The film that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in South Africa in 2005 will be watched at the BRICS International Film Festival today. It was discovered that my country had introduced and distributed it in 2010. At that time, the film was called "Redemption". "The Gangster Thug" may have been translated from Hong Kong and Taiwan. The original title "Tsotsi" was the name of the hero in the film. Moderate underworld films, which focus on the repentance and redemption of the characters. The South African director of the film went to Hollywood to develop after winning the award. In recent years, the American blockbusters such as "Wolverine", "Ander's Game" and "Eye in the Sky" were all produced by him.
This is still a product of the film era. I found that it was shot with Kodak 35mm 5212, 5217 negatives. Although it was converted into a digital copy, it still gave people some image characteristics that were different from today's digital cameras. The first feeling is that the lens is not always moving as it is now. Long lens and moving lens are much less. Digital technology eliminates the expensive film and length limitation, and the camera is much more flexible, but it seems that it has lost some of the stable beauty of the past. The second feeling is that we seem to have lost some of the meticulous and elegant use of film composition and light, especially the light carving of portraits.
When watching this old movie after twelve years, with the development of the plot, the carefully organized picture composition and light and shadow processing, stable and concise lens combination, and rich image texture and layering that appear from time to time, give I feel a lot different from today's digital new movies. This makes me think: today's film workers, don't be lazy or stupid by the convenience brought by digital technology; don't throw away the artistic skills and techniques of high-quality image modeling accumulated and achieved in the century of film era Drop it! That is the most unique and beautiful part of film art, and it is the basis for its independent existence in the forest of human art!
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