The third dream mostly uses short-shot narrative. At the beginning of the third dream, the film immediately reverses the bright colors of the first two dreams, the theme becomes closely related to reality, and the picture is instantly gray and dim. The faint roar of the yin wind kept swirling in the ears, and a tinnitus sound like a vacuum was exhausted, accompanied by a few dying gasps and sleds. After three minutes, the picture became slightly clear, and a few short shots were inserted into it. Pausing, looking back, and gasping for breath, the breathlessness of the climbers was fully expressed in each scene. The slowness at the beginning of the picture made people feel immersed in the scene. The hardships and sufferings in the environment are dying. At this time, snow began to appear on the screen. The extreme cold and this sense of suffocation broke the psychological bottom line of the climbers. The quarrel and questioning of each other showed the self-denial and self-deception of people in difficult situations, but the leader is the only one who still maintains a trace of it. A sober person, who strives to eliminate everyone's doubts and encourage everyone to move on, is a symbol of the very subtle subconscious of human beings. The snow was getting bigger and bigger, the wind was fast, and the picture became gray and blurry again, but the wind was getting louder and louder. After all the climbers fell, the leader was gradually buried by the wind and the blizzard, and finally fell. At this time, the sound of the wind and snow changed sharply to a small one, and even almost disappeared. The soundtrack was a woman singing in such a low voice that it was almost inaudible. The film shot was fixed on a close-up of the leader who was about to be buried by the snow. The seemingly vague singing seems to mean the imminent end of life, a low voice of despair.
When the snowflakes were flying, a pair of hands swayed on the leader's body, putting a warm feather on him, and the camera pulled into the leader's close-up again. He slowly opened his eyes from his blurred consciousness and looked up, the snow demon appeared on the screen, while She said "snow is gentle, ice is hot" with a weird smile, the whole process was slow, and then she kept putting layers of feather coats on the team leader, the team leader's eyes flickered, and then closed again, gradually. He was hypnotized to death by the snow demon. The arrangement of this section can be described as the finishing touch. The snow demon appears in it as a metaphor, and the metaphor is that snow is a gentle killing "weapon", such as covered with layers of feathers, and finally died painlessly. in front of you. Immediately after watching, the combination of this short scene lasted for nearly four minutes. In silence, the snow demon slowly continued to put on the leader's feather coat. At this time, the leader slowly woke up in a coma, and the snow demon slowly pressed him again. Going down, he seemed to want to start struggling with a very shallow consciousness in the confusion. In an instant, the sound of wind suddenly appeared strong and powerful, and the singing disappeared. This prominent wind sound did not tell the despair in front of him. Consciousness was brought back to reality, breaking through the predicament of hallucinations, and fighting against the snow demon. The camera returned to normal speed, he struggled from the snowdrift, put his feathers aside, the snow demon turned the tide and even took off his turban and held the leader. Cutting into the picture of the snow demon flying away, the leader wakes up like a dream, and sits up from the snowdrift, as if she can still see her floating away, which is still free from illusion and reality. The leader who sat up took a few breaths and regained consciousness. The blizzard slowly diminished and then disappeared. The next part was almost explained with a slightly slow speed. The bright light began to rise. Awakening the other climbers, others gradually woke up. At this time, the faint horn sounded for a short period. The leader looked up at the peak of victory, found the direction of the light of hope, turned around, and saw the camp where the red flag was erected. At this time, Everyone was rescued and ran towards the camp in slow motion. As the drums trumpeted louder and louder, the climbers ended up bravely moving forward as if they had regained hope. The shots were handled very artistically. These slow motions make the atmosphere of the whole film sublime at a higher level. The sound of the horn makes the people who have regained their lives feel the same power as the audience. It is a victory echo to the laughter of the sky after defeating the god of death.
The third dream For the whole film, this may be one of the exploration theories made by Akira Kurosawa when he reviewed his life in his later years, and I think it is not only a narrative dream to discuss whether human beings can survive in a desperate situation The core theme of consciousness, it is also the only one in the whole film that appears as a kind of inspiration, calling for people to maintain a tough and stubborn attitude towards saving lives. Humans are fragile animals, and they are far more fragile than slender and thin-skinned beasts. In addition to consciousness, human beings can deceive and rescue themselves from difficult situations. Faced with the gentle smile of death and the comfort of painless death, why don’t we bet on one? Take, fight to the end?
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