"Child" is the first Dutton Brothers work I have ever seen. I saw it in the theater not long ago. I was unfamiliar with their lens language and narrative techniques, so I took some time to get used to it. Many of the benefits of the film are only felt after watching the film quietly in retrospect. When watching "Beautiful Rosetta", the first reaction is that it is very similar to "children": it looks like a documentary or filming, and the camera shakes tightly, with the focus on several characters. , It accurately conveys the plight of life and the helplessness of the human heart, and it also has a sudden stop but a tiny bright ending.......
Maybe it’s this kind of comparison, which makes me think that the two brothers are very powerful. They understand what they are doing very well. They are superb. They are like top chefs. They don’t need fancy new techniques, but the same simple knife skills and neat cooking. In the cooking process, the ingredients are changed, and the special flavor of the food is expertly brought out.
Some people say that images have limitations in describing people's hearts. Many subtle moods can be described in words, but it is difficult to express them in abstract images. For example, "I have undertaken a lot and walked very heavy." Such adjectives. It's not an action, it's hard to be performed by an actor. What’s amazing about "Beautiful Rosetta" is that it can tell stories in a very documentary way, but it uses "symbols" to guide people to describe the character's psychology very accurately.
For example, when Rosetta stumbled into the mud with a gas cylinder, it made the audience clearly realize the reality that she could not afford, and almost crushed her body and mind. This kind of narration is literary and artistic, but the director laid out the whole film and used a scene to show the subtle physical and mental state, without any pretentiousness. For example, in the film "Children" or "Beautiful Rosetta", the fragments falling into the water make the original realistic stories produce some drama and symbolism, and these real life drama elements are inlaid in just right and have an impact. But it is not sensational.
In terms of the plot, I can better understand the mood of the heroine of "Beautiful Rosetta" compared to the "child".
Rosetta is an 18-year-old girl, she is not naive, she is so strong, she wants to live the "normal life" like others. She wants to maintain her dignity, she wants to live a life that is not embarrassing.
Rosetta lives in a campsite and changes her rain boots in the grass every day when she comes back from the city. People will be surprised to hear that she lives in a campsite. She has a mother who makes her unable to resist. Her mother is drunk and abandons herself, and she often has relationships with others casually. She has no job, no friends, no medical insurance.
She met a boy by accident. The boy asked her what kind of music she likes to listen to, and asked her if she would like to have some wine, and the boy pulled her up and danced. She rushed out. A little bit of warmth in the cold will only make the loneliness of the original world more real, and will only collapse the original strength of the armed forces. Even if it is such a humble pleasure, it doesn't belong to her.
The saddest thing is that in the film she played two roles and said to herself: You have a job. I have a job. You made friends. I made friends. You will live a normal life, and I will live a normal life. You will not live on the streets. I will not live on the streets.
Very distressed, these things turned out to be luxury items for her.
There are some regular repetitions in the film, crossing city roads, changing shoes, catching fish, making mom stop drinking, looking for work, and losing her job. In the fixed cycle, the situation that the girl faces in each reincarnation becomes more and more severe and hopeless.
A teacher once talked about that every time he got off the bus from Tonglian, he often met seemingly ordinary people to ask him for change. He was very curious about how a person is forced by the environment or by himself. Will let go of self-esteem and beg? The so-called "dignity" is very important to live as a human being and not an animal. When everything around life becomes difficult, how do you live as a person?
This is the problem that girls face, maintaining dignity and living. She bears this proposition very prematurely. She has hesitated to see her dead. She decides to betray her friends. The comity she faces is not an innocuous pear, but a cruel choice in life.
In the end, the girl didn't even have enough gas to commit suicide, so she needed to change it herself. It's really black. Such realistic movies are usually difficult to finish. After all, a happy reunion is hard to reach in this situation.
However, the director did not give an open ending that was completely unexplained. In the last paragraph of the girl's attempted suicide, the climax tightened, and the betrayed boy rode a motorcycle around the girl carrying the gas canister. The girl was forced to a critical point, and she had no strength to cover up or pretend. She fell to the ground, embarrassed as usual. The boy let go of his hostility and pulled her who had fallen to the ground. Maybe he knows that it is the invincible reality that oppresses each other. This is the salvation with light at the end of the film, without hypocrisy or excessive sympathy or kindness.
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A terrible film, even more terrifying is to hear the director Dutton brothers explain in detail the reasons for the filming, it is even more terrifying.
Regarding the characteristics of the Dutton Brothers, they are mentioned in the article "Talking about Children", so I will ignore them here. Because the performance is actually very similar, I will just talk about my impressions directly.
This is a film that makes people feel sad to watch. What's sad is that the heroine constantly confronts the environment and is constantly frustrated. In addition to the oppression of reality, her own outlook on life isolated from the world is even more serious. So she cut off all emotional contact with outsiders in order to take care of her face, dress up, arm herself, and conceal herself. Regardless of whether the other party is good or bad. But from the director's presentation, we can see that Rosetta has a lot of affection, but she doesn't know how to liberate, nor how to redefine her life. Therefore, the desperate resistance was unsuccessful.
I was so impressed by two clips in the film that I couldn't help crying.
One is that the little brother of the fast food truck has a good impression of her and let her enter his house. And she changed from her indifferent and resisting attitude to her younger brother's enthusiasm. Then the younger brother invited her to dance, she danced clumsily, that kind of sincere interaction. One is full of kindness, and one doesn't know how to accept it. In the end, she resisted and rushed out, but turned around, and finally lived in a boy's house. And she murmured in the bed: "You made a friend...I made a friend"... Such a situation somehow made me cry.
Then there is the final open ending (they like open endings). The scene where Rosetta finally cried under tremendous pressure is really moving. The touching index of the whole scene scheduling is definitely qualified to be listed in movie history (such as Leslie Cheung in Farewell My Concubine, the scene where Wu Dawei was grabbed by Wu Dawei to force a confession in front of the fire-this can only be felt when I go to the theater to see its power-I'm lucky , I saw the full version twice in two film festivals-yeah). And all the audience raised their hearts high here. At the end of the film, everyone was speechless and clapped desperately (because they knew that the director was also there to watch). This is the highest state of the movie that touches people's hearts. No wonder it won the best film at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival in one fell swoop.
Director's discussion after the meeting. I asked them why they kept repeating the scene of changing shoes for the heroine. After hearing their answers, I immediately regretted asking this question. But this is a question that almost everyone wants to ask (my front and back are discussing this matter). Their answer is: because it needs to be used separately, but also can control the pace (people make dissatisfied voices). And they want to portray the heroine as a warrior, her life is fighting. So she repeats the action of changing shoes is a symbol, just like a soldier picks up a rifle every day to the battlefield, and then puts down the gun after returning. And when she goes home and outside, it is also a transition of different scenes, changing the shoes is to separate the atmosphere and use the low (this sounds so motivated, and everyone's dissatisfaction is even greater). And someone asked the climax part of the ending credits why the heroine had to make such a decision. The director actually answered in detail the heroine's motives and the reasons why she did it. Let me be taken aback, want to say, damn! It turns out that the motive is so popular! There is no room for reverie! Upon hearing this, I found that the director retained very low levels of multiplicity and divergence in the film when making this film. Because they are all fully aware of what layout they are doing, the "windfalls" that often occur in filming seem to be gone here! What a pity!
However, it is still a good film with a famous film history.
Note: Regarding the unexpected gain, sometimes the director will make up for the unexpected results and changes that occurred during the filming process. For example, an actor suddenly makes a stroke of action, or changes lines, and so on. A specific example of this meaning is Chu Fu's "Day as Night". This is the subject of discussion.
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