. Siqin Gaowa's woolen yarn Swimsuits are disgusting; neither is the costume design, I think they shoot whatever they wear. Although the film uses my favorite monologue narration, and the first-person shooting is also ingenious, Du Yu does not hide his flaws. I think the arrangement of the plot is also a failure. A surreal story like the legend of a mermaid by the ugly Suzhou River is actually told in sequence, so that in the end Zhou Xun's surprise when he saw the corpses of Ma and Peony was as flat as water. There is no strong and stark contrast at all. I think it would be better if the plot was arranged in flashbacks: Ma Ma first appeared in the image of a prodigal son, making everyone think that he was just an excuse for Zhou Xun to look like his ex-girlfriend. It's better than we know from the beginning that Ma is an infatuated male prostitute.
As for the theme, there is also a lack of novelty. The driving force of the story is to find, a very classic literary matrix, but it seems that it can't absorb nutrients from the works of the predecessors at all, and the shaping of the search engine in the film is quite rough. Classicism believes that when we portray a character, we should explain the background of the character to the readers and audience as much as possible, so that we can find a psychological basis for the behavior of the character, and why does Ma Ma never forget about Peony, in order to find her can give up his life good times to wander and stop looking for her until death? Love, this is a good reason, but considering that the protagonist said at the end that although he also loves Meimei, he would rather wait for the next love instead of looking for her, not to mention that Ma Ma is already good-looking to attract girls, from the saying " From the perspective of popular love psychology, this reason is too pale; there may also be Ma's guilt towards Peony, the so-called "Resurrection"-style guilt, but the force is not deep, and it is not even visible at all. In short, Ma Ma's insistence is questionable. If we have to think of a reason to defend the director, or we can think that the director himself does not believe that there will be such persistence in the world, so after the happy bar closed, he said, As if nothing ever existed, the motor only exists in the narrative with the protagonist.
The director gave too much, at least I think too many shots to Zhou Xun. BTW, after watching Suzhou River, I found that Zhou Xun's acting skills didn't improve much according to Li Mi's guess... These shots can't see any help in highlighting the theme and enhancing the appeal, except that it made me feel more about Zhou Xun's body. so much fantasies...
theme is a lie, and it is also a theme that has not been new to this day. The love between men and women has always been shrouded in the dark cloud of lies. Many times the pure love between men and women only exists in novels. More often, men and women are like gambling tables. On the one hand, they deliberately speculate on the other party's cards: how much she loves me; on the other hand, they pretend to be suspicious and bluff: I love you very much; in fact, as Bernard Shaw said, there are at least a few people in the world who can become a pair with you. Ten thousand people - don't say no one can't live without another, whoever leaves the world will still turn the same way, love was invented, it was to prevent the males from endlessly competing for sexual partners and leading to the collapse of society, that is to say, our trump card Actually I don't love you very much. Another example is Stendhal who said that no one is devoted to love unless he thinks he can't find anything better. But aren't there tens of thousands of people who can match me, how can there be no better ones?
The peony that Ma deceived, defrauded the ransom, although he loved her; Lao B deceived Xiao Hong to get cooperation, but they didn't say whether they had feelings; the protagonist deceived Meimei again, saying that she was gone, and he would go to her. This is our world. A director who goes out of his way to reveal how sad and cruel the world is, is in fact a bastard in addition to satisfying his desire to write tragedies.
Originally wanted to give one star, but the dialogue at the beginning and end is so wonderful, can a film with such wonderful dialogue be considered a bad movie
? , I won't watch it now, I quite like this movie, especially the dialogue at the end, especially when compared with the dialogue at the beginning, especially when I always thought that the existence at the beginning was the only existence after hearing the dialogue at the end .
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