《百鸟朝凤》是一部具有史诗特质的影片。唢呐技艺仪式的展现及其悖谬情形,唢呐技艺衰落的时空背景,悲壮忧伤的美学风格,是影片史诗特质的三个主要方面。通过史诗特质建构,影片书写了关于唢呐技艺的史诗,以其为切入点重新审视改革开放以来中国社会的发展变化,既表现了传统文化生存空间的衰落,也彰显了坚忍不拔的民族精神,充满普遍的人性光辉。 “100 birds towards Phoenix” is a film with epic qualities. The presentation of suona rituals and their paradoxical situations, the spatiotemporal background of the suona’s artistic decline, and the aesthetical style of tragedy and sadness are the three main aspects of the film’s epic qualities. Through the construction of epic qualities, the film has written an epic on the art of suona, and re-examines the development and changes of Chinese society since the reform and opening-up as the starting point. It not only shows the decline of the space for the survival of traditional culture, but also demonstrates the perseverance of the national spirit, Full of universal humanity glory.