It is said that the main reason why the movie chooses black and white photography is that Amazon is no longer the colorful biosphere recorded by scientists at the time. Therefore, choosing black and white photography means more imagination.
This is probably the first complete black-and-white movie I have watched, and I do have this feeling: black-and-white movies require more imagination, and at the same time, black-and-white movies also mean a higher degree of mastery of the audience’s visual focus and want to stand out. Things can use strong light, and everything that remains hidden in the gray shadows appears mysterious and low-key, and even the blood and killing are no longer glaring.
The film shows the fierce collision of two civilizations, which may be due to a lack of understanding of the relevant background. I cannot tell which one is right. I don’t think the primitive way of life is a sign of backwardness. When Kalamakat emphasized, “We can’t eat meat and fish until it rains again, and we have to ask the animal lord’s permission. We can’t cut down any saplings; if we find A woman cannot have sex with her before the moon changes.” I am amazed at this primitive law of getting along with nature. From the ecological point of view that I have learned before, this is a very well-founded approach that can prevent The excessive reclamation of nature and the excessive reproduction of mankind fully demonstrate the wisdom of primitive civilization and the self-discipline of the indigenous people. In contrast to modern civilization, after humans possessed technology, they began to devalue the status of nature. As a result, nature became less like nature, and even became artificially manufactured nature. Therefore, the black and white tropical rainforest has become a kind of irony to some extent, symbolizing the lost relics.
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