"Red Balloon" is only 34 minutes long, with almost no dialogue, which deepens the audience's understanding of "silence is better than sound at this time". The red balloon in the film is more than just a prop. The red color of the balloon is the brightest color in the film, but the strange thing is that the audience doesn't find it abrupt at all. This balloon is given life, it is a spiritual, A companion character who can interact with the little boy. The director used a long shot to express the relationship between the little boy and the balloon. The lonely boy met the balloon on the way from school, and he chased and played with it from then on. The warmth of love and companionship is magnified infinitely in the somewhat old Parisian streets.
Suddenly I thought of a lyric of Lin Youjia's "Want to be Free", "Maybe only you know me, so you didn't escape." There are always many topics about freedom and company. The companionship of childhood is always simple and without impurities. If you treat it kindly, it will establish a relationship with you and give each other special meaning. This relationship is like the "domestication" mentioned in "The Little Prince" , innocence is precious, and companionship will be even more precious.
The director's pictures are very clean, the scenery of that era, the wet streets, the old-fashioned bus, the silent film, every scene is so attractive, the scene transition of the school and the family, the old woman and the principal, and later with the little one. The meeting of girls, the foreshadowing of every shot is the fullness of the storyline.
In a clip, after the red balloon and his friends were surrounded by other friends, they were bullied and provoked, until the last red balloon was hit and fell from the sky, slowly becoming shriveled, and the little boy looked sad. , using a long lens, amplifying and lengthening the emotional impact, and hitting a unique emotion.
The ending of the movie seems to be a happy one. Balloons all over the city flew from all over the city as if they were summoned, through the chimneys, through the red roofs, and flocked to the little boy, which is a symbol of freedom. This seems to be out of reach. The red balloon is free, so it is broken by others. The little boy yearns for freedom. He had an unrestrained childhood, running happily on the street, and every communication with the red balloon is In conveying the inner joy, however, the bus did not accept it, passersby looked at it with strange eyes, the mother let it go, and the little friends rudely snatch it, the red balloon that symbolizes freedom in this world that is not very free, it looks extraordinarily loneliness, and those who yearned for freedom were finally reduced to being ruthlessly suppressed and imprisoned.
The 34-minute movie ends quickly, while the topic of freedom never ends.
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