Once Upon a Time in the Middle East

To be fair, I could not imagine a Chinese film might have a more human and compassionate touch on the Iraq war than any American film focusing on the same topic since while the US was one side of the conflict with access to many historical accounts on the topic from both…

Farshad Jaberzade

That cheerful cover really fooled me

daria beskorsaia

难以共情。那些故意设置的泪点都无法动人，因为人物的动机出于活命而非其他理由，但亡命是本能，不是人物的情感与性格。唯有超越这一命题的基础，让人物的性格形象非典型而是充满了反常规与自私的设定，才能动人。政治画像更乏善可陈，唯有在别家打仗的时候我方强权才会隐身，也是挺久没见到被各方势力裹挟、大使馆丝毫没插手没帮助的海外同胞了。文牧野退步好多，也因时移势易，用药神的模版再也拍不出药神，电影也无法改变和提出任何有建树的东西。乍一看是反战，可能也只是看隔壁小区邻居打孩子的时候，围观者才占据了道德高地。 @ 陆家嘴百丽宫

Jenny S. Li

The United States of America has always been the biggest terrorist organization in the world

lucassb17

wheewwwwww china blockbuster i am so rarely familiar with your game….does not come out “on the side of the jihadis” but is not the racist drivel u get from american GWOT movie eg the film does understand jihadis’ motivations as an oppressed people suffering under the…

caro

张嘴

oniesn

文牧野对这些孩童的态度，和恐怖分子并无本质区别，完全是当作一个个肉身情感炸弹，看不到一点悲悯和共情，全是算计和利用。 每一场刻画人物之间碰撞与联结的戏，都不是为了丰满人物的性格或心理，而只被用作接下来人物死亡时引爆情绪的引线，太功利的创作了。 @博荟

otto520

I went in expecting a film about Chinese cuisine and found myself in a brutal depiction of the 2003 Iraq war.  The film works  humour, suspense, and tragedy, into its difficult complex narrative.  I found the emotional impact of the themes; survival, friendship, the cost of…

Nicholas Quirke

they cooked

Noémie