Real Time in Movies: Greatest Respect or Cruel Display?

Janelle 2022-03-24 08:01:02

Recently, I have been patiently watching several films that represent real time, that is, the time in the film is equal to the time in reality, and the director's processing is even slower than the real time. Creators and commentators who enjoy it often praise this style as the greatest respect for people, and sometimes wishful thinking that the audience will be more truly involved in the characters in the image, living, feeling, joy and synchronizing with them. pain. Not just the indoctrination of mainstream fictional films or the unsynchronized listening to others in our fast-paced era, the creation of such films can always infect only the part of the audience who are patient and follow the author to respect life.

Sokonov's "Second Circle" and "Mother and Son", Tsai Ming-liang's "Dark Circle", Albert Serra's "Don Quixote", Bella Tarr's "Satan Tango" are all named after them. The super-long shot of common love to observe the life object with common characteristics: the terminally ill or even dying body, and the details are so detailed that the audience can clearly hear their every breathless breath, and clearly see the last gleam of their faces that are about to say goodbye to life. color. Sokonov and Cai Mingliang believe in caring and entrust the sick to healthy people who are more patient than the audience. Albert longed for a miracle, and let the staggering Don Quixote shout at the last light of the sky before the mountain stream fell into the night, and then sank into the darkness with the earth. The camera remained motionless, and the unbearable audience could laugh at themselves When the film is broken, the actors look forward to the light again after the darkness. Bella Tarr, who was not so fascinated by the scene, sent her poetry to the dying alcoholic doctor, let him listen to the apocalyptic bell of the town, then slowly dropped the last few strokes and nailed it to the board to completely seal herself off.

When the directors showed people with the greatest respect, they also vaguely made me feel that it was another cruel display of life. A body without any vitality seemed filthy to me who was still healthy, even though I was also Occasionally, I feel emotional when I watch the pain of others. Grandma Susan Sontag, who passed away, felt the same way when she was afflicted by breast cancer, and included "Second Circle" and "Satan Tango" in her top ten movies of the 1990s.

Compared with the slow respect of these masters, the Romanian Christie Peiu came much more smoothly. Unlike the sick person in the countryside above or the forgotten person in the city (Xiao Kang in "Dark Eyes"), the old man with blood clots in his brain in "No Doctor" is a Bucharest resident, he has Entitlement is integrated into the city's health security system, so the rhythm of his search for help and being cared for by kind ambulance nurses has to be much clearer and smoother. Moreover, this story of going through 4 hospitals and being pushed around by various doctors who were so busy and angry because of the large-scale car accident, and finally possible to perform surgery at 3:30 in the morning, still follows the real time. The real time of "No Doctor is Reliable" is the real time when ambulance nurses and patients are subjectively racing against time, just like those involved in the "Direct Movie" documentary who are too busy to take care of the camera, they wait in pain and experience this country. The torment brought by the backward medical system will eventually lead to poor communication (patients are unable and unconscious to sign the letter of responsibility for the operation) and the professional indifference of doctors.

The real time in the movie is an unbearable test of patience for the majority of audiences, and a cruel display of life for the minority audiences. Only for the very few audiences who feel the same way can it reflect the creator's fundamental desire: to be the greatest for people. respect.

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The Death of Mr. Lazarescu quotes

  • Mr. Lazarescu (Domnui Lazarescu): Excuse me, Nurse, but how old are you?

    Mioara Avram: I'm not that young anymore. I'm 55.

    Mr. Lazarescu (Domnui Lazarescu): 55?

    Mioara Avram: Yes. In September.

    Mr. Lazarescu (Domnui Lazarescu): In September? Just like Virgil, my brother-in-law, only he's 68.

  • Marioara: I'm ready Virgil, come get him and take him to Anghel!