When I watched German films from the history of world cinema to the 1920s, I mentioned the emergence of chamber drama films. The one I remember most and mentioned the most is "The Lowest Man" directed by FW Murnau and written by Karl Mayo. , the most successful and famous chamber drama film of its era. Although Germany was a defeated country at the end of World War I at this time, German films in this period were second only to Hollywood in terms of technical techniques and world influence. The rise of spectacle films, expressionist films, house theater films, street films.
The biggest difference between the characteristics of indoor dramas and expressionist films is that expressionist films place more emphasis on the scenery, use more scene scheduling, and emphasize the composition of shots: character movements, costumes, lighting, and scenery all emphasize the integration of one. Moreover, the story setting is generally far from social reality, and the scene is fantastic. However, indoor dramas do not rely heavily on the atmosphere of the film, but rather pay more attention to the psychology of the characters. Moreover, the story setting is a daily, realistic and contemporary environment, especially the development time span of the situation in the play is short.
Indoor dramas rely on simple situations, action details, sets and symbols to convey narrative information, and the narrative focuses on intense psychological states, and the ending is generally unfortunate. - At the request of the head of the company, Mei Yu added a happy ending.
After the popular science, let's talk about the indoor drama movie "Just the End of the World". I don't want to repeat the plot content of the movie too much. I just want to talk about my personal viewing experience:
At the beginning of the film, the reason why Louis chose to come back is mentioned: about to die, he originally came back to announce the result to everyone, but finally gave up this purpose and left indifferently.
Symbols in the movie: clock, home, cigarettes.
The opening of the clock appears once and the ending appears once; the first time is exactly 13 o'clock, and the second time is exactly four o'clock.
My hometown Louis mentioned it once in front of his sister, and once when we had snacks together;
Cigarettes show up when talking to sister, when talking to mom, when talking with brother ends
There is a close-up of the clock for the first time, and there is an engraved bird on the clock. The first shot should symbolize two points: 1. The state of mind that Louis came back with; 2. The Louis who has always existed but never had life here. . In the second shot, the appearance of the clock is rather blurry, but a bird that has always been alive flies out. I guess it should imply that in the short few hours after Louis came back, although he felt the love of his family and had fresh life, he faced them in the face of them. Each aggressive and predatory way deprives the meaning of existence, that "love" miraculously lives and dies quickly in this home, love is real, but the innocent wall - Murderer: Although the love among relatives In this way, the estrangement, incomprehension, and even misunderstanding caused by trivialities in life and lack of or incorrect communication with each other are also the reason why he suddenly proposed to leave.
The hometown was brought up by Louis twice. I don’t think Louis did it from the beginning, and he is not a person who likes to be nostalgic. Otherwise, he would never have come back for 12 years. The real reason is that he arrived home. Facing the way the family attacked each other evokes the beauty in the memory: the former home also symbolizes the beauty of the family. And some flashback shots and pictures interspersed during the period also confirmed this.
Cigarette itself is a bad moral symbol. The first time it appeared in a conversation with my sister, I was talking about my unfamiliar and admired brother, and the cigarette never stopped; the second time was a conversation with my mother in the hut, and I said this during the conversation. The family and the children's heart knots and problems, the mother's cigarette does not leave the hand; and the third time is only verbally the brother and Louis mentioned that he wanted to smoke, but asked Louis not to tell the mother; the fourth time was the brother's car After "venting" his emotions, he told Louis a sad news: his former love died of cancer, and after returning home, Louis stood on the grass in the courtyard smoking a cigarette and wept secretly. In my opinion, cigarettes symbolize love, the first time, my sister's love for Louis, the second time, my mother's love for Louis, the third time, my brother's mother's love, the fourth time, Louis' love for someone who passed away Love. Cigarettes are used to symbolize love, one is to express the implicit and absurd way of loving each other in this family; the other is that people love to smoke, but smoking will erode people's health, just like the way they attack each other.
The ending of the movie is naturally not a happy one, all emotions are out of control: Louis originally had the best answer that his mother wanted: he will come back more in the future, reply more frequently, and the content is longer, let his sister come to him, let his brother Unload the burden and tell him that he wants to know about his life and that he wants to face the future together. And when he was waiting for his brother's answer, he was also tempted. All these changes were too difficult for the family. In the end, Louis was the first to lose, his sister collapsed, his brother couldn't help himself, and his mother even repeatedly questioned: Why? Even the sister-in-law, who has always been the most emotionally stable, is on the verge of losing control (the scene of packing up the food)... In such a family, in such an environment, how can Louis tell the purpose of his trip, and how can he comfort his broken family members? When people stay together, the contradictions between them seem to be a wall, but it makes Louis feel like he has come to the end of the world: My troubles nobody knows except God... This lyric does not specifically refer to the unexplained origin of Louis, but It's the pain the family is facing...
I like this type of movie very much. It promotes the development of the plot through a lot of dialogue, and even the BGM in the movie is carefully designed. The characters stand up through the meticulous and superb performance of the actors, and then describe the psychological activities of the characters through micro-expressions and details. Introduce anything, guide the audience to concentrate on the plot through a literal narrative method, and gradually understand the character status and background of each character. , making the whole film more cohesive and emotionally affecting the audience. And if the audience is outside the state, loses visual control and psychological analysis of the characters and plot development of the movie, and finally only knows what the movie expresses on the surface, and it is difficult to resonate with the content of the movie, so this is also the movie. It's both award-winning and controversial.
In fact, it is a luxury in itself to ask the audience to do this. Not many people will seriously regard watching movies as an art appreciation, but more as a kind of entertainment. Of course, movies were invented for people's entertainment at the beginning. objects, and then more and more developed into works of art form. The reason why commercial movies or popcorn movies can dominate the market is not only that their audiovisual experience is very first-rate, the plot is simple and easy to understand, but also that it has a low starting point for the audience to enter the movie state, and it is more fragmented, missing a line or two. , pay less attention to one or two shots or part of the plot, and still enjoy the clip.
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