"Lifetimes Living" is a Chinese-style black humor film, and it is also a long film that spans a long period of time. It is praised by some audiences and film critics as one of Zhang Yimou's best works. Through a person's life experience, the film covers the pain of life beyond the control of one's destiny in history, and derives a wry smile at death. In Fugui’s life, from the initial drunkenness to the fear of five guns, to the grief and indignation when his son died, to the helpless acceptance when his daughter died unexpectedly, to the bitterness and joy of eating at the end of the film, his personal destiny followed the crowd. Historical traction.
"Lifetimes Living" has a certain epic character, which is packaged under the destiny of the individual and family, and at the same time faintly reveals a pity and sad black humor. The personal living conditions and sufferings of the film reflect the joys and sorrows of the little people and the absurdity of the times in the condensed historical background. Although the ending of the film is gentle, it is quite thought-provoking. Fugui's life is a process of gradual evolution. The film also made a mild satire on the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. The despair, helplessness, and powerlessness in the film are transformed in the black humor and become the endurance of the Chinese people in a difficult living condition.
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The film "Lifetimes Living" not only conforms to the spirit of the original, but also adds the director's own understanding. In terms of the original work, the author narrates through Fugui's memories. Lifetimes Living in the movie is easier than the novel. Zhang Yimou added some irony. For example, the professor who saved Fengxia was choked with steamed buns because he was too hungry, and couldn't go for an operation. He watched Feng Xia dying from bleeding caused by the red soldiers. There was also a plot that Fugui relied on shadow puppets to eat. The director fully understood the original work and injected his own things into the film. Compared with Yu Hua's novel "Lifetimes Living", the movie "Lifetimes Living" has a taste of joining the world. Zhang Yimou took a satirical pen to show the audience the ups and downs of peasant families in that era.
The story of the film is very cordial and true, just like it happened to the audience. A small person is ups and downs in the history of great changes, completely unable to control his own destiny, misfortune and ups and downs always haunt him. However, he never gave up his belief in living, never complained about others, and reported infinitely better hopes for life and the future. In addition, the soundtrack of the movie is also very good. In the Miaomiao space pulled up by the erhu, all the helplessness of Miaomiao's life flowed out
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