The director is too strong

Trenton 2022-09-05 12:19:35

I have written other aspects of the film in the short review, and here I mainly talk about the style of the film that makes me feel uncomfortable.
The entire film has a strong sense of individuality, and comments on events in the film are also very subjective, without the addition of third-party opinions.
The most exhausting thing is that the director has been leading the audience by the nose. Compared with other documentaries, which have some discussion or guidance after the restoration event to make the audience accept their opinions, this film can be said to be quite aggressive. The director tells the story, monologues, and comments; the development and rhythm of the story are entirely at the service of the commentary. Due to the director's important position in the narrative, the audience has to pay a lot of attention to the director, and because the director's narration has a strong subjective will, it is quite difficult to understand, and the audience must devote the main energy to understanding Only the director's words and intentions can keep up with the rhythm of the film, which weakens the audience's understanding and judgment of the event itself. It's like in the last boring physics class, all the questions, examples, answers, experiments, conjectures, derivations, summaries are arranged in order and appear when needed, and then logically arrive at the pre-ordered order The theory to be covered in this lesson. And all this is done by the teacher alone, that is: the teacher asks the question by himself, the teacher gives examples by himself, the teacher answers by himself, then the teacher conducts experiments by himself, the teacher conjectures by himself, the teacher deduces by himself, the teacher summarizes by himself, and finally the teacher leaves the classroom by himself. , leaving a room of exhausted students. Some students said they were bored and fell asleep; some said they didn't understand it and read it again; some said they didn't understand but they thought the teacher was a genius; . When reviewing before the exam, the students said that as long as they can set the formula to solve the problem, those questions and examples answer the experimental conjecture derivation and summary to know that there is such a thing.

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F for Fake quotes

  • Orson Welles: I started at the top and have been working my way down ever since.

  • Orson Welles: Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.