It's a good movie. You believe her whole. But for me the cinema is much more than a script. A film is composed of a script, direction, photography, makeup, hairdressing, art, etc. But this film, having very good things, falls short on others that are indispensable, all of them are.The actors are great, everyone, from the first to the last. Everyone gets you into the movie.The script is fine. He even tells you things that have happened in other countries, with political backgrounds, and what they brought, and he tells you about focusing on a family and what happened to him.But photography, with those white spotlights that hurt the eye, makes the film very bad. It has good moments of photography but there are many times that are not mistakes, the worst thing is that they are wanted and badly wanted.It has an address that is quite good, but it conforms. It does not pretend to tell as does good cinema. Narrate with the camera does little people know and this is not the case. Someone will tell me that it is not mandatory, of course, but it does not earn points.It is a movie that is very well and you see with pleasure but to be a great movie you lack those details that take movies to be great.

The film contains absolutely minimum information about the dark side of the cultural revolution,which the books was all about. If you want to know more about that history, try read some books or some foreign documentaries, because a commercial movie that reveals those will never be released in mainland China and probably wouldn't even be finished, especially from a highly influential director like Zhang.The brilliant side of Zhang, is that if you know enough about that time period, none of those ugly facts that this movie missed needs to be described. The novel was fictional anyways, it is a reflection and a look at that ugly truth from a narrow but interesting angle. But Zhang didn't want the film to be about that. He chose only the last 20-30 pages of the book, beautifully painted out a love story of that generation, and stopped there. It is like a rotten apple covered with nice tasty chocolate, you take a tiny bite, you see a little bit of what's under and realize it is bad, but then you still tries carefully licking only the chocolate cover, without touching or even thinking about the ugly inside, and by the time you finish you will still remember mostly the nice tasty part of the story.If it is the ugly inside you are looking for, if you want to know how bad did it get during that time. Like mentioned earlier, go read the novel or look for other documentaries. Born well after that time period, even I can't bare the pain sometimes when I hear stories of that period. So thank you Zhang, for making some warm memories, and something not too bitter to chew with.

It's been 20 years since Zhang's TO LIVE was banned in China, the director and female lead prohibited from speaking about it and were forbidden from working for 2 years. And it's been 15 years since Zhang withdrew his films from Cannes in the aftermath of the continuing debate as to whether his films are pro or anti government.I can't think of another director whose work is subject to as much scrutiny regarding their political leanings.If you are looking for an overt criticism of the Cultural Revolution, then this film won't satisfy. What we have is a simple story, less obvious and more oblique, but still emotional and powerfully moving.It's a tender story of a man trying to reconnect with his amnesiac wife and estranged daughter through a series of small but heart-felt gestures.The thought that struck me during the final scene, watching an elderly couple - Feng Wanyu and Lu Yanshi, waiting for the husband to come home, was that not only might he never come back, but the 20 years that kept them apart would NEVER come back. And that's a pretty strong indictment of a troubling period in China's history.

The movie is moving,it conveys such emotions we are losing now.it seems that Yimou Zhang has critical thinking about that period history of 1970s.I don't know how many films Zhang used the stories of the period ,but here Coming Home a new one,an awesome one! Gong Li and Chen Daoming's performance is wonderful,they truly expressed the emotions two lovers should have. When the movie was on,it got good reviews and was highly recommended! It worth it! The main audience are the old who experienced the history. Maybe Zhang hopes more young go to watch the movie ,because he wants people born in nearly years to know the story and get something from it and remember . I think we should get to know the history and remember it