First of all, I'd like to give ten stars to a film older than my age.
Out of interest, I chose the theme of "interactive documentary" when I wrote my graduate thesis, so I systematically learned more about the professional knowledge of documentaries [I'm sorry I didn't do this sooner, but I learned about it , it's never too late. 】The biggest feeling in the process of learning is the importance of "narrative". We can't say all of the various art forms we have seen, but the success and appreciation of a large part of them comes from whether the creator's narrative can touch people's hearts. Therefore, a relatively large academic debate about documentary is that, as an artistic genre intended to "document reality" against "create reality" in films according to Nichols, it is inevitable that it will bring the creator's personal The narrative style is mixed with the connotation they want to express. If this is inevitable, how can it be strictly called "recording the truth".
It is inevitable that there will be differences of opinion on what kind of documentaries can be regarded as recording the complete truth, and in fact, the main expression of documentaries today still includes narrative. Here, I mainly want to talk about "Xuan Huang of Heaven and Earth" itself, and I want to praise his narrative.
Such a long narrative with no narration for nearly 100 minutes, supported solely by background music, camera editing, and the director's subjective shooting arrangements, not only did not lose to those long narrations or language, but it could be called a win. It's because, and not just because, "Da Yin Xi Sheng".
It should not be difficult for those who have watched it carefully. The arrangement of editing and soundtrack is very deliberate. He completed his narrative and told a story in a purely visual and purely musical way. This theme is big and small because it is the story that happens every day about our blue planet and us. I personally think that if the main body of the narrative is so magnanimous, the narration will indeed lose its power. After all, our earth can't speak, and we humans are so good at speaking that even if one person only speaks a word, it is difficult for you to be here. After hearing everyone speak for a lifetime, ninety minutes of narration is not enough to sum up everything we have to say. In fact, 90 minutes of footage may not be enough, but at least it is enough to remind us and help us record a lot of reality at that moment.
The film involves a lot of different content, nature, animals and plants, human beings, religion, architecture, cities, villages, poverty and wealth, power and piety, and so on. Every shot is talking to each other, and every shot is talking to us. When I watch it, I even feel like I am talking to everything in the shot across time and space.
When we transfer narrative power completely to the picture, we ourselves are involved.
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