part1:beijing part2:shanghai that seems the director is looking forward to a utopia china for the his own culture i think the whole film is relatively objective, followed by the severely-selected routine
传说中的"greatest movie ever made", “THE film of films”...盛名之下第一次看还是20分钟睡过去了...如果不是看影评就只看出了非线性叙事大约必须得把这部片放回到四十年代去才能理解它在影史中的地位吧The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult.