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Mulan (2020)
The cartoon characters have more performing skills and humor
The actors and actresses performed putting on a wooden face as if I owed them money. I still remember the hilariousness of the previous cartoon, which made my day with its humor and vitality , while this movie just depresses me and makes me nostalgic. Disney should focus on creating more interesting cartoons instead of wasting money on employing people to incarnate the cartoon characters.
The Farewell (2019)
this movie is repulsive for the native Chinese
This movie is definitely meant to be a propaganda movie to unify the so-called big family of the Chinese all over the world, or to provoke some tears of overseas Chinese or to show westerners the humanity of communist China But for anyone with a smattering knowledge of modern Chinese history , this movie can be interpreted as a story of crime and punishment. First of all, the old granny is a communist cadre belonging to the privileged class in China, The communist party took over China, banished foreign powers ,slaughtered landlords and capitalists, and confiscated any domestic and foreign property. The communist reform turned out to be a catastrophe and anti-human. Now the granny witnessed her sons to emigrated to the west ,which she had denounced and whose values are totally in conflict with what she advocated in the communist China. Can I say it is the karma of the lonely granny ,whose revolutionary behavior once contributed to the evil of the communist China? Second , the story seems to be a memoir movie of the directer Lulu Wang ,who ,according to her biography , was also the second generation of a top Chinese communist bureaucrat and is bathed in the free western sunshine, enjoying the family fortune being snatched from china by means of corruption, while the Chinese people suffer from inhuman totalitarianism , I strongly suspect she had this movie financed via the party to improve the image of the country devoid of human right. Finally, the director is very inchoate in exploiting too much rhetoric skills but ignoring the true sentiments. I do not see their family feelings have any solid foundation , only their pretentious performance intended to be sentimental. Perhaps I can only identify with Billi in her suffering of deportation to a strange land and loneliness without family relatives. But all this suffering in the movie is caused by the communist party. just think about why the sons emigrated abroad. If China were really as good as the community party brags or promises . why would the second generation feel bothered to emigrate to the west, a better alternative than China as a place to live in and to propagate?
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
is it publicity film sponsored by Singapore tourism bureau?
The film exploits variety of Asian stereotypes in western mind and try to perpetuate them. The genuine Chinese aristocrats are in low profile and not that
parvenu-like. All the film reeks of blatant philistine vulgar atmosphere of nouveau riche and sort of the liberating challenging role of american culture against the totalitarian matriarchal Asian backwater.
10,000 BC (2008)
This is a lousy film
This movie is a lousy story of a hero rescuing his love girl compounded with a fight for freedom from slavery. This is just a duplicate of many Hollywood movies with the same theme. Especially the hero's speech before the final fight just reminds me of the Brave Heart: the only difference is that the actor lacks charisma of Mel Gibson.
I am shocked by American's enchantment about this kind of prophecy and superstition. Everything is so jejune, which can not be masked by its special technological effects.
This film impresses me as very stupid and makes me doubtful of Hollywood's common sense in science.
Ji jie hao (2007)
an excellent film bound up with the Chinese chivalry traditions
This is an excellent military blockbuster which might remind people of less its American counterpart Save Private Ryan than the traditions of the Chinese chivalry which lays a stress emphasis on "Name" or "Title".
Gu Zi Di(Millet Field), who is orphaned in a famine and named after the millet field where he was picked up,tried conscientiously every means to reclaim the credit of being martyrs( the holy death) for his 47 neglected dead comrades. Considering his growing background, one might find it easy to understand his obsession with the "Name", the importance of doing justice to the name and reputation of the dead rather than leaving the holy dead in obscurity. To put the figure in a historical perspective, he is actually an ideal reincarnation of the traditional Chinese knight who pursues the justice in disregard of the cumbersome secular hypocrisy and bureaucracy.
I think the film is aimed to re-appropriate the Chinese chivalry tradition in a modern military background to inject masculine heroism into the mercantile contemporary Chinese society where a vast number of people are lost in mercenariness,not ashamed of losing their name in idolization of money-ism.
Akibiyori (1960)
an excellent film, touching and tear-provoking
just a simple family story rendered so touching: a mother and a daughter were confronted with choice of life when the father died. The dilemma involves the conflict of traditional Japanese values and modern individuality.
The story ends with the mother's self-sacrifice for the daughter's happy marriage. The disintegration of a family to embrace the new generation's happiness, in my eyes , is always cruel but inevitable
The film is tinged with nostalgia and subtle feelings. The end is my favorite: the mother's expression, half sad and suddenly lighted up... quite an antidote to the Hollywood's Happy-end