Yu Hua's rhetoric makes the novel with fable in the text characteristic, poem nature ground, aesthetic feeling of the music.
余华的修辞使小说具备了寓言化的文本特征、诗性质地、音乐的美感。
The movie felt like a folk song to me, part fable, part poem, partly a committed conversation that you'd have with someone late at night when big ideas flowed easily.