The movie "No Questions Asked" has a lot of important points to see, miss the regret.
This movie was initially made to commemorate Tsinghua University's centennial anniversary, but now I see that after this movie, the term "anniversary movie" will be redefined.
I didn't expect much from this movie at first -- cross-genre, big narrative, positive energy, and political guidance -- there are too many of these types of movies on Douban that don't even dare to open the ratings. But after watching the nearly two and a half hours of the movie, I was y immersed, and to know the Tsinghua graduates sent WeChat --
You Tsinghua University this put the cattle, with this film can not only profoundly commemorate the centennial anniversary, but also other art film institutions far behind, for their own heart, for the people to set up their own lives,
The "No Questions, No West, East" is the most important film in the history of Tsinghua University. No Questions Asked is a glittering movie that will eventually be proven by history.
As a commemorative movie, No Questions Asked not only depicts Tsinghua alumni, Tsinghua University, and the Southwest Associated University, but also teaches the world how to set the right heart, establish learning, and how to find one's own heart. The question mentioned in the opening scene of the movie is still echoing in my mind hours later, "If you knew in advance what you were going to face in life, would you still have the courage to come here?"
Time will tell if this is a sparkling masterpiece. If you miss it, you've been left behind in time again
First, let's talk about the 4 story lines of this movie.
The first line: the intellectuals search for the meaning of life: lost, self-denial, correction, restart, and ultimately to achieve "no intention to stay or go, looking at the sky clouds rolled up" of the great realm.
Wu Linglan was very ambitious when he was admitted to Tsinghua University, but he soon lost his way in Tsinghua Park, and after experiencing the vicissitudes of change, in the process of constantly denying and amending himself, he found his own heart. He is the first generation of Tsinghua students, the period of the Southwest Association of University, has been a professor.
(Chen Chusheng as Wu Linglan, during the period of the Southwest Associated University, he was already a professor in the Faculty of Letters)
The second line: the difficult trade-off between home and country.
Shen Guangyao was the son of a wealthy family from Guangzhou, his ancestors had experienced the glory of "three generations and five generals", and his mother felt that "fame is just a flash in the pan", so his parents hoped that he would be able to do his studies in peace and quiet, but he eventually volunteered to participate in the most brutal war, becoming an air force pilot. But he eventually volunteered to fight in the most brutal of wars, becoming an air force pilot, and died in the service of his country.
(Wang Lihong plays the role of a Tsinghua student who later volunteers to join the Air Force)
The third line: During the special historical period, facing the current of the times, how does an individual grasp the straw of fate? And how to find the heart?
Wang Minjia, who works in a hospital, lied for the sake of vanity - she had laid flowers for the leader when she was a child, and in order to fulfill her lie, she went to Tiananmen Square every year to take a photo (just like the souvenir book of a photo a year, which is very popular on the Internet nowadays). In a special period under history, this lie was exposed, and she was swept into the flood of the times, nine deaths.
(Zhang Ziyi as Wang Minjia, after 2 deaths, she found her heart)
After the disaster, she cherished the man who held her bottom with love even more. The second time the flood of times sweeps in, she drops everything to find the man who saved her initially and held the bottom of her life with love, will they be reunited, or will they miss each other forever? The movie doesn't give an answer.
Chen Peng is an orphan who, at a very young age, has to choose between love and his ideals, but he never gives up on love, and ultimately devotes himself to his ideals.
(Huang Xiaoming played Chen Peng, he put into the motherland's nuclear industry development and construction, and paid everything for it, the victory return, waiting for him and what is it?)
The fourth line: modern society, in front of the interests (victory and defeat) and the heart, how to choose? When will you put aside all distractions and do what you want and should do?
Zhang Guoguo is in the modern workplace (advertising industry), where he is at the mercy of all sides. For the sake of profit and "winning", he sees every trick in the book, and he is not hesitant to speculate on human nature with the greatest malice. Until one day, he encounters a problem that is more important than winning or losing: the four little lives of the quadruplets that are related to him, what will he choose to do in the examination room of life?
(Zhang Zhen plays Zhang Goguo, a career elite, who is having a hard time making life choices, but luckily he's on the right track)
The movie adopts a non-linear narrative approach, with four story lines interspersed with each other in a tightly intertwined manner.
Wu Linglan in the first line represents the first generation of Tsinghua students, who shoulder the important responsibility of settling down, establishing a life, aligning the family, and leveling the world; the second line represents the second generation of Tsinghua students who, during the period of the Southwest Association of Universities, joined the military to protect the family and defend the country through the baptism of blood and fire; and the third line represents the Tsinghua students who reported to the great leader in the period of "Early Warning and Late Reporting". The third line is to the great leader of the Tsinghua students in the "early to show and late to report" period, they were wrapped up in the era of the torrent washed in the precarious apprehension to find the direction of life; the fourth line is the modern Tsinghua students, in the baptism of the market economy, should be where to go, is the topic they have to face.
The four threads have a clear relationship of inheritance, and the core issue explored in each thread remains unchanged, that is: the heart -- what is the meaning of life? What is the meaning of life, and how should one establish one's own heart? The answer the movie gives is: follow the great love in your heart.
The most successful aspect of this movie is that it has the span of a century-long historical documentary movie and the depth of humanistic contemplation.
Because it's a movie commemorating the 100th anniversary of a famous school, there will inevitably be some impassioned, hypnotic sequences, which is a compromise with history and politics. But here's the good part: you'll come away from this movie thinking: lines aren't that important a movie element.
It's the kind of thing that makes you believe that a young man of his time, y immersed in that dimension of time and space, would have shouted out that kind of righteousness of his country and would have made that kind of seemingly illogical sacrifice of his life for the sake of his country.
(Running in Tsinghua Garden)
Excellent movies make you forget the flaws of the plot through beautiful light and shadow and imaginative scenes, while this movie makes you rethink your own heart and go back to the big issue of settling down through a philosophical and compassionate temperament in which the form is scattered but the spirit is not.
The movie has several vistas of Beijing's congested traffic and parking lot-like overpasses, which make you even more confused when you compare it to a hundred years of history in which young people have been swept along by the current of the times - where is the meaning? Where does my heart go? The good thing is that in the end, there is an end and a destination.
Another part of the movie that touched me was that it didn't choose the alumni who are soaring like a normal school anniversary movie, but put all the stories on a few ordinary people, or even just on ordinary people who are somewhat related to ordinary students.
And those towering mountains appear in the movie's ending egg, so the movie has the "strongest egg ever". The producers of the film gave this 7-minute egg a name "seven minutes to read the bones of China" - these 7 minutes recorded in the movie to passer-by A quietly appeared, for the country to make outstanding contributions to the academic mountains: Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin, Xu Zhimo, Qian Zhongshu, Zhu Ziqing, and others - who are both famous alumni of Tsinghua and historical figures.
(Promotional photo for the movie "No Questions Asked"
A news report: "No Questions Asked" held a meet-and-greet with its creators at a university campus, and the end-credits egg surprisingly drew 26 consecutive rounds of applause from the audience.
("No Questions Asked" held a meet-and-greet with its creators on a university campus, and 26 rounds of applause were given to the ending egg)
Referring to the lead actors Zhang Ziyi and Huang Xiaoming.
(Zhang Ziyi "No Questions Asked" stills)
Actors do what Zhang Ziyi does, there are a lot of scripts available for her to choose from, and publicly reported movies she is involved in are already lined up for 2025, and she's not exactly an alumna of Tsinghua, so why is she on board for this movie? In addition to the script impressed her, but also because: the movie character Wang Minjia, there has been Zhang Ziyi's own temperament, stubborn, stubborn, moth to the flame.
Some people have opened a post on Douban looking for a scolding, "In addition to prostitutes is the widow of the old chapter this time to play a what?"
Putting aside this kind of scolding, Zhang Ziyi's past movies do have a kind of traceable image characteristics. That is: tough, stubborn and moth-eaten.
Tough, determined, hated-to-the-bone Xiaoliu in "Romancing the Dead"
(Zhang Ziyi as Xiaoliu in "Romancing the Dead")
Tough, tenacious, never-give-up soldier's family member in "Under the Peaceful Wheel".
(Zhang Ziyi as the displaced soldier's family member in "Peace Boat - Down")
Gong Er, who can't swallow that breath for the rest of his life and is willing to risk his life for a chance to win in "The Grandmaster of the Generation".
(Zhang Ziyi as Gong Er in "The Grandmaster")
Shang Qinqin in "The Favourite", who faced the world's eyes and prejudice, obstinately pursued love and lived with tenacity.
(Zhang Ziyi as Shang Qinqin in The Favourite)
Meng Xiaodong, the famous actress in Mei Lanfang, who couldn't let go or forget, but couldn't take that step either.
(Zhang Ziyi as Meng Xiaodong in "Mei Lanfang")
The beautiful Empress in "The Night Banquet" who can't let go of her hatred, but can't take that step into reality either.
(Zhang Ziyi as the Empress in "The Night Banquet")
The famous Kyoto geisha who remembered the middle-aged man for decades in "Memoirs of a Geisha" and tenaciously survived only to repay his kindness.
(Zhang Ziyi as Geisha Sayuri in "Memoirs of a Geisha")
The youngest sister of the dance technique who bo that era by herself in "Ten Sides".
(Zhang Ziyi as the dancing girl in "Ambush from Ten Faces")
The prostitute who loves so much she can't help herself and ends up hurting herself in "2046".
(Zhang Ziyi as an obsessed prostitute in "2046")
The maid in "Hero" who is y in love with her master and develops a murderous streak out of jealousy, and ultimately sacrifices herself to death.
(Zhang Ziyi as Ru Yue, a maid of honor in "Hero")
Yu Jiao Long, a venomous, vicious, but unrelentingly loving woman in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
(Zhang Ziyi as Jade Jiao Long in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
The infatuated and innocent young girl Zhaodi in "My Father and Mother".
(Zhang Ziyi as Zhaodi in "My Father's Mother"
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It can be seen that, no matter which movie she is in, Zhang Ziyi plays the role of a kind of infatuation and can't let go of it, tenacious, determined, and not hesitant to sacrifice her life, which may be related to her own upbringing. In this movie, she played live by the flood of the times Wang Minjia, a bit of "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" in Monica Bellucci.
And then there's Wong.
(Stills from Huang's "No Questions Asked"
Some say, "If the godfather doesn't smile evilly, I'm still willing to give him a chance. The movie, which will probably become Huang's acting turnaround, shows the kind of innocence and cuteness of a polytechnic senior, as well as the kind of strong stubbornness of a poor man's child who becomes a family man early in life.
Although there is also a smile, but without that evil after, immediately three-dimensional and clean.
"No questions asked" the title of this film taken from the Tsinghua University song, the upper and lower lines of the lyrics are "ware knowledge for the first, literature and art from its, moral and speech, no questions asked, who is the introduction of the West East, which introduced the school's work, colleagues a view, great wind".
This movie makes the school anniversary movie a new thing.
Very worth watching.