The Rider Reviews

Llewellyn 2022-04-04 08:01:01

(1) The simulacrum of America

Lacy 2022-04-04 08:01:01

When it comes to cowboys in the American West, a few words quickly pop into most people's minds: wide-brimmed cowboy hats, spiked riding boots, revolvers, galloping horses. It can be said that these phrases are standard for cowboys, and the lack of any one makes cowboys less like "cowboys", and...

Obie 2022-04-04 08:01:01

The title Knight is the core of the film. Knight is a romanticized name, but Zhao Ting completely realistically removed all romanticized plots. The last two scenes are the most irreconcilable plots in the whole film. Let go of the abnormal choice, and completely smash the romantic ideal of...

Demarcus 2022-04-04 08:01:01

Female directors, these three words seem to be inherently labeled as weak in the film and television industry.

Why I like Zhao Ting, aside from all other factors, as an audience, we only appreciate her works. Zhao Ting seems to be born to remove the labels of these stereotypes. I have to admit that...

Jayde 2022-04-04 08:01:01

(Text / Yang Shiyang)

What's so interesting about "Knights"? Thinking about it carefully, perhaps it is because the director consciously restrained himself and never exaggerated ambitions, but instead, this focus, concentration and quiet gaze have created a rare broadness. This story only presents...

Demarco 2022-04-04 08:01:01

As an audience (including myself), it's easy to put on tinted glasses and think that a female director from China will shoot some clichés (such as the disadvantaged position of being a woman) or pretentious (indulging in a certain emotion) ).

This kind of thinking, of course, is very incorrect, but...

Pietro 2022-04-04 08:01:01

Participating film in the "Crouching Tiger" column of the Pingyao International Film Festival. The writer and director of an American film about a rodeo knight turned out to be a girl from China who went to the United States to study film; the characters are all cowboys who play themselves,...

Bettie 2022-04-04 08:01:01

…When I was a little older, I suddenly realized that it is actually harder to give up an ideal than to stick to it… …Everyone has a very specific reason, and they all have to take a responsibility in life, a responsibility to others , abandoning the ideal. In this case, those of us who insist on...

Eryn 2022-04-04 08:01:01

Ma Zai seems to be living freely, pursuing his ideals at will, willing to die at will, and wanting to start a new life with almost zero threshold. The open field is more open and romantic. This is the ideal place for people to be free. But the camera zoomed in and zoomed in again... Ma Zai's...

Raegan 2022-04-04 08:01:01

"The Rider"

Zhao Ting's first feature film "Songs My Brothers Taught Me" has already shown her keen touch and accurate capture of ecology. The camera often shows people riding horses in desolate valleys and endless grasslands, restoring the living conditions of Indians in their own land, but this...