As the "realistic universe" established by Jia Zhangke in Shanxi has matured, this time, perhaps a root call, he came to the Yangtze River with a camera, and came to the source of Yoyo China, to record and search for the stories here. This is a grand experiment on DV photography. The unique roughness and obscurity of DV imaging have successfully presented the graininess that film only possesses. The smoke and clouds above the Yangtze River, the water vapor, and the melancholy of the characters in their hearts, all flow on the image. .
The theme of the film is "Searching". Shen Hong is searching, Han Sanming is searching, and Jia Zhangke is also searching. Once upon a time, the fertile land for humanity bred by the Yangtze River was so rich, the sun and the moon were like a shuttle, and the times have changed. Under the call of "the socialist country is all red", the Three Gorges Dam smashed up and crushed the leisurely thoughts of five thousand years. Sijing is old and Sijing has passed away. What is a good person? A "good person" is just a drop of water in the vast wind and sand. People try to find the traces of people and love in the ruins. How easy is it to say?
Faced with the dilemma of reality, the creator's powerlessness and paleness are on paper. Therefore, he created a detached time and space, Shen Hong, Han Sanming, "unexpectedly" in a surreal way (ufo), constantly jumping symbols, suddenly intruding characters, interruption of the situation, all are A space-time construction outside of empiricism, the creator completes self-dissolution through a kind of resistance, so as to achieve reconciliation and coexistence with the environment.
But there is no fault in the flow of emotions. I even think this is the best one used by Jia Zhangke's symbols, mineral water bottles, fans, rising houses... It is the existence of these symbols that make up for the interrupted scene, let Emotions continue, and at the same time it is an externalization of the character's heart. The house that crashed down in the end was the fragmentation of this dream, the collapse of time and space, and the caries and caries on the steel wire alone was the ultimate fate of everyone drifting.
"The apes on both sides of the strait can't cry, the light boat has passed the ten thousand heavy mountains." "The Good Man in the Three Gorges" gave a new meaning to the verse.
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