Director Abbas always likes to use non-professional actors, because what he needs is that the characters enter the film with a "participation" attitude, which is difficult for ordinary actors to achieve. Binoche can achieve, she is not acting at all in the film, but participating. The French sociologist Lucien Seifer once said that the cinematographic lens offers little more explanation than reality itself, yet here arises the enigmatic power of "faithfulness to the surface of things". This sentence is very to the point. The Chinese often say a word called "familiarity", but when ordinary life scenes enter the camera, then put it on the screen, and then enter the eyes of the audience, this "familiarity" is no longer possible. ". For example, at the beginning of the movie "Legal Copy", it was the scene of the hero's book conference. The camera was aimed at the podium, empty, with only the microphone and the voice of the audience. Gaze, the meaning of which gradually develops while looking. I remember a certain music critic once saying that the best conductors let the music flow naturally and slowly. I think it's a good point to say that some aspects of film, like music, need to "flow".
How does the movie achieve this "enigmatic power" and "slowly flowing out" state? It does this because it celebrates what we have in common, commonly known as commonality. In Abbas' films, we also have this feeling, isn't that what life is like? In "Legal Copy", the conversation between a man and a woman within a day, from the beginning of greeting each other, to entering each other's heart, to the difference in values and outlook on life, this is what everyone faces every day. However, Abbas is not just about expressing commonalities in the film, he raises a more interesting question in the film, that is, can the fake replace the real? The most exciting thing in the film is the man and woman pretending to be a joking couple. From here, the two bring their real experiences into the conversation, and soon a dispute arose, and the man became a "copy" of the woman's ex-husband. an irresponsible husband. Next, the more interesting part, the woman came to a hotel, opened a room, said it was the room on the wedding night 15 years ago (which may be true), the man and her walked into this space, this space should be for women Is very familiar, but completely unfamiliar to the man, the woman asked the man to look through one window and said, "See that clock tower? It's on your left." Then she asked the man to look through the other window. Go out and say, "See that clock tower? It's on your right." Of course the clock tower doesn't appear in the picture, but at the end of the movie, the clock tower is given a positioning long shot. When the audience stared blankly at this mundane picture, it was the same as staring at the podium at the beginning. In fact, they were experiencing the interrogation of the eyes by this still image.
The eyes answered: I don't know the true face of Mount Lu, just because I am in this mountain?
(Published in "100 Days of Holidays" on January 21, 2011)
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