Through a plot intertwined with reality and fantasy, this film tells the story of a director who encountered difficulties in both career and emotion when making a film. The theme shows the chaotic social life and anxiety of the spiritual world of modern people.
What struck me about this film was the dream at the beginning, I didn't realize it was a dream when I first watched it. At first, it was a follow-up camera. After the camera stopped with the car, it immediately changed to an outside perspective. A moving camera brought the situation of this road into view. After a closer look, I found a strange thing, that is, there are two people on the road. The group of cars are driving in the opposite direction. For example, the panning shot from the protagonist's perspective shows the car on the left. There is an old man inside looking at the protagonist, but the two cars are in opposite directions, and there are no obstacles in the middle to prevent them. Two cars were involved in an accident. After that, it became more and more weird. It was another pan to the right. An old man sitting in the co-pilot looked at the protagonist in the car, and then the protagonist's car was smoking and the door could not be opened. At this time, the camera suddenly shot to the back. There is a panoramic view of the car, and everyone in the camera is staring at the protagonist struggling in the car. After returning to the protagonist, he slaps the car window with the protagonist's hands for a close-up, showing the character's crisis, but immediately another panning shot is aimed at the back before In the car, through the comparison of the characters' clothing, a man who obviously did not exist before appeared in the car, and he was a close-up, focusing on the strange sense of incompatibility between the protagonist and the people around him, and then the camera movement was a fixed rotating shaking. In this shot, there are three cars and three people: in one car there is a young, sexy and scantily clad woman, and an old man stroking the woman; in the other car, there are more people, all of them watching with interest The protagonist struggled to escape; the last one was the protagonist who struggled to escape in the car. After that, the protagonist escaped inexplicably and stood in the car. At this time, the car also started to move. One flew in the sky with the protagonist of the camera, flew to the quiet seaside, was tied down by himself with a rope and fell into the sea, and then woke up from a dream.
The use of this shot is consistent with the director's style summarized in the courseware. The panning and close-up shots of the people around him at the beginning show his personal fears and imagination, while the people around him symbolize the choices made by different people in society when they encounter difficulties. They stand by and watch with interest. Focus on your own business and ignore it. These choices reveal the director's own criticism of human nature in the film. The moving shots at the beginning and behind the camera show traffic jams, a phenomenon that is not unfamiliar to modern society. Traffic jams are a manifestation of the anxiety of modern society and also represent the chaotic real life. The fixed shot of pulling myself down from the sky with a rope and falling into the sea. I think there are three metaphors: the scriptwriting will start, the inspiration will be limited, and the chaotic thoughts will be withdrawn.
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