"Becoming an Agent" is the most suitable animated film for children to watch this month, and it is the purest three views.
The audio-visual language of the film is amazing. The whole film is carried out in a potentially accelerated audio-visual flow. There are too many mirrors in the action scenes, but I prefer to interpret it as the presentation of the film's context - Dove's subjective The shot itself has a kind of natural jumping, and the large number of "variant lens performance relationships" in the film also show the film's inheritance of the pigeon's point of view. And before and after the mutation, the two exclusive dove viewpoints: pigeon fisheye lens and 360-degree cross-scene, both of which aim to tell the audience that the audio-visual language has the characteristics of pigeons, and it is also completely It reflects the rich audio-visual possibilities of animal movies.
The audiovisual language provides the possibility for the context of the pigeon in the film, and also interprets the "transformed" agent very well. As a metaphor, the pigeon not only embodies the alienation of people, but also puts the pigeon in the main position of the narrative to examine, which is the signature ability of blue Skye.
A large number of audiovisual language variations predict the importance of the pigeon metaphor in this story. In the film, Will Smith (Hite for short) is an idol at the beginning of the film, and he has his own set of rules, while "Little Spider" (Cott for short) is a marginal character, and he also has his own set of rules. The main purpose of the first part of the film is to show the practice of the two-person rule, which has long been a permanent formula, but the structure of the formula also helps us to better identify the main contradiction of the film: the conflict between Kurt's rule and Haight's rule, And the pigeon metaphor explains that the hero of the movie is Heit, so the arc is also Heit's, and he finally has to change his own norms.
The second part of the movie is the beginning of the transformation. The setting of this part is very advanced. The mirror enters the scene for the first time. It is precisely because of the entrance of Heite's mirror that replaces Heite's main body, forcing him to mutate into a pigeon. It can be seen that the dove is the metonymy of Heiter's subject, because Heiter's subjectivity is squeezed from the human context into the context of the dove. This setting also predicts the subject language of Heiter and the dove The inevitable contradiction of language.
In the second part, Heite gradually moves from the body of the fighting dove to the recognition of the language of the dove. Here the metaphor of the dove is the protagonist in the narrative. The characteristics of the dove: group, high IQ, and speed are all involved in the narrative. I specially expressed that I like to fly alone, which is opposite to the characteristics of pigeons flying in groups, and high IQ is an important metaphor. Several pigeons in the flock in the movie all reflect high IQ: the female pigeon expresses the signifier of the lover , Fat pigeons show that they also have the ability of cognitive mirroring by imitating Heite. Silly pigeons always save the field at critical moments. This also reminds the audience repeatedly: Heite is not imprisoned in the body of the pigeon, but assimilated by the speech of the pigeon.
The meaning of "transformation" is to make Heite finally go to Kurt's criterion, so the pigeon symbolizes Kurt's criterion. In the movie, Kurt did choose the pigeon as the experimental object, and the points chosen here are all correct. In the second part, Heit gradually accepted the rules of the pigeon, but he still did not forget his own rules in the human language. At the end of this part, he still chose the human body. This choice also proves that the relationship between pigeons and humans is now Hater is still the opposite here - he can't be both a pigeon and a human. At this time, the heroine in the plot pierced the hypocrisy of the mirror image and brought back the possibility of Heite's main body returning to human language.
And in order for Heite to completely "transform", his mirror image appeared again. The mirror image here serves as a replacement for Heite's "transformation", which symbolizes what Heite once said. The confrontation between Haight and the mirror image is actually the confrontation between Kurt's criterion and Haight's criterion, and the arc of the movie is reflected in the change of Haight's criterion, so if Haight wants to win the opponent and complete the story, he must change the criterion, that is, to Really embrace the language of pigeons. In the story, it was precisely because Heiter finally chose to change into a pigeon that he saved Kurt and defeated his mirror image-his former criterion. Through such a victory condition, he showed the conversion of Heiter criterion, and so far Heiter eliminated By removing the pigeon-human bar, he eliminated the antagonistic relationship: he had a pigeon hand, loved pigeon food, and more importantly he embraced this alienation. The story is over and the "transformation" is successful.
Apart from the pigeon metaphor, the ethical principles in the film are also in place, precisely finding a very precise point in action films: revenge will eventually bring endless chain sliding, and only forgiveness and salvation can determine the real victory. In "Broken Agent", the villain appeared as a mirror image of Heite. This beautiful setting directly made Heite face reflection on his own norms. His mirror image was both the victim of his norms and him. The holder of the norm, through such a relationship, attests to the contradiction of the norm symbolized by the mirror image, and also proves the inevitable statement that the perpetrator is the persecuted ("Pulp Fiction" uses the whole film reveal this law). Through the understanding of the mirror image, Heiter finally abandoned his own principles and turned to Kurt's standard. At this time, the pigeon is the new mirror image of Heiter. The film also reveals the ingrained position in Western civilization of Kant's dictatorship—seeing people as ends, "to act only in accordance with maxims that you can also become a universal law".
And in our daily life, we must always be aware of the mirror image, that is, the gaze of the other. This gaze makes us face our own mirror like Hett, and provides the most powerful support and support for our moral principles in the examination of the mirror. Purpose.
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