In ancient times, there was a young brother, his beloved girl was kidnapped by a cruel and fancy-looking bully to be a concubine, so he collected an old and valuable blue and white porcelain bottle, and wanted to exchange the bottle for that woman, but unexpectedly The bully was not trustworthy. After the bottle was in his hand, he tore up the ticket on the spot, stabbed the woman from behind in front of the handsome young man, and then the young brother hugged the dead woman and kept crying and crying. In a flash of time, the scene traveled to the modern age. The reincarnation of the girl turned into Xiaomi, the reincarnation of the bully, and then met the reincarnation of the young brother at an auction. Deliberately help the bully to set up the bid, and then let the latter make a fool of himself and photograph the antique blue-and-white porcelain bottle. Not only that, but he also quickly developed from chatting with the woman to wanting to run away. As a result, the man was shot from the back by the bully's bodyguard, and then the girl hugged the dead man and cried and cried.
This story tells us two truths: first, time-travel is indeed a topic that has become so popular in recent years that it has become so vulgar that it makes people feel a little aesthetic fatigue; How the soul possessed to live and die is actually just repeating the same fate and ending.
This is the fate that makes people feel very cool, profound, sighing and moving, but a little bit painful. Whether it is a novel or a film and television work, whoever uses this theme knows: Oh, yes, this dick.
Traveling through, this was my first reaction when I saw the modern metropolis Shanghai in the first frame of [Snowflake Secret Fan]. Then looking at it, I began to doubt whether the director could create the drama and depth of time travel in the limited time of 100 minutes. It was only in the end that I found out that I was deceived - this film is not a time-travel at all, it is just a montage method, forcibly splitting a story into two lines of ancient and modern, alternately making you dizzy . If you don't understand what I'm talking about, please recall the [Jianghu] that was known as the super-long version of the MV. At first, I thought that Andy Lau and Jacky Cheung were the eldest brothers and Shawn Yue and Edison Chen were the younger brothers. At the end, the two lines still have no intersection. I can't help worrying about how the director is going to string these two lines together to make the story round. When he snaps a slow motion, it turns out that the past and present of the two people are interspersed with a montage. , Shawn Yue is Andy Lau, Edison Chen is Jacky Cheung, and then my throat was sweet, I vomited half a liter of blood, and was rushed to the school hospital by my classmates.
The difference is that maybe the budget is limited, this time the director of [Snowflake Secret Fan] didn't even bother to find two leading actors. Li Bingbing and Quan Zhixian have acted from beginning to end from ancient times to the present (please automatically ignore Wolverine Sang who is playing soy sauce here). ...), and even the two people in middle school uniforms with bangs and horns braided themselves, and even I wanted to give them May 1 labor medals. However, hard work is hard work, the combination of the two beauties really did not produce any chemical reaction. Although it is not like the China, Japan and South Korea, the three kingdoms fight chickens and ducks like in the movie [Wuji], it is still somewhat related to the public war. Qin Qiong's bluntness - although the director is clearly trying to hide this bluntness.
By Li Bingbing and Quan Zhixian, they talked about the theme of [Snowflake Secret Fan] this time. To be honest, I came here for the theme of lesbian, and Lily Shenma is the most loving. But looking at it, I found that the director deliberately played with ambiguity between the two concepts of "lesbian" and "old homosexual", which seemed to be the same but actually different. What conveys more between the two women is a kind of sisterhood that cherishes each other, loves each other and joins hands for a lifetime. If this is somewhat rotten, then the line during the Republic of China, this rot is more due to At that time, Chinese women were devastated (little feet) and oppressed (no marriage autonomy, and they had to be submissive to men after marriage), but were diverted and diluted by a feeling that women and comrades united to grieve and struggle together (limited struggle). With the sad and depressing soundtrack in the film most of the time, a good lesbian film seems to have suddenly turned into a history of blood and tears with a feminist color, full of accusations of the social system and culture of the time when men were superior to women (in the film Most of the men smoked cigarettes or speculated in stocks to bankruptcy or domestic violence, and at best they were just passionate about their careers and ignored the presence of women in the family, obviously demonizing the image of men as a whole). Therefore, the meaning of "Old Tong" later felt more like a special relationship in which women who could not decide their own destiny united and tried to find inner peace. In conjunction with the local culture of Nüshu, which is on the verge of disappearing (coincidentally, my former classmates have done research and research on Nüshu, so I know a little bit about it), so that the selection of the film reveals an obscure alternative, and It seems to have some cultural preservation purposes - of course, this may also be the intention of the director and screenwriter to take a different approach. Feng Xiaogang's [Night Banquet] did not deliberately avoid the Three Kingdoms, Ming and Qing Dynasties and other popular historical periods, and chose the Five Dynasties. Is the unpopular era of the Ten Kingdoms, when no one cares, as the background of the story?
I've read several novels by female authors recently, and this [Snowflake Secret Fan] conveys to me a similar kind of tangle and pain from beginning to end. The general characteristics of women's works are that there is basically no plot or the plot is very nonsense (remember that Zhang Xinzhe played Zhou Xun's mother in Xue Er's [Ming Ming]?), the rhythm is slow and procrastination, but it does not make you faint The kind that is sleepy, but keeps you repressed and cannot be relieved and released. When the subtitles appeared at the end of the film, I deliberately watched it. The director's name is Wang Ying - a somewhat feminine name. I originally wanted to take this to complain about how the female author is so stubborn, but when I checked it online, it was a man. . . Well, you won, and you left me with nowhere to poop again. . .
Now I try to evaluate a film as objectively as possible, especially [Snowflake Secret Fan], which I deliberately choose to watch in theaters. It should be said that its subject matter and style somewhat disappointed me. And the film's oppressive and obscure tone makes it a little closer to the niche literary style. How many people love this film, it is estimated that how many people hate it and criticize it. Unlike the popcorn movies produced on the Hollywood assembly line, the latter will always be quite satisfactory, with no surprises but no surprises (the box office is also stable, and it is often not far from expectations), while [Snowflake Secret Fan] ] is the kind of film that I want to see in a different style and some surprises and surprises. The result now is that there are surprises, but surprises are always lacking. If God gave me another chance, I don't think I would choose to go to the cinema to see this movie again.
Aside from the really gorgeous poster that appealed to me, I admit I was fooled by it in the first place.
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