This work, adapted from Yu Hua's novel of the same name, "Alive", is Laomouzi's best film, comparable to "Farewell My Concubine", which was also in the 1990s. It is a big drama of the era, and it also has both epic pattern and cultural connotation. There are many familiar faces in it, such as Ge You, Gong Li, Ni Dahong, Guo Tao, and their acting skills exploded, which is commendable. In the 1940s, before liberation, the protagonist Fugui (played by Ge You) was addicted to gambling and lived the life of a landlord and young master. As a result, he lost all his family property. He lost his ancestral house by gambling, and his daughter-in-law also left. Dad was also pissed. Forced to make a living, in order to support his family, he played shadow puppets and wandered outside. During the war of liberation, he followed the PLA, pulled cannons, and sang for the PLA. In a blink of an eye, in the new China after liberation, Fugui experienced the suppression of the counter-revolutionary movement (the theater owner Long Er was shot); the Great Leap Forward Movement, in order to catch up with the United States, everyone worked together to smelt steel; the people's commune ate a big pot of rice, until this time , Fugui never left the shadow puppet show, it can be said that his fate was ill-fated, and he did not expect to take his son Youqing's life into it; encountering the Cultural Revolution, the four olds were destroyed, and Fugui burned all the shadow puppets in order to protect himself. The marriage of her daughter Fengxia is the most exciting and the most special period of time. Unfortunately, her daughter Fengxia also passed away unexpectedly. Fugui's life was a tragedy, very tragic, but he finally lived.
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