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Please help me find a review of "Tangshan Earthquake"

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I never knew about it until I watched the movie. It turns out that this is an emotional movie, not a disaster movie.

In fact, it can be regarded as a disaster movie in a broad sense. A major earthquake caused fragmentation to a complete family and caused heavy physical and psychological blows. For people, earthquakes are natural disasters, and their aftermath is a disaster for people's hearts.

The beginning of the film takes us to July 1976. Tangshan in the hot summer is filled with the dilapidation and poverty of the 1970s. The photography during that period also tends to be dark yellow, which further highlights the sense of the times.

Late at night, people are sleeping soundly, and only a few people are working outside. A bright red in the distance gradually enveloped the city, and a sudden violent shaking broke the midnight tranquility. Soon, the houses sank and collapsed rapidly, the ground cracked and blowouts occurred, and countless people who were still sleeping were killed by the loud noises of broken steel and concrete. In just 23 seconds, the fury of nature reduced Tangshan to ruins and claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

The earthquake scene was so immersive and very realistic. I think it’s much more shocking than the scene in 2012 where the whole movie was about the escape of Xiao Qiang! Although there are earthquake scenes in 2012, it feels completely different compared to the three-minute shooting of the Tangshan Earthquake. It was so scary, it made me tremble! The scene after the earthquake was so miserable! Natural disasters are really terrible!

When life hangs on a thread, who the mother saves involves 32 years of regret after the aftershocks. 23 seconds of that year! The next 32 years! What a time this grief can bear!

Xu Fan's acting skills are as good as ever. A mother who has a sense of guilt but is also a great mother made me cry several times. And the adoptive father played by Chen Daoming, another lonely old man in his later years, also moved me a lot when he worried about his daughter.

This film has two major highlights: the realistic earthquake effect; and the touching family love.

This is real, life-like, just like the times and sorrows that happened around us and that our previous generation experienced. It is not a "disaster movie" that reflects the effects of science and technology, heroes escaping to save lives, and those who are lucky and capable and can't hurt anything.