EXPENSIVE SCENARIO
Adapted from two short stories: Brilliant Ashes and Rotten Firewood Floating Back in the story collection Dao (2015) by writer Nguyen Ngoc Tu, the film explores more deeply and completely the fate and life of the people.
Accordingly, if Tam and Nhan are a pair of talented boys and beautiful girls made for each other, then Duong and Hau came together through a drunken accident.
Characters Nhan and Tam
Characters Duong and Hau
Will a talented and beautiful family always be as stable as a stone table, no matter what may happen?
It can be said that the greatest success of Brilliant Ashes comes from director Bui Thac Chuyen’s respect for the original when he excellently adapted Nguyen Ngoc Tu’s works to the screen.
Writer Nguyen Ngoc Tu also participated in the process of writing dialogue, so in terms of script, Brilliant Ashes possesses a strong plot, sensational enough, with many implications and can attract audiences to theaters.
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Vietnamese film Brilliant Ashes: When good literary originals create a quality film
THE POPULAR IS BALANCED WITH ART
Using the setting of the Southwest, Brilliant Ashes has many extremely eye-catching scenes.
No longer the typical rice fields, the film opens up two contrasts between fire and water as representing the relationship between women and their men.
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Director Bui Thac Chuyen focuses on depicting emotions using physical elements.
Brilliant Ashes also has a balance between popularity and artistry.
In terms of acting, two actors Le Cong Hoang (as Duong) and Bao Ngoc Doling (as Hau) performed relatively well the characters with very strange, heavily literary characteristics of Nguyen Ngoc Tu.
Actor Le Cong Hoang plays Duong
Bao Ngoc Doling as Hau
However, with a film circuit with many story lines, director Bui Thac Chuyen has not handled the transitions really smoothly.
The characters of Loan and Khang are also quite weak compared to the rest of the film.
This is also because the script has been simplified compared to the original, so the conflicts and antagonisms in the Loan – Khang – Monk route have not yet reached a climax.
Overcoming great challenges such as a modest investment amount, as well as a time when the pandemic prevented the production and post-production process, Brilliant Ashes deserves to be named among the few cinematic works.