Although the French left bank Alen Rene's "Love of Hiroshima" said that it abandoned the logic of time and space and was filmed completely according to the character's consciousness, it is not boring at all. Compared with the new wave author's film, the French left bank will be more obvious. .
Since too many left bank directors come from or are deeply influenced by the literary world, in the films they write or direct, dialogue and inner monologue constitute an important part of the film
. Therefore, in "Love of Hiroshima", it can be clearly found that the film unfolds through the monologue of the protagonist's memory, and wherever she recalls, the film proceeds. Dialogues and monologues are no longer just components of narrative mode, they try to find the balance between film image and text narrative, scene scheduling and narrative mode, just like literature creates an imaginary world on manuscript paper, with the help of unique narrative. To put it simply, it is not a monologue with a picture, but slowly unfolds according to the monologue picture (mainly because the monologue is very content, and the picture is slightly monotonous, so the picture and sound are not primary and secondary, but more a balance).
Secondly, the "left bankers" are very concerned about people's mental state and spiritual activities." Therefore, the films of this period put their focus on people's spirit. [Of course, there is a reason for this: after two world wars, France The film industry of China was impacted, and it was occupied by Hollywood films successively. After the war, films all imitated Hollywood films to produce "quality films", so film critics opposed Hollywood's narrative method; second, because of the two world wars, Westerners were shocked. Especially intellectuals, values such as "justice", "fraternity" and "trust" between characters were destroyed, which have been the spiritual pillar of Western society and people for hundreds of years. Secondly, after the war, the capitalist economy Prosperity and expansion, people feel the crisis of "material desire" and "alienation", they believe that material expansion has made people lose their position in the center of the world, deprived of personality and value and spiritual independence, young people feel the loss of faith because of The disillusionment and disillusionment became cynical, so literary genres such as "American Beat Generation", "Angry Youth" in Britain, "The Pain of the Century" in France, etc. appeared. The third is the influence of Sartre's existentialism ( Anyway, the content of the thought is very pessimistic, and it feels that the world is a tragedy, and human beings can only accept it and cannot change it.) Fourth, unlike the French New Wave, he was also influenced by Freud’s psychoanalysis] Therefore, they have a great deal of influence on the human spirit. He is very interested in the process of inner development, and he likes themes such as memory, forgetting, memory, imagination, and subconsciousness (I also like it, hehe). Then he completely breaks the traditional concept of time and space in his artistic expression, and will have a logical and linear Time has been abandoned and replaced by "psychological time" (which actually makes the time-space transformation more unrestricted), then "Hiroshima Love" is to use a lot of flashbacks and voice-over means (inner monologue) to connect the past and present, realistic imagination, etc. Therefore, some people have become stream-of-consciousness movies. (The earliest contact with stream-of-consciousness was Proust's "Reminiscence of Time Is Like Water". Forget it, of course it is my own problem. I can’t understand it because of my lack of knowledge, so I was prepared to be boring when I watched the left bank movie.) How is this reflected in "Love of Hiroshima"? For example: at the beginning of the film, two people Embracing each other, the architect asked: What did you see? The picture is what the heroine saw in the ruins after the atomic bomb exploded, and then the picture cuts back to the two people embracing on the bed. The heroine said: No, what am I? I didn't see it, but then said: she saw it, she saw all the pictures in the news report. So repeatedly, she wanted to forget to avoid pain, forgetting means betrayal, betrayal of this history,She wanted to forget but couldn't.
I think it's pretty good, although the plot is not very ups and downs, and it doesn't exaggerate the emotions too much but narrates it plainly, but it still makes me cry many times (ask myself, I don't know, anyway, I feel inexplicably empathy)
In fact, Alain Resnais also had a "Last Year at Marion Bard" which made me dizzy and couldn't read it anymore, so I went straight to the book. The book said, "Many people think "Last Year at Marion Bard" is a One of the hardest films to date." Although I didn't watch it for less than five minutes, when I jumped back and watched it, I felt that this stream of consciousness was more obvious. My God was quite obvious: a woman was shot and fell on the bed, the action of falling on the bed, fell down On the left side of the bed and then the screen cuts to the right side of the bed, falling back and forth on the bed (I was thinking at the time, his consciousness was so deep, so vague and so conscious of this memory)... and so on, it made me very tired.
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