"Little Hero Toto" is the first feature film directed by director Jacques van Domel. The film tells the story of a man who was dominated by childhood memories and fantasies and tortured for a lifetime. Thomas is the protagonist of the movie. He was born in an ordinary family. He has a beautiful older sister Alice and a younger brother Xie Liting who suffers from Down syndrome. He envied the life of Alfred Kanter, the child of the neighbor’s supermarket shopkeeper, because their family was much wealthier than Thomas’s, and because Kanter had a healthy family, he imagined that the hospital caught fire and held the wrong child. Drama. Thomas' father was unfortunately killed in a flying accident, and this dangerous flight was due to Kanter's request, so Thomas and his sister blamed the Kanter family for all this. Thomas admired his sister very much, but found that her sister and Alfred were very angrily questioning her when they were in love, urging her to burn Kanter's house, which also led to Alice's death. And the mother couldn't stand the blow of her sister's death, so Thomas and Xie Liting were sent to the orphanage and left. Many years later, after Thomas’s mother’s funeral, he suddenly saw Evelyn, a married woman who looked like Alice and fell in love with her. After Evelyn divorced her husband and was about to start a new life with Thomas, Thomas found out that Evelyn was married. Lin's husband is Alfred who has loved Alice since childhood, and Thomas chose to escape from the huge impact. In a blink of an eye, Thomas is already in his old age. He lives alone in a nursing home and is immersed in his own fantasy stories every day. He always thought that Kanter had taken everything from him, so he resolved to take revenge. He found Kanter, but he found that Kanter's old life was not satisfactory. He was frustrated and prepared to commit suicide. Suddenly he thought of something. He returned to Kanter's house, put on his clothes, and experienced Kanter. Te's life was accidentally killed by the killer ambushing at Kanter's house. There are five narrative lines in the movie, and the double narrative can add more interest and watchability to the movie, making the audience not boring. But how to deal with the arrangement of the five narrative lines so that the audience does not feel the clouds and mountains of the plot is the first problem that needs to be solved. In order to solve this problem, the director used this editing technique: the hand of the old Thomas wiping his body and the hand of the young Thomas stroking his partner were edited together, and the old Thomas lying on the bed and the childhood Thomas who wanted to get up on the bed were edited together. Together. This editing technique of this kind uses a large number of movements, light and sound, shapes, colors, etc. to make time-space transitions. With this almost perfect editing technique, the five time-spaces are smoothly edited together, and the information is continuously transmitted. Way to attract the audience. For example, when attending a mother’s funeral, the camera suddenly turned to sister Ai Li Silk tombstone. Then began to connect his relationship with his sister. The use of this technique sets a point of view that attracts the audience, allowing the audience to watch it full of doubts and speculations. In order to distinguish the five different time and space, the director used different shooting techniques. When shooting childhood memories, he used highly saturated images to express the beauty of childhood. When shooting Thomas’s old age, he deliberately took the image processing There are gray and dark tones, this way to express the boredom of the elderly Thomas, when filming Thomas's fantasy detective Toto, the director adopted the filming technique of noir film, which is both fantasy and personal characteristics. When the director uses a first-person perspective to narrate the story and use a lot of details to pave the character’s feelings, we will inevitably be immersed in the characters’ emotions unconsciously. A violent vibration indicates that a major event is about to happen, and then Thomas and the audience's heart also undergoes a strong vibration. But the director is not limited to immersing the audience in a certain emotion, but through the effect of sound and picture counterpoint to make the audience have different emotions in different time and space. For example, when Thomas receives a call from his mother's passing away, the background sound First came the laughter in Thomas' work environment, then the sad background music overwhelmed the background sound, and then the picture of his mother's coffin was connected. The director deliberately lengthened the protagonist's way of thinking about sensationalism, so that the audience can think along with the characters, feel the emotions of the characters and resonate with them, so as to achieve the purpose of making the audience empathize. As a debut work, "Little Hero Toto" can be described as very successful. While the director fully demonstrated his mature director skills in the film, he also discussed childishly such as sexual enlightenment, the influence of spiritual imagination on real memory, etc. More profound issues. This unique personal style captured the hearts of batch after batch of audiences, won many awards at the European Film Festival that year, and also made the director a hit. When the details are used to pave the character’s feelings, we will inevitably be immersed in the character’s emotions unconsciously. For example, on the night of the father’s plane crash, in Thomas’ mind, the house vibrated violently, indicating that a major event would happen soon. The hearts of Thomas and the audience also vibrated strongly. But the director is not limited to immersing the audience in a certain emotion, but through the effect of sound and picture counterpoint to make the audience have different emotions in different time and space. For example, when Thomas receives a call from his mother's passing away, the background sound First came the laughter in Thomas' work environment, then the sad background music overwhelmed the background sound, and then the picture of his mother's coffin was connected. The director deliberately lengthened the protagonist's way of thinking about sensationalism, so that the audience can think along with the characters, feel the emotions of the characters and resonate with them, so as to achieve the purpose of making the audience empathize. As a debut work, "Little Hero Toto" can be described as very successful. While the director fully demonstrated his mature director skills in the film, he also discussed childishly such as sexual enlightenment, the influence of spiritual imagination on real memory, etc. More profound issues. This unique personal style captured the hearts of batch after batch of audiences, won many awards at the European Film Festival that year, and also made the director a hit. When the details are used to pave the character’s feelings, we will inevitably be immersed in the character’s emotions unconsciously. For example, on the night of the father’s plane crash, in Thomas’ mind, the house vibrated violently, indicating that a major event would happen soon. The hearts of Thomas and the audience also vibrated strongly. But the director is not limited to immersing the audience in a certain emotion, but through the effect of sound and picture counterpoint to make the audience have different emotions in different time and space. For example, when Thomas receives a call from his mother's passing away, the background sound First came the laughter in Thomas' work environment, then the sad background music overwhelmed the background sound, and then the picture of his mother's coffin was connected. The director deliberately lengthened the protagonist's way of thinking about sensationalism, so that the audience can think along with the characters, feel the emotions of the characters and resonate with them, so as to achieve the purpose of making the audience empathize. As a debut work, "Little Hero Toto" can be described as very successful. While the director fully demonstrated his mature director skills in the film, he also discussed childishly such as sexual enlightenment, the influence of spiritual imagination on real memory, etc. More profound issues. This unique personal style captured the hearts of batch after batch of audiences, won many awards at the European Film Festival that year, and also made the director a hit.
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