Comments on: Review: Han Han’s Film Debut ‘The Continent’ Is An Epic Disappointment

By: dolma

dolma — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 01:29:24 +0000

Generally, The continent is about three young men from an island off east China who go on a road trip to the western region and,along the way,fulfill some of their personal goals. Unsurprisingly,it’s about youth,dreams and farewell.
This subject matter is a fitting but also safe choice by Han,and his signature literary style and humor is present throughout the 100 minutes.
This film is called a disappointment by some people maybe for the reason that they’ve hold too high expectation on Han as a talented young writer. However,working on a 50-million-yuan film project is so much more complicated than writing a novel. For example, how do you transfer the script to a limited number of frames; or how do you convey Han’s vision through the actors’ performances? Yet,I think the Continent is a good film by touching the audience by its truly feeling of boys grow into man.
Boys always get disappointed by the world,but they finally find the way to conquer the world. And that’s their farewell to their boyhood.

By: Val

Val — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 08:15:17 +0000

I don’t think this film is good but no better than the Tiny Times trilogy? Wow! Did you actually watch any of the Tiny Times? But on second thought, I might not have the right to judge since I bailed after the first 30 minutes.

This review, including the caption, is so very petty that reminds me of the worst of the douban reviews and is so much worse than a good many competent reviews on that same site. But nobody writes in English so maybe this is your winning point. If your idea of a good film review is this and your idea of good journalism is cut-shuffle-paste-translate Chinese articles with a few witty turns of phases thrown in without even mentioning the sources (Re the previous Rui Chenggang piece:Ｉread enough Chinese articles on that to know), I hope you are not paid for any of these.

By: ItemSherpa

ItemSherpa — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 05:39:57 +0000

at mtime you can see which theaters carry english subtitles. may come in handy for those outside the 3rd ring. id say, while the movie feels dull to a foreigner, it's inspiring to a chinese audience. chinese ratings have all been really good... better than the white-haired witch premiere

By: Me

Me — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:01:16 +0000

Wouldn’t call it insight, but two reasons I can think of: a) it’s a cross-country (sure, not -continent) trip and b) call it a stretch but considering how much Han and his team have been endeavoured to make the film distinguished from Guo Jingming and his “Tiny Times”, I wouldn’t be surprised if “Continent” has anything to do with it

By: William Wang

William Wang — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 05:46:31 +0000

Is it because the movie is derived from his book called Continent?

By: failure inc.

failure inc. — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:11:21 +0000

any insight into why english name of the movie is “Continent”?