In this film, Henan suffered a catastrophe, and many people were killed by hunger. This is a typical national epic tragedy. In this film, the character played by Li came to inspect the disaster and arranged a Yellow River to burn carp. In the plot, there is a line, the year of catastrophe, how how, is said to this carp.
Probably because of the plot, I thought this fish should be delicious. The lens directed by Xiaogang Feng at that time was also unpretentious. On the contrary, this simplicity makes the value of food itself clearer.
There is no such thing as the Yellow River carp in the original book Wen Gu 1942 by Mr. Liu Zhenyun. Obviously, this is the creation of a screenplay. For Henan in the disaster year, if everyone had such braised fish to eat, then many Henan people would not starve to death.
Therefore, I like the carp somewhat sympathetically, lamenting the hardships of people's lives, and hoping that there will be no more disasters and everyone can eat fish.