Hanzhi Quejing
I realized this only after a few shots: every shot is a fixed shot. Compared with the one shot of "Russian Ark" that I watched two days ago, the film consists of 39 fixed shots, which goes to the other extreme. If the uninterrupted sports lens expresses the duration of time, then the long lens with fixed camera position expresses the sense of stage, and the screen|screen is the fourth wall. Emphasizing the dramatic requirements provides a reasonable explanation for the characters' precise positioning and walking.
There is no linear time logic between the 39 acts, only the repeated appearance of the characters. The most important thing is obviously the two salesmen, they basically string together most of the fragmented narrative. Fragmented, decentralized narrative is a major feature.
The tone of the film is also very distinctive, which is as impressive as the tone of the picture in "She".
The tone of "She" is mostly presented as a bright and soft pink color, which fits the warm and romantic tone of the film. The tone of the film is colder, but still soft. Because it is a fixed scene and fixed lens, the tonal control of the limited elements in the picture is as precise as the composition, silky smooth, and pleasing to the eye. The gloomy tone suggests the depression and boring in daily life.
Whether it is color or composition, it seems too "perfect", and it is far from our daily experience, so it seems a bit unreal, which is also a dramatic response to the emphasis on the language of the lens. This drama pushes those seemingly boring trivial narratives into metaphors and symbols.
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