"From a large chunk of time made up of huge and solid life events, the unnecessary parts of it are cut off and discarded, leaving only the constituent elements of the finished product, so as to complete the shaping of time." Ceylon's film is like "carving time" ”, non-story, non-dramatic, more like poetry and prose in literary creation - “focusing on human consciousness and emotional relationship, and focusing on exploring the proposition of human nature to choose and break free of existence and freedom.” The narrative, emotional image expression, a large number of long shots, minimalist scene scheduling, theatrical stage sets, the use of mirrored extended visual space, large passages of whispers and philosophical dialogues, like words being injected into life, like literature being infused with life. Video rehearsal. Rather than watching a movie, it is more a kind of reading, which requires the viewer to use greater patience and imagination to perceive the strong speculative meaning in the simple scenes and lengthy dialogues, and thus construct a group portrait. 's character map. The most important thing is that Ceylon did not abandon the basic position of the image because of the integration of literature, but on the basis of maintaining the excellent cinematic sense, it builds the great power of discourse in daily dialogue.
“In this unprecedented digital society, everyone has the experience of a total fragmentation. Every trauma of society will also come into the public eye with extraordinary clarity, generating fear and despair – despair for life, despair for a perfect life, The despair of the status quo." "Hibernation" is a decent story of the "surplus". Morality and civilization cannot hide the embarrassment of individual survival. All kinds of unbearableness slowly erupted in the comfort of the moment when the car window was smashed by a child. life inside. With a high degree of self-examination, Ceylon turns images into a mirror of the essence of dialectical life, strips away the grandeur conferred by class status, and directly hits the pain points of a moral society and civilized people. When Aiden, who was expelled from the fund-raising party, put on the birdman mask, his incompetent and depressed marriage, his uneasy and confused future, and his self-imposed life that he wanted to break through were suddenly revealed. His step-by-step, dignified, cowardly selfishness, precarious embarrassment and deep sense of despair are undoubtedly the true portrait of all the wise men standing on the moral high ground, or the middle class. And this weakness of human nature does not only exist in the wise men themselves. The distance between intellectuals and the world is like the distance between all the characters in the film, and they are constantly rubbed away amid countless human shortcomings.
The elites hope to save the world, but in the process of saving they find the world's acerbic complexity and the cowardice of no one perfect. Since it is impossible to completely escape the world with philosophical civilization, then it is bound to be connected with the world, and cannot extricate themselves in the torment and suffering of each other. Whether it's retired theater actor Aiden, his divorced, aggressive older sister, or his timid and vulnerable young wife, each character intervenes and constructs the world of others with the ego at its core. Conflict naturally breeds tragedy in a decent life. "My kingdom is small, but at least I'm still the king." Individuals who are independent of each other constitute a psychological kingdom in which each other's self hibernates. Trying to change can only hurt each other. All kinds of imprisonment and unachievable escape are images of modern tragedy. performance.
"Film is born from direct observation and careful observation of life. That is the key to poetry in film, because film is essentially the observation of a phenomenon that travels through time." In addition to dramatic composition creation, written dialogue, characters The subtle emotions revealed in the simple dialogue, and the symbolic scenes full of allusions frequently appear in "Hibernation": the wild horse is entangled in the noose and falls into the water, the wild horse is struggling, the dead fox floating on the water, the dead beside the railroad track. Dogs, accidentally hunted rabbits, tree-filled crows, and more. The cruel world of the strong prey on the weak, such a symbolic presentation is undoubtedly the externalization of the plight of human existence. In a country of mutual hibernation, the poor survive, suffering between the plight of survival and human dignity; the rich give alms, but it is not enough to make up for life of nothingness.
"We're exhausted and pretending to be promising, and I have great ideas every morning, and I'm just sitting around doing nothing all day."
Ceylon's self-examination slides into every inch of painful skin, so that the viewer can continue to sigh with emotion and move toward the hope of nothingness.
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