Some films take time to savor slowly, although it is the decline of an era, but it is extremely shocking, and this "History of the Demise of Romanticism" is like this.
Cheng Er won the Best Newcomer Director Award at the 13th Chinese Film and Media Awards and the Outstanding Young Drama Award at the 15th China Film Huabiao Awards for his self-written and self-directed crime emotional film "Border Storm", which won the 8th China Film Directors Association Annual Director Award.
Ge You is a national first-class actor, who won the Best Actor Award at the 13th Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Cinema for his film "The Great Satan", the Best Actor Award at the 47th Cannes International Film Festival for his film "Alive", becoming the first Chinese actor to win this award, and has won the Best Actor Award at the Hundred Flowers Award for Popular Film three times.
Zhang Ziyi is also an immortal goddess, and there are many classic works, "My Father and Mother" won the Best Actress Award of the Hundred Flowers Award for Popular Cinema, "Ten Faces Ambush" won the Best Actress Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards, "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "A Generation of Grandmasters" are also extremely classics.
Tadanobu Asano won the Best Actor Award at the Tokyo Film Festival for "Wind Flower", and "The Universe Is Only Me and You", "Dark Surge", "Mother", "Thor" and "My Man" are also his representative works.
The whole story ends with Ge You's hat off, which means the end of an era, a green gang boss who once surprised the beach, and finally stepped on the boat to Hong Kong alone, this kind of loneliness, I am afraid it is difficult for us to understand.
The long dialogue in the film is basically based on Shanghainese, so why not use more approachable Mandarin, perhaps because speaking Shanghainese can show the unique feeling of Shanghainese, and it must be appropriate at all times.
For example, when Wang Mama left, and when the boss was dealing with Zhang Ziyi's problem, this was handled very cleverly. Especially for people who are familiar with Shanghai, this feeling is really very obvious.
Ge You trusts and doubts asano's brother-in-law, but when dealing with the Japanese, he has no choice but to choose him, but he did not expect to kill his whole family, and when he saw the corpses of the Manchu family, that composure also made people understand that this green gang boss was really not in vain.
And later, I really didn't expect that he killed his nephew in order to force Asano Tadanobu to come out, and this person seemed bland but fierce, and this contrast was something I hadn't expected.
Zhang Ziyi's best performance is the plot of being locked up in the secret room, that kind of numbness is played to the fullest, and it is really the beauty in the bones that makes people have great fantasies, otherwise Asano Tadanobu would not have taken the risk to bring her back.
There is also a memorable role, that is, the actress's husband, ask him if he loves his wife, I think it must still be love, but in the end he also chose to leave, in fact, he had no choice, in that era, even in today's enemy of the authorities, there is only one way to die, all the guilt, and finally turned into the moment of bowing, the moment the actress also forgave her.
In the end, karma, Asano Tadanobu and the third elder were killed. The whole film also has a happy ending, but no one can be happy, because no one in this story is the winner. And the whole soundtrack and background color are relatively heavy, and many times I feel overwhelmed.
A good film, maybe things exist to die.