This is the first Hong Sangxiu movie I watched, and it is also my favorite one at the moment. I suddenly thought of this after listening to mla's songs the past few days.
The structure of the story is already very delicate. As we all know, Hong Sang-soo is a director who likes to play with the structure of movies. Make a fuss about the subtle feelings of a married director and a girl named Jingxi, two repeated times, through similar scenes but different shot scheduling, dialogues to show the theme of "this time is right, then wrong" . Compared with the highly conceptual and highly-conceptual genre films like "Lola Run", Hong Sang-soo is better at incorporating structure into the film, "turning the visible into the invisible", making people hardly feel the artificial feeling of the film. .
Hong's photography is almost always based on the principle of "efficiency, no dazzling skills", and a set of push-pull lenses runs through almost all of his works. His lens is always like a very rational observer, approaching and stepping back at the right moment to capture the subtle changes of the characters. But there is one scene in this film that strikes me as very subtle,
Very ingenious design, Jingxi in the first shot is "small and easy to get", and the second time clearly conveys the change of the director's feelings, paving the way for the film. Subtle and powerful.
The dialogues of characters in Hong's films always give people a sense of "embarrassment", not only from the characters' aphasia for a few seconds because they have nothing to say, but also from the emotions that the characters can never resonate. Jingxi is a typical "literary and artistic youth". She gave up her career as a model with a monthly income of over 10,000 yuan to pursue her favorite art. She longs for ideals and desires to burn the passion of life, but there are few people who can understand her, and people flatter her. She is after all because of her beauty, "she looks beautiful when drunk", so she always admires the director and hopes that the other person will become her confidant. She should not be interested in eroticism, just as she Said, "If you want to relax, why don't you just find a man?" Back to the film itself, at first the director approached Jingxi in a flattering way, making Jingxi extremely uncomfortable, and finally found that the director was talking to his friends Starting with a woman, getting married, and disgusting Jingxi, who already has a mental cleanliness, he eventually broke up unhappily. The second time the director opened his heart to face her, he did not hesitate to criticize her paintings, and even directly said that he loved her and gave her a ring, but the result was still the same. Because the director has always approached Jingxi with a desire for eroticism, his artistic evaluation of Jingxi is more of a kind of charity to get her, what is right and wrong at this time, just change the way . The first time the commercial touts are obvious and very casual, the second time the director seems to be sincere in evaluating her paintings, but when Kyung Hee gets angry, he walks away. In addition to the so-called gentleman's demeanor, it's more because I don't care. Why should I, a big director, quarrel with a little girl with zero artistic attainments? I just want to get close to you. Various discords made the director see the truth, and eventually the two parted ways.
Hong Sang-soo's film is most appropriate to use a sentence I have seen to evaluate the mla: write first-world hypocrisy with a heart that should worry about the suffering of the third world. The wisps of love and sorrow conveyed by urban men and women between eating, drinking and drinking will always be the theme of Hong’s films. The empty and lonely literary men and women hope to keep warm by hugging each other, but they think that after seeing human nature clearly, they regret it. Let alone worry,
"The electric scroll is galloping, from now on, get on the bus separately"
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