The Road Home
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Movie Reviews of The Road Home
Movie Review: Dumpling
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Road Home" was a rewarding viewing experience. Zhang Yimou whose "Hero" & "House of Flying Daggers" were action-packed tragedies does a masterful job with this more reflective romantic tale. As is the hallmark of his work, the visuals are stunning from the use of the red jacket to the red hairpin. Splitting the film into two sections, the present in black & white and the past in color, works as a way of telling two parts of the same story. Sun Honglei does a nice job as the son who returns to take care of his mother. As the aging mother, Zhao Yuelin has believable amounts of grief and stubbornness. However, without a doubt, this is Zhang Ziyi's movie. If ever there were a Chinese actress likely to garner an Oscar nomination, she'd be the one to watch over the next decade. The nuances of her performance are phenomenal from the shy flirting glances with the schoolteacher to her panic as she runs with a bowl of dumplings. This film won both the Silver Bear Award @ the Berlin film festival in 2000 & the Sundance World Cinema Award in 2001. While the pace is slow, the story is sure and grips the audience every step of the way. Bravo!Movie Review: One of my Favorites, But Not One I'd Necessarily Want to Own
Summary: 5 Stars
THE ROAD HOME" is one of the most wonderful and beautiful films I ever seen. I'm not really into chinese movies, mainly because they are slow, but I took a chance with this one and saw it. I have to say that I absoultely loved it. But it is very sad at the end, so it wouldn't be one I'd want to own. But definately one to check out. It's kind like owning "TITANIC" and "PEARL HARBOR". Do you really want to watch a disaster over and over? I'm not saying there's a big disaster in this movie, but hopefully you'll get what I mean. Anyways...The main point about the movie is that it is so simple that it takes your breath away. The love story is small and epic at the same time. You can really tell the two are in love. It's so real. Zhang Ziyi, from Crounching Tiger, is wonderful as a poor peasant girl in love with the new village school teacher. The actual story of how their love unfolded is so tender and sweet that it will leave you trying to hold back tears of pure joy. The music, composed by San Bao works so well with the movie, it's outstanding.
Enjoy!
Movie Review: Great movie that I would love to watch again and again
Summary: 5 Stars
The Road Home is a movie about a very standard and simple love on the first site story. The beauty is in the great acting and the spirit that comes out of the actors.I liked a lot to watch how people in such villages live and how they dress and the movie gave attention to many daily events of those people.
Again, the acting is gorgeous, but the values that the movie is showing is great also and the strong bounds in the family is there in the movie and you can see how much the love and respect of a sun would make him do to meet his mothers wishes and how grateful student can be to a teacher gave his life to them.
Another point that I liked in the movie is how the director use color. In the current events, you will see black and white scenes and when flashbacks start the colors will come a life. The old days are better and there was the real life for the characters of this movie not the current days, except for the day the sun took his father's place in the school and start teaching the students of the village.
Great movie that I would love to watch again and again.
Movie Review: Simple yet moving tale of timeless love
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie under the translated name of "My father and mother", as the original Mandarin name "Wo de fu qin mu qin" would suggest. Which is an apt title, because theme wise, it veers around a young man harking back to the romance between a simple village girl (his mother) and the school teacher (his father). Lots of reminiscing, nostalgia, love, sacrifice. The End. But it is this very simplicity that is stirring. Cinematographically on par with almost anything from Kurosawa, even "Yume", this is an unembellished but heart-warming story of remembering a timeless love. No quixotic melodrama of Hollywood (a la Titanic) here, no elaborate somatic expressions of hugging/kissing/and all else. Indeed, Zhang Ziyi only needs a twitch of an eye or a shy gesture of the hands to convey an entire page of the script.
Doesn't matter whether the story is simple or complex, beautiful or ordinary, Chinese or otherwise -- I'd wager you will definitely come away feeling that you saw a charming, moving vignette of human essence. Fabulous!
Movie Review: "Road Home" - What a great movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am not a big fan of Zhang ZiYi, however, I did like "Road Home" a lot! Comparing her usual roles as a tough sword fighter such as in "Hidden Draggon Crouching Tiger" or "House of Flying Daggers", I think this kind of movie suits a lot better for Zhang ZiYi. Speaking from Asian point of view, she is not the prettiest girl you can find in Asia but she definitely has the quality of sweetness and confidence in her look, which fits perfectly with the role in this movie.
The story is indeed a celebration of great and undying love between lovers. What gives a greater impact on this movie is the way the story is set in a backward Chinese village where grand love is least expected to be found. The kind of simple yet passionate love between the two lovers in the movie has almost become extinct in reality.
This kind of movie is very refreshing to the audience because it does not follow the typicality of most American movies where stories start off happily and end happinly.
I strongly recommend this movie!