"Heaven is Destined" tells four stories, which are based on the case of Hu Wenhai's murder of a village official, Zhou Kehua's cross-provincial robbery, Deng Yujiao's assassination of an official, and Foxconn's fourteen consecutive jumps...

Before watching the movie, Xu Hui was ready to face a bunch of long shots - Jia Zhangke's movies all have long shots!

After watching it for a few minutes, Xu Hui felt a little uncomfortable!

Lao Jia is too ruthless this time!

It's so straightforward!

The above cases are described in an almost blank manner, and the violence is unobstructed!

Unchecked power, imbalances in the distribution of wealth, indifference between people, distortion of singular values...

Let every ordinary person who is exposed to it become a prisoner who cannot escape: either die in his own despair or be destroyed by the thrill of killing.

Lao Jia played a lot this time, and the title of 'Heaven is Destined' reveals that the suffering at the bottom has come from the moment of birth.

This is also the proposition that Lao Jia's films have always discussed, how to regain the dignity of the individual in a rapidly developing society

By the way, we are very fortunate to have a glimpse of Dongguan's style in "Destined", a one-minute long shot: Lady Huaichun, Pink Red Army, Chief Care...

Xu Hui definitely doesn't like this kind of movie, because its depiction of this society is too naked, but he admits that this is a good movie, recording the people of the current era, Lao Jia did what a film director should do, even if this is a bloody murder story, but it really happened, from beginning to end, we are all spectators, onlookers when the news happens, and people watching the movie when it is made.

Such a movie, perhaps at the beginning of filming, Lao Jia should have clearly known that it was unlikely to be released in China, or this work was originally going for foreign awards, and this kind of theme also has a natural advantage in winning awards in the West.

It's a pity that the president of the Cannes jury this year is Spielberg, who doesn't like this type of work!

What kind of director is Spielberg?

Rich?

That's for sure, the big IP "Jurassic" brought him more than $500 million in revenue!

Although he is not as good as his good friend George Lucas in terms of accumulating money, he still surpasses his good friend in terms of the subject matter involved.

Throughout Spielberg's works, except for war films, most of them have one theme: virginity!

"Contact of the Third Kind", "Alien ET", "War Horse", "Dream Giant"...

Too cruel story, he doesn't like it!

Today's Hollywood-style story structure was founded by a group of directors led by Spielberg, so it is understandable that he doesn't like "Destined".

Stories like "Cinema Paradiso" fit his heart perfectly...

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Directors like Jia Zhangke, or the sixth generation as a whole, are a group of people who have detached themselves from the background of the big era, and their perspectives and concerns are different from normal people.

Most directors are concerned with how to cater to the public taste, but they are focused on their own interests.

What a lot of people say, you can't ignore those who are hit because the whole country is running forward.

But shouldn't the things that the public care about get more attention?

What many of his supporters say: directors who can't pick up social pants are not profound directors...

Yes, a director who can pick up social pants is admirable, but a director who always wants to pick up social pants is a hooligan.

Besides, he also wants to show outsiders what is hidden inside his pants!

The big question is who wants to keep hooligans. Although it is necessary to pay attention to the lives of marginalized people, we cannot blindly emphasize that there are only marginal people in this society!

That's not all we live in!

In fact, since "The Good Man of the Three Gorges", Lao Jia has also tried to get closer to the mainstream, but his consciousness or his habitual thinking does not allow him to really do this.

You can make money by making commercial films, but you can also make money from literary films!

Lao Jia is not short of money!

Many of us think that literary film directors are poor eggs, but in fact, this is an illusion.

First of all, the rights sold to European and American television stations were enough for them to eat.

Lao Jia has another advertising company, and he can basically shoot whatever he wants to advertise for communication companies, cosmetics, e-commerce, and real estate developers.

That's why he had the confidence to say the sentence 'I can't bear it anymore, I don't need to endure it anymore, go back to the ground!'

"Destined" is very good in terms of theme performance, but the movie itself does not dare to compliment!

Jia Zhilai divided the movie into several large sections, and after filming them respectively, they were simply spliced together, and then they were taken out for release, what story line, what plot connection, not to mention what echoes before and after, all of them are unified and cool. Makes the whole movie look like a collection of micro-films. Each part can be regarded as a boutique when taken out alone, and the whole set of combinations is directly confusing...

So, it's understandable that I didn't win the prize!

The difference in location and vision determines that although Xu Hui can watch most movies calmly now, he still has a lot of feelings in his heart.

When he is a director, he thinks about the audience's reputation and the box office, after all, he is not the kind of director who takes the money and finishes the job, the film director is responsible for the investor, which is the most basic professional ethics.

Now, he is not only a director, but also the owner of a film company, and he is thinking about the pattern of domestic films.

The so-called independent film is a product that is independent of the entire film industry system.

There are independent films in any country, and we should also support independent films appropriately, but the main focus should be on commercial films that occupy the mainstream of the masses!

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When the movie ended, the whole screening room was a little dull.

Most of the audience rushed out, but many foreign media gathered around Jia Zhangke, wanting to ask something...

It was a surprising scene, surrounded by a lot of media, and there were very few mainland media.

They also know that reports like "Heaven is Destined" are unlikely to be noticed...

"I think China's reforms have brought a lot of problems, the most important of which is wealth inequality, and many officials and rich people have too many resources..."

Xu Hui glanced at Lao Jia, who was talking eloquently with the Western media, and suddenly felt that he was quite lucky.

At least, it never occurred to me what to expose or criticize.

It's like what Grandpa Mao said, 'Lu Xun, either he will be locked up in prison and continue to write about him, or he won't say a word...'

In this day and age, there is no need for someone to be a great man and teach us what to do!

We have our own minds!

Xu Hui is not a particularly axis person, in contrast, he prefers to be a commercial film director.

A director like Lao Jia, who awaits him either to continue to be sharp, then abandoned by the public, or turn to mediocrity...

With a sigh, Xu Hui and Ye Ning walked out of the screening room.

"Hello,... Director Xu Hui, I'm your fan, can you take a group photo?"