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4/10
Too many storylines
qqml24 September 2020
Too many storylines makes the movie long and complicated.
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10/10
Forget our own value
s-711156 May 2018
The ending of the movie reminds us that no matter what we go through in life, we should never forget our own value. We all go through difficult times and are susceptible to forgetting who we are. The ending moves us by reminding us that we are precious no matter what we've gone through and no matter what we are forced to deal with. It is an important reminder to everyone living in an ever-changing world.
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A poorly crafted, over-the-top cosmetically beautified pretentious film
MovieIQTest26 May 2018
The whole film just looked too pretentiously fake. The screenplay was terrible, just a notch higher than those so-called Chinese comedies. The nostalgic retrospection back to the 1960s, simply looked unconvincingly phony. The colors were too rich, the hairdos and hairstyles were just too modern, the dresses specially designed for those young women were just laughably modern. The screenplay was so pretentiously and poorly patched up and further deteriorated by very bad editing. The dialog, well, lot of them felt forced and unnatural. But to me, the most and worst arrangement was the color tones of this film, it's just too bright and too colorful when the scenes in the 1960s were shown. The first segment of this film was about the advertisement agency in modern day lost the business to another agency by a cunning and disloyal manager, then suddenly, it jumped more than half a century back, but the colors ridiculously became even richer and more colorful. It's just made me laugh uncontrollably, those dresses, those hairstyles, didn't feel the least correct when China and the Chinese people looked like in 1960s. The storyline, the plot and scenario, not only none of them looked real and believable, but also felt so hollow without any expectation, so phony and so bored that resulted me to quit and gave up watching. What a MEH........
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4/10
Dispersed and disordered
yoggwork18 February 2019
Dispersed and disordered, there is the shape of literary and artistic films, but there is no God of literature and art. The sweat of the Master of the Republic of China was destroyed in ten years. What good gifts do the so-called universities and such parties have to offer?
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10/10
Everyone can feel
t-192416 May 2018
The message of the movie is very poignant and is something that everyone can feel and relate to. We all go through life with certain outside expectations and influences, but it's when we listen to our inner voice we all feel happiest.
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9/10
It's a beautiful movie
gaodan-168756 May 2018
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It's a beautiful movie, the piano is playing, zhang ziyi's back to the lens on the face of the time, do not know why the tears can not be controlled. Said the film story mode is poor, I don't agree with, because of the splicing model answers to let the audience have an incentive to pursue movies, will only make an "old" story more attractive.
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10/10
forever young
t-052816 May 2018
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People put themselves in the midst of busyness, and there is a sense of numbness. But the truth is lost, and your youth is only these days. What is real? What you see, what you hear, what you do, and who you are with, there is a sense of peace and joy that is overflowing from the depths of the heart without shame. Thank you for letting me see the soul and heart of the movie.
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10/10
hope to see more
o-919486 August 2018
Someone said zhangziyi never die. but this time i hope she is not.my grandmother experienced the same thing.people left her alone because they thoutht she was dead.luckily she was not although she cannot hear anymore.that thing really happend in cultural revolution times. It is a good thing to these experience being casted in movies.it is a good start.
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9/10
Moistening the heart
e-096696 May 2018
The dead are gone, the living ones. Seeing this movie on the big screen is the luck of our generation. Each story is a microcosm of The Times, and it is true that the true emotion penetrates, moistening the eyes and moistening the heart.
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10/10
warm and spiritual film
q-678546 May 2018
A very warm and spiritual film! A very warm and spiritual film!
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8/10
final word of PRC director
vinwood1024 April 2022
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Li Fangfang's level of story writing was good enough to rival that of Liu Haoran and Tan Songyun later on in Seventeen Don't Cry Li Chen and Hao Lei 20 years ago. Even then Hao Lei was a more independent and well-developed character than Tan Songyun. Li Chen's performance was more solemn and deeper than Liu Haoran's. For me, as a fan of the director 20 years ago, I was very pleased to see the school's Tsinghua's School Day Theme Film. Even if the film has problems controlling the many story lines, considered in its central spirit, it is still a masterpiece of the third generation of directors.

The first generation, directed I think by Zhang Shichuan, when the world's film technology was taking off, ensured that this craft was something we could do ourselves. They had all the commercial elements, the technical skills, and their own plotting and storytelling skills.

The second generation of Ang Lee, in terms of craft, has not changed from the first generation's position at the world level, except that it has gradually been able to cut into its own spiritual and philosophical ideas, which is the beginning of a real expression of itself.

The third generation would be those from around the 1970s, one coming from among Lu Chuan, Huang Bo and Ning Hao. Together with Li Fangfang, this is the best era. They grew up in families where they didn't have to worry about food, they grew up with Japanese Astro Boy, American Disney, their own Black Cat Sheriff, and when they reached university they could again just open up all kinds of current 404 pages. Their environment was, objectively speaking, the best 30 years in the 300 years of their country. They have perfectly avoided all the minefields of bullying at the national level, and have felt the strength and responsibility at the national level commensurate with their size.

So when these people look at the past, it is very rare to be able to look objectively and calmly at these past 300 years and face up to the help they have encountered and the stupid things they have done.

So Wang Lihong's life, educated by Michelle in Kunming and killed when he hadn't even thought his life through, is almost prophetic of Tsinghua's finest students and teachers. And then Wang Lihong's people drive planes in the 1930s, Huang's people made missiles in the 1950s, watched tank in the 1980s, and still think about trying to develop the economy to give hope to those who come after them as the new century turns the page. So you see, Chen Chang's character is a man who was quiet in his speech. If he had spoken about the things he did at school at the same age, you wouldn't have seen this film.1989 is one of the worlds you shouldn't be mention in PRC. You see, when you look at the film here, you feel that even if you are not lucky enough to reach this level, you still wish you had the courage to join them and fill the void in this country with your life. Even if such courage, in the end, it was Zhang Zhen who said to every onlooker: Guess.

The later post-80s and post-90s don't have the same luck. Even if they have the same courage as hero, they still have to considered this: In the 30s, were there any Agarwood & Ge ware bowls in your house; in the 50s, were there any Lang kiln red in your teachers' office that was used to insert feather duster for it's lid broken; in contemporary times, are there any offices worth hiding bottles of good wine.

So the fragmented information brought by the internet can make it difficult to take in systematic knowledge. After the fragmented information is controlled by a lot of entertainment and direction, the more the leeks that come out meet the national standard of consumption. So there won't be any fourth or fifth generation directors anywhere. That's the final word of PRC director.

Admire your courage and envy your luck.
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