an occasional tinge of nostalgia

The French director's tribute to Hollywood silent films, the narrative is smooth, but the feeling is very shocking... The story structure is very simple, and the love between the hero and heroine is also a Hollywood cliché, but this is the director's tribute to Hollywood movies. The first half of the film basically uses silent films The way it is handled, the silent film of the play within the play, is full of nostalgia... After death, the male protagonist begins to walk downhill, all the stairs are pacing down, and eventually drown in the sand and stone, while the female protagonist is always climbing , even if he went to the hospital to see the hero who was injured by the fire, he ran up the stairs, so the two people had a dislocation of status. However, the fates of the two people were closely linked, such as the transitional fusion, both of them were shaking their feet, You have me, I have you... The director's composition is very particular. The silent film emphasizes the sense of the picture, and the actors' performances are also infinitely magnified. The director uses black and white to reverse the color. It can be seen that he has put a lot of effort into studying silent films. The characteristics, the use of a lot of mirrors to refract the mood of the actors, especially the mirrored scene where the wine is poured on the table, shows the subversion of the hero's world... Jing Bie basically chose the middle and near special, which is in line with the convention of Hollywood romance films, the ending The "bang" processing that turns a corner is also an old Hollywood trick. Everything looks so new, because a lot of depth of field processing and fresh pictures cannot be repaired, but it is so nostalgic, it is inevitable that there are A trace of melancholy... The final tap dance is very exciting. It is the crystallization of the two people's hard work. It echoes the scene when the two men met at the beginning of the play. Unfortunately, this dance is more about showing off skills and directly promoting the narrative. The effect, but it is inevitably a bit far-fetched... The director put a lot of thought into the soundtrack of the film, each piece is a fragment of a classic movie, if the soundtrack of a silent film is not a strong point, then the soundtrack of this film itself is enough to make the movie leap to the next level... ...the director himself also exudes nostalgia. There are many parodies in the movie that pay homage to silent films, such as Singing in the Rain, Zorro, etc., and the audience is not only fascinated by it ... The puppy's performance is really moving, maybe it's better than Oscar's The male protagonist... The film recalls the era of silent films-sound films, after the appearance of sound films, many critics declared that the film was dead, that the film no longer held its own charm, and could not compare with the stage play, because the selling point of the film It's performances, not lines. It's like Chaplin and other stars who drowned in the flood. However, the wheel of history has never stopped. Soon sound films replaced silent films, and then color films replaced black and white films. However, in the era of silent films. It has its unique beauty, but unfortunately it cannot resist the evolution of history... In the end, the director's solution for the male protagonist is a musical film, which is of course an optimistic conjecture and the director's inner sympathy. In fact, the beauty of silent films.Good has been forgotten, and this nostalgia is also an occasional emotion...

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