Beauty and the Beast is not a joyous version of Disney, but the poetic Jean Cocteau is obsessed with.
Jean Cocteau said that movies can be poetic. He believes that we have overlooked too much of the unforeseen beauty in life. For him, the charm of movies is that the movie itself is a poem. In order to restore this pure essence, he avoided the use of special effects as much as possible. In this movie, everything we see is vivid and full of vitality. All the fantasy takes place in another real world. He tries his best to restore a real magical world, but he is not only touching you with technology. Already numb sensory nerves, he stretched out his hand and put the key to unlock the realm of the magic capital in your hand.
This is a documentary, which records another world. When you walk in, the arms that rely on the fiery flames will move closer to you, and the joyful and warm candlelight will jump around you. There will be human-shaped sculptures waiting quietly in the depths of the dark corners or in the corners where roses are in full bloom. When your heart is full of sorrow and indescribable, there will be a pleasant mirror to tell you the desire of your heart. From time to time, a beast will come out to frighten you, but please don’t worry that he will eventually become a prince and put on you a Chinese dress and give you a lifetime promise. All we have to do is to take the key given to you by Jean Cocker and unlock your imagination to come to this country.
Compared to the boringness of seeing Beauty and the Beast for the first time four years ago, the fun this time comes from doing addition. Unexpectedly, I thought of Avatar, "another landmark milestone in the history of film technology." Wearing oversized 3D glasses, the dazzling scene moves closer and closer as the plot rolls forward, the crystal petals within reach, the huge floating inverted rock, you have no choice but to be screamed by the huge vacuum cleaner. A world of miracles. Even when people walked out of the movie theater, they began to feel trance about the boring reality. But the world of Beauty and the Beast is an uncontested world that allows you to explore the wonderland, and you have feelings for that world. At this time, we have returned to that eternal topic: technology and meaning. Usually, people divide technology and meaning separately. If you think that film is a visual art, you will naturally pay more attention to the function of technology, and on the contrary, you will appreciate the profound meaning contained in the film. Now, more and more people, including me, feel that technology and meaning are inseparable. Artists, Cocteau and Cameron must have extraordinary technical attainments before they can give the film rich connotations through technology. On the contrary, there is no such thing as a support without sufficient technology. In this sense, just as the emergence of comics is a retreat in the history of human communication, the current 3D production is the subtraction of imagination, and the magical realm of Beauty and the Beast is the addition of imagination. We need to arouse our long-asleep imagination, let him stretch out his body in the wonderland where Jean Cocteau goes to go wild, and stop being hijacked by modern technology. Imagination is to make the things we are familiar with strange, and then make the strange things familiar. When Belle walked into that ghostly castle for the first time, under the strengthening of slow motion, we realized her emotions burst out on her limbs, and read her inner panic and anxiety. The fluttering cloak makes us feel an indescribable sense of ritual in our hearts. When the tears that Belle left for the beasts turned into diamonds at the moment of separation from the eyes, we can see the trickle flowing in the pure mind. When all the gorgeous colors and special effects are removed, this movie has become more and more dazzling, and it will last forever.
As Jean Cocteau said, movies have beyond all places and time and space, and he is full of poetic freedom to shuttle through the pictures you see. There is something in the world that you only need to see to realize his meaning, as long as you feel it, you can realize his profound meaning.
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