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[About the film]
The Chinese title of the award-winning film "Three Monkeys" in Ceylon is translated from the English title "Three Monkeys", which comes from the "Three Monkeys" in Japanese religion. Only cover your ears, one covers your mouth, and one covers your eyes, which means "don't look, don't listen, don't speak".
"Three monkeys" also implies that three people living in the same family doubt each other, tolerate each other, and cannot face each other frankly: for money, the father takes the blame for the boss without telling the son; the mother has an affair with the boss without telling the husband; After cheating, the son kills his mother's lover without telling his father. The most subtle part of the film is the ending. The father comes out of prison, discovers his wife's affair, and knows that his son is the murderer. Faced with this situation, after wandering around the gate of the police station, he found another poorer coffee shop attendant and asked him to take the blame for his son.
The background of the story is all explained by a short narration, and then the film begins to slowly show the daily life of mother and son, calmly as if nothing will happen. Yet even the smallest of plots and clues continue to construct the film until it reaches its final climax—the emotional climax. This is exactly what the Turkish director Nuri Big Ceylan is good at. He uses the camera to capture the rich and subtle emotions in people's hearts, and like making specimens, he meticulously strokes the meridians of green leaves.
No filmmaker today can hint at the inner state of mind, as Ceylon can do, they can only observe the character from the outside through the camera. And, whether in long shots or close-ups, Ceylon prefers to fill the frame with things in order to maximize the intensity of expression. The unique focus and camera angles also reflect the author's meticulous thinking, and some deliberate time extensions create emotional tension. Aside from the emphasis on family dynamics, the new element of Ceylon is to create a distinctly religious sense.
The film is not without its weaknesses. For example, what was his motive for his wife Hacer's reckless and reckless behavior that seriously threatened the safety of the family? This is hardly mentioned in the film, so it is not very believable. As another example, Ceylon doesn't seem quite sure how to end his film, since the ending requires him to make choices about which themes should be emphasized. Of course this seems a bit nitpicky. Every shot of "Three Monkeys" is like a work accurately hung on a gallery wall, quiet but powerful.
This film was shot by the old team of "Four Seasons Impermanence", and the pictures are profound and meaningful. To underscore the gist, the director opted for gloomy and depressing tones, even transitioning the picture from pitch black to a sickeningly dull green from time to time. The sound effects are also very successful, with the screeching of car tires on the cobble road and the never-ending tide making the characters' inner torment almost audible.
[About the director]
Nuri Big Ceylan is known as "one of the most individual directors of the past decade", and at the same time, he is also a veritable "Cannes lucky winner". Born in Istanbul in 1959, Ceylon was born in Istanbul. In 2003, he directed "Uzak" which won the Grand Jury Prize and the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. " was once again shortlisted for the official competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival.
"This film is about life, and it covers a wide range of people's inner world," Ceylon said. "I don't want to preach in the film." "In life, people are often used to turning a blind eye and not hearing. And this It's how we protect ourselves from being too painful."
[Media Comments]
After the premiere of "Three Monkeys", the media gave mixed reviews. The film festival special issue of "metro" commented: "Every year the film festival has such a film that can completely ignore and indifferent to the audience, and this year it is "Three Monkeys". In particular, it is mentioned that most of the passages in the film are lengthy silences, and this narration method is abused. "The heroine in the film turns her head, very slowly, and then spends a very long time, looking at each other. Those natural wind noises , and the music that rings on the cell phone, are thought to provide a lovely, extravagant sonic imagination against the backdrop of the whole silence.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Turkish director Ceylon's films have no secrets, just the taste they've become accustomed to: the slow, rock-heavy shots that, for the discerning die-hard moviegoer, "Three Monkeys" " is no different from his previous films." At the same time, it also mocked that Ceylon's films would only be expected by audiences in those art theaters, and the auxiliary income would be the sale of DVD rights, or the screening in art museums. 's program.
But "Screen" magazine enthusiastically praised "The Three Monkeys" as a classic, "Ceylon's new work boldly betrays all his past films, and the restrained and introspective storytelling has become the best way to narrate, plus Visual and sound perfection has become the quintessence of Ceylon." The magazine's 10 international critics gave "Three Monkeys" a high score of 2.8, the highest score among 22 films in competition.
"I found that my films were very polarized, some I liked very much, some I hated very much, and there were almost a thousand different reactions." Ceylon, who was originally determined, was a little restless. He comforted himself, "I made a film that I liked and expressed what I wanted to express. That's enough. The rest is left to the jury to consider."
Ceylon's only regret is not getting the Palme d'Or. His acceptance speech was: "This is a surprise for me, thank you Jacob, thank you the judges. This is a very good award, I want to dedicate this award to my beautiful country, I love it very much".
Trivia
· The film won the Best Director Award at the 61st Cannes Film Festival. "Bonnie" Faye Dunaway in the classic movie "Bonnie and Clyde" took the stage as director of "Three Monkeys" Nuri Bigger Ceylon presented the Best Director Award.
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