Artificial Survival in Wilderness and Scorched Land

Arturo 2022-01-19 08:02:12

Watching her movie for the first time, jot down a few pens. (For the first time, I made a lot of mistakes, thanks to the private reminder from Douyou juliette)

1. The lens is very stylish.
Hand-held photography, the camera moves with the movement of the characters, and when shooting characters and actions, there are many close-ups and even close-ups, and the big screen looks very dazzling. Although the shaking is disturbing, the close-up makes people see the expressions and movements of the characters more clearly, but it is strange that the movement inside the movie is very intense, but the rhythm is very slow. I feel that I can't clearly see the inside of the character, and I feel very lonely. It seems that the emotional release of these forgotten soldiers can only be released through endless training and physical overdraft. There are particularly long paragraphs that fully express their training. It is very real, and the presentation of the camera is also the most intense.


2. The composition is
far and vast ocean and blue sky, barren and single land, if it is a panoramic shot of a distant view, the character only occupies a very small part. As for the corners of the picture frame, the foreground is a large area of ​​coarse-grained land. Regular composition, a large number of such compositions.

3. The wind all the time.

4. The sculptural male body of ancient Greece, the silhouette of the figure under the side light and backlight, is really beautiful.

5. The current time is static, while the time in the lieutenant's memory is flowing. Flashbacks continue.

6. The scene I like very much. The long shot slowly passes from a distance to a sea of ​​salt that gradually changes from blue to transparent, from far to near, slowly pulling to the white salt beach, and the distance is on the seashore. Santin, lost in the desert, was drinking salt water because he was thirsty. In the next shot, cut to the middle shot, he was lying on the white salt-alkali beach with cracks everywhere, with a layer of white salt on his dark skin, he pulled the backpack to his head and wanted to block it. A scorching sun. He is dying.
When the camera was taken again, a broken compass was covered with salt (galoup framed Santin and gave him a bad compass, and Santin got lost in the desert, and his strong desire to survive made him have to drink salt water).

And the sheep's head that was corroded by salt.


7. Showcase of scenes of indigenous people in Africa
They began to live next to a human-traveled city, then moved to a wasteland, and finally reappeared. I feel that part of the daily life in Africa is about the environment. The environment they cannot escape from is very harsh and the people are very poor, but No matter how dirty or tired, this group of soldiers will still wash their uniforms and keep them in a different state from their surroundings. The director took the trouble to use the camera to view the clothes and underwear hanging in their car, as well as the scenes of the soldiers ironing their clothes.

8. Empty shots of three active volcanoes in the sea.

9. In ritualized movements, the soldiers form a circle for training. The movements are very dance-like, very powerful and a cohesive sense of dance.

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Extended Reading
  • Carter 2022-04-19 09:02:44

    ❤ Movies are the charm of sight and sound, and the charm of images has surpassed the story and shines. I don't care if the emotion is out of balance or just unrequited love, Clairdney's shots are always calm, like Bresson's solemnity, and the narration is the only way to tell. Military life is like the skeleton of the image that binds the film together. The specific image space of the bar is the only way to pour out desire in the film, and Denilawang's solo dance at the end of the film pours out this loneliness and longing for the audience.

  • Darien 2022-04-19 09:02:44

    Denis used the image form of artistic photography + dance to deal with a proposition similar to "Full Metal Jacket". A French East African Legion without an enemy finally turned itself into an enemy. Is it just love or the distorted desire to win between people under the legion system? In particular, Denis Lavant's unsmiling lieutenant was consistent in his punitive measures against black soldiers who slipped away to attend a local prayer service on guard. The only question that is more ambiguous is whether it is the problem of the DL character or the inherent absurdity of the Overseas Legion itself, which becomes even more ambiguous in the shaping of the protagonist and the black girlfriend. This is a very good execution of the de-event and even counter-narrative ideas, such as the red water surface of the crash and the wreckage. The funeral ceremony perfectly avoids the only event in the whole film, and a lot of daily training and laundry ironing are used as the backbone of the film by the opera. to form the absurdity of high-form empty content. Many fake eyeliner clips are humorous, but at the same time, the topless male soldiers of the locals who are backgrounded in the film become their multiple staring backlash. The last solo dance and Liao Fan Bai Riyan

Beau travail quotes

  • Commander Bruno Forestier: [subtitled version]

    [in Russian]

    Commander Bruno Forestier: Why did you join the Legion?

    Legionnaire: [in Russian] Commandant, you know what it's like in Russia. No money, no work. I was in the army there for two years. I fought for Russia. But it's impossible to fight just for an ideal. An ideal that just keeps changing. You know what I mean?

    Commander Bruno Forestier: [in Russian] What ideal?

  • Galoup: [subtitled version] Maybe freedom begins with remorse. Maybe freedom begins with remorse. I heard that somewhere.