The Sun Also Rises

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06/15/2017 This movie is sure not for the majority of the public, If there is no good background music, hardly will anyone survive the two hours. It seems to be nonsense, dreadful, ridiculous, but this is a great movie for Jiang Wen expressing his wish and thoughts without saying a word of it. Noticing the four stories is between 1958 to 1976, this is exactly the time of "Great Leap Forward" and "Culture Revolution", the madness of the mother, the sex suppression in Teacher Ling's story, all these is the critic of the time back then. Mad mother: About the mad mother, she did not allow her son go to school, go to work, and breaking the dishes. After she pulled all thing together in the stone house, his son accidentally break them because the pulled dishes are too vulnerable. Back to 1958 and 1976, in "mad China", students are not going to school and organize them to break Cultural relics of traditional China, also the relation of social, friends and family are heavily damaged because of "Culture Revolution". Just like the pulled broken dishes, China today having pulled broken culture, relation, and social(If you know "Death of Wang Yue"). In the movie, the mad mother said to his son "No, it's for you do not understand, but not for you not see it..", the word is the opinion of the Jiang Wen for how people thinking about the age in recent 30 years. Sex suppression: In the third story, from the craze attitude of the public to this behavior, the suppression of the girls in the kitchen, the nurse, we can peer the critical sensitivity to the sex topics. I think teacher Ling suicide in the end for sex suppression. The sun, The sun is a great metaphor for the end of the age, not only the depressing and mad age, but also beauty of the old time, what China have today is totally different, I mean many good spirits and stuff losing. Jiang Wen's father fight in the Korean war, and his image in the movie is the tough image of solder or man back then, he actually favor this image and you can find it in his other films. One interesting thing is that Jiang Wen were banned making films from 2000 to 2005 for his movie "Devils on the Doorstep" by SARFT(China), so maybe he implies the end of his banned age as well. See more 03/25/2016 I love this movie. It may require some background knowledge of China history to understand how velvet is used to deliver some message in the story. The destroying of pottery implies the incident occurring during the cultural revolution. The death of professors Liang also tells the destiny of people living in the periods of Cultural Revolution when there are extraordinary chaos. People were suspicious of each other and many got accused. See more 09/08/2012 A fully underestimate movie .Dreamy colors and fantasy romanticism .This movie has beautiful cinematography ,amazing artistic sense with beautiful Joe Hisaishi music . Some of the audience just not ready to receive this kind of art manifestation. A masterpiece of Art . See more 12/14/2011 One of Jiang Wen's obscure films. Many people find it dreadful. See more 05/22/2011 With beautiful scenery,sensational music and the humor of Jiang Wen. This one is quite entertaining and refreshing..but don't take it too serious=) See more 12/30/2010 I like the song was singed by Anthony Wong Chau-Sang See more Read all reviews

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