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Realism: The Lumiere Brothers Document Real-Life Avant-Garde Movement Impressionist Psychological Narratives
Documentary Tradition
Cannes Film Festival: Amplifying the Characteristic Humanity and Emotional Coverage of the Film Medium
German Expressionism: Subjective Projection
New Wave: Subjective Projections of Andre Bazin
The avant-garde movement in the 1920s, the Impressionist psychological narrative, and the capture of natural landscapes focused on the society of the times
30's poetic realism Jean Renoir vivid panoramic sociological observation
The New Wave Film Manual of the 1940s Criticism Amplifies the Poetic Realism of the 1930s
New Wave Left Bank Famous Writer Documentary Director
Difference: The Literacy of the Text itself
Modernist documentary footage begins to discuss the spiritual life of man
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——After watching "Love of Hiroshima"
The film "Hiroshima Love" is a representative work of the Left Bank during the French New Wave period. The Left Bank is dominated by writers and documentary directors, and a series of films have a distinctly modernist narrative.
In Hiroshima Love, a short-lived romance between a Japanese architect and a French actor, through the romance, is actually a reflection on World War II. There is a scene where the two protagonists are sitting in a tavern and talking to each other. It has a strong modernist color, which can be described as the most critical and most difficult part of the whole film. Much of the narrative in this part is of the heroine reminiscing about her first love, meeting and witnessing her first boyfriend, a German soldier, being killed and her own imprisonment in a small, unremarkable French village. In this part of the plot, the heroine's words are upside down, one moment seems to be talking about the past, and the other moment seems to be talking about the man sitting in front of him, which makes people puzzled, until the hero slaps the heroine, and suddenly Pulled back to the real world, it also solved the audience's doubtful emotions. My personal understanding is that the hero makes the heroine think of her first love, her painful past, and the beauty and cruelty in Neville, France, which makes the heroine fall into a state similar to split personality. The director wanted to use this to express that World War II and all the wars that have harmed ordinary people, made people full of suspicion and suspicion, forced people to separate, etc., in order to reflect on the war, but also wanted to remind people to pay attention to the present, so he arranged a slap in the face. . The director of this film started out as a documentary film. In this segment and even the whole film, a lot of voice-over elements are used, which is actually a bit boring, but it also happens to be this style, which can make people feel and give A sense of mental tension.
The most obvious role of this kind of documentary-style film is that it is reflected in the spiritual life, which makes people feel nervous and unbearable. Perhaps this is the goal that the director pursues and wants to achieve.
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