In 1983, Francis Ford Coppola, director of the "Godfather" trilogy and "Apocalypse Now," made this film with strong emotional and artistic appeal. In my opinion, the plot of the film may be a little mediocre, but it has achieved some success in the stylization of technology. Next, this article will conduct some simple analysis on the technology in "Betta Fish".
The first is about the plot setting. Also about the anger of teenagers in their rebellious period, this film is easily reminiscent of the "Rebel Without a Cause" directed by Nicholas Ray. It's just that in Douyu, some of the qualities of James Dean's character are split between the two leading men: Matt Dillon's character represents optimism and unending rage, Mickey Locke's character represents the sad and sane side. Some of the plots in "Rebel Without a Cause" may have seemed very natural to the audience at the time, but in today's eyes they are inevitably exaggerated and outdated; but "Betta" still looks very avant-garde even now, Full of unpredictable plot twists; after the male lead was stabbed shortly after the movie started, I always suspected that he would fall like Andy Lau in "Tian Ruoyou Qing", such doubts in the male lead's The blow to the head (the movie even shows the out-of-body feeling in a series of flirtatious shots) culminates. So when I finally saw the actor's brother fall, I was rather shocked - we didn't even see how he fell, just heard a gunshot, and then went with the actor experienced such a sudden change. Mickey Rourke's character reminds me of the idealistic mob boss honey in the "Guling Street Teenage Murders", and he steers the theme of the whole film to something similar to Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets". "In that direction, unfortunately, the film's discussion of society is only superficial.
Compared with the plot setting, the film's audio-visual effects are more prominent: the soundtrack is very psychedelic, and the photography uses a lot of close-ups and close-ups. Conveys a sense of restlessness and restlessness. In many scenes, the characters are speaking directly into our ears as if they are into the microphone, while the background sound is chaotic and noisy and seems to be placed in an empty room. Everything is like a dream or someone's ravings.
The processing of black and white images not only echoes the setting that the second male is colorblind, but also brings out the vivid colors of Douyu.
Later, the male protagonist angrily knocked on the glass of the police car at the end, and his face reflected in the window was distorted. At that moment, the picture we saw was also colored:
Correspondingly, the red siren was also colored for a moment, as bright as blood and like the sunset:
This is alluding to the similarity between the male protagonist and the fighting fish: the fighting fish will fight to the death as soon as they meet, and only separating them can prevent this from happening. The clapboard in a fish tank, both in its nature and in appearance, is reminiscent of a prison cell.
But why do people become fighting fish? It's probably because they almost never get love and don't know the right thing to do. The male protagonist finally sees the sea, and I don't know if he has found inner peace and freedom. But what if you find it? As expressed by Xie Fei's "Ben Ming Nian", such things have happened before and will continue to happen in the future.
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