What is the main content of the movie "Riding a Thousand Miles"?

Riding alone in the park is not only the name of a Nuo opera in the movie, but also the walking state of Gao Cangjian's father in the movie. He came all the way from Japan to China in search of this novel "A Thousand Miles Alone". This coincidence of image and form shows the author's good intentions.

Zhang Yimou has always stressed the hope that this is a sincere story, a simple and emotional story. In view of the gorgeous emptiness of Hero and House of Flying Daggers, Riding a Thousand Miles is an adjustment of the ups and downs and rhythm of his own creative route. So, we saw a Japanese old man who went to China to shoot Nuo opera to realize his son's wish in order to eliminate the emotional barrier with his son, and in the difficult process, he suffered warm human feelings from other places. The whole story is straightforward, and it is obviously an eloquent way to show the emotional world of the characters, so as to achieve the sincere and simple purpose of directing.

When sincerity and simplicity become the goal, can you still be yourself? This slightly philosophical question gives a hiccup pause when riding a thousand miles alone, which makes people feel the virtual fire under sincerity and simplicity.

The director's Ride the Dust really weakens the technical elements that are reused in Hero and House of Flying Daggers. He used realistic shooting techniques to list everything he loved in his son's career-Nuo opera, Yunnan's local customs, the help of kind and simple strangers, the relationship between another father and son in the play and so on. It can only be said that a lot of space has been set up to create emotions, but it has not had any substantial impact on the Japanese father-son relationship, because the father's own active behavior is enough to impress his son, not everything that happened to his father. If we have to say that what my father experienced in China made him know more about his son's spiritual world, it is different from his original intention. More importantly, under that still cold face, Gao Cangjian's interpretation of his father relies more on the voiceover of his inner monologue, which shows the weakness of the camera narrative without pressure, because it is enough to show that the story in the camera must explain the internal logic imbalance related to the characters' hearts through voiceover.

What's more, from the perspective of life experience, does a father have to have a long-distance and exciting behavior in order to understand his son and improve his relationship with him? When his son is dying, it is probably beyond the power of a little person to go to a foreign country thousands of miles away to understand his spiritual world. What kind of feelings and will do you need? Therefore, the story that truly conforms to the emotional logic of the little people can provide the underlying version that reflects the simple and true style. The story of "riding a thousand miles alone" itself is obviously impossible. Therefore, the more the director wants to achieve emotional simplicity and sincerity through those things, the weaker he is, the more haste makes waste, and the more vain he is.