When it comes to Feng, it is impossible not to mention another of his films - [Dancer in the Darkness]. The first time I saw [Dancer in the Darkness] was in CCTV's tenth projection room column. I should have watched it 15 years ago. At that time, it seemed to be talking about a topic about travel. Now that I want to come to [Dancer in the Darkness], it seems that I can't get along with traveling, right? However, I am still very grateful to the nervous writers and directors at the time. If it weren't for them, I might not have seen this film. Sometimes I think that the encounter with a movie is also very magical. I was immediately attracted by bjork's legendary and ghostly temperament and the singing and dancing clips on the train deck. After a lot of twists and turns, I finally saw [Dancer in the Darkness]. But the moving and shocking it brought me has not diminished to this day. One of the important reasons is that [Dancer in the Darkness] itself is a too beautiful movie. I was always afraid that my clumsy words would stain it, so I didn't start writing it.
I don't want to narrate the plot of the film too much, because the fantasy and cruelty contained in it are beyond my description.
Selma - a dancer in the dark
This statement may be a bit of a coincidence, but I can't define her by another identity, a female worker? a great mother? Or an innocent murderer? Check it out! Neither are appropriate. So, she can only be a dancer. The director's use of "in the dark" is just to retell the fact that Selma is about to lose her sight. It can be said that "in the dark" is a part of reality; then, "Dancer" contains all the beauty and dreams of the film. The director set up a lot of singing and dancing scenes to highlight Selma's heart with an extremely real and extremely illusory image that intersects each other. All the things Selma did in order to fight the ideal against the reality are truly shocking. I have always wondered, what is hidden behind this desperate film, which makes me look forward to the sublimation of other things after experiencing despair from such a perspective... Although Selma is in darkness, her soul has light . There is such a pure world inside of her, where there is only rhythm and dance, dance and rhythm can help her resist the injustice of reality, and even at the end, Thelma uses dance to balance the fear before death. She danced in the dark, so noble.
Compared with other directors, Feng is more like a warrior who is struggling to explore in his inner world. He always pays attention to the real human nature, beautiful and fragile or ugly and real. In his films, there seems to be no hazy middle ground, there are only two levels of strong contrast. He always looks at the holes in people's personalities and digs deeper from the outside in. Those souls trembling in fear allow me to touch the depth of human nature and see the light in the depths of human fragility and compromise—the bloom of loneliness, even if I burn myself in pain!
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