Director：Phil Egland 

Performer：Details 

　　1997 is a special year. Comrade Ping, the general designer of reform and openness, died. Shanghai, as an international metropolitan city, is experiencing enormous changes. It's a change of nature. It's an old city. It's abstract、Psychological change——Like people's sexuality、Mid-aged men and women reflect on marriage and life, etc. British director Phil Agland shot it《Dead——The love and death of winter nights in Shanghai》Taking the pulse of the city's leap accurately, the story of several people in the city is told in turn. The characters and stories he chooses are linked not only to love and death, but the film always has the right rhythm——From the story、The tumultuous tension of the coming climax shows the great control power of the director. About 30 minutes from the end of the film, all the clues reached the edge of the no-go——children living in poor old homes are about to undergo a high-risk heart surgery; the opera actress will be on stage in a month; widows in the courtroom will face the option of remarriage; and members of the regiment who kill their girlfriends are about to face a final trial. it keeps the entire film alive with a sense of suspense that is not common in the documentary. 　　The killing of girlfriends by the cadres of the Regiment made the biggest difference in the film. Love and death are intertwined in this story. What kind of an intellectual of a state authority is that? Even more serious is the fact that, after the killing, he divided the body of his girlfriend into parts and threw it into the river. The cruelty of means is inconceivable. The film faithfully followed the case from the trial、Judgement、Throughout the entire process of appeal to the final hearing, the victims ' families' faces in the gallery, ranging from the initial denials to the final tears of tears, were deeply shaken by the dimness of their humanity. And the victim's family is very critical of the statement that "the murderer will die, his family will be sad," and that the story is even deeper、level of moral reflection. 　　It's hard to imagine《Dead》From a British director, because the whole shoal of Shanghai is so heavy, the neighborhood and the murderers are playing a living Shanghaiian language, without any pretences of drama, and the ecology is all about humor. So it is not only a documentary that gives Westerners a more accurate and comprehensive picture of Shanghai, but it is also more suitable for the Shanghai audience to watch, because behind those unsatisfied English subtitles there is a conversation that can make people laugh or laugh, and after that there is a deeper understanding of what they are in their home countries, and a more self-abuse。