Maybe it's an angle that no film critic has ever thought of.

Paris 2022-03-21 09:02:46

First of all, my knowledge of movies is extremely shallow.

After reading so many reviews, it makes sense.

But in my opinion, there is nothing special about this movie.

Because I think this is an extremely realistic film, everything is real, not unreal.

why? Because this film is about memory, it's a super realistic film about memory.

Just like, some people think that there is no depth of field when looking at things, and some people think that there is depth of field.

Memory itself is not a very realistic thing. People's memory often has deviations in the restoration of scenes. The deviations may increase or decrease the content at that time, and also increase or decrease or change the things and characters in the scene they see.

The most obvious manifestation is that the two people in the scene are often held still when they are talking, and in a dialogue process, the people in the scene at the beginning and the people in the scene after the dialogue ends are different.

I don’t know if you have this feeling. When you focus on something, the changes around you will be ignored by yourself. When you turn your attention back to you, you will find that the person you thought was still in front of you is gone. The person in front of me appeared. You think it's only a few seconds of inattentiveness, but it's actually been a few minutes or more. This is the scene.

Then there is memory. When you recall a conversation with someone, there is a picture replayed in your mind, but for the scene, time, and surrounding things and characters of the conversation with this person, the memory is not necessarily accurate, even if there are some irrelevant memories in the memory. things and characters, but every time I recall they are not necessarily where they are in the picture, they may be here or there, they may be standing still or they may be walking, but the focus is not on them.

So in my opinion, this film is a hyper-realistic representation of memory, why is it psychedelic? The same is true of the content of the representation of the memory because of the inaccuracy of the memory itself and the lack of attention to the surrounding things.

The director used a closer to my understanding of memory to shoot memory, rather than the general reproduction of memory, such as intermittent clips, but the pictures are very accurate.

So, I think this movie, you say it is literary, is really literary, but in my opinion, it is super realistic.

By the way, let’s add another example. I remember a certain master of traditional Chinese painting. His paintings show the depth of field. Clarity is only aimed at the focus. Few people pay attention to the pictures that are not in focus, but generally they still feel that everything they see in front of them is clear.

Hmm... such nonsense, I don't know if I can express it clearly, let's do it first.

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Extended Reading
  • Alysa 2022-03-20 09:02:23

    It turns out that the closer the film is to literature, the more freedom it is.

  • Westley 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    Baroque photography, Baroque composition, Baroque dialogue. The only one who can bring the works of the two great masters of new novels to the screen and interpret them perfectly is Renai.

Last Year at Marienbad quotes

  • [X wanders through the hotel's corridors cataloging items he sees]

    X: Empty salons. Corridors. Salons. Doors. Doors. Salons. Empty chairs, deep armchairs, thick carpets. Heavy hangings. Stairs, steps. Steps, one after the other. Glass objects, objects still intact, empty glasses. A glass that falls, three, two, one, zero. Glass partition, letters.

  • X: I must have you alive. Alive, as you have already been every evening, for weeks, for months.

    A: I have never stayed so long anywhere.

    X: Yes, I know. I don't care. For days and days. Why don't you still want to remember anything?

    A: You're raving! I'm tired, leave me alone!