About "Dogma95"
In the spring of 1995, a group of film directors jointly read out the shooting regulations called "Dogma95" in Copenhagen, and Lars von Trier was an important member. The Dogma Group is an anti-Hollywood film group that opposes the gentrification of film effects, and their oath is: "I swear in the name of the director to refrain from my personal taste, I am no longer an artist, my The ultimate goal is to find the truth in the characters and in the environment, and I swear I will do it by all means, including sacrificing my personal taste and aesthetic considerations." Their purpose is to compete with certain shooting traditions in today's film industry. A large number of movies are now on the verge of death. Because they pay too much attention to external things, they deliberately create false impressions to cater to the audience's interest, but instead drown out the real emotions. Immediate measures must be taken to erase all the "transformation" brought about by technology. To restore "story and characters", today's movies are too focused on special effects, but ignore the spirit of the movie itself. They advocate live radio, use hand-held photography, no post-dubbing, no filters, and refusing to use all methods that will beautify the picture.
DOGMA Ten Principles
1. It must be shot on the spot (scenery), and no additional scenery or props are allowed. If the props are necessary, you must find a place where the props will appear during the scene selection;
2. No additional sound effects can be added to the images (nor the soundtrack, unless the music is played synchronously during the shooting);
3. Hand-held photography must be used;
4. Colored images must be used. Special lighting effects are not allowed. If the scene is too dark and underexposure, you can add a "camera light" on the camera;
5. No filter can be used;
6. No surface treatment such as murder, etc.;
7. The story must take place in a modern environment;
8. Type films are not allowed;
9. The film format must be 35mm;
10. The director's name cannot appear in the opening and closing subtitles (production list).
I finally watched "Dancer in the Darkness" last night. This disc has been in the closet for a long time, and I found it last night to watch it, just because the first snow of the year in this city made me suddenly interested. Of course, this has nothing to do with the "interest" of the film.
The first movie I watched Von Trier was "European Express", one of the so-called "European Trilogy" - and then I watched the other two films, which were all halfway through. I remember this director as very strange. Obviously, the European trilogy does not meet the "4" of the "Dogma95" shooting rules (the same as "Dancer in the Dark"), which obviously proves that all the shooting rules are nonsense. Someone creates it, someone destroys it. Once the rules become authoritative, the rules become shit. Fortunately, "Dogma95" does not seem to be like this. It has been subverting since its birth until it subverted itself.
The story of the film "Dancer in the Darkness" is very simple. It is a Czech woman who immigrated to the United States to make money to save her son who is suffering from congenital blindness. In the end, because the bankrupt police landlord could not satisfy his wife's vanity, he went private. Forcibly taking her hard-earned money for herself, sometimes accidentally killing a police officer, getting arrested, jailed and sentenced to death. The power of the film comes from the tragedy, and the tragedy is permeated with the celebration of life - realized by the musical theater fantasy of the heroine. Reality and fantasy are intertwined, cruel and beautiful coexist.
We should know that it is better for a person to have some hobbies. These hobbies are a rebellion against the boring world. For example, the heroine of this film, God can make her blind and blind, and keep her in the dark forever, but God cannot tell her to stop fantasizing in the dark, singing and dancing in the fantasy. That's what the film is about.
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