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To be fair, don't be biased, both advantages and disadvantages are obvious.

The advantage lies in the structural reshaping, which is a balance limited by space. The inverted ending is a creative innovation in artistic creation, while also leaving blank space, which is very clever.

I think actress who played Wang Xifeng and actor who played Jia Baoyu have the best dialogue in the whole film, clear and pleasant, and their personalities are also very prominent.

The disadvantage is that the pace is too fast, the main story line is unclear, and there is no focus at all. To be frank, it's like watching a super long trailer, and as soon as I get my appetite up, the plot switches to the next part, and there's not a single plot that's finely crafted for people to chew on.

Lin Daiyu's personality is not fully displayed, appearing to be very petite. In addition, the actor's lines are weak, as if she were reciting very single word as hard as she can, which further reduces her score.

Overall, with so much content stuffed into this movie, it's clear that the whole cast and crew have put in a lot of effort to score a passing grade.

It is impossible to simply comment on this TV series that runs through 40 years of Chinese history.

I paraphrase a Chinese review that highly encapsulates the strengths of several different aspects of this TV-series, and his views agree with mine: this is the most daring description of ordinary civilian life that I have seen so far, the most sad and helpless story for me.

The following is paraphrased, please forgive me for the inaccurate translation.

This is a Chinese chronicle "Historical Records" (since 1948-1988), this is a "Les Miserables" which background is cooperated by the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, this is a report on the results of socialist experiments, this is a survey on the planned economy that makes people unemployed, and the market economy makes people live, this is a record of two generations of intellectual young people being coerced by the political party and reduced to pawns and destroyed, this is the contrast between the speculators of the times and those who adhere to the faith, and this is a debate on the questioning and defense of the regime. --- pay tribute to the tragic fate of the older generation of intellectuals, to history, to screenwriters!