In "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", director Mike Nichols followed the original work and made full use of the absurd expression. The extremely emotional quarrel rendered by a large number of close-ups, the sudden addition of the father's voice during the memory of the boxing match with the father, the structure of the sound and picture counterpoint, and the increasing moving and elevation lenses in the second half of the film clearly highlight the film. The absurd meaning in. Only four characters, Masha, George, Hani, and Nick appear in the film. In terms of structure, although the characters in the play are incomplete, they can be found in real life. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" takes a different approach to the theme. It shows people's loneliness, isolation, and the sense of emptiness of losing their belongings, reflecting that people's lives are lies and overlapping lives. The focus of this film is not to tell the game between the two couples, but to explain the two couples and the type of people represented by them who do not want to face real life through absurd games. Such people live in lies and illusions all day long and cannot distinguish between lies and reality.
Compared with traditional movies, the context of the movie "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is uncertain and unspecific. There is no specific and definite plot in the play, only four games of two couples are told. The plot of the story is simple, there is no specific sequence and structure, and more ordinary stories in life. This shows that the absurd movie takes life as the source of art, and art should reflect the basic principle of ordinary people's daily life. In addition, the irrational and illogical setting of the situation is also one of the characteristics of this absurd movie. In "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", the director makes full use of absurd methods to reflect the absurdity and pain of existence in existentialism, and deeply exposes the ugliness of life in social reality. Criticize and oppose a false world woven by people for survival. Encourage the audience to wake up from false hallucinations and actively participate in real life
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