I watched a circle of film reviews and found that they were basically based on the overall reviews, and there was no analysis of light, shadow and lens. I'll just write down the elements I thought of. If there is any objection, it may be that I made a mistake hahahahahaha
1⃣️The story of Sima Guang: In the story told by A Hao, Sima Guang is a ghost. On the one hand, it refers to the ghost in the game, and on the other hand, it refers to A Hao after his death. Under this premise, there are two explanations
Conjecture 1: A Hao himself is alive in the tank. Ahao's death freed herself from the unreal perfect imprisonment, and let people know that there was a dark Ahao hidden in this tank that was never known. The character Ahao shows extreme sunshine from his behavior, but his setting was originally gloomy. He has failed and is under great pressure to repeat his studies. His family has high expectations, family conditions are not good, and his parents’ work is not considered decent, brother. He often commits crimes, and he has the pressure to support his family. The environment he was in was gloomy. But people are always easy to be misled by his external sunlight and ignore the dark side behind him.
Conjecture 2: The younger brother Ahe is in the tank. Before the elder brother committed suicide, the image of the characters seen by the audience was that the elder brother was flawless, and the younger brother had no merits. But from Ahao’s message, it can be seen that the film believes that darkness and sunlight are interdependent, and it is impossible for characters with one-sided temperaments to exist. After the death of the elder brother, the characters and the story had a turning point. This suicide was the only dark side that the elder brother showed, and the younger brother also showed positive images of love and kindness when talking for the first time. Therefore, the death of my brother corresponds to the breaking of the tank in the story, and the darkness and sunlight can appear at the same time, making each of them a complete and real individual. It can also be understood that the death of the elder brother has awakened the good side of the younger brother, and the characteristics of the two merged in the living younger brother to form a relatively conserved whole. (I now think this explanation can be extended. Ahao's death saved not only his brother, but also his other family members.)
(I have rethought this part in recent days. The story of Sima Guang is seen from a small point of view, and it is almost the core point of the whole movie. As long as it is a person, anyone's inner world can't help being sanctioned by external moral standards. This part is missing. Light, to a certain extent, is a good thing. People hide the id in the tank, protect the most primitive self, suppress the id with self, and pursue the superego. The director said that sunshine is not only a representative of absolute fairness, but also beliefs. The meaning of. The superego is everyone’s personal belief, and the world’s sunshine is everyone’s belief. Even if people are in the unsolvable dilemma of life, the endless darkness of the great environment, they are willing to believe that the sun is shining, so they continue to live. Professor Su Mu said on Weibo that the Sima Guang in "The Sunshine" is the elephant in "Elephant Sitting on the Floor", "Elephants are everywhere, and we have nowhere to escape." This sentence made me feel for a moment. There is a little divine initiation.)
2⃣️The relative conservation of yin and yang
"The fairest thing in this world is the sun. Regardless of the latitude, the day and the dark are half of the time in each place throughout the year." The conserved meaning of this sentence runs through the entire film.
1. The yin and yang of a typical character are relatively conserved. Such as elder brother, younger brother, father, Caitou, all have duality in their characters;
2. The development of the entire event is relatively conserved. It is embodied in the sunlight of one person to be exchanged for the darkness of another person to restrict the balance. For example, when the younger brother is living well, Caitou is in jail because he helps him get ahead, what needs attention for his younger brother is that the shining brother disappears first, and the younger brother runs to gain freedom because his father killed Caitou and so on.
3. "The sun was so big that all the animals could not stand it. They all tried to find a shadow to hide." People may be able to live in the gutter and hide, but they can't all live in the sun, Caitou and Ahao The story contrast is the most obvious proof.
3⃣️green
Large areas of green often appear in movie screens. Green symbolizes vitality. I have roughly three kinds of emotions.
1. Vegetation: Trees and lawns appear in large numbers in the movie, and they have the same meaning as sunlight. But leaves can also make shadows, and the contrast between light and dark shadows on the ground
2. Green wall: The combined plot is the first time Ahhe has shown good quality, showing his love for his brother. Green is the embodiment of the vitality of this character. But the vegetation has life, but the wall does not. This green wall makes people feel that freedom is imprisoned, unwilling to the status quo, and a bit weird. Probably this is how my words are poor?
3. Playground: Ah rushed to the playground to vent like crazy. For a moment, it was like running to freedom. The playground is full of green artificial grass, which is vast and free from a distance, but in fact it is a man-made illusion. He was taken back and put in confinement.
4⃣️Light and shadow language
The strong light in the lens is mostly used to reflect the contrast: sunlight and darkness. It also has the function of foreshadowing and explaining the plot.
1. Lightning: Appeared for the first time on the way Ah He escaped to a Bentley, a strong light made people feel that Ah He's life was dawning, and it seemed that he would be able to get rid of the dark activities forever. The second time he appeared when his father hit Caitou, and the strong light of lightning illuminated Caitou's face when he dragged the corpse. This was a rare highlight moment for him. He chose to get out of the car and smoke. But because of this, he was killed. The first time the lightning is a sign, the second time is an analysis, and the two occurrences also coincide with the timeline of the event.
2. From the dark to the bright: heralding a turning point for the story to become better.
3. From the light to the dark: heralding a turning point of deterioration, the red light here is Ah He's dangerous nervousness when he is about to face Caitou
4. Backlight: The sun is shining all over the world, but one person is invisible in the dark and bears all the suffering
5⃣️Soul
This is my guess. This cloud-like thing (the comments have pointed out that it is a flock of birds) flew over the hills when mom and dad embraced and wept. It should be a metaphor for Ahao’s soul. His ashes are in this forest. , Yun Piaoyuan is like he left after listening to his father's confession
6⃣️Empty lens
The empty shots of this scene appeared twice, the first time when dark clouds floated from left to right, blocking the entire sun. The second time, the clouds drifted to the left in the opposite direction.
The first time he appeared after Ah He went in and before Ah Hao committed suicide. In the previous character image, only Ahao can have the metaphor of the sun. In this scene, after the sun is blocked, the plot immediately follows Ahao's suicide. Everything changed badly after that.
The second time he appeared after Caitou stood smoking a cigarette by the side of the road, and before Ahhe was selling drugs. Because Caitou was facing death, the dark clouds fluttered in the opposite direction, indicating that the family's life was picking up, but the sun still did not appear. At this time, the audience didn't know that Caitou was dead. After the empty shot, Ahe was selling drugs. Through this drug trafficking, he accidentally got a large amount of reward and freedom. He ran on the road as if everything had improved. The big sun that did not appear in the empty lens appeared when Dad confessed to the murder process, he became the sun of the family, bearing all the darkness on his back. Only then will the audience know why the turning point of the second empty shot is at the moment when Caitou smokes.
7⃣️ Did dad go to jail in the end?
By the end of the movie, I didn’t enter, because my mother said that Dad was going to send the book to the recycling factory tonight. But whether Dad will go to jail in the future, and whether Ahe will be arrested after being photographed by surveillance depends on your own thoughts.
8⃣️Shadow
The predecessors of Ah Hao's suicide went farther and farther, but the shadow grew bigger and closer, and this scene appeared almost exactly the same in Diao Yinan's "The Party at Southern Station". What is the effect to be achieved by this kind of lens and what is the significance? I also want to know?
(There are already many answers in the comments, and you can find a more reasonable explanation in them. But most people in the comments think that Ahao’s death was to have a dark place to shelter himself, and I don’t rule out that his suicide was for the sake of sheltering himself. Seek self-protection, but is it possible for his family to consider it? Xu Guanghan said in the interview that the character Ahao always conceives for others, but he doesn’t know how to conceive for himself. Just like what I said in the first part Before his death, his younger brother caused trouble everywhere. His mother didn’t care what everyone was doing every day in the family. His father directly denied the second son. The last time he looked at his younger brother in prison, he was almost incredibly desperate, so I personally feel that he Suicide may also be what he thinks is a way to save his family.)
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