I watched "Shooting the Pianist" today. I had never heard of this film until I bought it last night. Narratively speaking, though, both of them are equally invincible, and I think Truffaut should be better.
"Shooting the Pianist" is a 1960 film. Black and white film. French films have a peculiar fascination. Or rather, I prefer Truffaut's style. Regarding Truffaut, I have only seen his famous "400 Downs" before. "400 Down" is indeed a good movie, but as far as the narrative is concerned, it seems a little bland, and it was a movie from 1959. After a few decades, let's watch this show of teenagers rebelling against their parents and against adults The social film, its shock level has also weakened. And "Shooting the Pianist" is even more exciting. The beauty of it lies in its openness. The film is based on an event where the spoils are unevenly divided, but it actually tells a much richer story. In general movies, the dialogues of characters, and the events between characters serve to express the theme of the movie, but in "Shooting the Pianist", people's dialogues and behaviors tend to deviate from the theme, and some things are related to the movie to show. The events have nothing to do with things going up. This kind of movie may confuse the viewers at first, but when you get used to it, you will like this kind of movie, because it is natural.
For example, at the beginning of the film, a man was trying his best to escape the pursuit of two people. He ran into a path and accidentally hit a telephone pole and fell to the ground. At this time, a kind-hearted person passing by helped him up. Then the two started chatting as they walked, the kind man said that he had to go home quickly because he was married, and then he talked about how he fell in love with his wife, his children, etc. He said: Sometimes it seems that only Open your heart to a stranger. They parted at an intersection, and the man who started running continued.
Later, the two bad guys kidnapped the pianist and his girlfriend. In the car, the four of them talked about women's problems. The atmosphere was very pleasant, not like the relationship between kidnappers and hostages. The kidnapper who was driving kept talking and talking, while his companion sitting in the back of the car kept persuading him to drive well. This scene is somewhat reminiscent of the scene in the American Coen Brothers' "Fargo", in which two murderers are in the car, one persuades the other not to smoke. At that time, it gave people a lot of freshness, but it seems that this kind of The technique is something Truffaut has already used. In the back, the two bad guys kidnapped the pianist's son again, and the man driving the car even introduced the child to the interesting gadgets he had collected.
As the protagonist of the story, the pianist, whenever he wants to do something, will use a voice-over to express his inner thoughts, but his actual actions are often not in line with what he wants to do. This may make many people feel that "heart is related".
Truffaut said in an interview: "The idea behind Shooting the Pianist was to make a film without a theme, just in the form of a detective story, to express my love for glory, success, depravity, failure, women and so on. The whole view of love."
In another film review, he said:
"This film is the second feature film made by the new wave master Truffaut. From this early work, we can easily see the relationship between American B-movies and Hitchcock. Truffaut's great influence. The actor Charlie Aznauer, who plays the pianist Charlie, is a well-known French folk singer. As a descendant of Algerians, most of Aznauer's songs express the irony and despair of the social atmosphere. --As "Shooting the Pianist" means."
But I think Truffaut's film created a whole new genre, and there has been no follower yet.
Of course, in many later films, especially French films, we can also see the shadow of these films. But maybe that's just a commonality of all French films.
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