The Destruction of Personal Love by War——A Brief Analysis of the Audio-Visual Language of "Love of Hiroshima"

Emory 2022-04-23 07:04:32

"Hiroshima Love" is a new wave film directed by Alain Resnais. The 90-minute film expresses that a French woman couldn't be with Germany for the first time because of the war. Later, she fell in love with a Japanese man in Hiroshima, but because she couldn't recover from the war The story of walking out of the destroyed love, being discouraged by this love, hesitating, and finally leaving. At the beginning of the film, a close-up shot is used to show the passionate love between a French woman and a Japanese man, filled with an ambiguous atmosphere, highlighting the hearts of the two who love each other. Afterwards, using the conversion of montage images, they constantly switched between the lingering of the two and the memories of the French woman, showing the exhibition halls in the Hiroshima Museum that are full of replicas, all photos, but also women's hair loss, and documentaries at that time, victims. The tragic situation of the masses, all of which shocked us, and also hinted at the tragic situation of the heroine who was locked in the cellar for that relationship 14 years ago. The refugees during the war were miserable, covered with scars, and separated from their families, so people stood up to protest. People were afraid of the damage to nature and the people by nuclear bombs and hydrogen bombs, and opposed the use of nuclear weapons. Occupied, she falls in love with a German soldier during the war, runs secretly on a date, and meets with him to escape from France to marry. However, in the morning before her departure, her German lover was shot, and she cried bitterly while hugging her lover's body. The woman's hometown was liberated, but she was devastated by the loss of her lover. This plot uses the cutting and transformation of montage images to express the deep-rooted memory and pain of French women. After that, I used the camera to shoot the streets of the city, reflecting the environment of Hiroshima, explaining the location of the story and the environment of the protagonist, and paving the way for the subsequent story. The film connects war and love, breaks the three time and space boundaries of past, present and future in editing, and fully uses symbolic techniques to interlace past and present, present and memory, reality and fantasy, dream and reality. , mixed together, making the storyline blurred, giving the audience unlimited imagination space, and using sound and picture to counterpoint, the picture is Nevers, but the sound comes from Hiroshima, suggesting that this will be a stifled game. Love is like a French woman who fell in love with a German man during the war. They didn't care about their family, the war, their relatives, and everything together. The end result was that the man was killed by the Chinese, and he was shaved and locked in the cellar. Among them, the pain is unbearable, and it more profoundly shows the devastation of war on people.

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Hiroshima Mon Amour quotes

  • Elle: Were you here in Hiroshima?

    Lui: Of course not.

    Elle: That's right. How silly of me.

    Lui: But my family was in Hiroshima.

    Lui: I was off fighting the war.

    Elle: Lucky for you, eh?

    Lui: Yes.

    Elle: Lucky for me, too.

  • Elle: The illusion, quite simply, is so perfect, that tourists weep. It's easy to be cynical. But what else can a tourist possibly do, but weep?