There are two extremes in the movie: no plot points are set deliberately, the characters in the play move freely, the record is strong, the social reality is strong, and the reality is restored, such as Tsai Mingliang's long shot, and "The Police"; the other is the opposite. , deliberately set, a large number of plot points, characters develop in the design, far from reality and beyond reality, exaggerated to the extreme, such as Li Yang's "Bad Future".
And then there's the middle, reality-based, plot-setting mode, not extreme, commercial.
I think the best part of "Police" is the control. Create a scene of chaos, police busyness, and a sense of urgency without getting out of control. Each character has to work hard in the play, especially the editing speed of the scene is fast, and it will be exposed without entering the play.
I think there are two types of photography styles, one with delicate composition, and one with flying camera positions. It is a skill to fly well. Simulate a record-style, fast-cut, rhythm-lifting, pressing, repressed viewing.
The hinting shot just happens to bring out the things that cannot be said, saving a lot of nonsense, and the amount of information becomes very large. This way of understanding the point to the end is very clever and difficult to achieve. After I looked closely, I found that she used a trick from beginning to end to keep the rhythm and plot from being disrupted: the sound. Her voice is consistent, no matter how fast the rhythm of the picture is, the sound is the only bridge to connect. Controlling the recording in one place is especially important in this seemingly chaotic scene. There are also several beautiful movements that are connected together, and the rhythm is not interrupted at all.
In the case of the little girl at the beginning, the police officer's final judgment was that the father did not do that kind of thing. On the other hand, there was no footage of the girl at home with her parents, and there was no footage of the relationship between her parents. The information was not clear, and there was a strong hint that Most likely, it was the mother's trick, as the little girl's father said. The result of this matter has not been said. For the structure is correct, the guards made a judgment and handed over the case to the judge. The latter things are no longer the task of the guards.
The female photographer will be followed by a shot of the black man: there will be a scene between the two of them later, the obvious hint.
So Alice jumped out of the window, and the scene where the child won the gymnastics championship is rich in meaning. First of all, I think it is the form first, and it is very necessary to analyze the film structure. The film sets a bad life for the female police officer, and everyone's heart is unraveled. The knots of each character are unraveled, and everyone is in a state of balance before finally sending the child to school. Only the female police officer did not have any footage to explain how she spent her vacation. Everyone got A relatively happy ending, and zero for Alice, a clear hint that her vacation was vacant and unsatisfactory. Her husband also said he left her during an argument with Nadine, for obvious reasons. The only way she's not round enough to get back into balance at the end of the film is by leaping and dying. Secondly, the staggered montage is a masterpiece. Even if Alice is the main reason for her own troubles, she is edited together with her child to win the championship, one falling and the other flying, sublimating this death to the height of sacrifice, the orientation and interpretation of the camera. Space becomes bigger. We will think of everything she did to save the child, the last straw is that the child does not think he has been violated, as if everything Alice does is useless, denying the meaning of her sacrifice, which is very desperate.
Movies with a lot of information are often in American dramas. Most of the Cannes movies I watch are slow-paced, with little ups and downs, brewing and pouring down at the end. The style of "Police" is obviously different, closer to the fast-paced current viewing habits. The mood has become less, and the meaning has increased.
On the other hand, what kind of films are produced in our Chinese market, youth films, thrillers, dog blood is now more and more accustomed to the audience, the more they like it, and it has a very nice name: tearing films. Also often insert mv in the movie, I really have nothing to say.
The Chinese film market is really sick.
There are at least two disadvantages. It is misguided for the audience, and investors' money will not flow to art films.
The misdirection is that modern people see movies as pure entertainment. There is a saying: People who love to watch movies and people who love to go to the cinema to watch movies are different. Movies have become an entertainment product, and the cinema chain has a strong meaning as a subsidiary entertainment of the mall. These are not the point, the point is what movies are in the theaters now? Youth films. What is the most profitable movie? Youth films. When young people go to the cinema, what are they looking at? Look at their faces.
All kinds of people came over to make movies, thinking that if you invite two people who are good at photography, and find a few good-looking people to act, it will be a movie? They don't pay much attention to the story, they just follow the needs of the audience. Modern people can shoot whatever they like to watch. This is like imitating the mechanized Hollywood model, and they have lowered the threshold of the movie!
Under the guidance of such a market, the audience's understanding of the film will have a wrong concept, thinking that the film should be a few good-looking people, and there is no concept of the pursuit of the inherent quality of the film.
If we compare commercial films and art films with books, commercial films are comic books, which are fun to watch and forget later; art films are world famous novels, which need to be carefully read and understood.
Ordinary audiences themselves have the right to choose, and most of them prefer to choose what is easy for them to understand. Those people can't just stay at what is easy for them to understand. They should continue to develop and move forward. The same is true of film as an art. There are many kinds of films in the market for people to choose from. Now all the way to venture into youth films, bloody films, the film market has become a good place to make money, all kinds of people come in, and everyone comes to make a fortune.
In fact, it is like a strange circle. The more bloody movies are released in the market, the more people watch and invest, and the more people think that bloody movies are movies. Repeatedly, no one invests in art films, and the audience does not have the level of acceptance. , will not buy tickets.
Human development lies in the development of spiritual heights.
The essence of art lies in conveying inexpressible emotions and truths. All art, literature, painting, music have easy to accept, and there are not so easy to accept, more complex, close to art, few people read, see, listen, and appreciate.
If modern people ignore their own spiritual development, the pain stems from spiritual predicament.
"Why do you want to watch things that you can't understand? I'm happy when you watch it." People always have to make progress. Feeling movies is like going to elementary school, junior high school, high school, and finally college. When you are in elementary school, you feel that college is very deep. , I only found out that I was not advanced but I made progress when I went to university. The same is true of watching movies. Those excellent movies are all life experiences summed up by the directors. They can’t understand them all at once, but they can gradually feel them after watching them, which is very beneficial to their spiritual development.
The radio and television said that the guests were not allowed to host, and the guests did not have industry norms. Then is it necessary for our film market to follow suit, not to allow cross-border production of films, and to limit money-making? Commercial films need to be carefully reviewed, and plots that are too problematic should be rejected. Art films should not be deleted or edited. The vulgar and kitsch content of commercial films needs to be deleted and edited, and those films without lens logic will be sent back and redone, and the film market will be a clean environment.
I guess I'm thinking too much.
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