"The Ballad of Clouds and Water" is a touching love literary film, which is very pure and beautiful. Whether it is the content of the story, the composition of the picture, or the soundtrack, it is full of romance and sentimentality. Director Yin Li uses feminine soft and delicate emotions to lead the audience into the epic, beautiful and moving love story of three young people. Not long after the film started, Wang Biyun’s niece asked the audience a question: “What separates the living from the dead in the world? What separates the people in love?” This question might even be both Chen Qiushui and Wang Biyun. Unable to answer. Their love affair is too bitter, too hard, all they have is full of memories, full of waiting, full of loneliness. Although it has withstood the test of time, it cannot withstand the trick of fate and cannot go against the arrangements of fate. These people
are destined to be fruitless and destined to be a tragedy. They carefully guarded their respective love, kept their promises made at the beginning, tried to water the seeds that had already entered the dormant period with pious beliefs, and were deeply obsessed with this long wait through the autumn water. Strictly speaking, this is the story of four young people.
Chen Qiushui has never stopped thinking of Wang Biyun. From separation on rainy nights, to resisting the US and aiding Korea, to supporting Tibet, Wang Biyun is like a white cloud floating in the sky, always accompanied. He will change his name and incorporate it into the name of his lover; he will repeatedly refuse, pretending not to care about the love of the nurse in the field; he will look at her portraits, photos, and rings in the evening when the sun is setting and the clouds are moving; He would run wildly in a small hospital on a four-kilometer-high ground, just to meet a woman who claimed to be Wang Biyun. For love, Chen Qiushui did his best, and he sincerely waited.
What about Wang Biyun, who was originally a daughter and a lady? Her experience is truly moving and heartache. She changed from a slim and graceful girl to an old lady with white sideburns and a face full of vicissitudes. Time urges people to grow old, and time is hard to stay. Since Chen Qiushui's departure, she has taken on the responsibility of her daughter-in-law, taking care of her "mother-in-law" without hesitation and no complaints. As always, she has waited for dozens of spring, summer, autumn and winter. Meng Tingwei sings in a song: "There is a cloud made of rain in the wind, a cloud made of rain, the cloud hurts my heart in the wind, and I don't know where it will fly again." Love is so great that you are in it. People can forget themselves.
In addition, the director gave the film a deeper meaning through the characterization of Wang Jindi, making the theme of love a breakthrough and sublimation. She dares to love and hate, is frank and straightforward, passionate and persistent, and courageous to pursue. Chen Qiushui has a deep feeling for Wang Biyun that "it was difficult for the sea to be water, but Wushan is not a cloud", so naturally he has an attitude of "taking a lazy review of the flowers, half the monarch". However, Zhi Ai once again showed shocking power. Looking at Wang Jindi who came to Tibet from Shanghai thousands of miles away, Chen Qiushui couldn't remain indifferent anymore. They kissed tightly with tears in their tears. The soft light shone from overhead, half of their faces were dark and half bright. The heat from the stove swelled up, and it became an unspeakable emotion. The camera moves around the characters to shoot, and the sound, light, and color are perfectly combined, which produces a very infectious artistic effect, which makes the audience can't help but shed tears of emotion.
It is worth mentioning that the screenwriter has set a broad era background for this love that spans life and death and spans time and space: turbulent Taiwan, war-torn North Korea, and desolate snowy plateau have all become Testimony of their great love. As a result, this kind of long-distance waiting is even more meaningful.
Love is the eternal theme of mankind, it can touch the softest territory in people's hearts. And "Yunshui Yao" achieved this with tear-jerking scenes. With the twists and turns of the characters' destiny, the audience can't help sighing, sighing the sad and helpless tragic song of true love composed by clouds and water, and sighing this love affair through the autumn water.
