Chapter Seventy-Nine: Media Evaluation
On the second day after the release of "Immortality", newspapers and magazines of all sizes and online media began to give their own film reviews.
"Watching Movie Magazine", which has always been known for its business, even used such a headline "A teenager brings us enlightenment, science fiction is not equal to stunts!" The whole article is an enthusiastic praise for "Immortality".
"There is a Qin Dynasty who has lived for thousands of years until modern times, experienced or promoted countless major historical events, drank with Li Bai, talked with Su Shi, and even accidentally became Huo Qu's disease, and continued to integrate into the community and migrate for a long time in order to protect himself, and one day suddenly decided to tell the story, so there was this movie. The pace and atmosphere of the film are comfortable, and the entire plot of the film takes place in a small living room, and it all depends on the dialogue between the characters. The shooting technique is very innovative, there are no ups and downs and suspenseful plots, there is no love that goes through life and death, there are no hot and dizzying special effects, some are just a few people sitting in the living room, facing all kinds of questions and answers, art, religion, history, geography, calmly, eloquently, it is a clash of ideas. For an hour and a half, always keep the tension through. The right music, the right love, the right loneliness, the right cleverness!
It is appropriate to describe this movie with blandness, Wang Zhengfei did not deliberately play with any personal talent in the film, at first glance, it looks like a Virgo shot by a student who has just graduated from the directing department, but if you look closely, it is full of the talent of this talented young director, whether it is a well-conceived plot or a special and innovative shooting method, all of which reflect the talent of this young man, some people are born with extraordinary talent, there is no doubt that Wang Zhengfei is such a genius! ”
"I have always believed that science fiction films are just a reconstruction of time and space, and the part involving history is blurred as a point in time and space. However, it was only after watching "Immortality last night" that I truly discovered that history is the fresh material for film creation, and its reconstruction is better than "time and space", and this seems to exist only in Western film creation.
Cinema comes from the imagination of history, and the imagination of history is not strictly speaking, but decorative. The biggest selling point of commercial films created with history as material is not to restore, but to reconstruct history. There are many movies that are similar to this process, such as "The Da Vinci Code", another masterpiece of historical suspense. The bland ending of the movie "Immortality" brings the story back to reality, and perhaps the newcomer director Wang Zhengfei uses the same decorative behavior to make the film's reconstruction of history not become so terrifying. And so it engages the audience and resonates. - World Cinema
Compared with business magazines such as "Watching Movies", the views of the famous magazine "World Cinema" are more realistic, and the professional surname is stronger, but it also unexpectedly praised Wang Zhengfei.
"A lot of science fiction movies are based on time. The historical issues in it are either ignored as a node in time and space, or retained as a fragment of time and space. In the narration of history, the protagonist of the film completes the passage of time and space, and the historical questioning lies in the adjustment and reconstruction process from one time and space fragment to an infinite number of time and space segments.
An ideological innovation that has had an important impact on the development of mankind must be a product of the times, answering the questions that urgently need to be answered at that time, and solving the puzzles that people have been unable to get rid of for a long time.
Perhaps this is the biggest inspiration that "Immortality" has given us.
He may not have too gorgeous camera switches, no dazzling stunts, and no moving movies, but it is such a movie, but it makes people have a deep feeling of thought after watching it! -- China News Weekly
"Explain the world in a way you never thought of, and then squeeze it with a snap, and return to reality, but leave a mysterious smile in the look back that sends you out. There has never been a shortage of audiences for this kind of theme, and in blandness and fantasy, the vast majority of people would rather choose the latter, regardless of whether it is true or not. Never tired of dabbling in the story of the mysterious label!
Wang Zhengfei's story, at first glance, seems to be an action to sell dog meat on the head of a sheep, with the name of a sci-fi blockbuster, but it does not have any characteristics of previous sci-fi blockbusters.
Science fiction is not a science and technology film, science fiction is science fiction, with the popularity of Hollywood blockbusters, more and more people agree with Hollywood-style blockbusters, but they forget that science fiction originally originated from science and technology fantasy, science and technology is just a means of embodiment of such fantasy, not all science fiction, this eighteen-year-old boy uses such a technique to awaken people's initial cognition of science fiction with such a film, and it is also a tribute to the predecessors who shoot science fiction films! -- Star Weekly
Chen Daoming, Wang Gang, Huang Xiaoming, Ningning, Liu Yun, although these big stars who are called in the mainland also have good performances in "Immortality", but in this film, all their limelight was blocked by Wang Zhengfei, a young man who is only 18 years old, who is also a producer, director, screenwriter and starring at a young age, not to mention China, even in the world!
Although the acting skills are still immature, and the director's techniques are a little green, in this movie, Wang Zhengfei did not use any stunts, but it is so plain and completely subverted our previous views on science fiction movies, this 'science fiction blockbuster' that looks like it has gone off the beaten path seems to be the right way, and the blockbuster model that is now popular in China to learn from Hollywood is completely different from the film model, the essence of the movie is not to pile it up with money, but to use heart! -- China Television News
There are good reviews and bad reviews, but in comparison, most of the bad reviews appear on the Internet, because the Internet is originally a virtual place, which allows you to spray people casually, and this is how the so-called trolls come about.
"What a garbage thing, cheating Lao Tzu out of money!"
"I don't know the so-called clouds and fog, I'm quite speechless!"
"What a disappointment!"
Under such two completely different contradictory views, the curiosity of most viewers was aroused and they went to the cinema to watch it.
At the same time, the box office data of "Immortality" was also sent to Wang Zhengfei.
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Sad, 26% of people said they were decisive, and only one person said they were decisive, miserable!
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