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Liu lang di qiu (2019)
The visual effects are surprisingly good.
I procrastinated for so long before I finally stepped into the cinema and it turned out that the film was definitely beyond expectation. The concept of a wandering earth is romantic enough (though it is the cataclysmic reality that is presented), and the credit is to the creator of the original story, and the adaptation buttresses the concept only too well, with the brilliant production design displaying the underground cities in a reminiscent-futuristic way, almost invoking a sort of homesickness and a sense of recognition, which I rarely feel in a sci-fi movie, since the massive Hollywood production is considered the canon in the industry. The remnants of Shanghai, the route those soldiers take to transport the thruster engine, and all the cities mentioned such as Hangzhou and Xuzhou bring a kind of geographical familiarity among the Chinsese audience. Some dialogues are amusing but some are awkward, perhaps owing to the failure in character-building, such as the flattening or delayering of characters like Han Meimei. I am not particularly comfortable with the large chunks of voiceover narration of the background story at the beginning, I am sure they could have done it less directly and more delicately.
Papillon (2017)
Charlie Hunnam
I absolutely worship Charlie Hunnam's body! And the clumsiness of Remi's role is so cute. I just can't bear to rate a film with low score (<7) if the performance given by the actors is impressive, even though, presumably, the movie itself is mediocre. I don't certainly like the flow of the story(too exhausting and lacks the necessary emotional accumulation for the coming of a much expected climax), but the chemistry between Papillon and Dega, and the cautiously developed yet solid friendship are amusing and consoling.
Xie bu ya zheng (2018)
Kevin Spacey is missing
I can't resist the ROC and the old Peking flavor in this film. Liao Fan's performance shows the real calibre of his acting skills.
I Am Heath Ledger (2017)
God's Envy
I love his vlogs!! Love all the clips Heath shot to record lots and lots of bits of ingenious and beautiful moments in his life. He was probably one of the earliest persons to shoot vlogs with certain artistry. He playing basketball in his living room reminds of Uma Thurman in the Pulp Fiction, when Mia is dancing wildly in her parlour and is absolutely oblivious of the surrounding world. All those familiar faces, Naomi Watts, Ang Lee and Ben Mendelssohn and their recollection of Heath presented what a generous person he was. He would've produced and even directed great films. Surprisingly ignorant as I was, I didn't know the relationship between Michelle and him until I watched this. The way Ang Lee and Health's friends recalled how they had met and fell in love during Brokeback Mountain and the way Michelle looked at him at the premiere are sweetly plaintive.
Jonas (2018)
Haunting
The texture of the film kinda reminds me of Halt and Catch Fire. Jonas's seek for reconciliation with himself parallels with his search for his lover. Actually I don't think they went as far as lovers, and they were more like teenage crush, but his hallucination of Nathan is still poignant. It's more about how an incident in your teenage years, how some people at that time, are going to determine your emotional reaction to subsequent events in those years leading to your adulthood, even to your middle age. They are haunting you at the most nonchalant or irrelevant moment of your life.