Jia Zhangke can't take care of making a movie anymore

Modesto 2022-01-24 08:07:16

"The Children of the Rivers and Lakes" further exposed the problems of thin details, dull narratives, and constant repetition of his own elements in the stories of Chief Jia since "The Destiny of Heaven" and "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers". This is also an issue of the film system and ecology. Deeper thinking and fresh elements cannot be seen, but the feelings are stronger and softer. Jia Ke looked at his daughter-in-law with tender affection. Teacher Ren Zhaotao made a arrogant performance in front of the camera. From the first scene, she entered the casino by accident. There must be such a stubborn girl in Datong City. However, Teacher Zhao Tao stared Danfeng's eyes and shook her head in an arrogant Peking Opera fan performance, rushing from youth to vicissitudes of life in a hurry. It was a disaster for her husband's nostalgia or homesickness. Liao Fan asked for the second brother with a serious face, and I sprayed it. Section Chief, are you here to make a comparison? But this kind of light humor didn't hurt the style of the whole movie, it was harmless.

What I am most dissatisfied with is that the section chief, children and daughters are there, where are the "Jianghu"? In the Hong Kong film songs that constantly exaggerate emotions? In a video hall full of mahjong, all around the world, and nostalgia, or in a street fight? In the clever trick of blackmailing Zhang Yi? Chief, are you trying to shame me? Oh, by the way, didn't anyone say it a long time ago? There is no underworld in China! There will be no rivers and lakes. From several discussions about holding guns, it can be seen that the section chief made the greatest compromise for the film's release and took the completely opposite path to "Destined to Heaven". With the name of Brother Wang Zhong but deleting all the scenes of Feng Pants, it has to be contemplated. Probably "Jianghu" is on the lips of Binbin and Qiaoqiao. You are a Jianghu person, and I am not a Jianghu person. With it, you are a Jianghu person. Where there are people, there are Jianghu people. Section chief, can we get to the surface and concept again? "White space" is fine, but too much white space can only expose paleness and laziness. When the Fenyang boy turns into a cultural business card and a cultural and youth leader, he cannot be expected to have the creative impulse and rigor of the year.

The only comfort is the persistence of aesthetics. Chief Jia’s greatest charm is the low-level Chinese society in his lens where the countryside and surprises are mixed, trivial and mediocre, and the spectacles, all kinds of modern appearances and the inner mixture of earthy scum. Hybrid tillers give birth to all kinds of strange aesthetic and ethical wonders with no bottom line. With a bicycle in the mouth, a big man’s funeral jumping the national standard, and singing love songs in the circus. All kinds of comedies and farce are being staged every day in this living China.

In addition, this time Mr. Jia's movie is lackluster, and I give a maximum of 6 points.

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  • Jan 2022-03-19 09:01:09

    Before watching the film, I deliberately re-watched "Ren Xiaoyao" and "The Good Man in Three Gorges". I feel that in Jia Zhangke's movie world, there will always be things that resemble acquaintances, like unreliable memories, as if they are in the same world. The same group of people, with the changes of society, staged similar stories in the same era. The films directed by Jia Zhangke have never been of a highly dramatic genre, but the difference in "The Children of the Rivers and Lakes" is that it is relatively fragmented and melodramatic. It is not a short-film assemblage, but a linear narrative with a very large time span. There are not so many things that think about symbolic aesthetics, and it does not just stay at the level of sitcoms, but through the re-deconstruction of the previous works, the interest of the work is guaranteed. At the same time, it also makes the director's authoritarian things more systematic. I feel that Jia Zhangke has been filming the same story all his life, like many big directors, but this time you can see him at his current age, his observation of humanity and humanity, his understanding of women and men, and the change of people to carry the society. The great changes over the past ten years.

  • Keagan 2022-03-18 09:01:08

    There is less loyalty in the arena, and more affection for children. Song Yakushi, used to be a prison. The head of the grave jumps to the national standard, and the prison advertises. It is absurd and ridiculous.

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