Terrence Malick is a relatively controversial director in recent years. The evaluation of his works is mixed, and a few of them can be praised without hesitation. He uses various advanced professional analysis and deconstruction to improve the audience's perception aesthetics. And the level of appreciation, most people who don’t buy it can also come up with a hundred reasons to criticize. The complaints mainly focus on the form far greater than the content. From "The Tree of Life" to "Knight of the Holy Grail", the themes seem to be very grand, obscure and difficult. It is difficult and profound, and I want to express it at a high level through an overhead formalized narrative technique, giving people a feeling of confusion and emptiness like seeing flowers in a fog, and it is difficult to find out the way and meaning. A tall, unmatched feeling.
Malick has become more and more like a wild horse in recent years, and he simply let go of his hands and patted. The traditional director with a top-notch style has formed a unique system and lens language of Malik, like an inexplicable and profound thing that is completely incomprehensible. The outer packaging will beautify it. It can be said that watching Malik’s works that focus on consciousness and blurring in recent years in the cinema will improve the sensory experience by more than one grade. After all, the beautiful photography and the beautiful soundtrack have been maintained at a high The level of the position, at least less dozing.
The new work "Journey of Time" proves that Malick's style is more suitable for documentaries than movies. And show, magnificent and exquisite photography, solemn and ethereal moving soundtrack, like a choir singing in a low voice, with a certain sense of sacredness, you can hear the accompaniment of the pipe organ, and some opera elements, I think of Prius a bit. In the film field, the plot that is generally difficult to shake the main position can be reasonably lowered in the documentary, or even completely abandoned, and Malick seems to have found a balance between the audience and the implementation of self-ideas in the film field. That is to rely on the extravagant lineup of actors to attract attention (a bit of a cure for the symptoms but not the root cause, obviously still not very pleasing), and in this film, Malick finally has no worries and can enjoy a very "self" performance.
Just looking at the title of the film shows that it is a very grand and broad theme. For such themes about the universe, time and space, they are generally subdivided into episodes to provide the audience with extensive dry goods and expand their knowledge. The role of face-to-face and answering questions, of course, when it comes to Malick, it is impossible to express his opinions and ideas as professionally and concretely as Hawking. He still has to rely on photography and soundtrack. Thinking, from eruption to passage, from seabed to land, from glaciers to lava, from nebula to planet, from existence to contradiction... Social appearance), realistic special effects and simulation restoration of CG technology (a bit distorted), there is no doubt about the visual enjoyment, in the random switching and transformation, Malik once again wants to show the breadth and depth of time in the form of fragmented stream of consciousness.
Time, explained in the dictionary as: an objective form of material existence, a continuous system composed of past, present, and future. It is the manifestation of the movement of matter, the continuity of change, and the sequence. In my opinion, time can also be regarded as creation, birth, change until destruction (objective things), and many people feel that Malick still uses very superficial and vague concepts to express this grand theme in the same old tune , like a dynamic image that brings together countless high-quality photographic works, as empty and ethereal as ever, but in fact, in just 90 minutes, Malick subtly elongated the dimension of time, which can also be said to condense more essence. The components and levels of (audio-visual effects) are switched between different spaces, environments, experiences, phenomena, etc., and the meaning of time is properly interpreted in the fast-changing, survival performance and star-shifting of everything in the world.
Time, as an abstract concept, more requires the audience to experience and feel through the existence and changes of objective things, just like how we prove the existence of the past, with clues and information that are closely linked or mutually causal, For example, identity, memory, objective transformation, etc. Similarly, you can extract fragments from the film and then splicing them reasonably, you will find the relationship and logic, sperm and fertilized eggs, the heartbeat of the baby in the womb, the playfulness of childhood and Play, grow up and get married, different regions and cultures, the formation of civilization and the division of classes, the emergence of contradictions and struggles, from relying on natural resources to high-rise buildings rising from the ground, magnificent and meaningful deep space to The amazing workmanship of nature, the survival instincts and activity changes of various species, the survival of the fittest, all come into view.
Just like the Russian nesting dolls, individuals to groups, ancient times to modern times, society to the universe, experience the greatness and magic of time in a series of dynamic transformations and evolutionary leaps, and repay with awe, in the vast and boundless universe, time's dynamism. In the flowing and powerful nature, you will realize your own insignificance, treat life humbly, and learn to cherish everything. It's a pity that I still fell asleep when I saw it halfway through. Even though Malick used all kinds of techniques and sophistication to perfect his creative ideas and goals, from the overall form and performance, it seems that the imagination is still a bit complacent. , What's more, for friends who can only watch while sitting in front of the computer, the audio-visual aspect will definitely be greatly reduced, and the advantage will be weakened by half.
These wonderful pictures can be said to be the main driving force for promoting the interest of watching movies. The average audience will not have the time to dig out the deep meaning or understand the high-level shooting methods of Malik, but will follow the general viewing habits of "no expense". The most intuitive and effective amount of information conveyed by the accepting picture of "brain de-thinking", so for many people, this documentary and exploration and discovery approaching science, revealing the origin and development or deciphering nature are not too big. The difference is that the word "Discovery" or "NG" is missing in the upper left corner. It does not bring more refreshing highlights. The biggest feeling of the whole is beauty. Beauty is drowsy, until some aesthetic fatigue.
The free impressionism completely overturned the traditional painting mode of the classical (academic) school. The new wave generation of filmmakers headed by Godard refreshed and reformed the audiovisual language and shooting techniques of the film. The integration and assistance stimulate the audience's sensory experience in every possible way, but after a moment of pleasure or getting tired, you will find that you are almost still standing still. The probability of seeing a classic in a year is getting lower and lower, and documentaries that have always followed the tradition and played a routine are becoming increasingly marginalized and niche. Malick has taken a regular time trip in the universe. Although he is drowsy, there are also some beautiful and amazing moments.
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