did not include personal likes
and dislikes. In fact, I like the fun taste of "Equilibrium" the most. "The Dangerous Thread of Things" is too deep, and "Hands" is too exposed, which is inferior. , Although I watched it, I found that Wong Kar-wai was serious about taking a "story" that turned out to be quite good.
"Eros Eros"-the trilogy of sex,
Eros literally means sexual desire. It is derived from ancient Greek mythology. Eros, a child born from the God of War and Eros, is in charge of Eros and was shot by his golden arrow. People who fall in love will fall in love, and those who are shot by his silver arrow will hate their lover for no reason. Because of their naughty personality, the world will be dumbfounded by love. In Freud’s psychoanalysis, he named the life instinct The Eros, and the so-called original desire, in Freud’s definition, is "all the instinctual abilities contained in the word love." It can be seen that Eros In addition to representativeness and love, it also means life.
"Eros" is composed of three independent films, composed of Wong Kar-wai's "Hand" and Stephen. Sudeburg’s "Equilibrium" and Michael Angelo. Antonioni's "The Dangerous Thread of Things" was directed separately. The story of each film is completely different, but the themes are also love and desire. "Hand" is about a story with objects but love and desire, "Equilibrium" is the self-repression and venting of desires, and "The Dangerous Thread of Things" is a picture of love and desire separation. The film industry has only developed for more than a hundred years. It is a media that combines video, sound, and text. The following is an appreciation of this work based on the elements of the three film narrative languages.
"Hand"-the expression of Chinese poetry in the film
"Hand" is directed by Wong Kar-wai and is the only Chinese director among the three directors. His film performance techniques are also deeply influenced by Chinese art. It is a metaphor for his film language In the performance of music, video, and dialogue, the fusion of the artistic conception of Chinese poetry and Wong Kar Wai's film, as well as the close connection with the theme, is everywhere.
The story of "Hand" takes place in Hong Kong in the 1930s. The story takes the tailor Xiao Zhang, played by Zhang Zhen, as the point of view, and tells the life of his desire object—Ms. Hua Hua, a socialist played by Gong Li.
Similar to his predecessors, In the Mood for Love, 2046, etc., he likes to use China in the 1930s and 1940s as the background. The
dark and yellow tones have almost become the classic hallmarks of his films, and they are
filled with mottled bright and dizzying colors. It is a romantic atmosphere. There are only three scenes in the play, Miss Hua’s home, the seamstress’s work place, and the hotel where Miss Hua stayed after she fell down. Almost none of the scenes have pale lights. Instead, the source of light is a faint wall lamp. The table lamp, the sunlight from the outside into the room, the yellow light that illuminates the tailor's sewing car, or the light of the hotel without enough power, in exchange for the dark and yellow color, is the background color of that era; Ms. Hua is acting as a A socialite, who ended up as a prostitute, naturally became a symbol of desire in the movie. In the first scene where Xiao Zhang and Ms. Hua met and she masturbated for Xiao Zhang, the camera showed a close-up of Xiao Zhang’s buttocks, and a hand painted with bright red nail polish stretched out. In the middle, just as red gives the impression of passion, here it symbolizes desire. Colors are often used in Chinese poems. The composition of texts is considered to be a vivid expression of the text as a scene. As a medium of the scene, movies naturally have the ability to use color to achieve this.
Many ancient Chinese poems have restrictions on the number of words and sentences. Therefore, in the use of language, we advocate conciseness and conciseness. This is a short film, but it is necessary to tell a story. It is inevitable that conciseness and conciseness are inevitable. Therefore, when you need to explain the character's image or background, It is the most effective way to use montage techniques to combine scenes into video fragments to explain the background. For example, the scene where Xiao Zhang first arrives at the Chinese house, and the scene where Miss Hua moves to a hotel, also uses mobile lenses in different directions to shoot things in the field, and The reality and the image reflected in the mirror are alternately expressed. When Miss Hua appears in a lower-class hotel in a gorgeous image, there is a strong conflict within frame. Like Chinese classical poetry, it likes to piece together scenes to create atmosphere and tell stories. The combination of images of different natures also produces special expressive effects (Wang Zhimin, 196).
The foreign voice often used in Wong Kar-wai movies, that is, non-diegetic voices (Bordwell, Thompson, 374), often appears in "Hands". This movie is inspired by the Shanghai New Sensationist novelist Shi Zhecun’s work "The Dancing Girl in the Twilight" in the 1930s. It uses telephone conversations to explain the ups and downs of the dancing girl. Therefore, it is often seen that the voice is used for painting. Mr. Zhao, the little white face raised by Ms. Hua, Appeared four times in total, each time "only hear the voice, but not see the person." Also from the unilateral telephone conversation between the old tailor Lao Jin and Ms. Hua, we can hear the ups and downs of Ms. Hua's status; and Xiao Zhangchu came to the Hua family. In one scene, only a groan is heard, and the heroine begins to appear after six minutes. There is a suspenseful effect with the implicit expression of the poem.
The movie name Eros is the theme of "Hand", so "Hand" is about the issue of eroticism. The erotic scenes are indispensable in the movie. Only one of the six sex-related scenes has nudity. Hearing groans, or seeing men and women dressing and stroking, the most "passionate" is just showing the male buttocks, and the most metaphorical is that Xiao Zhang strokes Miss Hua's cheongsam with his hands. If you don't read the previous text and understand the desire, you can also be related to sex. Irrelevant. This fits the implicit style of Chinese poetry.
In "Hands", Xiao Zhang began to love Miss Hua from desire, but was tortured by the desireless love in the end. In the end, Miss Hua could only repay his long-term erotic desire in the most distant way. Wong Kar-wai said in the interview: "For me, although the theme of Eros is related to lust, I feel that nudity is not the point at all. The most attractive thing in Chinese culture is white space. The more white space, the more Imagining space, Eastern audiences tend to think in this way.” So it is quite appropriate to call "Hands" a sign that there is love but no desire.
"Equilibrium"──The balance and symbol of reality and dream
"Equilibrium" by Stephen. Directed by Sudeburg, his work is known for being bold and experimental, and is good at balancing business and art. The title "Equilibrium" means proportionality, balance, and coincidence. In this short film, the structure is proportional and parallel. , To highlight the theme in the language and symbolic meaning of the film with the duality of opposition-the balance of reality and desire. Unlike "Hands", this film is not about a complete story with a plot, but is used for the inner psychological activities of the characters, depicting the characters' dreams and mental conditions, similar to French impressionist films (Bordwell, Thompson, 542).
The story tells Robert. Downey is often troubled by the same spring dream. He calls for psychoanalyst Alan. Ai Jian treats him. Although the title is called balance, it is in binary opposition. Balance means that there is a danger of imbalance. When the protagonist confesses with the psychoanalyst, he said that he lost my Equilibrium, which represents the theme-the imbalance between reality and dream. Psychoanalysis is influenced by Freudian psychology, and its theory that dreams represent people's subconsciousness is the result of libido, which usually suppresses desire, that is, the eros. For "Equilibrium", the parallel structure is adopted, and the director's intentions can also be seen in terms of characters, story themes, scene scheduling, etc. We can see the symbolic meaning of this movie in the symbolic meaning of Freud and what does the deep meaning of the connotation represent? .
For advertisers who are troubled by Qimeng, the method of treatment is the idea of Freedom Alliance. He said that Qimeng began to appear when the work progress was affected by the wig of one of his colleagues, Hall. He was extremely nervous and advised him from the psychologist. The many considerations when sitting on the toffee chair shows that the depression of family and work is reflected in the dream. There are several symbolic and troubled images in the dream. The first is the handbag of the woman in the dream. The handbag is in Freud. "Dream Analysis" represents the female sexual organs. He dare not try to open the handbag, which means that he is troubled by his wife's refusal to have any sex with him. In the dream, the woman and the wife are the same role. According to him, the woman in the dream is blocking for him. External disturbance and invasion means that he is escaping from outside troubles and wants to take a good rest. When he finally opens his handbag and finds that there is a mirror inside, it means that the source of desire and depression comes from himself, and he is the one who caused his troubles.
The purpose of free-linked thought therapy is to draw the patient’s attention to their psychological feelings, and to exclude the patient’s critical attitude, so as to hope to visit the patient’s subconscious (Wang Zhimin, 40), but the psychologist in the movie does not pay attention to the patient’s confession. He also showed impatience with the patient. At the same time, as a helper of the desire to unravel the dream, he entered into his own desire. He communicated with the outside of the window carefully, and avoided contact with the outside (phone) with the patient. Opposition, and his desire comes from the person outside the window, but the audience cannot know what is outside from the image. This is betrayal from the film’s attempt to expose the patient’s dream as much as possible. His job is to snoop, just like the metaphor of a telescope outside the window. , He can snoop on the metaphors from dreams, but the realistic objects of desire cannot be presented. Pay attention to the director’s casting. The wig-wearing colleague Hall and the psychoanalyst are the same person, only one wearing a wig and the other with a bald head, which symbolizes that the fuse of desire and the direction of trying to solve the desire are the same person.
Except for the scene of meeting the psychoanalyst which is fixed and black and white, the dreams and the plot after the advertiser wakes up are all presented in swing and color, just as the Impressionist director uses photography techniques to depict the psychology of the characters. In Equilibrium, the perspective shot Editing, taking the character as the center of gravity, imitating the image of the object seen by the protagonist’s angle of view and distance, using different shots (Bordwell, Thompson, 542) according to the protagonist’s state, showing the protagonist’s lost my Equilibrium situation. There are two parts of the film appearing in black and white. The first is a meeting with a psychoanalyst, which contrasts with the appearance of Robert’s dream in color. This dream and the later awakening part are both shot in color, and the last part is used for comparison. In order to express the freedom of association, paper airplanes thrown out of the room are repeatedly reflected in the street. The image and the image may not form a direct logical relationship. In this way, the director cleverly broke the dual boundary between dream and reality. The so-called reality, dreams, desire, and subconsciousness are actually unclear.
"The Dangerous Thread of Things"
-the dynamic of separation of love and desire Miko Angelo Antonioni is a universally recognized film master, and his works such as "Eclipse" and "Happy Together" have become film classics. He brings modern artistic language into film narrative, expressing philosophical discussion through insightful images.
Compared with the previous two short films, "The Dangerous Thread of Things" is not only a complete narrative, but also rich in symbolism. This story is based on Antonioni’s book "Bowling Lane by the Tiber: The Director’s Story". For couples who have been married for many years and lose their sexual desire, the wife struggles to eliminate desire and temptation and only cares about spiritual cultivation, but the husband needs both love and sex. After a quarrel, she met a sexy girl who lived in another tower and had sex. Her husband was anxious under the circumstance of love and desire, and ran to Paris. Finally, the two women met on the beach.
In the film title "The Dangerous Thread of Things", Thread has the meaning of lines and also means penetration or penetration. There are quite a lot of hints related to lines in the film. The husband and wife drove away from the ancient pagoda, and the car backed off and chose the next road. They pointed out the theme of the movie about the choice of erotic desire. Can they only choose one of them? After passing the winding road in the woods, they walked to the restaurant. After the wife rolled the glass on the ground, the meandering vision introduced them to a section of a shaded road made of branches. See the movie theme and shooting technique. Combine.
There are more naked bodies in this film than before. The two heroines spend more time undressed than they do, but they are not show off, but have their symptomatic meaning (Bordwell, Thompson) , 542), in John. In Berg's "ways of seeing", the naked female body can be a self-presentation or a public exhibit (55). The self-presentation has its own initiative, and the exhibit is the person being watched. The meaning of being regarded as an object.
Wife Chloe is a person who emphasizes spiritual cultivation. From the dialogue, we know that she tries to eliminate temptation, knows how to appreciate nature, and is tolerant. Even if she wears a thin coat, she can't induce the slightest sexy, because she chooses Integrating herself into nature, she regards the bare body as a way of self-presentation. It is one of many natural things, so it appears ordinary, which is the reason why she accused her husband of not paying attention to everything and being controlled by desire. The only drawback is the endless chatter that her husband can embark on a spiritual path like her. When she talked to her husband in Paris, she pointed out that the problem lies in cognition. The cognition about going home, the horse symbolizes the unrestrained and free childlike interest here. She summoned the horse and her husband to go home, which shows that she chose to lay down her destructive body and regard spiritual cultivation as the ultimate belonging of a person.
The image of Linda, a girl who lives in another tower, appeared on the beach riding a horse. Later, she had sex with the male protagonist that emphasized body lines. Unlike Chloe, who drove the horse home, her naked body aroused male horns. Of course, her desire makes her an object to be viewed by the opposite sex. Except for her name and body, the audience knows nothing about her. She is a representative who allows her to develop freely and is sexually attractive. Before sex, the male actor asked: If I lie down, what will happen, she will answer, I will tell you my name, in fact, the word Linda means snake, except that it is interpreted in the Bible as evil, carnal, and also Is the representative of wisdom.
In this film, similar to "Equilibrium", it opposes love and desire, and finally blurs the line between the two. The two female actors met on the beach. Although they danced naked because of the natural infection, they conveyed completely different messages. First it was Linda. She picked up the branches of snakes, danced and made lines on the sand. It was not so much that she was dancing, it was better to say that she was happy like a child in the random dancing and spinning, and then she went to Chloe. The dance dances are similar to modern dance and ballet. They are static in comparison, and they pay more attention to the outside world and have a viewing angle. Dance is an instinctive way of communication between man and nature. In fact, love and desire are also innate to man. In the end, I calmly appreciate the dancing posture of naked girls and show gracefully in the natural realm. It represents the release of the love and desires that originally belonged to each other. And fusion.
The three short films filmed on one theme are of course independent works of art, and the combination of films also has artistic significance. The illustrations and music in the scene can see the theme.
The painting used for the intermission is a work selected by the famous Italian art Lorenzo Mattotti according to the three-part film style. The work is surprisingly oriental. The lines of the characters are simple and thick, and they do not emphasize the proportions of the human body, nor do they see physical characteristics, and do not emphasize the painting. It is about men and women and movements. It has the characteristics of Chinese paintings that emphasize the concept and not the content, and there are a lot of blank spaces. The colors are very contrasting red, yellow and blue, black and white, etc., under the looming light and darkness, you can see faintly. As far as the quality of the paper is rough, these paintings do not have a detailed texture, but only express the impression of eroticism from all aspects. In the classic love song of the Brazilian music poet Caetano Veloso, it brings double attention to the audience and enjoyment.
The sex trilogy of "Eros", whether viewed together or divided into three parts, is a rare artistic product.
References:
"Hands", "Eros", directed by Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong: Meiya Entertainment Co., Ltd., 2005
"Equilibrium", "Eros", directed by Stephen Suderberg, Hong Kong: Meiya Entertainment Co., Ltd.,
2005
"The Dangerous Thread of Things", "The God of Love", directed by Michael Angelo Antonioni, Hong Kong: Asia Entertainment Co., Ltd., 2005
"ways of seeing", written by John Berg, translated by Dai Xingyue, Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2005 First Edition
"Film Art Form and Style", written by David Bordwill, Kristin Thompson, translated by Zeng Weizhen, Taipei: Yuanliu Publishing House, 1992
"Film Aesthetics: Transcendence of Ideas and Thinking", edited by Wang Zhimin , Beijing: China Film Publishing House, 2002
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