It's actually an old movie

Meagan 2022-04-23 07:04:57

The publicity of "Snowflake Secret Fan" was very popular in the early stage. The biggest gimmick was changing the angle of suspicion. After going around, Li Bingbing and Quan Zhixian were finally delineated. This is also the symbol of Li Bingbing's internationalization. Another selling point is the investment of Murdoch's legendary wife. Wolverine also played a passerby in it, and Wang Ying was the director. These various factors, I think, are also the reasons for the extremely low evaluation of this film.
Sometimes cultural products are like this. When the propaganda is bigger, it is easy to distract people from looking at the works themselves. When too many strong factors are mixed in a movie, the public's expectations tend to be higher, and the coefficient that can be satisfied is lower. Actually, in my opinion, the movie isn't terribly good, but it's not too bad either.
The biggest flaw in the film is that you don't know why they are so good. In people's general consciousness, it is not groundless for two people to be good, and even if they grow up together from childhood, it is by no means a long-term relationship. The friendship between Nina and Sophia makes people feel unreal. You don't know how much Nina has paid for Sophia over the years, except that she took the exam for the college entrance examination, and she also doesn't understand why she has to pay so much for her. It is sympathy for Sophia. family environment? In the movie, these performances are very weak. Generally speaking, if there is nothing to express the feelings of two people, it must be said with the character of the character. However, neither Nina nor Sophia is given too little ink in the film. At the end of the film, Nina said that she understood friendship, but the audience was in the dark -- how did she understand it?
Comparatively speaking, the feelings of Snowflake and Lily are easier to understand and more exciting. To be honest, if it's friendship, I really don't understand the scene of Li Bingbing peeping in the movie. That scene has a very obvious sexual orientation, that is, Lily actually loves Snowflake. Laotong - It's hard not to think of lesbians. Wu Junmei said that Laotong is a woman's own choice, but in the movie you can't see who's own choice. The choice of snowflakes and lilies is precisely the choice of an unrelated matchmaker. Perhaps it can also be understood in this way. In that era, only the feelings between women who cherish each other will always be fair and affectionate. Their emotions are too dry, and only another old friend who chooses for life can give understanding and support.
Perhaps, what the novel has to say is far more complicated and true than that. All in all, it is too difficult to tell a story that basically does not express the character of the protagonist in a short two hours. After watching the movie, you will be a little confused, and then you will understand that Wendi Deng is worthy of Wendi Deng. She just borrowed the curiosity of Westerners and the curiosity of domestic audiences to play a lesbian edge ball. You thought it was a lesbian film, but in fact People are the same old movie. After all, there are two familiar faces of Asians, Li Bingbing and Quan Zhixian. As for Westerners, I am afraid that the "three-inch golden lotus" will make them curiously pay for it.
Sometimes, businessmen produce cultural products, only focusing on profits and not on righteousness. I think this movie should have been better. How much voice does Wang Ying have in it? Having seen "The Joy Luck Club", it is hard to imagine that it was directed by one person.
Perhaps the biggest problem is that gimmicks take the place of character. The movie is full of propaganda points, but the characters are all too pale. Speaking of friendship, who believes?

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan quotes

  • Lily: Has Madame Wang found you a match, Snow Flower?

    Snow Flower: [only smiles]

    Lily: What about the bed business? Mama has never said anything to me.

    Snow Flower: It cannot be as hard as embroidery or cleaning.

  • [last lines]

    Nina: So many years without you... this is my penance. If you will come back to me, I will never leave you. Never again. And we will be sisters for ten thousand years.

    Sophia: [eyes slowly open, groggily]