The everlasting "light" and "shadow"

Bailey 2022-11-12 17:28:46

The film "Long Time" has a clear boundary between light and shadow, and the indescribable feeling left between light and shadow is called the feeling of nothingness. The friendship gap between generations will always be washed and wiped away over time, and the scab will be slowly closed; the communication barrier between the two generations can be disintegrated by the influence of nurturing and kindness, and disappear with growth. The light that infects the screen story and warms the audience comes from emotion. But the couple who lost their only child and the laid-off "advanced" seriously questioned the shadow of the times. The green system kills life, the tooling blue sacrifices the individual, and the background of the flashback of the two stories of family planning policy and layoffs in the market economy cannot be right or wrong, but It makes people sigh that the characters have experienced many misfortunes, which is the pain point in the viewing experience. Emotional outbursts and pain-point stimulation are not the ultimate cause of tears. Director Wang Xiaoshuai deliberately restores your memory, digs into the details of the past, and drives you to cherish the memory with him, which is fatal. It's because watching the scenes in the movie, I remembered going to the employee dance with my parents when I was a child, exploring the secret base with my playmates, and even seeing the factory gate, pipes, slogans, and the blue work clothes that were made into films at the conference. , Naobu recalled the life of the children of the factory when I was a child, and I burst into tears...?

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  • Ike 2022-03-17 09:01:10

    It's a pity that in such a good story, the psychological portrayal of the child's growth is completely missing. How will that guilt-ridden child grow up? How will the child who takes someone else's name grow up? The film only shows the audience a result (beautiful and rebellious) that does not see the motivation. The absurd portrayal is not strong enough. Dancing is one aspect of the crime, so the next generation who was subjected to family planning is encouraged to have more births without mentioning it? If the film focuses on the question of where is the hope of the family who lost their only child, then the answer given by the film is only forgiveness and forgetting. The editing is unnecessarily long, the characters' lines are also abrupt, often inconsistent with their identity (very dramatic), and the ending is still inseparable from the old-fashioned "home and everything is prosperous". The only bad guy (which is caused by the tragedy of the times that everyone understands, the responsibility is! Call the Nuremberg trial here..) has been retributed (here the dog blood warning ⚠️), you can all be happy. Where is the hope for the future? Probably more heroes like the male protagonist.

  • Enid 2022-03-11 08:01:57

    In the three-hour movie, I cried three times in the middle. It was very calm at first, but as the plot progressed, the whole person fell into the background of the era constructed by Wang Xiaoshuai. I can see Wang Xiaoshuai's ambition, but the movie is still a little long. I don't know if the domestic release will be cut. If it is kept for three hours, it may affect the domestic box office. . Three stars for Wang Xiaoshuai, one star for Wang Jingchun, his acting skills are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people to help Mr. Wang get an award, and one star for Wang Yuan, higher than expected, pushing his mother away and twisting with his father impressed me deeply. Overall a good movie.

So Long, My Son quotes

  • Moli Shen: In love, women are stupid.