How to evaluate the movie "Great Shanghai"?

The movie "Great Shanghai" is a gangster romance directed by Jing Wong. The social background is that Shanghai is about to fall before World War II, which tells the love story of a generation of macho men wandering between two women.

The highlight of the film is the cast, with the participation of Chow Yun Fat, Huang Xiaoming, Sammo Hung, Wu Zhenyu and other stars, especially Chow Yun Fat after "Shanghai Beach", which produced that elusive and chic smile and feelings, which made the audience very interested.

After the film was released, it was greatly discussed. The whole movie has a lot of fighting plots and rich emotional lines, which makes the audience feel very moved. Below I analyze the love view of a generation of heroes from three levels.

A generation of gangsters cannot have their own ideal love. Using nonlinear causality, the film expounds the ideal lover of a generation of lean and successful young people and Po, a woman who loves her deeply after middle-aged marriage, but has always lived in her heart. Although she has married Po, after seeing Ye Zhiqiu again, she still wants to protect and worship her in her heart.

On the surface, this film tells the story of a successful person from an unknown hooligan to the biggest gangster in Shanghai. In fact, there are few such scenes in the plot. Most of the scenes are centered around Ye Zhiqiu and Po, and the story of how to succeed step by step has passed.

Why can't great men have their own ideal love? Ye Zhiqiu is the most promising woman, but why isn't she with Ye Zhiqiu? When he was popular, he could have gone to Ye Zhiqiu, but why did he finally marry Po? Let's explain why from the following three clips in the film.

Obstruction by the military. I just made some achievements when I went to Ye Zhiqiu, but there was a gun battle in the church. Afterwards, I learned that this was someone sent by the military. After a fierce battle, Ye Zhiqiu was afraid. She doesn't want to live like this, and she doesn't want to have such a worried husband. The military does not want to see success delayed by women, which is not conducive to the military's control of the future situation. The helplessness of the profession. Successful superior, killing again and again, let him know what kind of position and environment he is in. He doesn't want to ruin himself and Ye Zhiqiu, but there is a woman who loves him deeply at this moment, regardless of his status. The most important thing is that this woman is also a player like Ye Zhiqiu. Success naturally places her feelings for Ye Zhiqiu on her, and she is Po. Been away from home for years. They are thousands of miles apart and are busy with their dreams. It's hard to see each other. Long-term long-distance love has caused their feelings and hearts to fade. But who would have thought that they finally met in Shanghai after their successful careers. At this time, both sides have their own other half, and they can only hide this feeling in their hearts. While arguing, I loved Ye Zhiqiu deeply.

When Shanghai fell, Ye Zhiqiu could have been taken away with him, but he left the opportunity to Ye Zhiqiu and her husband at the cost that his own woman Po became someone else's woman, and he blamed himself for it. In the end, Po still loved him until he died for him.

How to choose in the face of your own love view? In the face of love, success instinctively chooses to rely on and change. On the other hand, Po is very focused on love. Even if her man betrayed her, she still loved him until she died for it. Success has always loved Ye Zhiqiu in his heart, but in reality, he seems to regard Po as a substitute for Ye Zhiqiu. After seeing Ye Zhiqiu, she was calm on the surface and bitter inside.

The film was released in China in 20 12, and won the Hong Kong Film Awards, and was nominated for the 7th Asian Film Awards. It uses more lyrical techniques to express the story, which makes the audience hooked up and makes the word "Shanghai Beach" visually emphasized and upgraded.