This movie is to describe an incident that happened in a separatist family in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. This incident is not a major event. The filming method is like a documentary. The speech methods and content of the characters are as recorded in historical records as much as possible, and there is no explanation. His own efforts to restore the people and things at that time.
It is said that the filming has been planned for many years, and I believe that it has undergone a lot of historical research. It may be because the matter is too small and at the same time loyal to history, resulting in not much emotional impact on the audience, such as saving mankind ("The Terminator"), or saving a species ("Monster Hunt"), I guess I don't understand why it's such a small thing. It's worth making a movie and letting everyone sit in the cinema and watch it, but if you put this in the history of the time Under the background, you can have a sense of enlightenment.
For example, in the past, when I read history and read the middle and late Tang Dynasty, I always felt that the emperor was incompetent, and it always failed to cut down the vassal. Because the vassal town's stimulation to the central government was too deep, the subsequent Song Dynasty was always reluctant to completely delegate power to the generals. became an introverted government. And this movie provides a glimpse. All the forces are intertwined and collided. Everyone has worked hard, but it is not easy. In this whirlpool, everyone is a victim.
The director's efforts are reflected in every detail of architecture, fighting design, and life scenes. The architectural style and layout of Jiedushi's mansion is very similar to that of the Tokugawa family's Kujo Castle in Kyoto (Japan's feudal towns are the ultimate), while the houses in the countryside, smoke from cooking, small rivers, thatched huts, cracks in the walls, and houses outside the village. The wild land is so real, it is the same as what I saw when I went to the west; the fighting scenes make people feel that the director really doesn’t want the box office. Fights in the real world usually have no aesthetics at all, and the film is always a bit exaggerated except that the protagonist is on the roof. In addition, the other shots can basically be said to be realistic; Zhang Yimou also filmed a film about a feudal town at the end of the Tang Dynasty. The whole city was full of golden armor, and he also wrote about the housework of a feudal town. , still unavoidable exaggerated costumes, palace designs that can be compared with the Forbidden City, maybe the Chinese think that palaces should be like this, but in fact they are not.
A successful commercial film is to use the labels of things familiar to contemporary people to tell an illusory story that contemporary people like to hear, supplemented by special effects, emotions and various contemporary jokes that can arouse the audience's emotions. Many people's real life is boring and boring, and such a dream factory is needed. , even if the plot is absurd and sometimes challenging the lower limit of the audience's IQ, the audience still feels that they can understand what the director is talking about and like the story and the way the story is expressed. And this almost real film that is close to a documentary, the audience thinks it has no meaning at all, and they don't know what the director is talking about...
It will be released on August 27, only for a week. As for losing money, so that I can occasionally see this kind of real film in the future
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