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Summary: An Intimate Film Experience!!!!
Review: Luo Yusheng is returning home to bury his father who has just passed away. When he returns home he finds out that his father's body is in a different city and his mother insists on having his fathers body carried home by hand according to old traditions. This seems to be a very hard task, since it is winter and there are no other young people to help him in the village. However, the mother's demand is easily understood, since he knows the story behind the passionate love she has for her late husband. The Road Home is a very intimate film about understanding, love, and compassion. As the film fades out, it leaves the silver screen with a memory of a remarkable cinematic experience.
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Summary: worth a look, but I ain't crazy about it
Review: I can't give this movie 5 stars; they simply didn't rake the characters through the coals enough, which is the sine qua non of any good romance film. All she really does is sit around and wait. I kept waiting for the twist.Compare the furnaces that the characters in such movies as Unbearable Lightness of Being and The English Patient have to go through, and I think you'll agree that one reason this film stops short of really MOVING you is that their love was a tame and low-risk venture to start with. There doesn't really seem to be anything at stake. Another problem is that the girl's love for the man was, er, superficial. She fell in love with him because he was a handsome teacher who came to her village, and that's it! Sheesh. They don't really share anything, and it's not like he does or says anything special to win her heart. In fact he can't even remember about her blue bowl. The reason this is a problem for me is that seeing a childish, superficial love blossom into fruition is pleasant but somehow unsatisfying. Absolutely stunning photography, though. Don't waste your time with a fullscreen edition (if one is even available). Let me add that the main character is a babe and a half! If the movie was just two hours of her face, I would still have given it three stars.
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Summary: Where can I get the soundtrack?
Review: The movie is pretty good, but I was really taken by the soundtrack. Where can I get it?
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Summary: These reviews are correct
Review: I just watched this movie because of the great reviews it received here, and I must say they are correct. A very well produced and moving story.
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Summary: Beautifully Done
Review: I love Chinese films. I enjoyed Raise the Red Lantern, Farewell My Concubine and other recent releases. There's something about the film and the technique that is so delicate, so Chinese and so engaging in the individual personalities that make up the story. After renting this from a DVD service, I had to buy it. It is a beautiful love story, with sacrifice, humor, culture and a story line that anyone in love would enjoy. The story is about a teacher who has come to a village to set up class, the young girl that falls in love with him, sacrifices, and waits for him until he returns. Great cinematography, beautiful characterization, and a very memorable storyline.
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Summary: Well, 4.5 stars
Review: It's nice to find movies about people in this day and age. No special effects, no fights, no guns. This is a very simple movie and beautifully told. Its a story about falling in love, and the pain death brings. The cinematography is outstanding, some of the best i've seen. What's so interesting is well, is that although this is a film about people, there is very little dialogue. Actions speak loudly, and Ziyi Zhang, who has the face of angel, is superb. It's impossible not to be mesmerized by her beauty. Be prepared though, this is a happy and very sad movie all rolled into one.
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Summary: A Simple Story of Love and Persistence, Beautifully Shot
Review: This latest from Zhang Yimou is a gem. It doesn't carry a philosophical weight of his other offerings, but the emotional content and carry of the film is true and beautifully conveyed. Zhang Ziyi, the girl from Ang Lee's 'Crouching Tiger...' is perfectly cast as a stubborn girl who will not give away even an inch to get her love. She plays the part of the narrator's mother to perfection, with equal measure of sweetness, whimsy, and fiery temperament. The film starts with a man who returns to his backwards village to bury his father. His mother wants him and other people to bring the body back from the hospital on foot, carrying the coffin, so the deceased won't forget his way home. As the man contemplates this decision, he reminisces about the courtship of his mother and father. The movie is one of the most gorgeously shot films in recent years. You won't forget many of the scenes. The climactic sequence towards the end, when the mother runs toward the school, hearing her son, remembering her dead husband, is stirring and very moving. This is a work of a virtuoso filmmaker.
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Summary: Reminds me of our past
Review: I recently purchased the movie based on the reviews that I've read and found the movie to be great. I watched it with my wife and she didn't like it at all, saying that the movie was too simple and there was hardly any dialog. But that is the point of this movie, it was meant to be a simple story of young and innocent love. It struck a chord with me that it reminded me of how I felt when I first fell in love. And it warms my heart to know that there are many like me that enjoy a simple and well told story especially in the 21th century when things and lives are so complicated by necessity.
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Summary: Simple, moving and special
Review: The title basicly tells all my oppinion. It is a simple, moving and special style of movie. I like almost all Zhang's movie; but I like this more.
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Summary: Most Romantic Movie Ever!
Review: This movie is simply the sweetest, truest look at young, pure love I have ever seen on film. Zhang Ziyi shines as Di, the smitten young maiden who's fallen for the new school teacher in the villiage. What develops between them, shown through her eyes, is simply captivating. And the underlying story about the son wishing to fulfill his mother's difficult request is moving, especially when it all comes together.
I adore this movie and can't wait to watch it again and again!
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