"Beyond the Cloud, the Promised Place"

Alessandra 2022-04-19 09:02:43

I watched all the films in Xinhaicheng in one go.
"Beyond the Clouds, The Promised Place" is the only one with a theater time of one hour and thirty minutes.

Like the Korean film "2009, Lost Memories", the background of "Beyond the Cloud, The Promised Place" is also based on a fictional history. The Korean film "2009, Lost Memories" reflects the possibility of history and the possibility of the people in it in a kind of history, while "Beyond the Cloud, the Promised Place" is not. "Beyond the Cloud, The Promised Place" is not reflecting these big and unreasonable things, which can be seen from its title, it is just telling a story about the appointment, and the fictional historical background is just a foil for it. In the South Korean film "2009, Lost Memories", the history after World War II was replaced, Japan became a victorious country, and the entire Korean Peninsula became a part of Japan. However, the "Buling Xianren" organization, which knows the truth that history has been replaced, is considered a terrorist organization, and their resistance movement is also considered a terrorist activity. In "Beyond the Cloud, the Promised Place", post-war Japan was also divided into two parts, north and south, just like the current Korean Peninsula, just like East Germany and West Germany before. But in "Beyond the Cloud, the Promised Place", this is only a very light historical background, and there is not much force in the description.

Finally, at the agreed place on the other side of the cloud, the towering tower disappeared. But what does that matter. As long as the hearts of two people are still together, what does it matter if the original agreement is gone. Of course, this is also a story that cannot happen in reality. These fictional stories are presumably all just to fill in our reality. The kind of stories told in movies and literature always seem to have an embarrassing absence in our reality, and presumably this is the truth of our reality.

In an article about "Phoenix" in the entertainment section of "New Express" on November 25, there is this passage:

".... It was not until yesterday that the two prototypes appeared in front of the media for the first time, and also watched the film for the first time. Yu Weifeng, one of the prototypes, even burst into tears in the theater. Just when everyone thought that the eternal love described in the film existed here Among the couples who have experienced hardships, director Jin Chen revealed in a later interview that in fact, the prototype of this love story had already divorced at the beginning of this year. The reality is always cruel, and his Movies can only stay in the best time..." After

all, the power of people is not infinite.
So we can only be content that something once existed to chat and masturbate.
When something doesn't last forever. (December 2, 2007)

View more about The Place Promised in Our Early Days reviews

Extended Reading
  • Maxwell 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    Don't understand, want to sleep

  • Cassandre 2022-03-16 09:01:07

    Yes, I still prefer Xin Haicheng's style, but it is limited to short films and medium-length films: there are two films that make me feel the style of MV or CG exhibitions. One is "Five Centimeters Per Second" and the other is this one. "The other side of the cloud, the place of restraint"-in fact, these two films are series-type, and they are completely a tune. They are not as good as the cat's imagination war in the NHK short film collection, right?

The Place Promised in Our Early Days quotes

  • Hiroki Fujisawa: [Narrating] Now, those days are long gone... Our promised place was beyond those clouds.

  • Hiroki Fujisawa: [about Sayuri] She always said she felt like she was losing something. At the time... I was in middle school, and couldn't understand what she meant. But... those words had a strange effect on me.