"Long Day's Journey Into Night" is a thorough director's work. It can be said that the biggest actor in this movie is the director bigan. The film is very psychedelic, and the iconic poetic dialogue makes the whole film like a dream, especially in the second half of the 3D long shot, where dreams and reality are intertwined, making it more and more unclear
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"Long Day's Journey Into Night" is not only about the external real world, but also about the private illusion world. The film not only presents the surreal dimension of Carey, but also the subconscious dimension of personal experience. From this point of view, "Long Day's Journey Into Night" is a second thought and a comprehensive upgrade of "Roadside Picnic". The realization of this oppositional unity 3D long lens is undoubtedly one of the original and experimental ideas.
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"Long Day's Journey Into Night" is a literary film with a distinct director's personal style. The film does not focus on the story, it breaks the linear narrative, the time axis is jagged, and the memories and reality are intertwined. This narrative is slow and the plot is fragmented. The audience must distinguish time and space through details, such as the color of Luo Hongwu's hair (black or white). A large number of babbles and symbols, fixed camera positions and close-ups make the whole film slow, obscure, and full of ambiguous atmosphere. In other words, this is a film that presents an emotional state, not a film that tells a story. "Long Day's Journey Into Night" once again reflects the long distance between literary films and ordinary audiences. In addition, the biggest problem with the film may be the use of commercial films to promote purely artistic films. The audience did not have a deep understanding in the early stage. Most audiences chose the film as a New Year's Eve ceremony with the mentality of watching a romantic film. The result was huge Psychological gap
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The problems with "Long Day's Journey Into Night" are: one is that the rhythm is too slow, the other is that the screen is too dark, and the third is that there is a problem with editing the narrative. The director bigan deliberately disrupted the sequence of time, but this deliberate disruption is not clever, this narrative method is not necessary, and the technique is not new. In addition, the 60-minute long-shot 3D effect after dreaming in the second half of the film is not obvious. Except for the big characters of the title "Long Day's Journey Into Night", which makes the obvious 3D effect, the whole dream is almost flat. As a film pursuing personal artistic style, the film has been coerced into the film industry system. Obviously, bigan has not yet balanced the two abilities. During the filming process, the process was seriously out of control, and capital was trapped step by step. In the end, the word of mouth of the film collapsed. The director was not innocent, but the film itself was innocentreviewed by
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Although the 3D picture of the film is smooth, it is also abrupt; although it should be immersive, it has a slight alienation effect due to excessive smoothness, which loses its convincing power. Such a huge and complete long shot seems to be a mere container, and it does not produce the poetic effect of combining various fragments in "Mirror" or "Mulholland", and does not create true free expression. Instead, it becomes a thematic burden and restraint, which makes the second half more like a level-breaking game encapsulated in a certain format, rather than an image space with strong film charm. The continuity of form and content, the external continuity and the internal rupture, the narrative continuity and the poetic rupture are another dilemma that the film faces in the second half of the film
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"Long Day's Journey Into Night" is not only a pleasant immersion brought by powerful technology, it is also a miracle that guides the medium to climb to an unknown peak and invites us into a beautiful dream
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It is hard to imagine that there is a work that is more empty, boring and ambitious than "Long Day's Journey Into Night". The wandering in the red and black mist is long and incomprehensible. The core is the same as "Roadside Picnic". Exaggerated long shots, you can praise its genius, you can also lament its vanity display. In retrospect, the previous work "Roadside Picnic" is like a crude draft, but it is more successful than this duplicate version
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