Aftershock (2010)
6/10
A "memorial" movie.
19 January 2012
First of ll, I'd like to leave it straight: For all the families who have lost one (or more) of the 240,000 Tungshan victims, and could me reading this, truly sorry about that. Its an horrible tragedy and I can't even imagine how it is to pass through it.

But I can't believe producers have done a movie supposed to be touching without a good soundtrack. C'mom! We all know how weird it is to listen to Chinese's language and voice, not to mention the fact that seems they're always screaming with each other.

It doesn't even look like a cinemas' professional critics review, but I'm not professional anyway. The truth to be told: it's weird and I don't like much Chinese's movie because of this. And its because of this most of us try to ignore foreign movies. Such a human common mistake.

Except the soundtrack is completely missed along the movie, the movie is pretty much touching. Sometimes it goes even sadder than Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo).

About the actors: They cry, scream, cry and play their roles OK. Really couldn't see nothing extraordinary, even giving the hardness it must be to play a sad mom role, screaming to not have to decide what to do with his sons life's.

Photography is pretty much as a real vision, not too much colored, bright or darkness. Special effects used right on movie's first minutes (when the earthquake is falling the town apart) deceives well.

Besides the lack of soundtrack this movies has, you can feel some touching moments from it, and know a little bit more about china history. A memorial movie.
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