User reviews

Too many storylines makes the movie long and complicated.

The ending of the movie reminds us that no matter what we go through in life, we should never forget our own value. We all go through difficult times and are susceptible to forgetting who we are. The ending moves us by reminding us that we are precious no matter what we've gone through and no matter what we are forced to deal with. It is an important reminder to everyone living in an ever-changing world.

The whole film just looked too pretentiously fake. The screenplay was terrible, just a notch higher than those so-called Chinese comedies. The nostalgic retrospection back to the 1960s, simply looked unconvincingly phony. The colors were too rich, the hairdos and hairstyles were just too modern, the dresses specially designed for those young women were just laughably modern. The screenplay was so pretentiously and poorly patched up and further deteriorated by very bad editing. The dialog, well, lot of them felt forced and unnatural. But to me, the most and worst arrangement was the color tones of this film, it's just too bright and too colorful when the scenes in the 1960s were shown. The first segment of this film was about the advertisement agency in modern day lost the business to another agency by a cunning and disloyal manager, then suddenly, it jumped more than half a century back, but the colors ridiculously became even richer and more colorful. It's just made me laugh uncontrollably, those dresses, those hairstyles, didn't feel the least correct when China and the Chinese people looked like in 1960s. The storyline, the plot and scenario, not only none of them looked real and believable, but also felt so hollow without any expectation, so phony and so bored that resulted me to quit and gave up watching. What a MEH........

Dispersed and disordered, there is the shape of literary and artistic films, but there is no God of literature and art. The sweat of the Master of the Republic of China was destroyed in ten years. What good gifts do the so-called universities and such parties have to offer?

The message of the movie is very poignant and is something that everyone can feel and relate to. We all go through life with certain outside expectations and influences, but it's when we listen to our inner voice we all feel happiest.

Someone said zhangziyi never die. but this time i hope she is not.my grandmother experienced the same thing.people left her alone because they thoutht she was dead.luckily she was not although she cannot hear anymore.that thing really happend in cultural revolution times. It is a good thing to these experience being casted in movies.it is a good start.

The dead are gone, the living ones. Seeing this movie on the big screen is the luck of our generation. Each story is a microcosm of The Times, and it is true that the true emotion penetrates, moistening the eyes and moistening the heart.

A very warm and spiritual film! A very warm and spiritual film!