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The biggest advantage of "More Than Ending" is that it is very emotional, and sensual movies can generally see the sincerity of the creator.
The year 2003, where the film is located, should be an impressive era. In such an era, on the one hand, the haze of disease has not yet dissipated; On the other hand, on the eve of the Internet before it swept us, a single report could change the fate of a group of people.
As a first-hand witness of the era when you can walk the rivers and lakes by relying on your screen name and articles under your name, in retrospect, it may be because there is no big leap forward in network speed, it may be because the full smartphone has not yet appeared, it may be because video is not yet the mainstream network ecology, or it may be because there is no public who can brush TikTok without reading newspapers. Only then can newspapers have value, articles have meaning, and talented people can rely on articles to go to the world.
It seemed to be the best time to write, no mobile phone Weibo, no circle of friends, no short videos.
The ability of a writer is reflected in your writing skills, in the dream of getting ahead on literature as an ordinary person.
It was really the best era of writing, it was an era when all those who were called journalists had to be on the spot, and it was an era when all words were typed word by word by their own accumulation, knowledge, word by word.
So at that time, the Internet had not swept everything, and print media was king. So Han Dong, a "three-no-youth" with no money, no education, and no background, cherished journalistic ideals, and with what he wrote, he could start a career with his girlfriend Xiaozhu Xiaozhu, during which he entered the newspaper internship with the help of well-known journalist Huang Jiang, and in a case investigation, Han Dong discovered the bigger truth behind it.
On one side is a bright future, on the other is justice in the heart. Remember that Zhang Songwen's character has a line that says, "Feelings are not news, facts are news, and compassion as a journalist will only affect your judgment." "The pride, passion and hands-on is very moving. The film also tells the story of a group of people betrayed by the social context, who have betrayed each other and themselves, but finally find the process of "who I am".
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However, I have to say that the set of values of ideals and beliefs is still a little floating at the end of the story. Specifically, the first half hour is very good, and that kind of good is achieved by the intentions of the creator, the input of the performers, and the accuracy of the outline.
But the film, in the next hour, is too scattered.
Dismantling the plot of this less than 2-hour movie, a series of pictures inspire events, false victories, dark nights of souls, defeat into victory, journalists in adversity, and vaguely express what is the real journalistic ideal.
In fact, there are two things, one is the collapse of the black coal kiln in Shanxi, and the other is the systematic discrimination against hepatitis B virus carriers.
The first thing made the actor Han Dong know the profession of a journalist; The second thing brought it to the end of its journalistic mission. But in doing so, why there is something wrong with the script is exposed.
Is it to convey the theme of non-discrimination through Han Dong, a small person who went from a literary youth without education to entering the newspaper system, or through these two things he experienced in the newspaper? The film's approach is clear at a glance, making Han Dong's unsatisfactory discrimination and the collapse of the black coal kiln in Shanxi and the entire systemic discrimination against hepatitis B virus carriers, from this and the other, from the unsatisfactory of the individual to the unsatisfactory of the group, showing the truth that "people who have been drenched in rain are more likely to hold umbrellas for others". But this grafting lacks something more lubricated, lacks a more harmonious transition, and seems quite blunt, and another question is whether this rapid empathetic plot is too flattering?
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On the one hand, director Wang Jing did not over-romanticize the heroic images of journalists, but reduced them to dream-seeking young people in the north drift, tired middle-aged people, ordinary people who quarrel over ideas at any time in the editing room, and hesitate to choose in the face of choices, young people who are paid to write all night in order to rent a house, and girls who squeeze smiling faces with their boyfriends for love.
On the other hand, this idealist who never gives up hope has a complete and clear arc of characters, and the characters go through difficulties through performances and scripts to achieve ideals.
But the film layout is not good, we can't see how the times squeeze the little people, and we can't see what is the reason for Han Dong's unsatisfactory? Even the love between him and his girlfriend Xiaozhu is even pale, the shape of the little character in the film is there, and the beauty of the ideal era is there, but there is a lack of links between the dots and surfaces, and the depth of a specific point is not enough.