The micro-film "Antfly" tells the story of a man trapped in a dark and cramped small room with a mental disorder. Director Nolan uses theatrical technique to depict a mantis catching a cicada and a bird behind. From the initial medium-sized people looking for small-sized people all over the house, to the end of the film, the small-sized people are caught, but at the same time the soles of the shoes fall, the screen darkens to death, and the large-sized people also shoot the medium-sized people to death. This absurdly nonsensical plot setting shows It is another philosophy of life. It is the cycle of constant reincarnation in life, the infinite and terrible cycle of repeating the same mistakes, the excavation and deep thinking of humanity to achieve oneself and destroy oneself, the portrayal of the inner hesitation when everything goes wrong, and the self trapped alone. Abandonment and irritability are the pain of mental and psychological depression... They are all displayed in the ring structure of the film vividly, and you can't help but marvel at Nolan's film skills.
The overall picture presents black and white tones, showing an old dull, dim and cramped feeling. Such a feeling of black and white movies of the last century makes it easy for the audience to come to the background of the times in the scene through the foreground of the eye. It attracts the curiosity of the audience, and it also embodies the suspense that it wants to present on the screen. With the actions and eyes of the actors, it also presents a sense of madness and weirdness.
In the film, when the protagonist is looking for something on the ground, when he looks panicked and crazy, he uses a overhead shooting angle to reflect a sense of weakness of being monitored and viewed badly, making the audience feel that he is in a weak position. He was about to be photographed to pave the way for the following plot. When shooting the protagonist’s greedy, crazy expression on his face when he caught the target, he used close-up and close-up shots to create a creepy feeling, which is very good for the theme of the movie. The rendering is deepened, and the director wants to convey a kind of black accumulating power that accomplishes his own destruction of his humanity.
The end of the last scene, like the unexpected and reasonable ending created by O. Henry's novel, has an aftertaste. The present death only means the demise of the things in front of you. If the picture is opened again, the story will return to the beginning of the movie. The logical relationship of each link has a fixed understanding under the ring narrative structure. Crazy actors are in a closed scene, which is more conducive to embodying the character's character and continues to promote the unlimited development of the plot.
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