To express the cruelty of war with pomp and drama is like exchanging bread for a musical score for an African refugee who has been starving for days.
Some things are unsurpassable, such as 'faith', such as 'life'.
After fading away all kinds of light and shadow techniques and restoring the essence of this film, this is just a one-step art film that makes no fuss.
One: Object technique, ignoring the march of life
Object sentiment has always been a useful method for literary films, a bicycle, a puzzle, a stack of envelopes, or an old photo...
The director likes to use this trivial thing, To express the delicate emotions behind the insignificant.
But when these techniques are applied to war films, the real cruelty of the war itself is completely wiped out.
At the moment of the gun battle with the enemy, one can still notice the shoe. When I don't know if my comrade-in-arms are alive or dead, I still remember to pick up that shoe.
This bloody bridge is so bluntly embedded, if the soldier is really like this, his backpack must not be bullets, but all kinds of small objects, handkerchiefs, slippers, sachets, jewelry,,,,,
because A dropped shoe, which is all too common in brutal war, too weak, too shallow. In the age when life is fleeting, this is too pale!
When your life is threatened, you can burst out the power of faith and die heroically, or you can live for your own life, but you can't focus on Cinderella's feet.
The addition of the two objects, the earrings and the cat, in the film is even more a stroke of genius. It does not refer to the stupidity of prostitutes, but also takes the film away from the real track and towards the 'fantasy' of romance novels.
When a war movie is divorced from reality and human instinct, it is destined to only fool the audience!
We do not like the cruelty of war, but when the cruelty of war comes we can do nothing!
That's why many war films such as The Pianist at Sea, Hitler's List, The Pianist, etc. all use the real human nature as a starting point to express the whole story.
The Thirteen Hairpins transcend reality for the sake of literature and art.
Two: The description of human nature is superficial and
has no foreshadowing of Korean dramas. A prostitute suddenly fell in love with a dying boy, and exchanged her life for strings just to sing a song.
If you change the scene and change a few clothes, it may be the final ending of the Korean drama. The heroine who came home to get a guitar for the man she fell in love with at first sight, and was hit and killed by a car.
The producers howled again: what cruel reality, we don't need it! We want literature and art, you don't hurt, I'll give you some pain, whether it's cats, shoes, strings, earrings, stupidity, or pipa, in short, all the things that hurt literature and art, give me all Join it. It's better to move the whole Korean drama, we don't want to show any war, we just want to make you feel 'pain'.
Life should be higher than literature and art, and to use literature and art to interpret life can only be indifference to life, because its falsehood is satirizing the truth that once existed.
The ruffian entered the burial master and suddenly turned into a priest. At that moment, the sacred shock made me nervous.
A foreigner who risked his life to go to church to earn a few bucks could be the most hardworking guy in the world!
The prostitutes suddenly became heroes, making the ordinary citizens shine fiercely! ! !
From this point of view, Dong Chengrui may have been born as a liar, and Li Xiangyang may have been a turtle master.
At the same time, the female students let each other's prostitutes die as expected. They didn't even describe the struggle in their hearts. Instead, they gave clothes and called them sisters. This is the only realistic place in the film.
Looking at it again, the prostitutes in the whole movie still have some character ideas, but I don't remember the roles of the female students.
Japanese officers are extremely dark-hearted. First, they used the piano to stabilize the students to make them think they were safe, and then used the female students as a performance program to send to the top authorities, perhaps in exchange for promotion?
Prostitutes dressed in fancy dress during the war years and came to church with gold and silver jewelry! As if they didn't know the dangers outside, they had to use bright colors to attract Japanese soldiers!
The soldier, actually did the most tragic thing to his comrade, as if he was executed in a long time in ancient times. However, a child who is known to be dying slowly endures the pain of dying step by step. This is absolutely no less than the cruelest criminal law in the world!
Why is there all this?
Again.
Because everything is for literature and art, and
thirdly, the creative conception of the film, when 'war' was raped by 'literature', and then became the mistress of 'commercial'.
First of all, using female students and prostitutes to form a contrast, the opposition between the choir and Qin Huai Jing, I hope that through this extreme contrast, it will shock and be unified at the height of human nature.
That's what the producers thought from the very beginning, right? That's right, not ordinary people, not runaways in rags.
But the prostitutes who can also play mahjong, and the students who are noisy for the toilet.
Then began to add various literary and artistic elements, Gothic church, priest, violin solo, music, style, butt, cheongsam, which can make most children of literary and artistic fans obey obediently.
Then, I began to add various tragedies, and because I had no certainty about the war, I could only use literary and artistic methods to elicit tragedies, whether it was a cat, an earring, or a child who died in the arms of a prostitute. of. This can make most people hurt, and most movie fans may be one of the evaluation criteria when evaluating the film's 'pain'.
In the end, this mixed commercial film needs a platform, and they actually chose - "Nanjing Massacre"! ! !
Moreover, using literary and commercial techniques to interpret it is
all for the sake of literature and art, and perhaps, ultimately, for business. . . . .
It hurts, it hurts, kids. . . . .
It stings you, and the movie succeeds, no matter how shallow the source of the pain.
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