Little is known to us that the Japanese occupation of China is the bloodiest event in world history. And against this background, the events of the film "Living" take place. However, the director does not focus on the horrors of war, he generally tried to avoid horror stories and blood, focusing on something else.
In the story, a
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Little is known to us that the Japanese occupation of China is the bloodiest event in world history. And against this background, the events of the film "Living" take place. However, the director does not focus on the horrors of war, he generally tried to avoid horror stories and blood, focusing on something else. In the story, a group of Chinese young patriots wants to kill an important person, a man who works for the Japanese, fights with such patriots. And the main bait they choose a young actress. That's her relationship with Mr. Yi (that high-profile official) and that's the main theme of the film. To say that a film is erotic is to see it very superficially, like filming a man with an umbrella. There are many erotic scenes in the film, they are shot ingeniously, but they are not shot in order to score points from the show of intercourse itself. Here the inner struggle of the characters is important, because each of them, in addition to passion, has a range of other thoughts. Heroes penetrate into each other not only physically, but also emotionally, "it's like a worm sneaking into my heart," but she's in his too. The actress did her job inimitably. Her character wears a mask throughout the film, and she doesn't say much. Emotions hide too. With her facial expressions, her views, she tries to show us all the contradiction of her role. After all, this is a very young girl, behind whom, in addition to the task, there is also a whole cell of like-minded people. And apparently, in the end, the heroine’s nerves give up from tension. . There is so much nerve in this verbose, measured drama that the minutes after the tenth film looks in one breath. To be honest, I was still waiting for the director to add scenes of some torture, torture, to raise the degree, to debunk the halo over Mr. I. But he avoids it, and probably rightly so. The viewer is left to decipher the characters himself. I suspect that many who watched the film then argued, who and what felt, meant and so on. It's more of a plus picture, too. I would describe the film as a masterpiece. Genre as a spy war drama with bed scenes. The work of actors, decorators, operators is great. Two little minuses, I think. The first is the very beginning, it's obscure and crumpled, I almost stopped watching. Second, it would be a good idea for an international audience to give more insight into what the occupation of China was, and why those Chinese who bowed to the invaders are traitors who have no place on earth. For the sake of understanding, China has lost about 20 million civilians, not counting the huge military losses.
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