Gong Ziyu has
forgotten where he read the story. He only remembers such a fragment-when the protagonist looks at the painting, his father told him: "When you look at the painting, you must pay attention to your hands. From the hands in the painting, you can see the painter's hand".
I don't know where this father would pay attention to if he watches a movie. I remember there was a scene in "Tess" that was also about hands. It was a scene of Angel and Tess getting married. By mistake, Tess failed to inform Angel of her "lost" to Alec, so the leading lioness asked if they were willing to marry, and if not, she could immediately break the contract. Tess was obviously extremely nervous. But the director didn't let her behave blindly and confusedly. Instead, the camera was gently shown to Tess's eyes—they were the hands of a pastor who was holding the Bible and were shaking slightly—the pastor's hands were shaking slightly, which was obviously a common disease of the elderly. But here it just reflected the critical state of Tess's calm appearance and tightness in her heart.
I think the quiet detail of "Tess" is one of the most brilliant displays of Polanski's film language. Or to change to a novel paragraph, a lot of psychological description is definitely needed, but a pair of trembling hands in the movie has completely achieved the effect of silence than sound here, and it also gives a hint that Tess's fate is in danger. There always seem to be close-ups of such hands in Polanski's movies. The Oscar-winning "The Pianist", on the poster is a pair of piano hands hanging upside down in the dark. What kind of pale and thin hands are they? The blood is thin. Under the skin, thin fingers slowly lifted the dusty melody of the black and white keys. It reminds people that the fate of human beings is actually just a gesture. Zhang Ailing said that it is called "desolation." Don't say anything, just use the direction of your thumb to decide.
Regarding "hands", Hitchcock told Grant and Ingrid Bergman during a kiss scene in "Beauty Tactics". He said something like this: "I took a train from Bloom many, many years ago. When I arrived in Paris, there was an old red brick factory building by the road. At the foot of the wall, there was a young man and a boy. The boy was peeing against the wall, and the girl clenched his hand and refused to let it go. She looked down at him from time to time. It's not that she's finished urinating, looking around, and then looking down at him. During the whole process, she never let go, love is like this, she must not be disturbed, even if it is urgent."-"Never let go" scene frequently It flashes, just like the eyes in a Hitchcock movie. In "Deep Boudoir Suspicious Cloud" in 1941, there is a scene of Gary Grant delivering milk to his wife. Through the lighting, the milk in the hand is extra eye-catching. The hand holding the plate seems to be crushing the plate, but the other hand hangs loosely, as if it could be used for murder at any time. In a tight ride, this scene has become a classic. At the beginning of "Victorius", we saw a pole and then a hand. In "The Mentally Ill", the girl who steals public funds tries to block the knife's hand in the bath. And the hand of the statue in the mother’s bedroom of the hotel owner-Hitchcock’s movie has an unusual interest in "hand", and the hand has become one of the most important props in his movie. Every time it appears, it works well. The ground creates the effect of clouding suspicion, giving people a hint of tension and depression.
After the ups and downs of the times, the traces of the "hand" cannot be wiped off after all. It is often a kind of consciousness, a kind of language, and even a kind of soul. The hand is the second face of a person, just like the economist Keynes, who loves to hold hands all his life. You don’t look at other people, you only look at the hands! hand! hand! The hand of an actor should also be able to act. For example, in "Infernal Affairs", Andy Lau sits in a wheelchair, tapping his fingers lightly, as if crying and crying. For example, in "Lust Caution", Mr. Yi's hand signed Wang Jiazhi's name on the document for the execution of Wang Jiazhi, shaking tremblingly. Just like Chow Yun-fat faced the mob in the "Peace Hotel", like a king fighting alone, shaking his hands that have not been killed for a long time, the joints creaked...Listen to the great director Howard Hawkes commenting on Grant For his acting skills, he only said softly, "He takes off his clothes and puts on his clothes as lyrical as he is talking about love." Acting with "hands" also reflects the changing curve of human emotions. In "Lover", Liang Jiahui sits in the car and pretends to be nonchalant, longing for timid hands, but a little bit towards the girl's place. There is the same arrangement in "In the Mood for Love". In the car going home, Tony Leung tried to catch Maggie Cheung's hand. She seemed to touch it immediately, but she raised her hand gently and sensitively, and then quickly fled... If the feelings in the past were more of a touch of eyes and a love relationship with her hands, the current scenes are probably all It has withered to no trace, maybe there is no other reason, just because the rhythm is too slow, so even the ancient costume film has to swear to make dry wood and fire like a vigorous enjoyment, and the style depicted in "Spring in a Small Town" In contrast, how can we not make people laugh — the stable, restrained and restrained noble love is gradually declining, and the status is replaced by the carnal fast-food new love. The precious saving temperament of love, the kind of heart that can only be found in the air, the Plato scene that used to be a little bit hidden, has long been stripped, and now it has completely fallen to the level of "Li Kui" who often goes shirtless.
——However, from this, I have come to a conclusion, where do I look at the good or bad of a director? The answer is: look at your hands! So, where do you look at the performance of an actor? The answer is: look at your hands!
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