Feeling after watching a Russian film Узник замка Иф, namely the Prisoner of Château d'If in English, is a movie based on Le Comte de Monte-Cristo made in Soviet Union in 1988. For the first time in my life I would speak highly of a Russian movie. Those Russian or Soviet movies I watched before, mainly refer to WWII, give priority to propaganda, which makes their scenarios skeptical. They give the audience an impression that as if the Red Army was perfect in all respects and the Wehrmacht was so awkward in their compact skills as to be vulnerable. Maybe they were succeeded in smearing Germans but they also definitely smeared the reputation of in-Soviet Union-made movies at the same time. Actually such phenomenon has been happening in China all the time as well, which explains why nowadays Chinese movies become worse and worse. Now set my digression aside, The highlight of Узник замка Иф seems to me not its factual accounts of Duma's story or instilling people the right and moral values but a sense of implicitness rooted in the style of the movie. Using emotions of actors and excellent scores to express feelings of characters is much better than simply adding excessive dialogs, which might take audiences as dummies. Unluckily most current chinese movie-makers never realized that. I would say the best movies let audiences think and feel on their own, and should be tasted for a long time. PS: another facebook post.