- Goethe
used this poem to carefully take the scene notes of the movie. Compared with "The Song from the Second Floor", director Roy Andersson followed the consistent The shooting method is cold, the cold tone of the fixed camera is not long shots, one scene is one mirror, just compared with the completely fixed camera in "Singing from the Second Floor", here are a few shots with moving cameras to complete.
The movie is composed of short films, most of which can be independent, showing the absurd life in front of the audience, bizarre people worrying about family troubles, bizarre, and even a little surrealistic exaggeration, but it does not make people feel bored. , boring, false. Each story ends at the end, and there are many dramatic black humor episodes in the middle, and there are quite happy and sad sighs.
Look at the four dreams in the story.
The first is the first act of the sleeping man about the roar of planes and the bombing of bombs.
The second one was for smashing cups and plates of porcelain at a party, and was sentenced to death and electric chair three times.
The third is a woman named Anna who fell in love with guitarist Miko, and eventually got married, playing the guitar in the moving room and receiving the blessings of everyone outside the window. Personally, I think this section is very exciting. The moving house is slowly unveiled, and the combination of static and dynamic makes people daydream infinite.
The last dream is a man in a bar describing himself flying in the air, greeting his parents on the ground.
Looking at these four dreams, the first two are more terrifying, the latter two are more warm, and the end of the movie echoes the first dream, side by side bombers appear over the city, the scene stops abruptly, leaving behind Endless suspense and myths. People never get tired of telling their dreams. No matter whether anyone is listening or not, the first two dreams can be said to be talking to themselves, while the last two are in a bar, telling people they don’t know, and they don’t see any reaction from the listeners.
When I mentioned the bar, I had to say one more thing. The picture repeated, and the bartender rang the bell, saying that this is the last wave, and tomorrow is a new day. You might as well think that the director's theme was uttered by the bartender: "Tomorrow is a brand new day." The analysis is not so simple, the repetition is bound to emphasize, from the film it is not clear where the "new" is the next day, everything is going on as usual, the bar is still full of expressionless people, people are still talking irrelevant things , and then rush to the bar when the last bell rang for one last drink. It is better to say that "tomorrow will be the same", the troubles will continue, and life will not change in the slightest.
And tomorrow is brand new. It can be understood that happiness will knock on the door tomorrow, and the understanding of happiness is not necessarily better than today, but not worse than today. Personally, I think this is the theme of the movie. You are still alive, and you are alive every day. The director said in "Singing from the Second Floor", "It's good to repeat this every day"!
Linked to the dream, it is natural that the nightmare of the death penalty by the electric chair did not come true. The broken dream of the pair of mandarin ducks is inevitably sad. The dream of the plane bomb finally seems to take shape. Will the whole city be razed to the ground, the audience can't see it. Good dreams are broken, and bad dreams come true, but what is even more tragic is that sweet dreams come true, and dreams that become reality are even more confusing. All these beings, seeing the sky complaining and not being bombed, are already happy. Since the best doesn't happen, pray that the worst doesn't happen. Be content, living people, fortunately no dreams come true.
By the way, the director is quite particular about the composition. Due to the limitation of the retina, it is often impossible to see the full screen at a glance, but if you pay attention to the hidden content in the surrounding corners, you will be hooked. For example, the old man hated the creaking noise from upstairs and knocked on the ceiling with a broom, but was seen by the person in the opposite window, quite a bit like "You stand on the bridge and watch the scenery, and the person watching the scenery looks at you upstairs". Meaning. There is also the thief in the restaurant, who is sneaky and upright, and the tailor's wallet never forgets the handbag, and the little person plays vividly. Flower deliverers were turned away, and neighbors let their dogs bark. It can be said that all corner pictures have great tension.
Original: http://yanhaibing.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-post_23.html
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