As time goes by, it is a hypocritical work to cater to foreign film festivals, a mediocre and hypocritical running account. As a frequent visitor to foreign film festivals, Wang Xiaoshuai is well aware of the foreign audience's bad taste in China's suffering history. At the same time, he is unwilling to let the film go underground, giving up domestic box office benefits and walking within the red line of the censorship policy, so such a film full of A hypocritical work of hypocritical expression, abandoning the core of human nature, the film has become a running account full of symbols of the times, family planning, lost one family, black-faced dance, wave of layoffs, studying abroad, cheating, pregnancy, abortion, terminal illness The dog blood plot is like a small era of middle-aged and elderly people. The episodes and flashbacks of the film's pretentious skills have completely become tasteless due to lack of control, which makes the plot more chaotic and the emotions are completely disintegrated. The cheap and pale set, the mediocre shot scheduling, and the straightforward and boring lines make the whole film feel like a dull TV series, with no charm at all.
The play of the two children at the beginning of the film is one of the few bright spots in the film that has ideas at the director's level, which makes people look forward to it. Unfortunately, the director's limited talent can only support this opening. It is understandable that the director put the essence of his own film. At the very beginning, as expected, after explaining the death of the son, the film entered the collapse of the whole line. You thought you were going to enter the main line and start talking about the life after the death of the son. Make the audience messy in an instant, you thought the film started to talk about the conflict between father and son, family relationship, you were wrong, the adopted son lived up to expectations, after all the work, they lost themselves. An embarrassing line was finally revealed: no matter how much he looks like Liu Xing, he is not Liu Xing. It turns out that this is just a substitute, but it is not the point here. The film really starts after this.
The film has entered a flashback, and various symbols of the era are presented one by one in the simple and rough set. The stickers are like slogans that the ink has just been written, and there is a sense of cheap furnishings everywhere, without the slightest texture, and without the atmosphere of the times.
One of the three people said that they wanted to invite a black-faced dance, saying it was a hooligan dance. As expected, he was arrested immediately. The master taught the female apprentice to press the machine tool. Like a dog-blooded family ethics TV series.
Haiyan pulled her good friend to have an abortion, and said that the hospital had been arranged, and the hospital was actually the hospital where Liu Xing died in the opening chapter. The key is that you can shoot from a different angle. Even the shooting angle is the same. The director's camera language is lacking.
After the abortion, a few good friends danced as if they were all right, and ate melon seeds together. The film tries to tell a few people to forgive, but from the beginning to the end you can't see any deep friendship between them, and you can't feel how bad they are, and of course you can't feel the reunion between them. How moving.
The film returns to the real time and space. The original apprentice is now a college student sending himself thousands of miles away, not to mention how this young female college student endured this old man who was over fifty years old. The male protagonist who returned home has not yet gained a firm footing. The heroine's sixth sense has already been discovered, and the lines are so low and straightforward as a primary school student's composition. Then the male protagonist who cheated on him saw the mistress again. They were pregnant like an idol drama. The woman wanted to repay them for having a child with the heart of the Virgin, but was rejected by the male protagonist.
At this time, the missing Liu Xing came back to ask for an ID card, and the symbol of the era that the director was proud of appeared again - killing Matt. When the male protagonist said the three words Zhou Yongfu, the audience laughed.
This place in the film uses interludes and flashbacks to explain the original story that is too simple to be any more simple. The poor use of skills not only makes the narrative chaotic, but also makes the emotions constantly fragmented, and the three-hour time is like sitting on pins and needles.
The last two people in the film come back again. Twenty years later, the original dormitory is still spotless, and even the tablecloths are still new. The anti-humanity ending of pretending to be reunion and forgiveness makes the film thoroughly discuss the ethics of affliction and earn cheap tears from the audience. When the two walked to the tomb, the crooked fonts made people instantly play. When the camera shot backwards, it was just as embarrassing and ridiculous as this film, revealing cheapness and randomness everywhere. The final highlight was when Sonny appeared, and the camera gave the male protagonist an expectant look, but when the male protagonist found out that Sonny was a foreigner, the audience laughed shamefully again. This black humor was well played.
The whole movie is like a mediocre running account, constantly stacking some symbols of the times, trying to evoke people's memory of the times and evoke the sympathy of foreign film critics, but it is a pity that the cheap setting, poor narrative skills, and straightforward lines make the whole film. The film has no flavor at all, and even the basic emotions are unconvincing. The only highlight of the film is the male lead's acting skills. The female lead's way of speaking in her lines is embarrassing (foreign audiences don't understand Chinese), and their acting skills are very good. Thanks to the make-up of the film, the other supporting roles of the film appear without any sense of existence, and even the other two families who have a lot of ink, except for the basic functions, can't see any impressive points, which shows the director. Pale in characterization.
It can be seen that the director's ambition to deal with the times is trying to reflect the historical changes of the entire era through the changes of several families. Unfortunately, the film is out of control at the level of both the script and the director, making the film completely degenerated into a pile of symbols. "Never Stop" directed by a neighboring country is also a family theme, and it is also the loss of a child, but it can express human nature, characterization, and emotional control in one day with more depth and breadth than the so-called thirty years.
It is not an exaggeration to say that this is a fake account. You don’t even understand the significance of such a film. Apart from catering to the imagination of China in foreign film festivals, you can’t see its re-deconstruction and reconstruction of historical events. Reflection and a little bit of practical significance for contemporary society. I can understand the dilemma faced by some successful filmmakers. On the one hand, they have been divorced from real life for a long time, and have lacked observation and thinking about contemporary society. The director's commercial success made them jealous. They were unwilling to let go of their so-called master's burden, but also wanted to expand their commercial influence, so they created such a freak. After winning the award for public relations at the film festival, they blindly They are embarrassed in the media, trying to win commercial success, but also expose their inner hypocrisy and powerlessness.
It cannot be denied that through their talent and courage, and with their feelings for the times, they constantly tried to innovate the appearance of Chinese films and left a splendid stroke for Chinese films, but they failed to stick to their original aspirations. Maintaining courage in creation, at the same time, they failed to cultivate fresh blood for the film industry, tap newcomers, and rely on the remaining international reputation and attention brought by traffic in exchange for commercial attention. This is destined to be Abandoned by the audience, eliminated by the times.
The last sentence sums it up, this three-hour version sucks!
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