How to evaluate the film "Fire on the Plain" adapted from two novels?

The film is adapted from Shuang's novella Moses on the Plain, which is a very important contemporary literary work in China. Born in 1980s, Shuang prefers to tell the story of his hometown in Northeast China. His writing style is like a fire in the cold winter, and his cold and simple style can't hide his wanton romance.

Director Zhang Ji is more famous in the industry? Color is an excellent photographer, who was shortlisted for the 5 1 Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Photography for his film "North by Northeast". When he first read the novel, he was very interested in it. My life experience resonated strongly with my parents, so I decided to direct this story for the first time and make it into a movie. He believes that novels and movies are different in genre and volume, and movies should not only retain the temperament of novels, but also find expressions suitable for the screen.

It is not an easy task to adapt a novel into a film, because their artistic expressions are different. The novel is based on "reading", which gives readers a space to chew and imagine carefully, while the film is more direct to "watch", and romance and bitterness are directly conveyed to the audience through the film language. How many novels did you take? Degree of cross-narrative, stripping everyone's memory, and finally showing the bitter truth.

Movies, on the other hand, take a more intuitive approach, simplifying multiple time points in the novel into two parts: the 1990s and the 00s. ?

The film also adjusted the time of the incident and the age of the characters. The story of the first half of this book took place in 1995. Li Fei, a girl of 12 years old, is facing junior high school. Uncle Zhuang is one year younger than him, right? Miju? Playmates. Although childish, the clever Li Fei has outlined his understanding of the world, and he likes Zhuang Shu, so he met him on Christmas Eve and wanted to give him a Christmas tree made of fire as a gift. "Do you dare" and "I dare if you dare", the two children are so simple and romantic.

The year in the movie was changed to 97, Li Fei played by Zhou Dongyu was ready to go to high school, and Zhuang Shu played by Liu Haoran was already a rebellious teenager. One yearns for the south, but suffers from his father's poverty and cowardice, and his tenacity is thorny; The other seems to be wandering in the street, not interested in anything, but refuses to inherit his father's work? Have a good heart. Two teenagers walking on the edge of reality, like lighting the flame of love, snuggle up to each other for warmth. They agreed to set fire on Christmas Eve, like a romantic escape, trying to make it successful. The pain and disappointment of experiencing the world for the first time are all burned out.

The second half of the story was changed from 2007 to 2005, and the time span was adjusted from 12 to 8 years. At this time, Zhuang Shu's family was well-off, but he became a fledgling criminal policeman, while Li Fei fell into the mire of fate and struggled to survive. He and Li Fei rekindled the flame of love, burning hot and dangerous, quite with the flavor of "White Fireworks".