求小时代和致青春的英文影评,150～200词左右,高一水平的…

求小时代和致青春的英文影评,150～200词左右,高一水平的…
求小时代和致青春的英文影评,150～200词左右,高一水平的…

求小时代和致青春的英文影评,150～200词左右,高一水平的…
Tiny Times
Tiny Times,a Chinese feature film set incontemporary Shanghai,made headline news on its opening day in late June byknocking the Hollywood blockbuster Manof Steel from its perch atop the domestic box-office and breaking theopening-day record for a Chinese-language 2D release.
The film follows four college girls as theynavigate romance and their professional aspirations,but the bulk of the filmis about the female longing for a life of luxury in the company of agood-looking man.Tiny Times is not a women鈥檚 film,though it does featurefemale characters,draped from head to toe in designer clothes and easilymesmerized by the presence of supposedly visually stunning males鈥攏ot the usual,muscle-bound Hollywood types,but Asian boys of androgynous demeanor withcompact frames,equisite facial contours and the look of perpetual youth.
At first glance,Tiny Times might bemistaken for a Sinicized Sex and the City,but soon it becomes clear that thefour boy-crazed,mall-loitering characters in Shanghai have little in commonwith the fiercely independent career women in Candace Bushnell鈥檚 New York.Positioned in the market by Le Vision Pictures of Beijing as a coming of agestory,the rite of passage for one dazed girl in the film is to grow into acompetent personal assistant to her oh-so-handsome male boss whose aloofdemeanor and penetrating gaze constantly destabilizes her.Another girl from anouveau riche family,showers her boyfriend with expensive clothes and accessories.The third girl鈥攃hubby,suffering from stereotypically low self-esteem andemotional eating鈥攊s made fun of throughout the movie as she obsesses over youngtennis player,the one man in the movie who actually possesses somethingresembling muscle.The fourth girl,a budding fashion designer from a humblebackground,is trapped in an abusive relationship with yet another good-lookingboy.
Taking a page from the book of popular EastAsian 鈥渋dol dramas鈥 that cater primarily to youth in their teens and twenties,the film features popular singers,actors,and actresses,cast regardless ofany actual acting ability.Good idol dramas frequently feature teen romance,inwhich brooding characters with dark secrets and painful pasts elicit pathos andreal emotion.Tiny Times,however,has done away with complex story arcs andcharacter development.The film looks great but ultimately lacks substance.
The four characters鈥 professionalaspirations amount to serving men with competence.The film is a Chinese versionof 鈥渃hick flick鈥 minus the emotional engagement and relationship-based socialrealism that typically are associated with the Hollywood genre.The onlyenduring relationship in Tiny Times is the chicks鈥 relationship with materialgoods.The hyper-materialist life portrayed carries little plot but serves as asetting for consumption,and is more akin to MTV or reality TV than real drama.With its scandalously cartoonish characters,the film would have worked betteras a satirical comedy,except that the director is too sincere in hiscelebration of material abundance to display any sense of irony.
We were caught completely off guard,stupefied by the film鈥檚 unabashed flaunting of wealth,glamor,and male powerpassed off as 鈥渨hat women want.鈥 Its vulgar and utter lack of self-awareness isastonishing,but perhaps not too surprising.It appears to be the product offull-blown materialism in modern,urban Chinese society.The film speaks to themale fantasy of a world of female yearnings,which revolve around men and thegoods men are best equipped to deliver,whether materially or bodily.Itbetrays a twisted male narcissism and a male desire for patriarchal power andcontrol over female bodies and emotions misconstrued as female longing.
Whatever happened to Chairman Mao鈥檚proclamation that 鈥渨omen hold up half the sky鈥?In Tiny Times Chinese societyhas regressed to an earlier era.Years of accelerating economic growth havebrought unprecedented social and geographic mobility,and increased pressure onChinese men to succeed,to follow the trail of power and money,leaving theirwomen behind.Economic growth has exacerbated the gender gap,often revivingcultural traditions that reduce women to a sub-human status.The contempt forwomen that I have witnessed in China in recent years is alarming.The malechauvinism in the film is symptomatic of a society where the choices for womenare severely limited.The ones with bodies are enticed to become material girlsunder the thumb of men,the ones with brains who dare to use their thinkingfaculties are condemned to eternal loneliness,and the ones possessing neitherare banished to a corner.
Much to our horror and dark amusement TinyTimes鈥 director Guo Jingming,won the award for 鈥渂est new director鈥 at therecently concluded Shanghai International Film Festival.A film school dropoutturned popular fiction writer,Guo aspires to be an author of contemporaryShanghai.Though not a Shanghai native,he nevertheless invokes the renownedShanghai novelists Eileen Chang and Wang Anyi as his predecessors.Guo鈥檚imagination paints Shanghai as a world city whose very spirit is equated withwealth and the attendant decadence.Nevermind that he paints a world devoid ofcompassion and humanity.Nevermind that the fabulously wealthy Shanghai in hisfictionalized world is hardly the reality for majority of citydwellers.