Text: Xiao Fangju is watching the movie
There are many movies released in September.
went to the cinema a few days ago to watch this blockbuster film directed by the famous Hong Kong director Er Dongsheng .
The film is based on novel materials, and its creation originates from the real event of "Three Thousand Orphans Entering Inner Mongolia".
The 1960s were a tough time, as China experienced brutal natural disasters .
It is against this background that many orphans were sent to herdsmen's families in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia. Here at
, children struggle to adapt to very different living conditions.
They will be sad, they will miss home, they will be uneasy...
But the loneliness of their hearts is all influenced by the love from the prairie.
A thousand rivers and a thousand mountains are always love.
This is a history that makes people cry Love is boundless. The
film tells the story of separation and reunion of a brother and sister from Shanghai.
Her name is Du Siheng, his name is Du Sihan.
She is the sister, he is the brother.
's younger sister, Du Siheng, has always resisted coming to the grassland, and even disgusted the life in the grassland, and was unwilling to mingle with her friends.
But slowly, she got used to it, learned to ride horses, speak Mongolian , and also learned to work, herd and so on.
Time flies like an arrow, and the days go by.
, an introverted and quiet Shanghai girl, has become a bold Mongolian girl.
Decades later, my brother embarked on the road to find his relatives.
At this time, because his elder brother was old and frail, he would pass away soon. Therefore, at the last stage of his life, he came to Inner Mongolia and planned to see his younger sister for the last time, which was a wish that had been fulfilled for many years.
's story alone is really simple and can't be simpler, and even the plot is very monotonous and boring.
So, if you hope to enjoy the film through the plot, you will definitely be disappointed, because the story of the film is not strong and the plot is not very ups and downs. The biggest advantage of the
video is just one word: "beautiful"!
"The end of the sea is the grassland", just the title, it is beautiful.
's photography is very artistic, showing the magnificent scenery of the vast prairie in Inner Mongolia incisively and vividly. On the big screen of
, there are green fields, blue sky, white clouds, and flocks of cattle and sheep... The melodious sound of horse head qin echoes in the ears of
, making the audience feel as if they are in the prairie, and even can't help but want to fly to it immediately. On the prairie, go and experience this kind of "the sky is blue, the wild is vast, the wind blows the grass and the cows and sheep are low". The only regret of
is that the story of the film is much worse.
As mentioned above, the story is very novel in material selection. Therefore, it is not difficult to make up a fascinating plot under this premise, but the plot has become the biggest weakness of the film. The
film wanted to move the audience in front of the screen through a short story.
But the heroine Du Siheng is a very unlikable character, selfish and willful... After
Du Siheng was orphaned, he was adopted by the kind and enthusiastic Mongolian and brought to the grassland. As a little girl,
came to a completely different living environment from the big city of Shanghai. It is understandable whether she feels uncomfortable, homesick or wants to go back to Shanghai.
is lovely, after all, there must be a grateful heart.
Du Siheng did not.
She doesn't love grasslands, she doesn't want to be obedient, and she always causes trouble for everyone.
One day, she attracted wolves because of running around. If everyone on the prairie hadn't arrived in time, she would have been eaten by wolves. Spit milk tea.
If you say that these are just children who are young and ignorant, they can be forgiven, but when they grow up, Du Siheng still does not show gratitude to the Mongolian relatives who adopted him, and continues to indulge himself.
although grown upThe later Du Siheng also adapted to life in the grasslands, but she did not have a strong sense of identification with this second hometown, and still wanted to return to Shanghai.
wants to go back to Shanghai, that's right.
Du Siheng's mistake is that he did not go back in an open and honest way, but wanted to walk away irresponsibly behind his back.
finally one day, she got into a big disaster.
In order to return to Shanghai, she and a partner accidentally fell into the sand during the process of secretly escaping. Fortunately for
, the older brother from the reorganized family arrived in time and rescued the two.
Unfortunately, my brother gave his life because of this, and was completely swallowed by the sand.
logically said that this should have been the most touching part of the movie, because the elder brother is too great, and it also reflects the unselfish love of the Mongolian family behind him without asking for anything in return.
But many viewers were not moved by it. Instead, they were angry and complained about their dead brother. It's not worth it for my brother to sacrifice for such a selfish sister.
Even in the end, the herdsmen who adopted Du Siheng even forgave her in the face of losing their son.
Therefore, Xiao Fangju believes that if the heroine of the film is not so annoying (not to mention more likeable, at least a little sensible), everyone will be moved by it.
director Er Dongsheng himself has a special feeling for the prairie.
The scenery in this film is very beautiful. In order to collect the scenery, the crew paid a lot and walked a lot.
Not only that, but the crew had to overcome the complex and changeable climatic conditions of the grasslands.
can see the difficulty of filming the film is very big.
is not only that, the actors are also very hardworking. There is no doubt about the acting skills of
old drama bone Chen Baoguo , which shows Du Sihan's inner entanglement and melancholy just right.
Masu played the herdsmen in Mongolian. Before that, she also studied and practiced Mongolian for several months. After all, Mongolian is not a particularly easy language to learn for many people.
Therefore, the film has made great efforts in framing, shooting, material selection, and the performance of the actors.
It's a pity that the plot is so weak that it negates a lot of the good points.
Like TV series, the nature of movies is to tell stories after all, but TV series are long stories, and movies are short stories.
So, the plot is the soul of a movie.
Although factors such as photography technology and actors' acting skills will affect the quality of the film, they still cannot replace the vital importance of the plot to the film.
If the plot is good, the movie will be good.
If "The Grassland Beyond the Sea" is a documentary, it should be perfect.
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