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...Although critics often view the movie as simply an allegory for Communism’s failures, Wang considers the work introspective and meditative rather than political or judgmental. He objects to reviewers who take the film??s plot too literally, thinking that the soldier serves only to represent Communism as false hope. “I think this film is poised to be post-ideological,” he says. “It is really a profound reflection about the long stretch of Chinese civilization...
...Because the film??s release coincided with a transition in China’s national consciousness, “Yellow Earth” represents a mood and a filmmaking style that straddles two distinct eras, a socialist world of grand, heroic visions and a new, urbanized Chinese narrative...
...film??s sensitive curiosity about this divide is reflected in the complex dualities depicted on screen. The yellow earth is the farmers’ sole mode of sustenance, yet simultaneously it is an oppressive, arid land that binds them to scarcity and poverty. Likewise, the Yellow River symbolizes life and nourishment, but it also eliminates life—when Cuiqiao tries to escape her village by swimming across the river, her singing abruptly ends...
...that something will happen between the two of them. What is not expected is that the obvious tension will be broken just the next day by Happy’s frank question: “Do you have any interest in having sex with me?”The film??s greatest strength is its ability to invest the everyday with humor. Brian’s life before meeting Happy is one of limited scope. His job, as he describes it, involves selling less than 10 mattresses a month; his social life consists entirely of family dinners with...
...Hutton), who is physically consumed and financially impotent because of Lyme disease, a consequence of his penchant for hunting. Meanwhile, Scott’s mother (Jill Hennessy) longs for her former life in Queens as she tries to overlook her struggling marriage. Finally, the catalyst of much of the film??s action is the return of Scott’s older brother, Jimmy (Kieran Culkin), from the army. “Lymelife” marches to its own idiosyncratic, internal rhythm—both figuratively and literally, as Steve Martini, the director’s brother, scored...