I think the real problem is not imitation. It is the director's ambiguous position that leads to problems in some details and character settings. The theme of the film is very clear: believe in love and oppose calculations for secular reasons. As a commercial film, what the director needs to do is to guide the audience in the direction of supporting Buffy, and at the same time express regret and sympathy to Shruti. But the director has several treatments to break this balance, making it difficult for the audience to choose between Buffy's choice and Shruti.
The whole film's shaping of Shruti is almost perfect. Her only mistake is to make a wrong choice (that is, the kind of choice opposed in the theme of the movie). Her own personality is okay, but the wrong choice kills her life. This will be explained later in the shaping of Shruti. Shruti not only loves Buffy, but also very kind. One of the most persuasive performances is Shruti's smile when the autistic woman protects Buffy with her hands. She couldn't help but smile with sincere kindness, and at that time she was also experiencing unspeakable sadness and envy and love for Buffy. In contrast, Buffy and Shruti, who lost the autistic girl, were angry with Shruti during the time they lived together. While the shot is in the middle shot, we can't see a more hierarchical performance, only the conceptual processing. This processing makes Buffy lack the basic kindness to Shruti, which is detrimental to Buffy's personality shaping. Compared with Shruti, autistic girls lack the real brilliance and beauty of human nature. The only detail is that at the end of the film, the autistic woman caressed Shruti's crying cheek comfortingly, reflecting the softness and kindness of her heart. Other than that, there was almost no performance. The details of the autistic woman and Buffy standing under the street light show only the trust of the autistic woman in Buffy. This is right for love, but it is not convincing in terms of personality. These settings make the film present a kind of contradiction with the original intention of spreading love and kindness, that is, "No matter how good you are, Shruti, as long as you make the wrong choice, you deserve to suffer for a lifetime, even if you wake up later and make it. You don’t want to make a brave choice." And between Buffy and the autistic girl, It is certainly right to focus on showing their tacit understanding, but this tacit understanding is not lacking between Buffy and Shruti in the first half of the film (the only difference is the test under the street light, even this detail makes people suspect autistic Is the girl not avoiding because of dependence and slow response?). These treatments made the director's "punishmental" meaning to Shruti more obvious, even too cruel. It also makes Buffy's love a bit selfish. (Of course, for many female audiences, this is not a problem. Even Shruti is so perfect that women are more willing to stand on the side of autistic girls because she has received enviable love). If you want to make the movie appear more gentle and coordinated as a whole. During the time when Buffy lost his autistic woman, he should not be conceptualized maliciously towards Shruti. The director should not express Buffy's love for the autistic woman at the expense of hurting the character's personality. And the shaping of the autistic woman should also be more derived from the humanity of the character itself, so as to achieve a balance between her and Shruti. This way the theme of the film will be more convincing. Otherwise, the theme of the movie will have a kind of ambiguity, that is, "If you don’t choose me, you deserve to be unlucky, deserve to be miserable all your life, even if you love me, even if you are kind, even if you change your mind one day-since you chose to give up on the secular If you have me, then you are selfish to me, so I can also use selfishness to reward you so that you get the punishment you deserve." So, as a director, what you advocate is really "incalculable love"? As an audience, do I have reason to doubt?
As for the advantages of the movie, of course it is obvious, and everyone can see it. Then I do not talk about it. I must admit that I like this movie very much, and even love it. It is excellent. If Chinese films can reach this level one day, then you can try to shoot Wang Xiaobo's works.
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As for the second possibility, how to make the movie more in-depth, you need to see the potential characteristics of the characters in the original work. 1. Buffy is not perfect. He is a little inferior. This is reflected in his negative coping strategy after the failure of the proposal. No more fights. The street lamp test is also one of the evidence, he lacks trust and sense of security; 2. Shruti is not perfect. Her steadfastness later came after paying a great price. If Buffy really won her at the beginning, the personality defects of the two would also bury a lot of hidden dangers, and the danger would be ignited; 3. The personality of an autistic woman-besides trust and dependence, what are her advantages? Did not elaborate.
Exposing or solving problems is a way to make the movie more in-depth. In my opinion, the director is very thoughtful, but he has buried himself with hidden dangers that cannot be solved perfectly. There is an imbalance between authenticity and delivery of beauty, and he is vacillating. His conclusion is somewhat far-fetched.
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Ambiguous about the theme of the movie and the theme and content Another explanation for the imbalance between the two is that when the director chooses Shruti as the narrator, he is naturally inclined to regret and blame himself. Under the control of this kind of emotion, the tolerance and kindness towards Shruti is naturally not much. But the problem is that the theme of the story deviates from this sentiment. In other words, the director's own attitude and position are mixed and contradictory with the narrator's perspective and related emotions, so that the effect of alienation is not clear and the sense of hierarchy is not stretched.
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