belly in the advertising industry. However, for him, the asceticism is the correct attitude to make movies, because the topics he is passionate about are always related to the philosophical propositions of "human existence" and need to be treated religiously and seriously. Therefore, he Don't hesitate to use time as a bargaining chip, and explore the best way of expression with great concentration and meticulousness.
Similar to the previous work, "Holding Branches and Birds Quiet" stretches the narrative in an absurdly cold tone, and through 39 fixed shots, depicts a surreal but clearly referent picture of modern life. In the movie, Roy Anderson continues to adopt the Nordic joke-style humor to unfold his own thinking about death, emotion, and history. The fixed shots are independent of each other, but also loosely connected by the expressionless work of two "funny toy" salesmen. The fragmented situation of the sketch contains a dream-like atmosphere, but it seems to be just a loyal projection of real life. Roy Anderson accurately restores the scenes of daily life, whether it is a bistro, a flamenco classroom, a cruise ship restaurant, or a biological laboratory, they are all ordinary and realistic, while the absent-minded crowd brings a strong stage effect, and The real environment around him is out of touch. Reality and illusion are also true, reality and dreams dissolve each other's boundaries, and the indifference and monotony of contemporary life leap on the screen. When "existence" becomes a cold entity, pessimists such as Roy Anderson can only make people in the play say "I'm glad you did a good job" over and over in different ways to masturbate.
In terms of video style, "The Quiet of Cold Branches and Birds" is the product of the director's own style after being influenced by the styles of various schools. In the movie, we can experience Edvard Hope’s loneliness, Jacques Tati’s cold face and comical, and even the main characters’ behaviors seem to run directly from Samuel Beckett’s plays. Out of the role. Although Roy Anderson dislikes being compared with fellow Ingmar Bergman, the questioning of Ling Li's life in the two films is the same. However, if life in Bergman’s place is a game of chess in the hands of death, then for Roy Anderson, it is a pigeon specimen in the museum glass window-it summons others to watch curiously, but it is always silent and silent. With surreal joy.
The use of fixed lenses did not bring a bit of dullness to the movie. On the contrary, Roy Anderson's bold exploration of space made watching "Hard Sparrow Quiet" a very interesting visual game. Cameras often show group portraits in space with a mid-field depth of field. There are no impatient close-ups and no exaggerated movements. All the characters are like Japanese Noh actors with a thick white cream. They are slow and distracted, hiding in different corners of the camera to talk to each other. Roy Anderson likes to use the wide depth of the foreground and background of the deep focus lens to arrange the interaction of characters on different stage levels. The viewer's perspective is often from front to back, from left to right, exploring every detail in the viewfinder frame.
Compared with the importance of space, the time in "Han Zhi Que Jing" is blurred as much as possible. Cool colors create a sense of illusion in the future, but the only two scenes with temperature—the little girl blowing bubbles on the balcony and the young mother basking in the park—return the emotional experience of the audience back to the present. Sometimes, the old setting seems to reappear yesterday, but the mobile phone used by the person in the painting clearly refers to the present. The film also designed several absurd and meaningful fragments. In the most amazing one, King Karl XII of Sweden rode a tall horse into a modern bar. In the military-adapted version of the "John Brown Song" march, Asked the bartender for a bottle of sparkling water. In Roy Anderson's case, the dilemma of "existence" has never changed. The past, present, and future linear time is deliberately broken, and the three tenses are stagnant and then confused.
As the subtitle of the movie "A Philosophy Concerning Existence" shows, "Hard Branches Sparrow Quiet" is a metaphysical exploration, but Roy Anderson added a more intense 110-minute silence than the previous one. Political criticism. In a salesman's dream, a group of ragged blacks was driven into a huge brass instrument by colonists. In order to let the white audience hear the music, the colonists set fire to heat the instrument to make it turn, and did not care about the burned victims of the instrument. The words "Boliden" engraved on the musical instrument are the name of a chemical plant. In the 1980s, they shipped a large amount of metal waste to Chile, threatening the health of tens of thousands of local people, but in the end they received only minor fines. "Business belongs to business, morality doesn't matter, the world shouldn't be like this", Roy Anderson, dressed in an absurd coat, expresses his anger and sadness with his feet off the ground, and "Hard Branches Sparrow Quiet" has become one of his works. The strongest sex and the richest in meaning.
2015/5/1 "21st Century Business Herald"
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