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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  • Edmund 2022-03-20 09:02:53

    Not to mention the late 1950s, how many people dare to shoot like this now! No wonder the film caused a shock in the movie world at the time! The 400 hits in the same year really pales in comparison. Not to mention the modernist stream of consciousness, Resnais and Duras actually juxtaposed the illusion of love with the illusion of Hiroshima, connecting the common pain of the victorious country France and the defeated country Japan, and carried out a very complex philosophy. Sexual speculation goes far beyond the scope of anti-war.

  • Edmund 2022-03-29 09:01:08

    Revisit! Behind the two forbidden loves is the redemption and spiritual reconstruction after the brutal killing of human wars. In the first 15 minutes of the film, Rene used a large number of documentary scenes after the Hiroshima bombing to match the women's ravings, as if giving up the narrative, but after the In that great scene of gradually stacking emotions, we found that the woman's ripped hands, shaved hair and desperate cries under the cellar are like the burnt skin of the survivors after the atomic bombing, the hair falling after radiation and the hoarse voice The cry for help, when the collective tragedy appears, we seem to have no concept, and when the individual appears, we also walk into the abyss of her memory, walking through Nevel and Hiroshima, the real story is very simple, but the memory is So complicated to put together, this 24-hour encounter and 14-year struggle finally found the container that contained the pain at the end, he became her Hiroshima, she became his Nevel, and he was willing to be a dead German officer , she bravely spoke the silent memory and gained the courage to say goodbye. One night in Hiroshima was shrouded in despair and hope, love and desire, loneliness and warmth, sadness and happiness.

Hiroshima Mon Amour quotes

  • Lui: Does it mean anything else in French, "Nevers"?

    Elle: No, nothing.

  • Elle: I was so young once!