For the first time, I rushed back to the dead line at 10:30, and at the same time realized the miracle of watching the most boring movie of the year without falling asleep. Faced with the top three international boring movies of the year in the movie manual, although it is still not much. Understand, but insist on understanding, it is worthy of encouragement and encouragement.
Zama tells the story of the exiles trapped in the colony. The story is very simple. The protagonist Zama is a magistrate who is loyal to the Spanish Empire. He serves in Paraguay and hopes to be transferred to Buenos Aires to reunite with his wife and children. So he applied for a transfer to his superiors and started a career. A long and hopeless wait in the field.
The film is built on a fable: "There is a fish that is repelled by the river, and it has to keep getting close to the river, because if it leaves, it will die." The fable is used to command the whole film, connect and establish the integrity of the image. Zama survived in such a complex and contradictory situation, with extremely simple texts and vague and fabulous expressions. The whole film innovates a concept of so-called "organic image", which looks like disordered shots in the clouds and mist. All meanings are given meanings by subsequent shots. The whole film uses a kind of overthrow, regrouping, In the transformation and mutation, an organic move is carried out to bring the audience into the audience. Naturally, organic is relative to inorganic and relative to inanimate entities. Then the organic image is obviously an image that is brought into the human body and recognizes the experience of the body.
There are no moving shots in the whole film, and the perspective composition returns the picture to the audience. The audience is given a kind of human consciousness. What awakens is a kind of scenery viewing, and the sound is presented to Zama, amplifying Zama’s conscious voice. To oppress and frame the audience, the trapped perception uses sound and lens to present a continuation of time, a kind of organic right suppression. It is Zama and the audience themselves that are suppressed.
A colonist is a rule-based rebel, using delayed and stagnant civilizational laws to destroy the laws of nature (the colonized ones), but they are ruined by the rules, thus presenting a dilemma. Zama cannot establish his role as a civilized man and a colonizer. Treating indigenous people from a voyeuristic perspective rather than a way of suppressing power will trigger violent acts of power because of the shame of civilized people. The colors also have meanings. For example, the colonists used bright colors to express their rights, and they were finally suppressed by the brightly colored Indians. There is also a green ending. I have not analyzed many details carefully. I have skipped it and talked about it when I have time. .
"Space is like a body, accumulating memories. If the film's processing of space is based on diachronic time, accumulating memories in the torrent of time, it is possible to "feel" the characters and places we once "feeled" in the external world. And events move into our internal world, and thus meet our previous life experience again."
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