The first time I watched "The Loop", I watched it for 20 minutes and then closed it. Not only did I feel that the picture quality was rough, the story pace was extremely slow, and even the shooting techniques felt amateurish.
A few years later, I re-downloaded the Blu-ray version. After this review, the first shot of it captured me firmly, with restrained and calm shooting techniques, low-contrast images full of noise, and asymmetric distortions. In the composition, all the "roughness" is so delicate; the plot is nearly 120 minutes long, and I don't feel procrastination at all. —— Maybe the mood is different at this time, and I can better understand the downright loneliness and suffocation that this movie brings to people.
The lens language of "The Loop" is in the same line as "X Shengji", which enhances the sense of depth between the characters and the environment, and uses a long-lived documentary lens to record everything quietly; in the film world created by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, people Often, it is not the key point, but the environment; his pictures will use various surrounding environments to block the lens, all of which give people a sense of emptiness and indistinctness. Empty ruins, lifeless empty houses, sparsely populated factories... These ruins that cover the symbols of industrialization are the holy places for Kurosawa Kiyoshi's love. A living life is like a walking body in these lifeless environments, and it is close to death at any time - just like when Mizhi was on the phone, the person who appeared behind her slowly climbed the roof, and jumped calmly. And down.
If a work needs to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the story must be engraved with the background of the times that makes people feel empathetic. "The Loop" has produced a forward-looking social fable - not long ago, Japan's popular "missing people" and "Hermitory people" have entered one after another. People's eyes, behind Japan's seemingly developed industrial society, hides the reality of frequent depression, suicide rate, and divorce rate. All young people are escaping from reality, fighting loneliness, and staying at home with the world. Isolation, choosing to live with a computer until death, and I don't know when it will turn into a shadow, permeating the wall forever and disappearing into the world.
Why are people so lonely in the real world?
Keigo Higashino wrote: In fact, everyone is looking for their own doppelganger, and because they can't find it, everyone is lonely.
But what if you found it?
Too close and you die, too far and you get closer.
Approaching the dark house in the movie, pushing open the door, you can see the ghost, that is the avatar; everyone is curious, trying to get close to see its face, it turns out that the avatar is nothing else , that's just the real self - its eyes have no signs of life, no motivation to live, and it wanders on the edge of society. After seeing it clearly, he was unwilling to admit and accept such a self, so he chose to seal the door with tape forever. But when I return to the real world, I will miss it again, I want to get close to it again, and even merge with it. It seems that it has been floating in the real world for a long time, and darkness is the final destination.
When one person around you begins to disappear, you feel uneasy; when the second person disappears, you begin to have fear, and when friends around you disappear one after another, this fear continues to spread, you don’t know how to control it, and the sense of oppression is overwhelming You start to break down, and when the person you love the most, or your best friend finally disappears, you know that death is the ultimate release, and resistance will only be pale and powerless.
A person is slowly getting tired of the real world he lives in, so he chooses to gradually distance himself from this world and create his own forbidden secret room to survive, enjoy the darkness, and be alone with loneliness. Then one day, the real world is really only him. An individual, walking out of the darkness, discovers that the world under the sun is bigger and broader, but surrounded by endless loneliness, where is the meaning of life? Even if you escape to the sea, there is no way out. Compared with a huge ship, a person is so small. Compared with the vast sea, what is a ship? Compared with the vast cosmic galaxy? Just like the infinite recursive picture that the protagonist sees on the disk in the movie, there is no end to everything.
When I was a child, I watched Doraemon a lot, and often had a dream at night: "There is a mirror world, only we and our best friends know about it. When we are tired of reality, we can run in through any door, there are no parents and teachers there. There are no social rules, but there are still familiar shops, playgrounds, everything alive, but no one; we eat, drink and have fun there, play enough, and then come back to reality”, the best childhood Fantasy is the hope that one day this "eschatological complex" will become a reality.
Now when the pressure is high, I often have a dream: "Everyone in the world has disappeared, leaving only myself and the people I love most, but there is always something chasing us and wanting to kill us, we have to stop Stop running, I can't see its face, I don't know what it is, finally, we escaped to the end of the world, but we still haven't escaped it, it held me down, I saw it clearly for the first time. The face, saw its eyes clearly - at this time, I woke up from the dream, the empty house, the faint noise outside the window, the reminder sound from the mobile phone popped up from time to time, the real world is no different from usual, except that everything is the same as those eyes See the same, can not see the traces of life.
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