The film Alive is adapted from the novel Alive. To be alive is the representative work of writer Yu Hua. Fu Gui, the hero of the novel, was a young master of a landlord family in the Republic of China. He lost all his money because of gambling and debauchery when he was young. After his father became angry, Fu Gui's family became tenant farmers, and was quickly caught by the national army and involved in the civil war. With the civil war, the three anti-five evils, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and other social changes, his life and family suffered constantly, and all his relatives left him, leaving only the old man and an old cow. Many plots in the novel did not appear in the movie, so after watching the movie, I read the novel again. Movies and novels bring me different feelings.

As a work directed by Zhang Yimou, To Be Alive is a masterpiece of his different styles. From 65438 to 0994, the film won the jury award and the best actor award at the 47th Cannes International Film Festival. Although the film is sad, it is far less shocking than the novel. The shock brought by the novel is that Fu Gui's relatives left him one by one, and the sense of grief brought by that kind of death is very compact, which makes readers feel the fragility of life. However, the film is a bit sloppy and not focused enough on this point. Anyway, I can't move anyone if I want to die, and my death is not complete. For example, in "The Death of Sentiment", Qingqing was originally written in the novel to donate blood to the wife of the county magistrate, but she died. It's not as trivial as death in the movie, but absurdity is not as painful as what is written in the novel. It would be even more tragic if this incident had something to do with Xia Feng's dystocia death, and both children died in the same hospital. However, political factors have been added to movies, which is why it is necessary.

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The whole movie gave me a gray sadness. For example, my son was crushed to death by a collapsed wall, and Xia Feng was born deaf and dumb, and then died of excessive blood loss during childbirth. At the end of the novel, only Fu Gui and an old cow live together. Relatives died one after another.

Director Zhang added some irony to the film. For example, the professor who saved Xia Feng was so hungry that he choked on steamed bread that he couldn't have an operation. He watched Xia Feng bleed to death by the Red Army, and added the plot that Fu Gui made a living by shadow play. There is also a plot in the film, that is, Long Er, who obtained Fu Guizu's nationality through gambling, was sentenced to death for resisting the law and destroying state property when the People's Republic of China was founded, and Fu Gui lamented his "luck". Although Long Er died for breaking the law and resisting the law, he deserved to die after being shot. If Fu Gui keeps his ancestral home, he will inevitably become a cold, selfish and stingy landlord. And this kind of plot description shows that in this troubled times, things are impermanent. This film is very long. The whole process of the movie gave me a good feeling of being alive. It's good to be alive, not only for myself, but also for my family and friends, a comfort and happiness.