To Live Comments

  • Filomena 2023-07-30 05:55:06

    When Youqing died, Fugui shouted in front of Youqing's body, "Daddy is here, Youqing called Dad Youqing", Jiazhen was stopped by the crowd, desperately wanting to see Youqing one last time, crying and shouting "Let me see, Youqing, let me see", then she looked at the blood-stained white cloth covering his Youqing, and walked past her. I remembered that night in the novel, Fugui carried the dead Youqing back. In the middle of the night, he sat on the ridge in the west of the village, watching...

  • Amely 2023-07-28 20:57:29

    What is it like to live? Living in the present, we should be more than a little...

  • Maiya 2023-07-28 17:12:19

    [A] As expected of Zhang Yimou's second best film, the script, actors, photography, and artistic achievements couldn't be better. The script has the blessing of Yu Hua's original work. Although the ending was greatly changed due to the pressure of censorship, it is still a top-level movie adaptation script, and it is still full of power to directly hit the heart. Ge You and Gong Li are worthy of being one of the best actors and actresses in China. The long age span of the characters, the great...

  • Maxwell 2023-07-25 14:15:27

    The book was read more than ten years ago, and it made me cry several times. A few years ago, my wife also read this book, and then hid in the bed and cried endlessly, saying it was too miserable, too miserable. I said that the worst was yet to come, so she cried even more vigorously. In the end, her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and she said how did she die? So I decided to stop watching. In the end, I watched the movie version today...it was really good. The ending was changed a bit...

  • Fatima 2023-07-17 23:01:52

    I think it's Zhang Yimou's best work, not to mention the acting skills of Gong Li and Ge You. Really suffer in life, unwilling to...

  • Catharine 2023-07-17 04:57:18

    Precarious social unrest is no excuse. You have to tell me how oppressive that era was, how embarrassing that era was, how unfair that era was. I want to say that all you have shown me is that everyone has not changed their thoughts of resistance even a little...

  • Desiree 2023-07-08 01:54:09

    Living is the best explanation. I found Gong Li's style in this film. A movie that still makes a lot of sense without the hormonal...

  • Marcelle 2023-07-04 11:18:55

    Half a century has passed, and we are still in this ridiculous society. We have always been alive and never entered...

  • Nona 2023-07-02 09:49:28

    In 1966, the day after Bian Zhongyun, the vice principal of the Women's High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University, was beaten to death. Bian Zhongyun's husband Wang Jingyao came to Wangfujing Department Store, spent all the family's savings, bought a 120 camera, and took pictures of his wife's tragic death. In 2008, an interviewer asked him why he thought of buying a camera to take pictures of the dead. The old man was silent for a long time, then suddenly raised his head and said -...

  • Trycia 2023-06-20 11:23:22

    Zhang Yimou's best work, even though many broadcast slogans and even backgrounds cannot be translated and conveyed to foreigners, still won the Cannes Jury Prize, and Ge You also crowned the actor with his extraordinary acting skills. Even if novels and themes have a lot of innate advantages, Lao Mouzi's adaptation is still a great contribution. The soundtrack of the film is very entertaining, the photography is calm and majestic, the black humor is full of political satire, and the plainness...

Extended Reading
  • Maximillian 2022-11-18 08:58:19

    live well

    The movie "Alive" is hailed as a living Chinese contemporary unofficial history, and it truly lives up to its name.

    This is a quiet film, without much crying, grief, and exhaustion, as if it was just a commentary of the protagonist Fugui along the way.

    The title of the film is "Alive", but throughout...

  • Destany 2022-12-08 21:31:17

    alive is better than anything

    The film is full of suffering and depression, and I dare not watch it again, which makes me feel hopeless about life. In the movie, Fugui, Jiazhen, Youqing and Fengxia have ordinary happy times, but this kind of happiness makes me feel hopeless everywhere, as if in the next second, fate will be...

To Live quotes

  • Little Bun: [playing with chickens] When will they grow up?

    Xu Jiazhen: Very soon.

    Little Bun: And then?

    Xu Fugui: And then... the chickens will turn into geese... and the geese will turn into sheep... and the sheep will turn into oxen.

    Little Bun: And after the oxen?

    Xu Fugui: After oxen...

    Xu Jiazhen: After oxen, Little Bun will grow up.

    Little Bun: I want to ride on an ox's back.

    Xu Jiazhen: You will ride on an ox's back.

    Xu Fugui: Little Bun won't ride on an ox... he'll ride trains and planes... and life will get better and better.

  • Xu Fugui: What did you name our son?

    Xu Jiazhen: "Don't Gamble".