I really, haven't disliked a movie so much in a long time. The film is over two hours long, and it took me three or four weeks to watch it. No matter how awake I am, as long as I open it for a long time, I will fall asleep within ten minutes. I have no choice but to sit and watch it in the end, but to be honest, this movie is really bad. The film starts with an accident and spans 20 years. Incidents such as family planning and layoffs of workers are presented in the film. However, the long time span does not mean that the era can be shown. The film does not have a deep excavation of the era. It's all just taste. The protagonist's performance is solid and convincing, so the film can win the acting award, but not the best picture. The highlight of the film is the loss of loneliness. The so-called lost one is a group of people who have lost their only child but can no longer have children. The protagonist of this persistent proposition is out of breath, and the misery of life begins with the loss of his only child. Likewise, the incident left their best friend gasping for breath. As a good friend of the Family Planning Office, the heroine has an operation and is unable to bear children. And their child pushed the protagonist's child when he drowned, causing the family to lose their only child. This was originally a story full of dramatic tension, but the film's handling of it is so large that nothing is deeply excavated. As the protagonist, the couple's mental journey is vague. Even the main event of adopting a child is vaguely dealt with, and the adopted child is completely reduced to a tool. Suffice to say, this film would be particularly mediocre without solid acting. The most shocking scene in the film is that when the host learned that his apprentice had a child, he was both afraid and looking forward to that moment. Disappointed - so well acted. Mo Yan has a novel "Frog", which tells about family planning, which is much deeper than this movie. The most shocking part of the film is about children, and the most shallow thing is about children. What is the purpose of having children? The film does not make it clear, and we cannot understand it from the two protagonists.
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