doesn't talk about the content, only the technique.
From the time of watching it to the day or two after watching it, a judgment has been circling in my mind: this movie gives me a strange feeling, where is the strangeness?
The strange thing is that the lens feels so simple, so so simple, that I can't feel the switch, or even forget the existence of the lens.
It's strange that the actors' performances have a kind of ambiguity that I have never seen before, the facial expressions are very monotonous, and the body movements in the first half of the amateur posture made me scratch my head a few times. impression.
Surrealism, I don't know what it is.
I'm trying to rationalize these two oddities.
Isn't it a higher pursuit to make the audience forget the existence of camera techniques? People watching a movie should focus more on the picture, just like opening a door, please watch what is happening on the side of the door, you won't care about the door, it's just a gap, A channel that should not be attached to anything other than this function.
The performance of the actors is of course up to the director. Is sheer drama appropriate? Is the character of the extras appropriate? Anyway, the heroine's several weird smiles are almost haunted and powerful. Who can't catch this key information? The performance is fake because the stage is not real life. So the question may be bifurcated: is it highlighting the drama? Like that drama with childish narcissistic passion? Or try to restore the reality of life? Like street snaps or something? If you want to restore the reality of life to the greatest extent, and find someone who can't act at all to stand there, will the effect be good? Or is it possible to ask actors to remove the "motivation" of their performances? The approach of "Beauty in the Day" looks like this. The director said: It is impossible to restore life on the screen, because the audience's experience environment cannot be changed; From "Beauty in the Day". The circular argument is because I'm seeing this style of acting for the first time.
"Beauty in the Day" is a very special film that I encountered, which refreshed my understanding of film.
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