[I'm going to write a movie review in the circle of friends again] A strange netizen recommended me a movie at the beginning of the chat. I don't know why he recommended this movie, but I went to watch it for the Palme d'Or in Cannes. Just finished watching and tell me what you think. "April Three Weeks and Two Days", some people may think it is a dull movie after watching it, and some people may not be able to stand the slow pace of the plot at the beginning of the movie, but the more you look back, the more you can find this movie How fascinating. This may be inseparable from the director's lens language. The movie uses a lot of long shots. From the beginning, I followed the heroine through the university dormitory, and then the camera accompanied the heroine to book hotels and buy cigarettes, and then followed the heroine in the night like a headless fly. Going to "abandoned babies", these long shots convey more complex and fuller emotions each time. Yes, the film tells the story of Romania in 1987 when abortion was still illegal in public ownership. I heard that the film is based on real events. Usually we think that movies based on real events will definitely have emotional outbursts and fall into sensational routines, but this film is super restrained throughout, and the actors in the whole film hardly see tears when they suffer and fear. And the coldness of the camera language is highly consistent with the Romanian society at that time. Let me tell you a few things that impressed me. First of all, what surprised me the most was the coldness of Romanian society in 1987. Almost all strangers spoke candidly or even rudely, such as the front desk of a hotel, the pedestrians they encountered when they asked for directions on the street, and the Romania is still a planned economy and lacks materials. The female protagonist needs to ask every family when she buys a cigarette, and her ID card will be checked wherever she goes. No matter what you do, someone will always ask what your purpose is. It is very similar to us in the 1980s, but At that time, Romania banned abortion, and if she was found, she would go to jail. The heroine was worried for a whole day to help her friend get an abortion, and the expression on her face did not relax for a second. There's another shot that stood out to me. The heroine went to attend the birthday party of her boyfriend's mother. During the banquet, there were also parents' friends sitting around a table. The footage given by the director was very unique. Normally, how do ordinary people shoot this lens, there must be a panoramic view, right? Then the multi-camera and multi-cameras give the speaker a close-up or a close-up, right? But the director did not, and still completed the ten-minute conversation during the banquet with a long shot. The seat is fixed, just one. I gave a close-up view. A group of people are sitting around a square table, leaving one side of the camera vacant. The male and female protagonists are a couple sitting on the opposite side of the camera. The male protagonist's parents are on either side of them, and the four of them are facing the camera, but If the parents move a little on the side, the painting may be drawn, which can lead to The camera doesn’t care about you, the camera does not move, the guests are on both sides of the table, their faces are sometimes absent, and their hands are fluttering in the middle of the banquet when talking. In front of the camera, you can see the sumptuous dinner on the table and the most Clear expression of the female lead (the male lead sits a little back so it is not as clear as the female lead). The hostess had just helped her best friend have an abortion, and she had to go to the birthday party when she had just inserted a tool in her uterus to wait for the fetus to be drained, so her best friend was thrown at the hotel by her, and the fetal drainage was unsuccessful. She didn't know whether she was alive or dead at the time, so her dazed anxiety and fear were hard to discern during the ten-minute banquet. The director used a unique lens language to interpret a very heart-wrenching story. But in this story, although the script itself is very gimmicky, the director's performance is not showy, but rather restrained. The director’s restraint also impressed me: for example, when the heroine saw the formed stillbirth drained by her best friend, the corpse was lying on the cold floor in the bathroom. , the expression was sympathetic, but there were more emotions conveyed, such as shock, such as being overwhelmed, etc. She just watched the stillbirth for a long time, probably for two minutes, and then she returned to find something to prepare for "abandoning the baby" ". I have to say here that the actor's acting skills really impressed me. Maybe it's because I'm used to seeing emotional performances, or maybe it's because I just love this realistic style of acting, so I appreciate the restraint of the actors in this film. After watching "The Birth of an Actor" and other domestic films, I feel more and more that many people act unnaturally or too hard, and shed tears at every turn. In fact, I think we have no time to shed tears in many situations in life. There are many ways of acting. , not the most moving tears. And there are different levels of crying scenes. For example, the crying scene of the heroine of "The Thief's Family" when she was interrogated in handcuffs after being caught, really refreshed my understanding of crying scenes, it was so real and contagious! I believe that was the inspiration the actor captured through careful observation of life and then applied it to his role. Speaking of this film, the heroine also cried when it was the scene where she discussed with her boyfriend about what to do if she became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion in the future. The two sat in a cramped room, and they were also fixed seats, one on each side of the male and female actors. For the profile and close-up, we can't see the heroine's expression and tears, but we know through her body language that she sheds tears. This paragraph is also very restrained. When it comes to restraint, there are too many restraint scenes in this film. For example, when the two girls were negotiating with the male doctor who had an illegal abortion in a hotel, the male doctor asked the female protagonist to sleep with him because the money was not enough. I'm stunned, mistress Agreed to the deal and started to take off her socks neatly. My best friend didn't want to witness this, so she walked out of the hotel room and went to the corridor to smoke. , At this time, the female protagonist came in naked and walked into the bathroom to rinse. All this was done in one go. There was only one camera position, and the actors did not have any close-ups. The director just explained what happened to you through the camera. When the humiliation broke out, but the director didn't do it, I think it's more advanced, because life is this set of shots, and you don't have so much nonsense with you, you either accept the conditions and have an abortion now, or you can't cover the fire if you don't have an abortion, etc. In order to accept the flogging of public opinion, morality and law, life will not give you any time to reminisce, but will only make you decide quickly. This is the essence of life, and the essence is cruel. It is too late to give you a chance to cry. The last point is also a long shot that left a deep impression on me. It was the heroine anxiously returning from her boyfriend's house to find her best friend. She walked over a dim bridge. A street light was erected, and the place without a street light was completely dark. The director gave a close-up shot in the front, and the heroine hurried back all the way behind the camera. On this road, we watched through the bursts of street lights. The face of the heroine disappears into the night for a while, and is exposed to the light for a while and then flashes on and off. I think this lens is particularly advanced. And then there's the "abandoned baby" of the heroine in the back, which also has the same effect. The heroine ran out of the hotel in a panic, looking around for a place where the baby could be abandoned in the dark. The long shot followed her behind. The street at night was really dark. At that moment, as a watcher, I followed the heroine and worried, because I was afraid of this huge darkness. Devoured her, afraid that her night road would be dangerous, the heroine is still bright and dark for a while, but most of them are surrounded by darkness, we can see a profile of her face through the camera, and we can see her clearly in an instant body language, but more often we can't see anything. I was very impressed by the darkness in these two shots, do you think the director couldn't have made the light a little bit stronger? At least let us see the face of the heroine? But the director doesn't. He just wants to let these invisible darkness wrap the heroine again and again. Even if the light instantly dispels the night, the darkness will still come again and again, and the more we can't see it as we follow this long shot The heroine's face became more and more worried. The genius of this set of shots is that he is very good at manipulating the audience's psychology. The darkness that can't be seen in the shots is like the blank space in a Chinese ink painting. Although there is nothing, it is so fascinating and unstoppable. . Say So much so, I recommend everyone to watch this movie. Of course, I think this movie is really niche enough and not very friendly to ordinary audiences. But if you are a movie lover, if you like realistic style like me, I recommend you this movie. Today, my film review did not write any in-depth ideological connotations, but for the first time I tried to analyze the lens language of the film, because many of the things I want to explore in the film are really inconvenient to say, so I will leave it to the viewers to analyze it by themselves.
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