Amongst all of my techniques for studying Chinese, watching movies is one of the more enjoyable methods. It can help with listening – obviously, by just hearing the dialogue, reading – by looking at the subtitles, since more Chinese movies also tend to have Chinese subtitles, and speaking – since you can emulate the people in the movie, and get a better idea of what natural Chinese might sound like.
Of course, watching movies can be pretty hit and miss, and with such a huge range out there, and especially if you don’t have the same taste as your Chinese friends, or people to recommend movies to you, it’s hard to find movies that really suit your taste. Certainly, I’ve spent a long time searching for good content to help me in my learning process
Now that I’ve been learning for a while, and spent a reasonable amount of time watching all this content, I figured why not share my thoughts on some of the movies I’ve watched, what they were like, and if they are any good from a Chinese learning perspective
And so, for my first movie review:
