break the usual

Natalie 2022-01-12 08:02:19

The whole Steadicam-style combined lens, God-like subjective perspective is like "Under the Sphere of Berlin", witnessing 300-year history of Russia.

I firmly believe that clever movement is the best way to express in film. Such an experiment is worth trying.

There are several problems: 1. The extra lens makes the expression cumbersome. The most typical is pointless panning during transition. 2. Some subtleties reveal the placement of theater lights. When the door is opened, there is obvious reflection of people's light on the door. 3. The short-focus lens in the first five minutes lengthened the distance of the z-axis of the picture, exaggerating the vertical movement, and inevitably causing facial distortion. Why use short focus? I guess it's because the lighting can't be lifted up, and in the dark and snowy environment and small indoors, if you want to maintain a certain imaging effect, you can only use short focus. It is much more natural to switch to the focus of the human eye when it is indoors. 4. It is easy to make the audience faint and feel like watching a ghost movie. 5. Although trying to avoid the unnaturalness of the lens connection, there are still traces of the connection. 6. The appearance of stroboscopic movement too fast. So this old French man walks so slowly, with high heels clattering.

Their skirts are so beautiful! ! The lens used is expensive! !

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Extended Reading
  • Kurt 2022-03-23 09:02:52

    Grandeur proper and objectified on a fluttering screen mediated through a muttering voice. No better definition either of 2D or of phantasmagoria, or even, of primitive/intuitive cinema.

  • Darien 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    Lens: first, travel through time; second, zoom, the soul moves; third, the voice is indistinct, and in the end, I don't know if anyone can hear even a single word of my own. Shots blend into the long stream of time. Every character is nothing but a carrier of emotion and imagery. Yes, in a pair of eyes, what else could they be besides those? "No, I want to stay." Where to stay? Won't you get bored? It has always been a childish dream to stay. Sokolov's push was so integrated. Elements come and go, fragments of dialogue, fragments of characters, and small ravings are inevitably integrated into time; we ride on Noah's Ark and move forward forever. A noble dream. In love with Sokolov. If you know more about Russia. This is the kind of art that is beautiful enough to make you fall in love with a nation. The end of the long shot - the end of the audience (the middle doesn't seem to be full enough. Maybe it's unfamiliar with Russian history, it should have, but I didn't feel it). Does it really make a difference? Whatever the truth is, I'm as foolish as the European left behind in delusions to believe it's a one-shot.

Russian Ark quotes

  • Alla Osipenko: This painting and I; we have a secret.

  • The Stranger: Let's proceed with caution. These madmen could eat us.

    The Time Traveller: They liked your hair.

    The Stranger: Of course, I'm a writer. Writer's always have good hair.