How do you evaluate the Silver Bear Award-winning film Long Live the Earth?

Last Forever is an epic reflecting on birth control spanning more than 30 years. The movie has several major time backgrounds: "the return of young people to their hometowns in 1977/1978", "the period of birth control", "the severe crackdown on what is regarded as mobbing and prostitution", and "the reform of the market economic system in the 1990s, which led to big layoffs in factories". The film is set in several major time periods: "1977/1978," "the period of planning", "the crackdown on dancing, which was considered to be a form of mobbing", "the reform of the market economy in the 1990s, and the big layoffs in factories". The tragedy of the individual lies in the fact that people are like floating duckweed, only to be constantly consumed under different forms of state machinery. Many people mentioned "alive", or Mo Yan's "frogs", but if you hold such expectations to see the "long time to live", you will sigh, today's era of writing is still scratching the itch, with the shopgirl-style metaphysical sadness. Those heavy grand narratives are just elemental symbols, and the whole three hours of choreography is laid out, but it still comes down to the life-and-death entanglements of the two families, and the illusory reunion. Theme first and character first, is the creator's conventional thinking, success or failure in this.

The movie is hard-hitting, even though the director, when questioned by the audience, mentioned that the entire script was finely honed, and that the first half of the movie was very mature, while the second half dragged on and dissipated all the emotions that had built up in the first half.

First, there is the distortion of the characters. Is the character of Yao Jun real enough? When you're molding a character, in order to reflect the complexity and three-dimensionality of the character, you'll set up "motivation", "fear", "strengths and weaknesses", "true self", "darkness", "darkness", "darkness", "darkness", "darkness", "darkness", and "darkness". "dark side", "character arc", etc. So Yaojun is a good guy, and his goodness is in the bright line because the "goodness" in the bright line is too strong. This is probably due to Wang Jingchun's performance, which makes the "moral blemish" hidden in the dark line no longer a complexity of the character, but rather a division. During the period of birth control, all his desires and anger were ligated, but under the painful loss of his beloved son, his anger and hatred were cut off, and a "moral fault" that does not fit the character was added. And in the ending, this fault is still hidden, so such a character without self-awareness and emotional release, constantly by the plot to dissolve its positive image.

Also, in his statement, the director is praising the ordinary people who are strong and full of goodwill, even after a lifetime of upheaval. If a guy hits you and you take it, and you're okay with another punch, and then he calls a bunch of guys to come and beat you up, and you can say it's okay I forgive you, that's not kindness, that's condoning malice.

So how do you create a really three-dimensional character? The movie actually has a very good theme of hatred and forgiveness under the pain of losing a child. The death of his two children is a social outcome, for which there is also a space for self-reflection for Yaojun, is he a good husband? Was he a good husband? Was he a good father? Is he even a man? The movie doesn't go deeper, it doesn't even show the character of Yaojun anymore. He smokes, he grimaces, he's sad, but it's just a fragment of emotion, neither in the character's choices, nor in the character's transformation.

And for character lines, the director is so expressive, so eager to throw out golden phrases, that from the mouths of Yaojun and Liyun, we hear language that doesn't belong to them:

"In her (Liyun's) words, time has stopped, and all that's left is to grow old slowly"

"Li-Yun and I are now living for each other, and can no longer afford to toss and turn"

"It's all like this, what else can we not face?"

Even the key character Hao Hao, who is hidden in the background, has a large number of extremely non-spoken lines:

"There's a tree in my body, it's going to break through ...... (roughly)."

These lines, which have become an obstacle to the actor's performance, have even become an obstacle to the overall mood. of the actor's performance, and even become a stone that hinders the flow of emotions throughout. Just as the director kept throwing out life lessons at the screening, these words, which are more suited to a memoir than a movie, are not born from the heart of each viewer, and will certainly not enter the viewer's heart.

In addition, the inexplicable introduction of Jasmine's point of view puts Lai Wan, who is supposed to be the protagonist, in the awkward position of losing her voice. Although Wing Mui won the award, she was surprised to find that the movie seemed to want to push Lai Wan into the background, and instead introduced Jasmine's point of view. Not to exclude perspective shifting, Jasmine is a character with the role of "witness", similar to the audience's point of view, which is reasonable in "memories", but should not dominate the narrative in the "present". But in the present narrative, it should not overshadow the main character. I think it's because Yao Jun and Li Yun's confrontation is too weak, Jasmine has become a supplement to the battle of the character camps. But the setup of getting pregnant and trying to have the baby before leaving the country, which even makes Yaojun nervous in the final moments of the movie, is simply unbelievable. Reminiscent of the second Christian sister in "Guling Street Boys Murder", she is the clearest and calmest person in the family, she does not have the ability to change the world, she witnessed everything and made her own choice. This is the place for a character who is a "witness".

Secondly, the plot is out of proportion.

Yaojun:

1. The father-son line of the present Yaojun and the fake "star.

The plot is not well done, and the mismatch between the flow and the characters makes the whole thread collapse.

2. The mentor-apprentice derailment of Yao Jun and Jasmine.

It makes Yaojun's persona tasteless. Is it consistent with his persona to present a man's desires in this way?

3. Yaojun doesn't forgive Haiyan for aborting her baby to finish her work.

4. Yaojun doesn't let his father mention the death of Xingxing in order to protect Hao Hao.

Is this a normal human emotion? The story of the two men is not a good one, but it is a good one.

5. The years of love and companionship between Yaojun and his wife Liyun.

The most important thing to show is the lack of concentration.

Li-Yun:

1. Aborting the baby made her unable to conceive, and family planning had a bad effect on her.

2. Yao Jun's cheating, the oppression of women by the concept of succession.

Other Characters:

1. Jasmine's goodwill towards Yaojun, her indignation at what has happened to their family, and her willingness to give Yaojun a child.

2. Hao Hao carries the truth of what killed Xing Xing all his life.

3. Haiyan is burdened with the fact that she aborted Liyun's child for her job, making her unable to conceive.

4. The love between Xinjian and Meiyu.

The intertwining of past and present is seamless in the first half, adding to the readability of the movie. But the plotline also still has redundant parts, if not a group drama, then the most important thing in the grand narrative may be the main character perspective can not be done to offset, around the main character of the branch line to have relevance. The spinoffs, New Construction and Miyu, have almost no relevance to the main storyline, and Jasmine's adoration and cheating are even a bit of a distraction. Especially in the last hour, the elderly Yaojun and Liyun back to Baotou on the plane, the content of this paragraph in the structure does not do with the previous correlation, and seems to drag long, but also see the director always looking for the right end point, find not quite, but also to give a happy ending it.

Of course, in the "Long Day's Journey", the rhythm and atmosphere of the first hour are in place, the two tunnel scenes are also the most glittering moments: Yaojun holding the drowned star, and holding the suicide of Liyun, gasping for breath to become the language, running through the darkest moments of his life, the train whistles, audio-visual context of the dynamic force is in place, which has become Yaojun's most powerful passages. It reminds us of the Dane Brothers' "The Son of Another", where the same father with the pain of losing his son, silence and breathing become a language, and an emotional pressure superimposed on this quietness is accomplished.

The section of the family photo is also a good paragraph, once sealed old photos from the cabinet under the drift out, remembering when Li Yun white and quiet, the two families get along well, this frame, it has become the eternal past.

But the movie lacks in the dismantling and layering of the theme. The topic of family planning, I'm afraid, can only be presented in the "two-child policy", and the shackled image as a mass media product of reflection and criticism is always pale and powerless. The rulers of modern countries have incorporated the seemingly natural and genuine existence of life into their political logic, no longer possessing only the power of "death", but the "power of life". This obedience to and fear of the centralized power should be the inner workings of these tragic characters. The two families' grudge of life and death, to carry out the crime and punishment, there is power in it, rather than relying on a rumba in the memories of the past and happy family gatherings to soften or even eliminate the conflict.

We knew what Haiyan would say on her deathbed, but we didn't expect it to be something so diabolizing as, "We have the money to have a baby." In the past, there were policies, in the present, there is capital, and those who are caught in the middle are never really happy. So the ending is a false one, because people's emotional experience is constructed and deceived by false illusions, and moved by melodramatic sensationalism and uncontrolled music. It makes one hate the title of the movie, Earth to Earth, which never was.

On the other side of the spectrum is Ho-Ho's attempt to dissolve years of guilt with a confession, praying for the victim's forgiveness simply because he can't take it anymore, a motivation I find far more reprehensible. The movie attempts to say that both Haiyan and Hoho have been punished and that they will never have peace in their lives. There is only the action of begging for forgiveness, but no atonement. Yaojun and Liyun are not obliged to forgive anyone, the hatred is justified, because those people, not for the job , not for face, but that moment, born to be a human being is really up to malice, this is the origin, death is only the result.

And so, back to the inescapable Hooper, there are children who die in this movie. There are many reasons for the deaths, social, personal, and verbal. The unborn child is stillborn because Haiyan "works for her" (family planning), and her son, Xingxing, is killed by Haiyan's son, Hao Hao, who "pushes him". Some people will compare this movie with the death of Hu Bo, "for the sake of work" and "pushed a hand", the position chosen by the creator becomes his attitude to certain events, even if there is guilt, there is forgiveness, but death is a very serious matter.

With a 3-hour run time, perhaps only an award-winning film and a mega-production like The Revenant could get theaters to accept such a long run time. Instead, those 3 hours recounted a 30-year-long story, one filled with the impact of changing times on lives.

The return of the young people to their hometowns is a farewell and a fresh start, and everyone is full of hope for their future. When the music of "A Friendship That Lasts Forever" plays, Mr. and Mrs. Liu Yaojun and Mr. and Mrs. Shen Yingming think that their love for each other can really last forever. They worked together in the factory and had a child at the same time. The two families took photos together like a cozy family photo, and the two children grew up together like brothers, and at that time, they all thought that such a life could really last forever.

Yaojun and Liyun wanted to have a second child, and hid their pregnancy from Haiyan, who was the director of the family planning office. However, as their stomachs grew, their health deteriorated, and Liyun suddenly fainted when she left work, and Haiyan found out about her pregnancy.

Because of her position, Haiyan is able to persuade and drag Lijun to the operating table, but something happens during the operation, and Lijun is no longer able to get pregnant.

The loss of the chance to get pregnant leads to the ironic title of "advanced", which puts the two of them on the list of laid-off workers.

Ironic, ironic, and funny.

After Star's death, Yaojun and Liyun can no longer laugh, Haiyan and Yingming are tormented by guilt, and Liangliang becomes the object of everyone's protection, but he has never been able to forgive himself.

When everyone was celebrating the New Year, that cold house was so dark that they couldn't see each other's expressions. Jasmine delivered the dumplings made by Haiyan, and the three of them chatted with each other, no one dared to mention the star, but the words were on each other's lips, and eventually they could only be silent together.

Yaojun and Liyun chose to leave this dark room, leaving this place with all their painful memories, and went to the far south, where the dialect is comparable to a foreign language to live, and adopted a child, giving him the name of Star.

Star knew he was a substitute, so skipped school, got into fights, and ran away from home.

Leaving Yaojun and Liyun to face the rain-flooded, dilapidated house alone, the two eat, work, and look for the star without extra words or any emotional ups and downs.

Yao Jun and Li Yun are sympathetic, "lost" life can only rely on each other to dare to continue to live, life without any passion, time seems to stop, two people can do, only slowly wait for the old man to be able to get to the end of his life. The only thing you can do is to wait and see what happens.

The two men have to face the cruel fact that they have lost their children, but they are selfish enough to let the stars become their children's substitutes. The first time I saw this, I had to go through a lot of trouble to find a way to make sure that I could get the best out of it, and I was able to do it. The phrase "we have money now, you can have a baby" reveals the shackles that have trapped her all her life. In the heart of Liangliang, the taller and taller the tree, how is not his grief.

Ying Ying's sister, Jasmine, became an awkward and real existence in this event, in the Yaojun lost all the passion and hope, she appeared, and ignited the heart of the little desire to a blank sheet of paper like a kind and sympathetic character added some stains, Jasmine pregnant with his child.

Li Yun sees through everything but never pokes at it, she knows that nowadays both of them are just living for each other, but if there is a chance, she hopes that there can be one less person to suffer, so she chooses to let go. But Yaojun also knows the pain and despair of Liyun's heart, and the gap between him and Jasmine, if Liyun is gone, he really has no hope at all.

Luckily, Li-Yun was rescued, and Yaojun did not accept Jasmine's child, which may be his last chance to have a child of his own, and at this time, compared to the child, Li-Yun is the most important person to him.

Life is like this, when we think we are the favorite of the times, but will find that in this flood, we are just one of the millions of ordinary people, the times in the forward, and we, but must bear all kinds of changes to bring all the joys and sorrows.

Time is like a magician, he brought everyone hurt, and let these wounds a little bit of scar, and finally only a scar. Star with Zhou Yongfu's real name to become the most real self, a bow, no words are better than the words before, a "Dad", so that Yaojun and Liyun once again to obtain the identity of the parents.

Liang Liang's confession, so that he has a new life, but also opened up the last knot in the heart of Yaojun and Liyun, "Just say it" and what they said before "As long as you live, you can not say it. It can't be said" is a stark contrast to how they have seen through life and reality over the years. Jasmine's mixed-race son leaves no more ties between Yaojun and her, and Haiyan's death seems to have taken all the hurt away, leaving behind a group of people who are still running with the times. In the end, Yaojun and Liyun can finally laugh out loud at the grave of the star.

Director Wang Xiaoshuai did not use overly melodramatic plots and lines, but simply recounted the story of that era, with familiar factories, familiar uniforms, familiar old-fashioned streets and staff dormitories, and the square dance that still carries the sentiment of the present, and all the colors of the era are so real. All the characters simply live their own lives, but we can't help but cry when we look at their days.

When Yaojun ran to the hospital with the star in his arms, the nurses' accustomed expressions and the curious eyes of the patients made "death" pivotal. When Li Yun was forced to go on the operating table to remove her child, when Yao Jun was accepting the fact that his child had to be removed, he was surrounded by couples who were looking forward to the birth of their children. When Yao Jun once again ran to the hospital holding Li Yun, who had taken sleeping pills, Yao Jun's whole world collapsed, and the viewers' repressed emotions were released to the maximum extent.

We will marvel at families like Yaojun and Liyun, but the saddest thing is that there may be millions of such families in the flood of this era. Director Wang Xiaoshuai has depicted a story that can move the world from small to big in a 3-hour movie. Best Actor and Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival gave the movie a heavier significance for the times.

The winners of the 69th Berlin International Film Festival were announced in the early hours of February 17th, and the Chinese film Long Live the Earth won two Silver Bears, for Best Actor and Best Actress. The movie was directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, with Wang Jingchun and Yongmei as the male and female leads. When presenting the award, the President of the Berlinale Jury and the other jury members gave it a great evaluation: "There is hardly another couple on the screen who can act so naturally as Wang Jingchun and Yongmei!"

The Longest Day is a literary film in which we see three decades of social change in China in condensed form. Also the movie is mainly about two families because of an accident and a gap, one of the family from the north to the south, far away from home, but thirty years later the two families again reunited. A lot of things happened in this movie, which fully reflected the wave of the society at that time and the blow of man-made accidents to some ordinary people. Of course, the actors' performance is also noteworthy. Now that he has achieved so much with the first installment, he believes the next two will be no worse.

The film's lead actor, Wang Jingchun, talked about the role in an interview with the media after winning the award, and we realized that Liu Yaojun in the film was a perfect match for Wang Jingchun. Because Wang Jingchun also revealed that many similar things happened to him in the drama, in general, this role is really the right person. Moreover, Liu Yaojun in the drama is an ordinary person, so no matter what happens to him, there won't be too much contrast in his character. But Wang Jingchun is through the details to show everything, all the small details of life can reflect a lot, which is also an important reason why he won the award.

Actress Wing Mui is 49 years old this year, but she debuted in 1995, but has always played supporting roles, and this is also her first time in a leading role. When she won the award, she said she couldn't believe that at 49 she could still win the Silver Bear for Actress at the Berlin Film Festival. But when she was excited, she also said that she could not be as "lazy" in the future.

First of all, it's an honor to answer this question for you. At first, I thought that Arya's performance as Haiyan was too mannered, but on second thought, Haiyan, as the leader of the factory, was y influenced by the system, and her "official voice" was appropriate for the character. The character has suffered for nearly 20 years in repentance and remorse, and Elia plays amazingly well in the only two old age scenes, showing the shackles of fate that she has carried all her life and can't free herself from. Meiyu's character, Li Jingjing, and Yingming's character, Xu Cheng, hugged Yaojun and his wife tightly in tears during a hospital reunion scene, silent but hiding a thousand words. What is even more rare is that Li Jingjing also reveals a sense of girlhood beyond her age in the youth scene. Du Jiang and Wang Yuan did not drag their feet in front of the veteran actors either. Especially the former in the film's climax of a "accusation", "I just pushed him a little bit" of the "push" word before the exit, several times choked, on the line pinpointing is very in place. On the whole, Wang Xiaoshuai's A Long Time to Live has nothing to do with the misery of the era of trafficking, it is just a record of a long period of life, as well as the sadness imprinted by history on life and a little bit of light after passing through the sadness. Below I will share with you my views and insights on this issue, and I hope that my sharing on this issue will help you, and I also hope that you will like what I have to say at the same time. I think as long as you like the movie, no matter what others say about it, if you like it, you like it, and you don't have to change or explain it. The opposite is also true if you don't like it. The above answers I shared about this question are all personal opinions and suggestions, here I hope the answers I shared about this question can help you all. Here at the same time also hope that you can enjoy my sharing, at the same time I hope that if you have a better answer about this question, but also hope to share the comments out *** with the discussion of this topic. I am here to wish you all a wonderful start to the new year, as well as a good life, as well as every day happy life, as well as happy growth, thank you!

This already award-winning movie won two awards, and this movie won the award behind the long overdue production time of "Long Live the Earth", which has been in production since 2015, and the movie is one of Wang Xiaoshuai's Homeland series. I believe that such a grounded oriental movie can be more on the screen, after all, Chinese people's lives are the most grounded.

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