The title Knight is the core of the film. Knight is a romanticized name, but Zhao Ting completely realistically removed all romanticized plots. The last two scenes are the most irreconcilable plots in the whole film. Let go of the abnormal choice, and completely smash the romantic ideal of romance. The best part of the film is that the self-contradiction of the characters is a complete dilemma for the audience. In the end, it chooses a choice that is not pleasing to the audience, but it can also understand and be fair. In society, the school will only teach you how to succeed and move forward, and the teacher to let go can only be time and loss.
What I particularly like is the design of the protagonist's hand twitching. In the character's subconscious, it is impossible to let go. People around me call me to move forward. What can't let go is the disabled brother of the family. A single action will maximize this feeling of reluctance. Really strong director
The audiovisual of the whole film is unified with a large panorama + subjective lens. The audience is slow to enter the world of the film, and the more they get back, the more shocked it is because there are a lot of empty scenes as the emotional externalization of the characters. There are many seemingly unreasonable weather changes for Asian audiences, but as emotional externalization, this kind of unreasonable It just feels like this is the last hint of romance in the film. Especially the scene where the white horse parted at dawn, and the thunder sounded like a coronation. With the accompaniment of the space sound, I am completely empathetic.
Most of the film is in three spaces, the outdoor horse space, the RV space, the rehab center, and the cell phone.
Outdoor horse spaces are slow. RVs are fast with lots of tinted lights creating a bad ambience space. Rehabilitation center and mobile phone time are frozen, brother's disability keeps him there forever, and every time the mobile phone video replays the past glory will only make the two of them more uncomfortable.
Most of the music in this film is the space sound that I particularly like, and it is also the last piece of the film that only represents beauty and the most obvious one.
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