However, how can the reality of the documentary be equated with the director's subjective attitude? She breaks through the traditional rules and builds on the reality behind her understanding of real life. Varda didn't care about getting involved in the documentary. She deliberately asked her to let the judge wear the judge's robes and hold the code, standing on the cabbage field and on the street to read the relevant laws and regulations on waste collection. This experimental technique is not only the ingenious fusion between the director and the recorded things, but also the self-discovery of her special scavenger.
As she said: During the shooting and editing stages, I gradually became clear about my intentions. I find the balance between those self-referential moments (my "scavengers" who use one hand to photograph the other hand) and those scavengers who have amazing realities and behaviors.
And these do not violate the true nature of the documentary, or that "The Scavengers" is not a documentary in the true sense, like a fuzzy zone between the documentary and the drama. This is a documentary in which the director incorporates subjective emotions. "As far as its form is concerned, movies are not free. I am deeply distressed and want to use the method of writing novels to make movies." In the movie, she also personally said that the camera is digital, narcissistic, and surreal. This movie, dubbed "narcissism", did not disgust us at all. "The Scavengers" is the art of collage, and we were immersed in the gauze woven by the author and admired.
In the process of recording people's picking up, the director is picking up all the time. The director is full of eagerness to see his intentions. "I found myself like an animal. Worse still, what animal am I?"
The director stroked her gray hair; she overturned a self-portrait of Rembrandt when she was collecting photos sent from Japan, stroking it with her wrinkled hand; she picked up a clock without hands, and then photographed the clock Then her old body moved. -This is her picking up years. Once the passage of time is involved in art, it is bound to last forever.
Varda interviews a vineyard owner who is also a psychotherapist. The love between the psychologist and his wife cherishes the memory of the lost husband, and the psychologist’s research alludes to Varda’s creative intentions: how to grasp oneself The objective world outside of harmony and the fusion of it is surprisingly similar to Varda’s film technique; the chance encounter with the offspring of the pioneer of film creation, Marais, is to cherish the memory of the film master and the history of film development in the past; On the way to travel, the car drove past a large truck, and she tried to grasp the fast-moving truck with her hands, just like a childhood game. -This is her picking up memories.
Varda encounters oil paintings that reflect the same theme again and again, first is Miller's Gleaner, a pair of oils about Gleaner found in FINDS, and even the end of the film is an oil painting from a museum; and Interviews with artists who like to use waste to create art. -This is her picking up art.
In the age of advocating material, what is truly deteriorating, and what is not deteriorating. As the man wearing rubber shoes said, in this age of overconsumption, he cannot accept waste in any sense. Even if we rescue the birds that were threatened by the oil spill, we will continue to kill them. Even if we have taught our children to start making crafts with waste products, have they actually seen those dirty broomsticks made with waste products, have they shaken hands with scavengers?
Does our art reflect reality or glitz? Art can reorganize ugly things to make them beautiful, so why not use garbage to create art? Or perhaps the art theme is the second, but the most important thing is that our consistent persistence in art has been thrown away like we throw away rubbish.
Scavengers know how to donate what they get to people who are in trouble. They know how to pick up waste while teaching others knowledge. What did we throw away and what did we pick up? Some people pick up waste because they are forced by life, some people pick up waste because they are artists, and some people pick up waste because they like to pick up waste. But what they have in common is that they oppose different forms of waste. Scavengers are wise men, they are the discoverers and thinkers of society.
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