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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...

  • 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...

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  • Jaden 2022-09-22 15:37:29

    Life is like a drama, drama is like life

    Zhang Yimou's "Alive" in the opening remarks
    has always been talked about by everyone as his early representative works. What I am concerned about is that it selects the traditional image of shadow puppetry, which runs through the whole film. Compared with the same classic "Farewell My Concubine"...

  • Danielle 2022-09-06 10:14:15

    alive is better than anything

    After reading the novel and watching the movie, you will find that the movie is much better than the novel, at least if the characters are not as miserable as the novel's portrayal, the audience will not feel sad for too long after watching it. The film spans a long period of time, from the...

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  • 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".