Bazin:
In "Wind Candle Tears", we can see the characteristics of real realism movies in terms of time many times. This is a kind of "time continuation" movie. The essence of the problem is not the continuity of the images on the film, but the time structure of the event.
In terms of drama, this type of theme is adapted to dramas based entirely on the actions of actors. Since the real time of the story is not the drama time, but the specific duration of the character's activities, the performance of this objectivity in the scene scheduling can only be completely subjective things (including plot and action). That is to say, the film performance The content is fully integrated with the actors' actions, and only with this.
The narrative unit of this film is not an episode, an event, a dramatic turn, or a character. It is a series of no primary and secondary importance at every specific moment in life: the equality of ontology fundamentally breaks the category of drama.
People easily think that the movie must belong to the "elliptical art." In this segment (the little maid gets up early in the morning to take care of the housework), the movie does exactly the opposite. Ellipsis is a logical and therefore abstract narrative process. It is based on analysis and selection, and it organizes events that must be subordinated to drama in accordance with drama. They try their best to divide an event into several small events, and then further subdivide the small events, until our long-term feeling of time reaches the limit.
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