"No!" A heart-rending voice rang out, with an indescribable tragedy, as the woman threw herself on the ground, hugging her child in disbelief.

Unfortunately, although she and he had hurried their time, the naked child still did not survive long in this icy weather. The woman held the body of her child with her mouth open and trembling hands, but she could not even howl, so she could only look at him like this, looking at him with sad and blank eyes, and then gradually became hollow.

The man who pointed the gun at the soldier of the Northern Army also froze, with a look of disbelief, his lips trembled and he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say a word.

The soldier of the Northern Army, who was originally kneeling on the ground, was frightened, although he had done no obvious evil just now, and even wanted to add clothes to the child who was frozen outside, but in the end he did not take action. But the two companions have been killed, and the child has died, so it is likely that he will not live, so he immediately sees this opportunity, and suddenly runs away, even if he knows that he can't run, it is better than staying where he is and waiting for death.

At this time, the man just wanted to step forward to comfort the woman and make a half-squatting action, but for a while he didn't know whether it was better to pull the trigger or squat first. At this moment, the woman who had been throwing herself on the ground suddenly snatched the gun from the man's hand like crazy, aimed it at the soldier who had only escaped a few steps, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Bang! The gun rang out, and the last Northern soldier fell in response, planted on the ground and never got up again.

"Sarah......" the man cried, looking at her worriedly.

The woman's body shook, as if she might fall down at any moment, but she still turned slowly, and her face was calm, although there was no expression, but the empty eyes gave people a feeling of sadness more than death.

"Let's go." She said this, and sat down in the mud, her back to him, clutching at what the soldier had left behind, ignoring her child's corpse.

"We ...... Should we ......?" the man said with difficulty as he shook his throat, his eyes filled with sadness that made it unbearable to look at him directly.

The woman did not respond, sitting there not knowing what to do, her shoulders twitching slightly, as if she was crying, but there was no sound.

The man stood blankly for a moment, then suddenly thought of something and changed color and shouted, "Sarah, no! ”

Then, without the slightest hesitation, Sara grabbed the loaded gun, pressed it against her jaw and pulled the trigger.

Bang, the second gunshot rang out, plopped, and the woman fell to the ground, and the man, who had not been able to stop all this, stood there in a daze, still holding his hand, and after a while, he knelt down, covered his face with his hands, and sobbed silently.

As the top-down camera stretches upward, the tragic scene gradually blurs, and then slowly fades out.

At this point, people can be considered to have tensed their nerves from the beginning of that "no" and relaxed, and there were exhaling sounds all around, and Sean could hear it clearly, especially Minghella, who was sitting in front, obviously. It is said that Minghella had a big argument with Weinstein here, and Minghella wanted to use Sean's suggestion to make Sara kill herself, but Weinstein was worried that the audience would not accept it and asked for the original script.

After all, a child died here, although according to the rules, there is no show of how the child died, and there is no footage of the corpse, but it is difficult to say how public opinion will react, not to mention that it was still done by soldiers of the Northern Army, which is a little politically incorrect.

But Minghella forcefully refuses him, and the two have a very unpleasant quarrel, but in the end, Sarah's suicide ending is used here as requested by the director. However, even so, Minghella still sweated, after all, no one was sure of the audience's reaction, so when everyone let out a unified exclamation at this moment, the big stone in his heart fell to the ground.

Of course, it is also possible that everyone thinks this is too bold and the voices made are not optimistic, but Sean prefers to believe that this is an endorsement of Minghella. Because even he was somewhat attracted to this place himself, the tone and framing were almost perfect, and the just right cut showed all this so smoothly, Minghella's skills all exploded here, coupled with the excellent acting skills of Sean and Natalie, the despair and sadness were perfectly conveyed.

Actually, Natalie should be able to do better, at least in Sean's opinion, if she were to change herself, there are several places where the feeling of the walking dead after the child is dead and the motivation to live is gone.

It's not that he deliberately wants to pick a thorn, it's just a pure impulse to instinctively hope to be more perfect after seeing the almost perfect plot.

In fact, he is also quite dissatisfied with his performance, such as the cry when dissuading Sara, at the moment off the screen, especially after the thorough dedication of "The Aviator", after further understanding of his acting skills, he feels that he should obviously let his feelings surge a little more here.

Well, neither he nor Natalie are in their early 20s, Natalie has never been a mother, and he has never witnessed such extreme events, and it is not easy to get to this point.

In any case, this **** allowed the audience to vent the emotions that had accumulated in the previous dozens of minutes, but could not be vented because of the slow rhythm and lack of ups and downs.

Although it is a tragedy, it is like someone who has been plagued by depression for a long time, laughing or crying can relax him, and feelings are like a dam, when the water is full, it will be released, no matter what means are used.

However, this also caused Inman to clash with the security team at the end of the day after finally seeing Ada, and when Inman finally died in Ada's arms, the contagion was not enough.

Although it is indeed a tragic time to return to her lover from the battlefield after a lot of hardships, but it is indeed a tragic time to die by her side quickly, but it cannot be compared with the mother who lost her child.

However, when the real ending came, Ida took her daughter who was shot at the time, and after living a difficult and happy life with Ruby's family, the feeling of hope was rare when compared with the previous two tragedies.

Therefore, when the movie ended, the audience still burst into warm applause.

Of course, there are still regrets, if the death of Sarah's child is placed in the middle, the rhythm will undoubtedly be better, and after the audience has enough time to accept one tragedy, the arrival of the second tragedy will be a little more shocking, and the two tragedies will be more able to highlight the theme.

And that's how the Washington Post sees it: "Minghella's new 'Cold Mountain' still retains a distinctly personal character, a postcard image, and a lengthy plot that makes you want to fall asleep, well, at least for the first half."

However, in the future, he probably realized his problem and made a certain degree of change, and the two tragedies made the whole movie fluctuate violently at the same time, but also seemed extremely heavy, especially the single mother Sara committed suicide because of the death of her child, which has an unimaginable impact.

Although this dilutes the shock of the hero's death, it makes the whole movie more ups and downs, and it might be better if the plot was placed in the middle of the movie.

In any case, although the movie has a lot of problems, Minghella finally didn't let Charles? Fraser's novel is dusty. ”

However, "Variety" has another view: "Minghella was ambitious to make "Cold Mountain" a huge production, and he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to go to Europe to shoot, but this was a failed attempt, he did not reflect on the shortcomings exposed in his previous works, and even intensified his suspicion.

Yes, in terms of picture alone, this is still a beautiful film, Minghella uses delicate techniques to rely on the serious and abstract themes of glory, duty, and loyalty in the flying shrapnel and the dialogue of the characters' lives, little by little to restore the turbulent nineteenth-century North American genre painting, in which the ugliness and beauty of human nature alternate and intertwine on this picture scroll.

However, this may be a film worth savoring repeatedly, but it is more suitable for being shown in a specialized art cinema than for a fanfare, and too much detail will only make people feel pretentious and bored.

If it weren't for the slight alteration of the second half, Sarah's suicide in great despair is sympathetic, and the film would undoubtedly be completely lethargic. ”

In the final analysis, the rhythm of "Cold Mountain" is too slow, so that the scores given by major media are not high, most of the five-point system is between 3 and 4 points, and the ten-point system has 8 points, but not many.

As for the evaluation of the actors, many people have given Sean and Rachel high marks, although Natalie's appearance time is short, but because of Sarah's tragic plot, she does play a lot of points, so she does play very well, so the evaluation is also very high, only Nicole, is rated as decent.

"Roger is right, Sean doesn't see age at all in the movie, whether he's staring at himself on screen with melancholy and worry, struggling in the trenches with sadness or pain, or desperate to get home, you can't associate him with 23 - to be exact, he was 22 at the time of filming. The most typical scene is that when Inman and Ida met, Ada, who failed to recognize each other, asked him to leave, and in the close-up of the camera when he turned around, the sense of vicissitudes that naturally revealed on his body could not be faked at all.

Equally exciting is Rachel? Vichy, before "Cold Mountain", everyone's impression of her was the bookish Evelyn in "Tomb Robbery", so when she appeared on the screen as a rough and uncultured person, but at the same time she spoke with a southern accent and was outspoken, many people didn't react. What's even more rare is that she has always maintained this state, always showing the big grin and enthusiasm and kindness of a southern country girl, and no one can connect her with Evelyn.

Other than that, Natalie? Portman's performance is also eye-catching, although it is only a little more than ten minutes of scenes, the character of Sara is undoubtedly the saddest and most tragic in the whole movie, and she interprets this pathos very well. Only Nicole, probably because of the character's personality that restrained her, she needed to be more restrained, so in the contrast of these three characters, except for a few highlights, everything else was mediocre. - The Hollywood Reporter