What everyone was amazed by "Don't Stop the Camera", apart from the dark humor in it, is the setting of the drama in the drama with the open mind. The wonderful thing about this setting is the use of multiple viewing angles. We all know that the first film with multiple narrative angles was Rashomon.
However, the difference is that the multiple perspectives of Rashomon are in a parallel relationship, and the audience is conscious of which character's perspective they are being brought into, while in "Camera", the multiple perspectives used are nested within each other. And the audience does not know that they are being brought into a certain perspective when watching the film, which brings the audience an unexpected and wonderful viewing experience.
In the first 30 minutes of the film, the audience finds themselves witnessing a film crew is shooting a low-quality zombie film, the director who pursues the authenticity of the performance and the actor who is poor in acting, but encounters a real zombie, and the director who pursues the ultimate seems to be crazy, still Don't stop filming, risk your life to capture that so-called real reaction.
So we were surprised, how did the film progress so fast, the zombies actually appeared ten minutes ago, and within half an hour, the characters were about to die? ? While we defined it as an absurd comedy zombie film, we complained about the rubbish actor's acting skills and the logic loopholes. For example, the natural reaction that the director has been emphasizing is still just as fake when the real zombies appear.
When the director said to the camera, "Don't stop shooting", the fourth wall was broken. The camera is not the usual neglected existence. We know that the cameraman with the camera, the recorder of the film is also a character in the film. , participated in the story, but none of the characters prevented the photography under the circumstances! Also, this crazy cameraman is supposed to be threatened by real zombies just like the character in the film, but we found that except for one time when the camera suddenly fell to the ground and we guessed that the cameraman was attacked, in other cases, the cameraman was not in danger at all. . In addition, there is no action logic for entering and exiting the scene, and the zombies running around make the audience exclaim what a bad movie this is!
It was not until the subtitles appeared and the scene was frozen that the audience realized that what they had just watched was a live video. So I thought it was a close-up long shot to capture the real fear reaction, but it was actually a forced long shot with no room for the camera; I thought vomiting was a unique reaction of zombies, but it was actually a drunk actor; I thought it was redundant lines, it turned out to be Actors improvise.
Drama happens when the audience sees the same thing from two perspectives, and when they see it, believe it to be true. The same technique is used in Redemption. When the audience experiences the perspective of the younger sister, the information they get when they learn the actual situation is different, so they will have a different experience.
"Don't Stop the Camera" takes advantage of the limitations of the angle of view, completely breaking the audience's original expectations, allowing the audience to experience completely different feelings before and after. We found that the acting skills of the actors are not bad. We fully believe that the director is a weak and weak person without power, and the actress is a hypocritical star. We found this to be a poignant, darkly humorous light comedy that reflects the poignancy of low-level film practitioners, rather than a grotesque zombie crappy movie.
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