The movie "Lifetimes Living" is adapted from Yu Hua's novel of the same name. Zhang Yimou chose Yu Hua's novel to shoot because this subject fits his desire to "challenge the self in the past". Zhang Yimou first fancyed Yu Hua's other novel " The Mistakes by the River ". Because he wanted to understand him comprehensively, Zhang Yimou asked to see all of his works. Yu Hua gave Zhang Yimou a copy of "Lifetimes Living". After reading this novel, Zhang Yimou was touched by the silent resilience and the tenacious spirit of striving for survival in the Chinese people written in the novel. After Zhang Yimou decided to shoot " Lifetimes Living ", he spent nearly half a year discussing the story, characters, film structure, and language with the film crew. Finally, Zhang Yimou decided to tell a story about an ordinary family in the most ordinary way
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Lupe 2022-05-08 18:49:47
For people living in our age, this is undoubtedly a sci-fi film (the Cultural Revolution is very sci-fi··)
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Matt 2022-05-08 15:42:47
I found the novel I read first to find out this movie. I like Yu Hua’s novels. Most of the novels are about the joys and sorrows of small characters. The fate of the protagonist’s family is more comprehensible when I read the novel. Day after day, there are his parents, wives, daughters, and sons in the tomb next to the land, and they seem to hear the yelling of the grandpa
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Xu Fugui: What did you name our son?
Xu Jiazhen: "Don't Gamble".
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Xu Fugui: If Youqing does as daddy says, our lives will get better and better. Our family is like a little chicken. When it grows up, it becomes a goose and that will turn into a sheep. The sheep will turn into an ox.
Xu Youqing: And after the ox?
Xu Fugui: After the ox is Communism, and there will be dumplings and meat every day.