Xiaoqingxin is a unique existence in the film industry, and Shunji Iwai is a veteran in this area. Youth, love, beautiful photography, coupled with beautiful music, this kind of film can often attract a part of the audience. Compared with the hysterical and earth-shattering narration of some works, Xiaoqing is more gentle and beautiful, like watching the world covered with a veil, just like lomo processing after taking pictures.
In this kind of film where the screen and soundtrack have been finalized, emotional expression has become the most important link. The beauty of the pictures and music is not the magic weapon to win. Many things look beautiful at first, but they get tired after a long time. However, the emotional core of the film is a weapon that people and audiences cannot resist. Many film and television dramas in mainland China and Taiwan have adopted a small and fresh style, but most of them have lost their souls, just blindly presenting fancy photography and soundtracks. Little freshness can't conquer human aesthetic fatigue. The ever-changing human emotions are inexhaustible. Emotional communication is an important element for the movie to gain the favor of the audience. Therefore, the object worth learning from the small fresh movies is Ozu. How to express the emotions between people and make the audience mesmerized is the best way out. The audience is always so picky, and always so honest. The expressions of the audience in front of the movie screen are so honest. At that time, human beings rarely remove their disguise, so whether a movie is good or not can be drawn by looking at the audience's face. Two.
Many gay movies also adopt a small and fresh style. The Chinese-American director Chen Junyan has done a good job in this regard. The quiet and delicate emotional expression of "Hello, Goodbye" in 2008 has received many praises. In 2013, "People Come," "Ren Wang" continues this narrative technique, long foreshadowing, emotional accumulation, until the final spewing out, this emotional impact makes it difficult for the audience to resist. Argentine Mark Berg’s "Plan B" and "Hawaii" are also the same way. Another thing to say is this "Love, Simple" director Daniel Ribeiro.
In 2010, a short film "Love, Holding Hands" attracted much attention. After four years, he brought an extended version of the short film "Love, Simple". This work created by the original crew did not disappoint. This film Won the International Film Critics Fabici Award in the Panorama Section of the 64th Berlin Film Festival and the Teddy Bear Award, which symbolizes the highest honor for gay films. The feature film is an extension of the short film. From 17 minutes to 100 minutes, the director added Leo's parents and classmates in the feature film with only three starring roles.
Attentive viewers will find that the original short title, which started with Leo typewriter, read: "I don't want to go home alone." The new long title has become "I want to go home alone." According to the director, it is because "3 years have passed since the short film. Millions of people have watched it. Many things have changed. Obviously, I can't just repeat the same story in the feature film. I hope to find it in the original. A new content has been added to the theme of "love": independent growth. For Leo, "independence" is especially important, because people around him may often have excessive protective desires for him out of sympathy. He needs not to rely on others. Life. So the original title "I don't want to go home alone" became obsolete, because "Go home alone" is precisely one of Leo's goals." It can be seen that the feature film version will not only be about the ignorant first love of the teenagers, but also the true imprint of growth. The blind boy Leo is escorted home by his female companion Joanna after school every day. Because the new transfer student Gabriel intervenes, Leo gradually develops love for Gabriel.
This kind of small freshness does not involve the rights and interests of gays. The biggest obstacle between them may be their cognition of their own emotions, or their skepticism about whether the other party admires themselves. This year’s Dutch "Boys" are also of the same type. Gender is no longer important in these works. To like is to like. To like a person does not necessarily care about his gender. In fact, this is also a paradox. Watching gay movies It is bound to think that two men are in love, and these works deal with ambiguous gender, focus on the description of emotions, and no longer make a big fuss on gender. In fact, it is not a violation of the film to switch to a male and a female starring. of.
In "Love, Simple", Gabriel transferred to school and gradually approached Leo and Jaina. After a long time in contact, Leo found that he liked Cadbury. At this moment, there are various signs that Cadbury likes a girl in the class, Li Ao was very frustrated, and Gabriel also found out that he liked Leo. There was a kiss at the party, and the two fell into embarrassment. After a little setback, the two came together. The seemingly mentally handicapped plot, but under the director’s processing, has strong emotional hints, such as Leo’s masturbation in Gabriel’s clothes at night, such as Gabriel’s reaction to seeing Leo naked in the shower room, the emotion is true Revelation is the charm of the film.
Compared to those hoarse expressions, I can accept this kind of calm and peaceful treatment. Emotions are not what you roar. Seeing Weizhiju, the power of forbearance is greater and more memorable.
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