From start to finish, the film is able to grasp the attention of the audience through glorious and graphic visual-effects of World War 2 battle sequences and also through perfect dialogue between Christian Bale's character John Miller and Ni Ni's Yu Mo. Yo Mo and Miller share some of the best scenes in the entire film; these are the moments in the film where heart and compassion come into play and truly bring out the beauty in the film. For a film that tackles such a topic about the rape of Nanking, you are able to witness a beautiful and heart-wrenching perspective from the woman who had to go through the madness.
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For a film that tackles such a topic about the rape of Nanking, you are able to witness a beautiful and heart-wrenching perspective from the woman who had to go through the madness.
你能告诉我这句话是什么意思吗?
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回复无名男英雄的评论:
呵呵, "这人很二?", 我到是觉的有一个人真是很二, 您一定能猜的出来 :)
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看了网上的负靣评論后, 本人特地去看了十三釵枪片, 甚为震撼, 一定要与中外友人去影院重看.
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烂番茄的观众评分是很高,和专业评论反差太大。为什么?有没有人故意灌水?我没证据不好说。往好的方向猜测,是多数西方普通观众不了解中国历史。
你转的那篇评论是一个影迷写得,他是BALE的影迷,而且认为电影的对话40%是英文,他能理解(仅仅是部分)。他说:
From start to finish, the film is able to grasp the attention of the audience through glorious and graphic visual-effects of World War 2 battle sequences and also through perfect dialogue between Christian Bale's character John Miller and Ni Ni's Yu Mo. Yo Mo and Miller share some of the best scenes in the entire film; these are the moments in the film where heart and compassion come into play and truly bring out the beauty in the film. For a film that tackles such a topic about the rape of Nanking, you are able to witness a beautiful and heart-wrenching perspective from the woman who had to go through the madness.
你能得出什么结论?这人很二?
The Flowers of War is a film that hit me by surprise, almost like a tornado. Up until a couple of weeks ago, I hadn't even heard of the film, which is quite unfortunate considering Christian Bale is one of my favorite actors. Going through just about every article I could find on the film around the web and watching the magnificent trailer, I knew this film had to be on top of my list as something to see in theaters before the year came to a close. Luckily, after a quick search, I found the film playing at a small community theater playing one-night only in the beautiful city of Boston. This excellent piece of cinema isn't playing in many theaters, mostly in New York City to my knowledge, but if you can get the chance and find a way to come across this film, trust me when I say, its worth the look. The Flowers of War is a foreign-language masterpiece and it is certainly one of the best films of 2011.
A lot of ignorance is going around based on the story of the film. I keep on coming across comment threads all over the internet concerning the idea of this film being just another epic where, quote, "...a white man swoops in and saves the day!". The Flowers of War is far from just trying to make white people look like the heroes of war, even though the main protagonist of the film is Caucasian. The film is crafted to an extent and has full purpose for every character introduced. The movie is simply about a Westerner who on a run through Nanking impersonates a priest in order to snag some cash. Is a film that shows a white man impersonating a priest tagging him as a hero? Certainly, the character goes through some changes and is the answer to the film's problems, but certainly, these articles concerning over the fact that a white man is saving the day is just pathetic.
The film takes place in 1937 during Japan's rape of Nanking. When a Westerner finds refugee with a group of woman and children in a church, while posing as a priest, he is determined the lead them all to safety. The Flowers of War tackles a very serious and brutal topic in world history, and the film isn't at all tempted to tame the subject down. The rape of Nanking was a horrible event, where woman and children were raped and murdered brutally. The film doesn't just tackle the subject and not ever show anything along the lines; The Flowers of War is a brutal, graphic film. For its honesty, it can sometimes be hard to watch; but in the end, the level of greatness and honor that the film grasps is all satisfying.
Christian Bale recently won himself his first well-deserved Oscar for his incredible performance in 2010's The Fighter. Bale is without a doubt one of the best actors of the new generation and if I say so myself he's turning into the new Robert Deniro. Just about every performance he's ever played has been magnificent. His acting ability his never let me down, and he's only getter better. There is doubt in saying that his incredible performance in this film will be shied away from and he won't receive the recognition of an Oscar-nomination that he deserves, but looking back at all how miraculous he was in this film, I'll always be able to say that he was snubbed of another Oscar.
Running at a long two hours and twenty-minutes, The Flowers of War never manages to lose any level of interest. From start to finish, the film is able to grasp the attention of the audience through glorious and graphic visual-effects of World War 2 battle sequences and also through perfect dialogue between Christian Bale's character John Miller and Ni Ni's Yu Mo. Yo Mo and Miller share some of the best scenes in the entire film; these are the moments in the film where heart and compassion come into play and truly bring out the beauty in the film. For a film that tackles such a topic about the rape of Nanking, you are able to witness a beautiful and heart-wrenching perspective from the woman who had to go through the madness.
The Flowers of War is certainly one of the best films of 2011. If the film is nominated for Best Foreign-language film, which I'm sure it will be, it deserves the win one-hundred percent. Yimou Zhang has provided us with a masterpiece of a period-film. Through superb cinematography, intense action-sequences, and a dramatic climax, Asia's most expensive film ever made is an epic success. Christian Bale not only delivers what may just be the greatest performance of his career (yes, better than The Fighter), but even without him I'm positive this still would have been a miraculous achievement just because of the excellent screenplay containing 40 percent English, 60 percent Chinese. This is a film worth-while and not something to be missed. See it if you can.
A sex comedy about the rape of Nanking? No thanks.
By Kelly Vance
If we were researching a setting for a costumed historical romance, the rape of Nanking would probably not be our first choice. Horrendous in the extreme, the terror visited by invading Japanese troops upon the population of the then-Chinese capital in 1937 has been the subject of numerous books and films — including Chuan Lu's excellent 2009 City of Life and Death — and is still a political talking point. Zhang Yimou, China's best known filmmaker, evidently couldn't resist making his own Nanking movie, but despite a decent cast and high production values, the overall concept of the production is faulty to the point of being repugnant.
The germ of the story of The Flowers of War is what happens when a group of prostitutes from a local brothel takes refuge from the marauding Japanese inside a Christian church in Nanking's international zone. It so happens that Winchester Cathedral is also occupied by young teenage girls from the convent school, as well as a lone Western man named John Miller (played by Christian Bale), a mortician called to perform his services. By previous agreement, the occupying Japanese soldiers are forbidden to cross into the international settlement, but it's uncertain how long that decree will last — and the blood-maddened soldiers are in the habit of murdering every man and child and raping every woman they find.
So we get some ready-made irony. The convent girls look down on the whores for social reasons, but to the rapacious Imperial Army men they're all just Chinese, and thus fair game for brutalization. Miller, a drunk and randy American misfit somehow stranded in China and now posing as a Catholic priest for the Japanese, lusts after the loveliest of the Qin Hai River brothel girls, Yu Mo (Chinese starlet Ni Ni), and she flirts with him, but how can even the soiled niceties of a bordello apply in Nanking's atmosphere of terror? Bale's loud, hammy posturing doesn't help matters, nor does his uncredited English dialogue. Given what we know about the atrocities of Nanking, the idea that any man could playfully conduct a game of sexual conquest amid that chaos seems not only unlikely but also queasy-making. For the record, Ni Ni is okay as the flirty but tragic Yu Mo, and young actor Huang Tianyuan offers at least the hope of redemption as George, the cathedral's resident orphan.
Zhang, who engineered the magnificent Beijing Olympics spectacles in 2008 as well as directed such groundbreaking films as Raise the Red Lantern, To Live, and The Story of Qiu Ju, clearly got off on the wrong foot with this ill-advised project. If it is indeed the most expensive Chinese movie ever made, that money was sadly wasted. From Bale's cartoonish performance to the laughably bad "heavenly" choral music, The Flowers of War wilts early and lies there, dead.
An American aids Chinese women during the invasion of Nanking (2:21). R: Extreme violence, including rape. In English, Mandarin and Japanese with subtitles. At the Sunshine.
Can the ugliest events inspire ravishing beauty? They certainly have for Chinese director Zhang Yimou, who turns the Rape of Nanking into a visually stunning melodrama. But the effect of such extreme contrast is unsettling to say the least.
Christian Bale’s John Miller brings us into 1937 Nanking, which has been destroyed by invading Japanese soldiers. A drunken mortician, he plans to do his work at a local church, pick up a paycheck and leave. But the priest who hired him is dead, and he finds a dozen schoolgirls abandoned in the building. Soon a group of prostitutes arrives as well. As a Westerner, Miller provides their only measure of safety.
Few filmmakers stage a spectacle more gorgeously than Zhang (“House of Flying Daggers”). Each scene is constructed with extreme care, and Bale provides a strong center for a weak script that undersells most of the other characters.
The biggest problem, however, is the way Zhang romanticizes the unimaginably awful, turning gold-hearted prostitutes and virginal orphans into cinematic martyrs. Though his talents are vast, there may be too much truth in this particular story to suit his extravagant tastes.