【Son of others】

If you look at the story alone, the stories of the Darney brothers are usually more dramatic. In [Son], the male protagonist meets a teenager who once killed his son in the workplace. Can he accept the teenager as an apprentice, so that he can have a skill Survive. The value of Dane is to remove as much drama (sense of coincidence) as possible, while constantly building suspense. Compared with the Russian movie "Little Guy" last year, although the two films have similarities at first glance, there is still a considerable gap in the technique. [Son of Others] The opening scene has created suspense for the audience. Why did the carpenter not accept the young man as an apprentice after opening the envelope; after he refused, he smoked a cigarette and went to the office to peek at the young man filling out the form; when he went back to work , the carpenter had no intention of working, and went to the welding department to peek at the young man again... So far, the suspense between the characters has begun to build, who is this young man? Does the protagonist know him? Why so much attention and so dodge. After returning home, the ex-wife appeared for the first time, and the ex-wife came to tell the carpenter that she was going to remarry, but the carpenter was noncommittal, and the ex-wife told him hesitantly that she was pregnant, and the carpenter was cleaning the empty lunch box; Ask her what she is doing today, why is it today... At this point, another suspense begins to build. What happened to them and the marriage broke down. The director also appropriately gave some answers to the previous suspense through association. They should have known the boy. Teenagers may have been the cause of their marriage breakdown, which could be related to children (the ex-wife was pregnant again). Halfway through the film, the relationship between the history and the characters is clarified. The teenager once killed their child (the ex-wife found the carpenter and the teenager together); in the third act, the answer is clearer, the teenager accidentally killed the carpenter's son during theft, then The boy was only 11 years old and lacked parental discipline and family warmth. [Little Guy] However, it lacks this kind of progressive disclosure, and is too rigid about the characters' current external actions, so it seems that abandoning the newborn baby is just because of the characters' indifference, and it is not until the last scene of the film that the characters are almost explained at once. Past problems and current dilemmas.

This time I took a look at Dane and found that [Son] is very suitable for audio-visual, especially scheduling. "The Best Actor in the Back of the Head" and the movement of the camera, constantly switch us to observe the characters and observe and experience together with the characters. The audio-visual method similar to the montage of the inside of the camera was played perfectly by the Darney brothers. The poster very accurately reflects the basic logic of camera design, What we see is the carpenter, but let him look at the boy whose face is outside the painting; we can't understand them all, because the focus is on the boy and not the carpenter in the depths of the scene. The presentation of a large number of professional details in the work scene creates a "world" ” and the establishment of the relationship between the characters: the young man began to admire the accuracy of the carpenter’s visual distance; the young man learned to lift wood and climb the ladder, and fell on the carpenter’s shoulder; the young man began to wear the same overalls, and the jet washed away like a carpenter. The wood chips... occupation also brings emotional rendering, dynamic effects and ambient sounds replace music, disturbance, restraint, forbearance until the end of forgiveness. The ex-wife has appeared three times in total, and the scene position of each appearance is just right, accurate It hints at the carpenter's current psychology and the responsibility for revealing the secret. Danet is very good at handling details, the comparison of the two homes, the carpenter's home and the youth's residence, these are two people who have no entertainment and no tomorrow, and can only survive. The carpenter secretly Walking into the teenager's temporary residence, there is an alarm clock and a tape recorder on the stool by the window, a blue ashtray, half a bottle of milk and an empty glass on the dining table, the carpenter lay down on the teenager's bed, and he has been carrying The carpenter's leather belt seems to be strangling him all the time, making him unable to breathe. The carpenter's home seems to be no different from his own, but in fact their pain is different after all. The two drove to the wood factory in the suburbs, Along the way, the teenager went to sleep from the passenger seat to the back seat. He seemed to be avoiding the carpenter's question. He deliberately described his five-year imprisonment as a theft, trying to hide his manslaughter. The two were in a roadside fast food restaurant. When buying apple pie, the carpenter deliberately did not pay the boy's bill, and the relationship between the two was gradually estranged, but this was just the darkness before dawn, the wrestling before the complete outbreak. During the outbreak, they both felt each other's despair and fear, especially the boy. The moment when he was strangled, he must have felt the fear of the child he strangled five years ago. The carpenter let go of his hand, left the woods, walked back to the wood, and began to carry and sort the wood. The boy was watching quietly. After a while, they walked to the last piece of wood, and the two looked at each other. The young man tried to pick up the last piece of wood and put it on the trailer. They worked together to wrap the wood in a huge rain cover, and the carpenter took it from the trunk of the car. Out of the rope, the young man pressed the tarpaulin, and the carpenter began to tie the rope like a corpse.