The Beijing News: "Kwan-Yin Mountain" is not enough to walk the heart

Beijing News Comics/Zhaobin "movie Notes" "Guanyin Mountain" This film can be said to be director Li Yu's personal best works, and her previous three films ("This Summer", "Beauty", "Apple"), as a result of photography, editing, music and other production aspects of the overall promotion, "Kwan-Yin Mountain" Successfully found a balance between directing personal expression and market business needs.　　In the March film market, this film is worth watching one of the domestic films. But this does not mean that the "Guanyin Mountain" This film in quality to achieve a qualitative leap. The film still has a lot of regrets, but in the great environment of Chinese movies, in a pile of rushed to the visual wonders, the story of the more the more the fly in the domestic film, "Kwan-Yin Mountain" This "heart" of the film because of its rare sincerity and theme, to meet some of the audience for domestic films how to reflect the current society and human Nature,　　Feelings of all kinds of expectations, thus achieving its reputation. For market strategy needs, "Kwan-Yin Mountain" has been packaged into a story about "cruel youth" film, but in fact, I think the theme of the film and youth, growth and so does not have much relationship, it is still a grand and eternal theme: Life and Death and faith.　　But this grand theme because the film story level of weakness and appear a bit weak, and finally only to do a little, leaving a lot of regrets. The story of "Guanyin Mountain" is not complicated, three young people in the age of confusion, a middle-aged Peking opera actress who is experiencing bereavement, four people live under the same roof because of renting, and mutually identify with each other in a common experience, trying to achieve redemption for each other. Such a natural and violent drama of the story, the director Li Yu deliberately abandoned most of the possible drama conflict, but the focus of the film to describe the status of the characters, and try to create a mood to affect the audience.　　Because of the abandonment of the story level, the film's photography and music is particularly eye-catching, especially hand-held photographic style, triggering a wide range of discussion and controversy. But this deliberately created state description, but can not carry the director's strong personal complaining desire, so that the relative weakness of the story of the logic and characterization is the director of the expression of desire to cover up, the last film wanted to portray the "state" into a "posture", the audience may be from a lot of life in detail to get the emotional resonance,　　Because of the differences in individual life experience, the end of the film trying to convey the feelings of some of the audience is lack of adequate bedding and emotional accumulation, and thus become confused. "Guanyin Mountain" as a very emotional film, it actually more needs a story logic and character are relatively complete story as a carrier, this film can carry the director tried to express emotions. But the "Kwan-Yin Mountain" in the story is confusing left a lot of gaps, some of the story is deliberately in the structure of the white (but this may be a part of the audience experience is not rich), and some of the obvious stitching pins. Whatever the cause of this stitch, these fragments of the playEmotion caused the movie mood jumps and incoherent, so that the main "mood" of the film to the end, because can not continue to rely on the plot tension and figure to convey the mood of the film to the audience, the director had to stand up, with the role of dialogue to complete the film theme of the expression.　　"Loneliness is not forever, together is forever" this line as the crowning point of the pen, because the characters in front of the lack of enough emotional bedding, the emotional climax here is a bit to let the audience off guard, not to adjust the mood to keep pace with the director, the whole film is over. The narrative skill is not a dispensable burden, but a wing that helps the soul to fly freely, for this kind of character, to show people's social life, and to refine, to express a certain theme thought, and to try to touch the audience's inner drama film.　　Earth's gravity will always be one of the factors in the flight, but as long as the soul needs the body, then the premise of free flight can not ignore gravity, but to use the wings to overcome the obstacles. -Zhang Xiao Bei (film critic)