After watching it, I feel that this film does not involve sensitive issues, so it is relatively real. It also depicts social problems with the helpless life and tragic fate of little people, but compared to Zhang Yimou's "Alive" of the same type, it feels messy in both the plot and the theme, like an article that is loose in shape and in spirit. This may be because directors and screenwriters have no focus on the understanding of the novel itself, and film works that copy the novel are usually unavoidable in this messy situation.
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on the theme of the movie. In the face of natural and man-made disasters, when you lose your loved ones, there is a sense of mutual pity between strangers, but this is very weak in the movie. . And the bureaucracy, the official style of self-interest but not caring about the people's livelihood, and the robber-like army seem to have some practical significance! In the face of survival and saving the country, it is more realistic for the common people to survive than to save the country; in the face of home and country, for the common people, there is a country without a home. Although this idea is very narrow, it is very popular!
From the filming point of view, Chinese films like this one inevitably use a dark background to match a heavy theme, and this film is no different. There are so many characters, and the portrayal is too sloppy, so the overall feeling is messy.
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