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影片2012年获温哥华国际电影节龙虎奖,2013年入选鹿特丹国际电影节“光明未来”单元和纽约“新作品/新导演”影展,2013年获得第十届中国独立影像展剧情片竞赛单元最高奖。
There are surprises every year in China’s embattled indie sector, but few as unexpected as this one. Li Luo has take n three chapters o f the Ming Dynasty novel Journey to the West (aka Monkey) and adapted the story of the short-term death of Emperor Li Shimin to the modern China of officials, bureaucrats and gangsters. The Dragon King perverts the course of nature and is punished with execution; the emperor tried to step in to prevent it happening, but he didn’t allow for the power of dreams. Now Li is lying on his deathbed, beset by stray ghosts. Can he be saved? The storytelling explores several layers of "reality," but coalesces into an image of China’s perennial absurdity: a new-old world where peace always breeds wealth. Brilliant, straight-faced political satire. The "ungrammatical" title, by the way, references a Chinese movie of 1927.
There are surprises every year in China’s embattled indie sector, but few as unexpected as this one. Li Luo has take n three chapters o f the Ming Dynasty novel Journey to the West (aka Monkey) and adapted the story of the short-term death of Emperor Li Shimin to the modern China of officials, bureaucrats and gangsters. The Dragon King perverts the course of nature and is punished with execution; the emperor tried to step in to prevent it happening, but he didn’t allow for the power of dreams. Now Li is lying on his deathbed, beset by stray ghosts. Can he be saved? The storytelling explores several layers of "reality," but coalesces into an image of China’s perennial absurdity: a new-old world where peace always breeds wealth. Brilliant, straight-faced political satire. The "ungrammatical" title, by the way, references a Chinese movie of 1927.
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陆支羽
4.5。1.夜行咏叹开局,神游入境,闲话西游;以这种方式借古讽今,似乎确是个好念头,看似野路子,倒也不是没大师玩过,比如考里斯马基就曾改编过[哈姆雷特];但从现实与神话的缪悠张力来看,此作气质上更贴近唐书璇的[董夫人]。2.最后喷得挺好,酒至半醺不妨诳语,明为醉梦,却更清醒,如黄粱白日。
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2020年12月27日
xlL
人和这个世界的关系是象征的 这部片是以“象征”的手法近乎完整的展现了象征本身 (我虽然想到了所谓魔幻现实主义 但其实完全不同 是反向的~ (贾科长可羞矣~
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2020年11月25日
月司
覺得光是能想到西遊記寓言體的形式就已經贏了,加之素人演員演技實在在線,以及小人書專場這種小情趣,簡直佩服。(火鍋戲是這篇一直無法大規模公映的原因麼?
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2020年11月25日