During the film festival, as long as the crew is not too poor to jingle the film, they will often hold a drinking party after the premiere of the film. Jia Zhangke is considered by many people to be a relatively poor director with no box office, but after the premiere of the movie "World", he also held a special cocktail party.

Whether it's the Venice Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, or maybe any other film festival, there are plenty of cocktail receptions every day throughout the festival. Filmmakers are usually very busy, and the cocktail party is the best stage for everyone to make friends, talk about business, and expand their contacts.

The reception for "The Aviator" was run by a public relations firm hired by Mr. Zhang and was held in a luxurious hotel. There were many guests in attendance, including the presidents of more than a dozen film festivals, such as Koslick, the president of the Berlin Film Festival, and Joffrey Gilmer, the chairman of the Sundance Film Festival.

There is competition between A-category film festivals, and if you are shortlisted for the competition unit of one film festival, you cannot be shortlisted for the competition unit of other A-category film festivals, but there is no competition between A-category film festivals and other film festivals. Films that participate in the A-category film festival competition can participate in other film festivals. Therefore, many small film festivals are very willing to invite films that have made a name for themselves in the A-category film festival to participate in their own film festivals, so as to attract more attention.

Zhang Ran has become famous all over the world with "Time and Space Warrior", and has a certain number of fans in many countries, and everyone is looking forward to his new film. Being able to invite "The Aviator" to its own film festival is definitely a good thing for the film festival.

At the reception, Zhang Ran received a lot of invitations, hoping that he could bring the film to their film festival to be screened, and the cost was all-inclusive. Among them, Joffrey Gilmmer, the chairman of the Sundance Film Festival, was the most enthusiastic, not only inviting Zhang Ran to bring "The Aviator" to Sundance for screening, but also inviting Zhang Ran to serve as a jury member of next year's Sundance Film Festival. But Zhang Ran declined, and the Sundance Film Festival began in mid-January, when he was going to take the students in his class to perform.

Zhang Ran was chatting when Robert De Niro came over with a wine glass. He looked at Zhang Ran and smiled, "Do you know why I came to watch your movie?"

Zhang Ran smiled and shook his head, I really don't know.

De Niro looked at Zhang Ran and said, "Last year, Martin's "The Aviator" started filming, and I went to visit the class. I asked him, "Why are you in such a hurry to make a new film when you have only recently released Gangs of New York?" Martin told me that when I was in Berlin I met a young man who was also going to make a movie called "The Aviator." If his "The Aviator" had been filmed, I'm afraid I wouldn't have the heart to make this movie of the same name. I was startled and asked who the young man was. He told me that he was a Chinese, and his name was Zhang Ran! So, when I saw Zhang Ran and "The Aviator" in the main competition unit, I said to myself, I must come and see it. Indeed, as Martin said, the whole film is full of imagination and is a masterpiece of genius!"

Zhang Ran bowed and saluted: "Thank you, Mr. De Niro, I am very happy to hear you say that." I'm still a long way from Mr. Scorsese, and I love your performance, Mr. De Niro, and I hope to have the opportunity to work with you!"

De Niro said seriously: "Of course, I also want to work with young people like you. If you have a suitable script, you can call me directly!" As he spoke, De Niro took out a business card and handed it to Zhang Ran.

After chatting with De Niro for a while, a French producer named Emmanuel Benby walked over. He told Zhang Ran that he would invite 20 famous directors such as Zhang Ran, the Coen brothers, and Tom Tykwe, and each director to shoot a 5-minute short film to tell a love story that happened in Paris and pay tribute to Paris and the film.

Zhang Ran was stunned, this is not "Paris, I Love You", he has seen this movie, and several of the short films are quite interesting. It was an interesting attempt to participate in the project, and he carefully asked about the time, budget, technology, etc., and finally agreed to work on the film.

The party lasted until three o'clock in the morning, when everyone dispersed. Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu held hands, walking on the stone road, the sea breeze was blowing, but it had a unique flavor.

The next day, the two woke up at almost eleven o'clock. They washed up and were ready to find a place to eat. When he walked to the hotel lobby, Zhang Ran picked up a house book and flipped through it.

4 of the 10 film critics in the field magazine gave a score of 5, 3 gave a 4, 1 gave a 2, and 2 scored 1, and the evaluation was a bit polarizing, but it was mainly positive. With an average score of 3.7, it ranks second among all films.

The house magazine specially published a review of "The Aviator", and the article sang the praises of the movie: "The Aviator is a story about the glory and dreams of the little people, it uses the language of a unique film to tell the trivial things of life, and reminisces the glory of the past with strange light and shadow.

"The Aviator" reminds people of many excellent Chinese movies, such as "Farewell My Concubine" and "Alive", all of which use the fate of a small person to refract the inner perseverance under the great changes in society. What is valuable is that when it comes to the emotional processing of the old melancholy and the helplessness of reality, the film avoids cheap sensationalism, but uses brilliant lens language to dissolve the heaviness and sentimentality that the film should have, which is conducive to the audience always receiving information in a more excited state, and on the other hand, it will not let the dark and negative content affect the film's review. It is particularly worth mentioning that the two leading actors of the film, Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu, both show the extremely accurate life state that the characters should have.

"The Aviator" is not so much an inspirational story about a little man building an airplane, but rather a farewell and nostalgia for the end of a specific era in China. Through the words and deeds of a group of ordinary people, you can see their calmness and calmness towards the ups and downs of China's society and people's livelihood, and their helplessness and self-deconstruction of China's political and economic changes. What is pleasant and sad is that the film does not depict these things in the front, but what I really want to tell you is this, to see the big from the small, to see the small, this is where "The Aviator" shines. Suffice it to say, if you understand this movie, you understand the changes in China in the past 20 years from 1978 to 1997!"

Cinema Shunbo is the most important film magazine in Japan, and it is the most authoritative film award in Japan held by Cinema Shunbao every year. And "Film Xunbao" is full of praise for "The Aviator": "This film integrates this profound historical change into it with great weight. The glory of the old times fills this movie like air, giving the film a tragic undertone, and Qiao Zhengfei in the movie, like Zhang Ran's favorite "Seven Samurai", uses their delusions and self-indulgent strength to make a final fight for that kind of dignity that has disappeared. ”

Variety and The Hollywood Reporter are the most authoritative film magazines in the United States, and these two magazines are not only the most professional, but also represent the views of the Hollywood industry in a concentrated manner. Every year during the awards season, the reviews given by these two magazines are often representative of the mainstream of public opinion. However, in the evaluation of "The Aviator", the two magazines gave diametrically opposed evaluations.

"Variety" considered "The Aviator" to be an epoch-making great movie, giving it a perfect score of 100. Variety wrote in the review: "The movie is amazingly beautiful, every picture is like a painting, independent and aesthetic, and the unique way the camera moves has a picture-like beauty." The use of lighting in the play also cleverly clarifies several eras and corresponding meanings, for example, the picture in 78 is the most seriously exposed, and the picture has a strong sense of burr, and in 92, there are many backlit lenses, reflecting the conflict between the characters and reality, and in 97, it is close to reality. The creativity of the film in the screen ratio is a highlight, the picture of the movie adopts a standard ratio of 1.37:1, and the dream part uses a 1.85:1 format, the most shocking thing is that when Qiao Zhengfei pilots the plane to take off, the picture of the movie slowly unfolds and becomes a 2.35:1 ratio, just like opening a scroll of paintings, giving people a strong impact on their hearts!

However, The Hollywood Reporter considered "The Aviator" a terrible movie, and they only rated it with a score of 50. The article reads: "'Time Soldier' allows us to witness the birth of a genius director, while 'The Aviator' allows us to witness the fall of a genius director. "The Aviator" really doesn't feel like a movie, but like a stage play. One of the most un-like things about movies is its lens language and scene scheduling.

It's a good idea to use different lighting to represent different eras, but a lot of overexposed and backlit lenses make the picture too harsh, which makes it uncomfortable for the audience to get into the play. Because of this, many reporters chose to leave, and everyone felt very uncomfortable.

Another thing that makes "The Aviator" dramatic is that the scenes of the movie lack of change, and the picture of the movie has no depth, only transverse. Therefore, the action of the characters is also like a stage performance, borrowing a staircase and stacking the characters on it, like a marionette, and the texture of life is shackled. ”

Also giving a bad review was the old British magazine Empire, which wrote: "The Aviator has a good idea and applies a lot of social news to the film. However, Zhang Ran's use of these news is only scratching the surface, and does not go into depth to express the absurd realities of contemporary Chinese society as accurately as Jia Zhangke: consumption frenzy, social collapse, bureaucratic corruption, and the gap between the rich and the poor, all of which plague China's current social problems.

In the movie, we can see all kinds of memory symbols about 78, 92, and 97 China, green uniforms, big-character posters, video recorders, BB players, and the props of these times can easily drag the audience from the big screen into the era in which they once lived, and then evoke inner resonance. But it is a pity that the way the whole story unfolds is so banal and boring, choosing a specific era background, the story does not have much real relevance and dramatic tension with the background of this era.

Zhang Ran seems to be too obsessed with arranging these past memories in the movie, and in the storyline arrangement of the movie, the characters have become chicken ribs and become the foil of the times, that is to say, the people who are the core of the movie have begun to disappear, and they just represent the various established characters that we often see in the newspapers.

A large amount of news integration leads to the understanding of the emotions of the characters staying on the surface, just like the main line of the changes of the times in China that is talked about in the movie, but the person as the protagonist of the event is only a face-painted symbol, and a large section of the camera looks at each other with two expressionless faces, but we can't feel the heart of the character!"

The reviews of "The Aviator" are a bit polarizing, but overall, they are still predominantly positive. People who are more familiar with these media have found an interesting phenomenon: the more avant-garde media almost all give positive reviews, while the media that give bad reviews tend to be more conservative.

Amid the controversy, "The Aviator" has skyrocketed in popularity, becoming the most watched film in the entire film festival! )