Zhang Yimou said: ""Nothing Less" is a film that is plain, traditional, commonplace and even very old-fashioned from content to form. This happens to be one of our goals: to make a real and powerful film in the commonplace. .We filmmakers, under the demand of today’s film market, of course, we have to make films good-looking. Therefore, our other purpose is: in addition to good-looking movies, what else can we tell everyone, what they think, and what they care about. , What to love... because I firmly believe that the audience’s tastes are not as monolithic and superficial as we imagined.” The documentary style of "No One Less" dominates the aesthetics of the entire film, non-professional actors, documentary The shooting technique and the impoverished mountain village elementary school pursue a sense of reality. Regardless of whether this sense of reality is achieved or not, it still affects many people to some extent. At the same time, because the film conforms to the policy, the National Copyright Administration issued a copyright protection notice for the film "Nothing Less". This is the first time that my country has implemented such a formal protection of the copyright of a domestic film. However, the encounters of the characters in the unfamiliar environment—the city—have become an important reason why the film won the Golden Lion Award in Venice. Of course, because all the difficulties in the film were solved by the mercy of the television station director, it was criticized by many domestic film critics.
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