Is the documentary how long is a hundred years worth watching?

As a cinema documentary, One Hundred Years is obviously an unqualified and disappointing work.

Han Xiao, the director of this film, once filmed the well-known documentary "I am repairing cultural relics in the Forbidden City", which was talked about by the audience because of its vivid record and detailed description of the craftsman spirit of the restorer of cultural relics in the Forbidden City.

It is precisely because of this enthusiasm for the theme of traditional handicrafts in China that Han Xiao spent another year filming a documentary about traditional handicrafts, entitled "How long is a hundred years?".

In the process of filming this documentary, our team met two quite dramatic figures, one is Huang, a young man who studied Cai Lifo Boxing in Foshan and was obsessed with lion dancing, and the other is Aht, an old man who made Kazakh saddles in Xinjiang, so they filmed their life in the past year as a cinema version of this film.

It can be said that this is "a hundred years old?" It is a rather irrelevant proposition composition.

The original intention of the documentary is to show the craftsman spirit and attitude towards life of the inheritors of traditional crafts who have gone through a hundred years of hardships. But in the film, the display of this traditional craft is ignored, and more is to show the hardships and struggles faced by the little people at the bottom.

The theme of the film is quite depressing, and the documentary shows the choices and compromises faced by the two protagonists when they encounter problems such as ideal and reality, frustration and confusion, life and death and disease.

The theme is very good, but it's a pity that the director completely deals with two characters by shooting feature films. All kinds of deliberate editing, posing photography, and imposing music completely violate the objective and true original intention of documentary creation.

In fact, the handling of this drama did not really capture the highlights of the characters, but instead made the film derive the cheapness and dog blood of family ethics dramas.

In particular, the story distribution of the two characters is completely unequal, and the story is completely separated, so it is difficult to support the whole movie.

What's even more embarrassing is that the director even creatively made the record hero read the advertising lines in a documentary in order to implant advertisements, which is really dramatic.

Perhaps the director wants to convey that "life is bitter, but there is hope", but the effect is really-

The world is not worth living, life is worse than death.

So it's not so much a documentary as a movie about real people.