The Killing Short Film: The Master is the Master
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When I first liked movies, I had no concept of masters. In the days when I watched most of Hong Kong ghost films and shootout films, I had never seen the word master, and no one would write "master's work" on the disc. I have an impression of the masters in the period of systematic study of film history. I often see who is a master and what movies are master works, but I have never seen a definition of what a master is. I have liked movies for so many years, and I have a basic understanding of what a master is, but it is still difficult to give a complete definition. The feeling that a tiger has nowhere to eat can only be roughly framed from the creator's artistic contribution. category.
In layman's terms, only the works that consumers are willing to spend money to appreciate can be regarded as qualified works of art. Based on this, the first is the art workers, the so-called craftsmen, who are skilled and skillful, able to complete artistic creation and bring basic human aesthetic experience. On the basis of craftsmen, once he has formed his own distinctive mature and unique style, he can be called an artist. On the basis of an artist, one can create a new artistic language and become a master.
The artistic language I am talking about is not quite the same as the general meaning, except that it includes techniques, techniques, and even rules, which are the meaning of the title. In fact, it is more important to include the redefinition of existing concepts (a language is relatively The fundamental difference of another language is the different definition of the same thing), that is, while updating the artistic language, the meaning of the object referred to by the language can also be updated simultaneously. In terms of the relationship between form and content, this is also inevitable. There is no possibility for a new form to express outdated content, and vice versa. Such "newness" is only an appearance, because the two cannot achieve the self-consistency of the subject in the same artwork.
"Murder Short" is a masterpiece. There is no need to say much about its contribution to the language of film art. Today, I mainly talk about its redefinition of the existing concept mentioned above. This concept is destiny. People who think that fate is certain, this movie will make them shaken. If Jacques didn't drink that wine, the lawyer could find Jacques strange in the coffee shop, and everything else would not happen. People who think their fate can be changed, this movie will also make them wonder, everything Jacques and the taxi driver do will lead them to inevitable death, especially Jacques, coffee grounds are similar to loose shit The echo of the imagery is the most exciting, and it has already foreshadowed the end of Jacques.
Is Kieslowski messing with mud? Destiny is sometimes certain, but can it be changed sometimes? Of course not. Through this film, Kieslowski has given a new definition of destiny, a definition that cannot be spoken, written, and can only be comprehended - destiny cannot be defined by "certainty" or "change" at all. Description, we can neither deny our own free will, nor deny that we are living in a script that God has already written, fate, it is like this.
Only by recognizing this level can we see clearly the film's attitude towards the two murders, without the slightest vague and absolute objection: murder will not change anyone's fate, Jacques's pain is still painful; murder is not to do justice for heaven Or to achieve justice, it is only a possibility after the extinction of an individual (in case Jacques develops a drug to cure cancer in the future), the unknown of the future is still unknown. The most important thing is that as long as righteous murder is allowed, it is tantamount to acknowledging that people have the right to interfere with fate, and evil murder cannot be banned. Righteous murder is banned first, and in the process of evolution, "killing" is completely expelled from our genes, and evil murder will be really banned. This is the fundamental meaning of the word "killing commandment".
A lot of what I said above is just a drop in the bucket expressed in the works of the masters. To be clear, it is impossible and worthless. If this is true, there is no need for the masters to make movies.
Master works, daigo empowerment.
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