As the camera slowly pulls into the air, the picture freezes on the ancient Great Wall winding across the vast land, as the faint music sounds, with the subtitles rolling line by line, the whole audience gives a standing ovation, the applause is like a storm, as if to overturn the dome of the movie palace, and gradually turns into rhythmic high-fives, 3 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes...... It's like going to drum forever......" When I returned to my room after breakfast, the interpreter took out a newspaper and read it vividly.

Tang Yuqiang listened attentively, with smug smiles on his faces, as if he had been praised by a teacher.

Xu Wangqiu interrupted the translator's words: "Don't read the media reports on the premiere, read what they say about the movie." ”

Tang Yuqiang was happy to hear it, and when he heard that Xu Wangqiu didn't let him read it, he immediately shouted: "Don't, read this one and then read the others! This newspaper really praises us, how exciting this sounds!"

When the translator saw Tang Yuqiang say this, he looked at Xu Wangqiu to see what he said.

Xu Wangqiu said with a smile: "You just want to hear the foreign media praise you? Okay! If you want to listen, just continue to listen!"

The translator smiled and continued: "Akina Nakamori's face was full of tears, and the tears reflected her charming oriental smile......;

...... The reporter interviewed two foreign colleagues on the spot, and a gray-haired French reporter said that "A Game of Chess That Never Finished Chess" is better than the German film "Tin Drum" that won the Palme d'Or the year before last. He said that he had become a fan of Xu Wangqiu. And the young female reporter of a film weekly in the United States thinks that "A Game of Chess That Never Ends" is Xu Wangqiu's best film, and it is the best film at this year's West Berlin Film Festival, and if she were a judge, she would definitely award the Golden Bear Award to it......"

After reading the report on the premiere, the translator began to read the film review: ""A Game of Chess That Never Finished Chess" has no exaggerated personal heroism, no didactic value output, and some are just ordinary people who are helpless in the war......

At nine o'clock in the morning, Xu Wangqiu and the crew members of "A Game of Unfinished Chess" began to be interviewed by the media. Although the three major film festivals have a history of several decades, they are far from being as professional as those of later generations, and many things are handled by professional teams. In the future, the older crews will hire a professional public relations company to arrange interviews when they come to the film festival, and they will arrange everything. Now there is no such team to take care of it, they have to deal with it themselves.

Xu Wangqiu arranged the interview location in a Chinese restaurant not far from the hotel, and they could not find a better place, so they could only trouble their compatriots. Due to the large number of media who wanted to interview them, Xu Wangqiu divided the restaurant into two parts, one side of the interview area and the other waiting area. The format of the interview was a round-table interview, in which eight reporters took turns asking questions, and the interview lasted for 15 minutes, and after 15 minutes, another group of reporters were interviewed.

Just when Xu Wangqiu and the others were busy giving interviews, film reviews about "A Game of Chess That Didn't End" came out one after another from all over the world, except for the Italian media's various faults in the film, and the words were sour, other media almost overwhelmingly praised "great epic", "masterwork", "great" and other adjectives were used in the evaluation of the film without hesitation.

"A Game of Chess That Hasn't Been Finished" is a realistic movie, but the audiovisual style is surreal, and many people who have seen this movie say that it is a surreal realistic movie. "Sight and Hearing" is one of the most famous film magazines in the United Kingdom and one of the most influential film magazines in the world, and after watching the film, they published an article titled "A Surrealist Realist Film".

Film critic Tony Wren wrote in the article: "A Game of Chess That Doesn't End is a subjective, stream-of-consciousness film. The whole movie has a lot of subjective shots, and part of the content is the subjective feelings of Guo Yishan and Songbo. From the beginning of Guo Yishan's recollection, the audience entered the heart of Guo Yishan, his heart was a little abnormal, the tone of the movie became very strange from the normal tone, the picture was yellow and green, and grayish, which perfectly showed the inner state of Guo Yishan at this time. As the story progresses, the grayscale of the picture continues to strengthen, and by the time Guo Yishan's wife and daughter are killed by Dongying soldiers, they completely lose their color. When Guo Yishan cheered up and went to Dongying to find his son, he was full of hope, and the whole world had color. However, when he learns that his son was shot dead by the Toei military police, he once again falls into the abyss of despair, and the whole world is only gray with despair. It wasn't until he was about to commit suicide that an abandoned baby evoked hope for his life, and his world took on color again. Songbo's experience is different from that of Yi Shan, but their mental journey is almost the same.

In addition to the color changes, in order to perfectly represent the inner state of the characters, a very unique technique is also adopted, without any soundtrack, but through the changes in the breathing of the characters themselves outside the picture, as well as sobbing and other sounds to render the atmosphere when recalling. This is a very unique approach that perfectly blends the real space with the psychological space. In addition, the lenses of the movie are all hand-held photography, the lenses are swaying, and the scenery seems to be near and far. Through this series of means, Xu Wangqiu perfectly presents the inner state of Guo Yishan and Songbo. ”

The French newspaper "Le Monde" commented on the movie: "Xu Wangqiu showed a very high artistic standard in "Hoe Rape" and "Falcon", and "A Game of Chess That Never Ends" stepped forward, showing his mastery atmosphere. Among them, his analysis of war and human nature is thought-provoking and reverie. The film spans 42 years from 1924 to 1956, with the narrative of two chess players from two families, Guo Yishan and Songbo, supplemented by turbulent years and important events in different periods. ”

The Times's evaluation of "A Game of Chess That Never Ends" is: "On the surface, "A Game of Chess That Never Ends" is a movie about history and war, but in essence, it is about how two people who were severely traumatized in the war, Guo Yishan and Songbo, were redeemed and reborn spiritually, and this is a movie about spiritual salvation." Through the subjective narrative angle and the use of surreal techniques, the film tells the psychological journey of Guo Yishan and Songbo in the past 40 years, and perfectly presents the inner pain and struggle of the characters, thus sublimating the narrative theme and humanistic connotation of the film. ”

Cinema is a very authoritative Italian magazine with a great international influence. In 1943, Winberto Barbaro published the Manifesto of New Realism in Cinema, which laid the theoretical foundation for the emergence of Italian neorealist cinema. As a specialized magazine, Cinema is not as sour as other Italian newspapers, praising A Game of Chess as a great film.

"Last October, Marco Müller held an exhibition in Turin with his collection of 135 Chinese films, which shocked the Italian film industry," the article reads. Everyone was surprised to find that China has a very long tradition of realistic films. Renowned film critic Darcirati exclaimed that "Angel on the Road" is a miracle because it embodies a neorealist approach that predates Italy's. The content of "A Game of Chess That Hasn't Been Finished" is realistic, telling the grievances of two families in China and Japan over the past 42 years, but the expression is surreal, and the audio-visual style and expression techniques make the whole movie have a grotesque temperament. A few days after the movie was released, Xu Wangqiu and the others issued a declaration, saying that they would make a movie for the people. "A Game of Chess That Never Ends" is the embodiment of this concept, and they are creating a new kind of Chinese realist cinema by blending modern techniques on the basis of traditional realism. ”

The famous film critic of the New York Times, Vincent Camby, also praised "A Game of Chess That Never Ends": "A few days ago, when Xu Wangqiu and his partners issued a manifesto in West Berlin, declaring that they were against elitism and that movies should serve the people, it caused a lot of controversy, and many European media sneered at them. Like a poor boy in the country who declares that he wants to marry the king's daughter, people think that he is inadequate and a fool who has never seen the world. However, after the release of "A Game of Chess That Didn't End", those who laughed at Xu Wangqiu at the beginning found that the real fool was himself. The film is so outstanding, so fantastic, and full of creativity. This is a film that pleases the audience and does not miss the critics. ”

The title of "Variety", one of Hollywood's two authoritative media outlets, is "A Game of Unfinished Chess Saves the West Berlin Film Festival", and the article said: "This year's West Berlin Film Festival has a bleak star, lacks big-name stars, the quality of the shortlisted films is mediocre, the lack of attention, and the films released have hardly caused waves." By all accounts, the festival was lackluster, but the advent of "A Game of Chess" changed everything. ”

In addition to this, Britain's "Premiere" called it "one of the greatest civilian epics, a masterpiece of creativity", and The Hollywood Reporter praised it as "a film that really goes deep into the soul......

Because the German media highly praised "A Game of Chess That Never Ends", calling it the best film of the West Berlin Film Festival in the last decade, it aroused great interest among German audiences. It's a pity that movie tickets have long been sold out, and many people can't buy tickets if they want to see it, so they have called the film festival and asked for more screenings. At the strong request of the audience, the organizing committee added three more shows, but in less than an hour, the movie tickets were sold out again.

If it were 40 years later, the domestic media would have blown "A Game of Chess That Didn't End" into the sky. However, the media is not as developed as later generations, and the repercussions caused by the film in West Berlin have not been transmitted back to China, and the media is now more serious, and there is relatively little coverage of entertainment news, and even if it is transmitted back to China, it will not be reported on a large scale.

The West Berlin Film Festival is quickly coming to an end, and most of the films in the main competition have already been released, and the biggest suspense for the media now is the attribution of the awards.

Journalists from all over the world almost unanimously believe that "A Game of Chess That Hasn't Been Finished" is the biggest favorite for the Golden Bear, and none of the films screened so far can compare to "A Game of Chess That Hasn't Been Played." The only doubt was on the jury, whose members were mostly Europeans and deeply influenced by the New Wave, and were what Xu Wangqiu called elitists. As the target of Xu Wangqiu's opposition, it is entirely possible that they will not give Xu Wangqiu any awards.

Seeing that everyone was worried that the jury would not give the award, a French female reporter laughed and joked: "Maybe we should prepare some Rotten Tomatoes, if they don't give the Golden Bear, then we will throw them with Rotten Tomatoes." ”