I remember meeting director Wang Xiaoshuai in Suzhou more than ten years ago. When he was half drunk, he said drunkenly, don't mention "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle" to me again, as if I had directed this movie. However, more than ten years later, many people still remember Wang Dao's bicycle. Directors have epic complexes. Wang Daoding wants to make this "Long Time" into a civilian epic. The nearly 3-hour film not only tests the audience's bladder capacity but also tests the audience's knowledge of the history of reform and opening up. The return of the educated youth to the city, Eavesdropping on the Voice of the Excessive, Family Planning, Crackdown, Breaking into the South, Restructuring of State-owned Enterprises, Laid-off, Going to Sea to Do Business, the Pain of Losing One's Only, the Wave of Going Abroad, Urban Demolition, and Class Changes, the director draws on three ordinary families who were born out of the accidental death of a child. The estrangement, spanning 30 years of changes with three time clues, tries to show the powerlessness and helplessness of the little people under the pressure of the big era, but all kinds of conflicts and grievances are finally resolved by time and the passage of time. Although the idea is good, it seems reasonable, but This kind of wishful thinking of choreographers who simply rely on emotional origins to solve problems cannot sew up the cracks in reality, so I kept making plays while watching the movie. The performances of the male and female lead actors are qualified but not wonderful, and the unchanging emotional control cannot show the multi-level character. Jasmine's subplot is superfluous and bloody. In order to show that honest people also get carried away by lust, should they impose a plot suspense? Finally, a good movie depends on wonderful audio-visual language. Although the condensed version of the TV series is touching, it is still not a qualified movie.
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