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With a broken narrative, an abrupt and booming soundtrack, and a montage of interspersed dreams and realities, it's clear that the director is trying to tell the story of The Imitation Game and Oppenheimer in the same way that Inception did, with a disastrous ending.

The first half of the movie is a self-referential narrative of the hero's life, with random stuffing about the Sino-Japanese War, the Communist Civil War, and his sister's forbidden feelings for him (which part of the plot that I couldn't understand the most). The second half of the film is all about him having maniacal dreams inside the base and figuring out the math from them. Science is portrayed by the director as a joke, as rediculous as a Chinese dress-up Ferris wheels and merry-go-rounds imagined by a kid born in a rural area and sent to a closed base immediately after college.

The movie always depicts an enemy, be it the Japanese, the Nationalists, the Americans or his teacher, who is driven from a pure mathematician to a madman, and these pressures fall on the audience in equal proportions, while he himself suddenly figures everything out at the last second and then the movie comes to a screeching halt, leaving behind a bunch of pathetic viewers who have had a bellyful of vomitus and nowhere to vomit, and finally have to watch a bonus scene of the director's extreme narcissism.

Love, divorce, mental problems, desire to be loved, Japanese animation, these have always been unavoidable problems for most traditional Chinese families. We can even arbitrarily say that when a problem child appears, he or she will be involved in the above problems to a greater or lesser extent.

And these antinomies are exactly the propositions that the entire movie wants to discuss.

The first half of the movie has a very tense pace. Thanks to Huang Bo's unparalleled acting skills, drum-intensive soundtrack, and fast-paced narrative, the audience will always be in a state of adrenaline.

As the story reaches its climax in the middle, we can see two people with completely different identities, genders, and wealth start an offensive and defensive battle for their children, and become increasingly crazier. Until finally, when all pursuits are over, Bring the subject back to the problem itself.

The second half of the movie is so calm that it's hard to get used to it. Although it avoids a hasty ending with a boilerplate Happy Ending, the ending still lacks an in-depth discussion of the theme of the movie. This not only makes people doubt that director Cao Baoping wants to give Is the audience watching a reflection on family education, or is it just a chase scene?

The overall narrative of the movie is very compact, making it difficult to follow the pace. In order to enhance the atmosphere and make the plot more dramatic, the director will even design some unreasonable plots. You can feel the director trying to tell the story as he sees it.

Although it leaves much to be desired, the film is still worth watching. Such a story can be successfully told and attract everyone's attention, which is already a very big progress.

As a highly anticipated sequel, Cameron did depict a fantasy world which is not inferior to its predecessor. Excellent technical power was used just right. Surrounded by fluorescent creatures and exoskeleton, we seemed joined a species war far away from home actually.

Even so, the movie is still inundated with a bunch of Hollywood routine. Father-son relationship, evil-greedy human beings, remorseful scientist, inspiring all-member-charging and so on.

Besides, a number of the plots were nonsense. Ridiculous decisions made by characters only in order to import another plot. Won't discuss more details here.