Looking at the propaganda poster of "Clover Archives", the Statue of Liberty was once again miserably in a different place. The first feeling is that another reprint of "Godzilla" is coming, and it is more magnificent and stalwart than a high-rise building. The big monsters run across the streets of New York, and the streets are broken and ruined. People are panicked and run for their lives. Occasionally, I made an assertion: another disaster film with nothing new is continuing.
After watching the movie for more than an hour, I knew that my judgment needed to be seriously revised. Although it was still a few centimeters away from the classics, the film’s consistent first-person perspective was indeed amazing. It is undeniable. The film has become a unique alternative visual film in the diverse and complex system of FILM.
"Ke" did not use much heavy pen and ink to express people's true feelings and heroic behavior in the catastrophe, or to be related to heavy topics such as environmental protection and peace. Even the big monsters that attract the eye only enjoy or understand. Or dark non-standard close-up treatment. The film went the other way, in a unique way, using the camera lens of a portable DV machine to show 100% of the film. This is easy to recall the ultra-low-cost ghost film "Blair the Witch" a few years ago, and it was also a DV that finished the whole movie, which took hundreds of millions of box offices around the world in a dark horse posture. Starting from this point, "The Clover Archives" It is just an urban version of the "witch", but the charm of "Ke" comes from the fact that it is clearly deliberately used Hollywood film production technology to "make" this DV-style technical effect, and hold this camera in the film. What the young people saw, heard, and thought in the night of horror in the New York metropolis by the monsters are presented in full, as if an amateur reporter led the audience to watch a live broadcast of TV news, breathing and exclaiming from time to time, The scene changes frequently, the panic expressions and body language of the crowd, the giant creature with grinning teeth, and the flexible little monsters that it obviously did not follow the principle of family planning, and even due to the improper operation of the photographer, the scene switched to the past. The fallacy of storing the lens all shows the real sense of the scene without adding water. It is worth mentioning that the producer deliberately interspersed and played back the sweet scenes of couples dating in the DV machine, forming a strong contrast between the apocalyptic scenes of monsters in the real world and the good times of the past, creatively creating a drop effect, and even more so It makes people sigh and sigh.
Fans with a little movie-watching experience should not be difficult to draw the following conclusions: Although the beginning and end of the film are made with video tape-like blanks, the wrong operation of the photographer is used in the film from time to time to intersperse and replay the original dating of the couple in the DV machine. The sweet picture of the film, deliberately made a "archive" documentary effect, but as the original intention of the filmmaker, from the beginning, there was no intention to fool the audience. When the film was released in theaters, the filmmakers at the other end and this film The end of the movie audience has already tacitly agreed, the audience has positioned this film as an entertainment film with the theme of disaster south, and the film has a box office of 41 million US dollars in three days on the weekend, breaking the record of the highest box office in North America for the weekend in January. This alone suffices to show that the experimental "Clover Archives" has gained wider market acceptance and can be regarded as a fairly successful commercial production.
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