Blue

After an accident, Julie lost her husband and five-year-old children,  and she is almost dead.When she can walked out of bed, the first thing she want to do is to smash the glass port in hospital, and then commit suicide.After leaving hospital, she sold the house, made a will, advanced care of the funeral, ready to live isolated.That night,she called the friend who loved her yeras, to be a return,she made love with him,and then left without saying anything.

She was so decisive and firm,left anything even her husband's music manuscript.she only brought a blue bells with her.In her mind,her family destroyed, everything has no meaning anymore.She had only one thought: wait for death.

Although she would like isolation, but it is always very hard to detect in real life intrudes: at night,street violence victims, fled into her house, yet she was shut out; neighbors asked her to sign the House agreed to the expulsion of a prostitute; husband's music came out everywhere into her ears...She remembered his mother and visited her, who live a life that waiting for death for years.Her mother waited in front of TV all day, and mistaken her dauthter as her sister.It is terrible and boring to wait for death.

What a heavy life to wait for death due to despair!

When she plunged into conflict, pain and struggle, she jumped into the blue swimming pool. Here,water is a symbol of life, blue represents freedom and tranquility of the soul. Life has no meaning, it is impossible for the freedom of life and soul of the peace.Her boyfriend found her finally, but being loved can not call her back to the living enthusiasm.

 Her attitude to death has changed due to an accident opportunity.In a TV show, she saw her boyfriend published her husband's music manuscript .What's more from the television,she saw her husband photos, with a girlfriend beside him close.She does not agree to complete her husband's work, Because it was private.But her boyfriend says that this is a public,and insisted to complete it.She began to ask about the woman beside her husband.She met her, the female lawyer asked her: "Do you hate me?" She replied: "I do not know."

When she found that women was, she returned home immediately and stoped to sell her house, gave it to her husband's girlfriend.Jolie change the attitude of living for death, life renewed enthusiasm, she saw her husband's life and death have not disappeared, either mental or physical, they are both in continuity.Therefore, she became an active high-spirited, not only offer to help her boyfriend complete the music and also commissioning of a new affection.

The directed seems to tell us that life is meaningless and painful in isolation.Only into the life of others in the chain of life, can we get the value and significance of life, and have the freedom also.

This a film which is talking about freedom, not material but mental.

When prostitutes answered about her career choice, the director understand and respect for freedom rose to another side, human is a man because she was born as a human, not because she became a kind of person;.

When Jolie left her husband's house and family name to the  baby, she set herself free and saved her own.

When Jolie heard her husband's lover said a sincere "sorry" to her, she finally found her freedom.

The unknown woman

This is a long film. At the first of this film I saw the naked woman with a mask, standing there for judge. I don't know what it means and this attracts me to see what is going on.

    From start to finish,the whole film images of tonal abnormal gloomy and dark, the film city had no brilliant sunshine everyday, the people in the film are wearing black or gray clothes, walking under the bad weather. Elana rented apartment, the senior apartment across the street are incredibly cold and dark, spiral upward of stair gruesome and eerie.
Elana from the beginning gingerly performs her own plan, the entire story revolves around sheunfolded.         
From the beginning we want to know who she was, why Elana came to this city, what kind of woman is she,she pushed the former maid cruelly under the stairs to oneself can replace her into the jeweler's home for what, she was in the jeweler home looking for something, she near the jeweler's daughter and ... She finally whether to get what kind of purpose.
    This is how the story wring out two lines. Main theme, dark-haired Elena is maternal love, Italy, cold blue. Anther line is revenge theme, blonde Elena, Ukraine, the golden color. The reality and the past is like the polar ice and fire, Elena is between the poles wander by memories pain. Maintain between two lines of an important token is strawberry, and that was in the sun of summer square, her lover hands to her, strawberry behind his smiles. And in the present world, strawberry is just in the dark night ,eating and suffering alone, lover has been killed, only in this way can she keep the love taste.

    Revenge of the theme with a period of Elena's sad story. The scene impressed me was she went into huge dump with her shovel, crows flying above the sky, she dug out her lover's rotten body, crying sadly. Later, she used a big scissors to kill her enemy, that man who kill her lover, sell her children, once again abuse and adultery her baldheaded the wicked, and then took his money away, all this is Elena's nightmare she never want to memory again.

   And maternal love theme of Elena is a obviously, twist overdo to eyes suddenly between sadness to empty woman. To find her baby, she came to the strange city, the design becomes their home nurse, step by step, close to the child, let the child rely on her, what's more she trained her get rid of psychological abuse in shadow, teach her climbed quiakly after fell, when being hit ,counterattack quickly, this let me be very delighted, she can together with their children, and children are also very dependent on her, and I think even finally they will visit, Elena could bring children live happily.
 Elena believe jeweler's daughter is her last child, his lover's child,when we think this will end up looking unprofessional film when they hear the tragic past Elena, planned to give her help, film again give viewers a loud shock, originally the jeweler's name just pimps say casually out of a name, in fact the jeweler adoption girl is not Elena's children, all hope and good at that moment to an abrupt end.

Film finally, from prison after serving Elena come out, come to meet her only grown-up jeweler's daughter, although she is not her daughter, Elena relaxed and smlieed happily, I think this it the only time she slimed so hanppily since the film stars to ends.

Shanghai Triad

This is a story about love and hatred fairy tale in sinister gang in old Shanghai.
the story's main line is Shuisheng,  who came to Shanghai from the countryside , witness the transaction between the gangs, rush, and many people died in his life.It makes the old Shanghai's darkness and evil came out bloody and beautiful performance.
I never forget the eyes of Shuisheng at the first of the movie, strange, afried, hope, and confused, everyone who comes to Shanghai is almost like this, I think the old Tang is also.
The film‘s characterized by the entire film is divided into five parts, as part of the day.In the five days,the old Shanghai, the old Chinese society, and even the humanity presenting in front of us.The total five parts, describes a story which is not complete, it needs our imagination to make it complete, in the five days, some sad, some happy,and also, there is life and dead.whit right change life in the old society was directed in a short analysis of the 100 minutes.

The second characteristic in the film is all the songs are sang by Gong Li who played the heroine Xiaojinbao in the film. Many commentators felt that this this is the flaw of the film, it should be sung by professional singers, but I think this arrangements for ulterior motives is Zhang Yimou's special purpose.Gong Li as a generation actress, for a very good grasp of the role Xiaojinbao, expressed a Shanghai Showgirl's sad, helpless, sad, strong and miserable.

The third characteristic is the scene that Xiaojin Bao, Ajiao and Shuisheng  sang "Rock rock to the grandmother bridge" together in reed beds on the island.Three of them hidden in the reeds, when it is sunset, between heaven and earth are the cage with a layer of hazy yellow yarn, good sense of the whole picture of the lens warm and quiet among the beautiful, Xiao Jinbao remove the vulgar and the dust of the camouflage, with three comfortable singing the song rhymes,which could not bear to damage.

The beginning and ending of the film echoes the use of the tactic.At the beginning of the film, "Rock rock to the grandmother bridge" the music resounded in our ears, close-up to Shuisheng, who firstly arrived in Shanghai, standing in a busy crowd, looking confused , the beginning of the film, the leaders appear straight to the point, and in the end, after a heavy rain, people dead as it planed, Shuisheng was hung upside down on the boat, and Ajiao was chating with old Tang, Ajiao wants to become a second Xiaojin Bao. So childish and miserable in our eyes.At the same time, Xiao Jinbao has been buried on the island, while struggling coins dropped out of Shuisheng's pocket, they are from Xiaojin Bao, along with the song rings, the  three coins fell into the water by piece, seems to represent Xiaojin Bao was completely disappeared.

Xiao Jinbao's story come to an end, continues to follow the story may be Ajiao, who will then is not known.No matterwho is the next, they are just Shanghai sauce,like a dance or a song.Their story is to make Shanghai still tempting and prosperous.But, unfortunately, it will coming out again and again.