The desktop hit "The Internet Mystery" is a big surprise for the audience this year. Although the changing perspective of walking on the computer desktop is not the first, in a play performed on the desktop, the film content carrier, "The Internet Mystery" The story of looking for a girl is more emotional and full of drama than the same type of narrative, which is also a major factor in its recognition. The tabletop properly carries this story, and the story is vivid and interesting on the tabletop.
As a result, a film form under the Internet invasion is about to emerge. Relying on the computer desktop and using local Internet resources, a complete story is assembled, and the surface is drawn with points. During the drawing process, there is an Internet search mode that ordinary people are used to. The audience enjoys the pleasure of following the vines, and at the same time, they can also be moved by the storyline .
Like a suspense movie, every icon on the desktop is a clue, every video is a record of past existence, and the process of events is attached to the desktop, this desktop is like a Pandora's box, in this semi-closed plane. Present infinite possibilities.
The tabletop and suspense are really a match made in heaven. The computer-specific search is like the search for the truth. Every tabletop game is endowed with the commonality of similar cases—the result is reversed.
In this reasoning process, our thinking can follow the protagonist to click on each icon, open each application, and search each web page for constant conditioned reflex, so as to achieve a certain staged result. But in the second half of the film, when the answer becomes clearer, the desktop information is no longer controlled by the protagonist (it seems that the screening of each video is not the father's behavior), so who is manipulating the image to influence our judgment?
In the first half of the film, a lot of the plot is carried out from the perspective of the father. The operation of clicking the icon to open the video comes from the father, and the content presented is almost a search for the truth of the case. The cases are closely related and affect our judgment. Later, these hands manipulate our minds even more uncontrollably, bypassing our father and reading the truth directly to us , despite the Internet as an intermediary.
In traditional movies, the camera lens has such a nature. Because of the director's authorship, the movie will always embed the director's thoughts. Under the business model, the director affects the actors' performance and overall scheduling, not to mention the overall leadership of the director in the field of art films. Therefore, rather than thinking that the camera lens is affecting the audience's perception of the film text, it is more that the creators behind it use the lens to exert influence on the audience .
By adding such a theory to a suspenseful film, the influence of the creator becomes even more pronounced, and the mix affects whether the film needs to present the outcome or leave an open-ended ending. In "Internet Mystery", the director chose the structure of exploring the truth to the end, and when the play became more and more complicated and needed key clues to unravel the doubts, he gave up the role of his father in explaining the case and turned to Instead, it became a direct takeover of the event.
So it's already obvious who is manipulating our viewing and thinking, the computer desktop or the internet as a medium is used by creators like a camera lens to impose whatever they want us to see on our viewing.
But is it necessary to add a layer of "camera" or another layer of lens rendering to the movie screen when there is already a camera?
If the computer desktop is like another camera, and the "camera" exists inside the text, then it will increase the layering of the movie as if it were a play. There are many movies in this mode, and many directors are also keen on such experiments, such as Michael Ha Necker's "Hidden Camera", "Happy Ending"; the camera exists outside the text, showing a certain effect, this kind of use of the camera shooting method is relatively successful, such as "Blair the Witch" "Ghost Record" and other pseudo-recorded films .
Which category should a tabletop movie like "The Internet Mystery" belong to? Obviously, with the camera as an intermediary, the inside and outside of the play is essentially a two-period image, and the two timelines may overlap or be separated; while the camera outside the text presents only one timeline, "the camera. "Pinched together with the text, there is little space between the "camera" and the viewer. "Internet Mystery" belongs to the latter category, with a period of images, a timeline, and there is no space between the audience and the desktop.
Maybe we can refer to the trend of pseudo-recorded movies as a reference for desktop movies. Maybe the innovation of desktop movies to movies is only an innovation in the way of text presentation. Maybe it is too early to say that such movies have created a new branch of movies. But there is one thing that cannot be denied. The more obvious the manipulation of the audience's thinking, the more important the scheduling required by the film . The high standard of editing in "The Internet Mystery" reflects this. The shooting took 13 days and the post-production took two years.
The appearance of new things is always accompanied by freshness. The essence of tabletop movies is like placing a camera between the camera and the text. It is difficult to define what this camera can bring to the film itself.
But from the perspective of traditional movies, we can still expect this kind of movies to show a more complete cinematic quality, and the characters, scenes, and the structure of the play can still be improved day by day. "Internet Mystery" is in the same genre in story logic and empathy. It is more reasonable and plump, and it is easier to convince the audience. We can see the description of the details of family life at the beginning of the film, we can see what the mother looks like and the daughter's love for the piano. In the end, you can also see that the daughter repaired the rift with her father, and set the photo with her father in recovery as the shutdown screen.
In addition to the feelings of the characters in the play, the nature of the lens can also be used. Since the creators are manipulating our viewing, then what we watch is what they want us to see. Excluding the discussion of the authenticity of the movie itself, we can actually You can see reality as well as fiction, depending on what the directors and screenwriters mean. Such real and fictional ambiguity undoubtedly increases the difficulty of deconstructing events.
In addition, in addition to suspenseful themes, whether the desktop can focus on other movie types, love, plot, etc., may be the objects that the desktop can carry. The original suspenseful desktop and other types of intertexts will also be full of surprises area.
As the highest peak of computer desktop movies, "The Internet Mystery" is widely praised. This peak comes from tightening the fence of the desktop and better completes the part of traditional movies. For the computer desktop itself or the innovation of the movie form, will it be Like pseudo-documentary films briefly went mainstream, we don't know. But what computer desktop movies should do now is to explore the possibility of the core of traditional movies in this form under a fixed situation, broaden the textual boundaries, and think about the intertextuality of genres, so that the genre can control multiple perspectives, humanities and rationalization. interpretation .
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