On the night of December 13, enjoy "The Good Man of the Three Gorges" exclusively

Harmon 2022-04-20 09:02:26

That night, the manuscript was written until nine o'clock. I asked Xingmei and said that there is still a "Good Man in the Three Gorges" at 9:50. This film will be down soon after a few performances. It is a rare opportunity. My husband was not at home, so I went to the theater alone at 9:40.
There were two people in front of me who bought the tickets for this game. They should be a couple. The tickets were all next to each other. After entering the venue, there was no one in the venue. Although it was a small hall, it was still very comfortable. Just before the lights went out, the two colleagues came in and were surprised to see me. At the beginning of the film, I quickly got into the play. Although the two were hiding and talking, it had no effect at all, but instead added to the atmosphere of the theater.
Still the same taste as Jia Zhangke. The grand background, the noisy crowd, the screeching radio and the noise, and the not-so-beautiful protagonist. The long shot of the opening is about three minutes long, a passenger ship, and the tired and tired faces of the detainees on the passenger ship. The public or gangsters, everyone actually has such a difficult moment, but the appearance of the bottom is easier to be captured. The whole film is the underlying story, but it is full of life tension. Perhaps, this is a group of people ignored by the media. They often only appear in reports of mining disasters, disasters or returning home, but they are also living people with feelings and ideas, and also have a cunning, delicate or impulsive side.
Everyone has their own stories and things they can't put down in their hearts, so, 16 years later, the miner Han Sanming will still go to Fengjie to find his Ma Yaomei, even though the woman he bought took away his child; And the so-called head of the relocation group in Fengjie, who was so prosperous, waited for his wife two years later. The story of the whole film is not strong, and the young couple quietly exited the scene an hour after the opening, but I think this is already a very good story told by Jia Zhangke. Not the plot, but the situation and the people in the situation are pushing the story forward, and the tension of life is fully revealed. I would rather believe that the more uncivilized people, the more active this kind of life is Watch.
I was the only one left in the cinema, I got up recklessly and put my feet on the backrest of the front row. It's the first time in my life to have a private room for one person, this kind of treatment is really cool to death. It was not until the last line of the rolling subtitles was typed that I slowly got up and went home satisfied as the last guest of this theater.

PS:
Jia Zhangke said, "In April and May, the filming of the Three Gorges did not take long. One day, I summoned more than 200 local extras and took them to a boat for filming. Early in the morning, the sun was very good, the river was clear, and the boat was used for filming. The canvas is wrapped, and the light hits everyone's eyes through the cloth. At first, they are very restrained, and they can clearly feel the relationship between shooting and being filmed on this boat. They will look at the camera and will come out before they know it. But as they pat and pat, they become more and more relaxed, trust each other, and return to the most natural state of meeting people. They read their palms, call and eat, completely forget the existence of the camera, and show the true nature of life. On the way back, there was a lively party on the boat. A boat of people sang one song after another, and they all sang popular songs like mice love rice. Ten years of cultivation can cross the boat. I am the director, but I I prefer to record life. Later, the film cut out in one shot.”
​​He was talking about the long shot at the beginning of the film. I didn’t look at the watch. It took more than three minutes. Everyone's face or body swiped, and what echoed in their ears was the low and high-pitched sound of Sichuan Opera. That feeling made me instantly in awe.

The following is a quote from Xu Zhiyuan:
A comment on Jia Zhangke in the "World News", after being translated into Chinese, it seems awkward and jerky, but it is quite vivid and captures the temperament flowing in his films, and this temperament is exactly in Zhao Tao's life, Or on our generation: "Through the camera ... captures the breath of a body-to-body communication that speaks as critically as sociological and psychological formulations but is very different. His directing approach ostensibly What looks like crude improv reporting is actually meticulous and effective: wrapping the main characters in a dynamic relationship of ever-closer or more distant, dynamic dramatization of the mundane emotions that are commonplace."

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