When I am over 20 and entering the third year, I have often said recently that it would be great if time could be reversed. Because none of us can deny that the advancement of life is a linear development in the order of time.
Although time cannot be seen or touched, it is like an invisible and real line extending from the past to the invisible future. We can’t go backwards, we can only go forward with the passage of time.
It can be said that reality develops linearly in the order of time.
In the past novels, movies and TV, we have long been accustomed to this way of having time as the main sequence. However, in the movie "Heavy Rain is Coming", it breaks the traditional chronological order and replaces the chronological order with a logical order.
The story of "Heavy Rain is Coming" is divided into three paragraphs, and the photo at the end of the first paragraph appears in the second paragraph, so everyone takes it for granted that the story of the second paragraph takes place after the first paragraph; but when we see the third paragraph, we It is not difficult to find that after the photographer in the second paragraph said goodbye to his girlfriend, he returned to his hometown. It should have happened after the second paragraph, but the first paragraph was connected at the end, breaking the linear chronological order and letting the original The line of time that stretches from the past to the endless future suddenly resembles an arc of a circle, with the start and end points
superimposed. Things that can't exist in real life happen in movies. For movies, this is not surprising, because movies have always been a mirror of reality, not real reality. A movie is a daydream, an admission ticket that gives you a two-hour spiritual journey. But because the people who weave dreams are different, we sometimes see sweet love and sometimes gorgeous actions. However, compared with "Heavy Rain", the previous works seem to be too ordinary.
"Heavy Rain" is a work from 1994. Until today, there are still very few movies that use logic instead of time as the narrative sequence - the reason is very simple, this kind of thinking is too advanced, unless the real movie people, dare to ask who has an IQ Playing with logical order? At least people who know how to appreciate are rare.
But unexpectedly, in 1994, in addition to "Heavy Rain", there was another film that also used logic instead of time as the narrative sequence. Because Li Duqi was born in general, the two brought great surprises to the world filmmakers in 1994. Therefore, the Oscars in early 1995 unconsciously gathered more attention.
Because, in 1994, "Heavy Rain" Venice won the award, which on behalf of the world film affirmed the film of this new narrative sequence. When the Oscars were presented in early 1995, it was the work of the same type as "Heavy Rain" that was shortlisted along with other works - and as we all know, the Oscars awarded in early 1995 were mainly for the selection of outstanding works from 1994. So people unconsciously wondered whether Americans would, like the Italians, send applause and flowers to such new films in the face of the 1994 candidacy. Or to balance the situation, after the Italians have commended this type of work, choose other films and award another heavyweight award to other types of works in 1994?
It turned out that Li Zongwei and Lin Dan had the same feelings as Yu Shengliang, but for good movies, they would not be left out because of the award-winning works of the same kind in the same year. Therefore, in early 1995, following "Heavy Rain", another film was released. The film Pulp Fiction, which uses logic instead of time, won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Representing 1994, world-class filmmakers' affirmation of this type of film
often has different interpretations for the same work by different people. Some people may like to interpret the political and religious society behind "Heavy Rain" from the perspective of pure text, but from the perspective of film, it is possible to creatively replace the chronological order with logical order, making it impossible or even no one dares to think about it in reality. The reality of the film is really a highlight of the film.
From this point of view, "Heavy Rain" is not only unprecedented, it can even be said that there are few comers behind - "Pulp Fiction" is the work of the same year, not counting the later comers
From this perspective, 1994 was indeed a very unusual year for world cinema.
In China, Ning Hao has moved "Two Smoking Barrels" (the English name is Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, which is a British proverb, meaning "a mess". But in the movie, they represent three clues respectively), I don't know the domestic Can someone successfully inherit the mantle, continue to absorb the essence, and create good works, even if they are imitations - because I have seen the Japanese version of "Two Smoking Guns" - "Hotel by the Sea", I have to say that there are At that time, imitation or localization requires a certain amount of skill. I
really don't want to watch Zhang Yimou Chen Kaige and other obsolete works, and I don't want to watch any invincible bad movies such as "Hold Love". Chinese movies, you can come up with some essence
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