First published on the "Shadow of Shadows" public account
"Tian Di Xuan Huang"
Director - Ron Frick
Genre - Documentary
Personal Rating - 8 points
Individual Views—one
Rebrush index - 75%
Version—96min
More words, more pictures, more warnings!
The beginning is a few paragraphs of pictures that are like still frames. The quiet and peacefulness makes people unbearable to disturb. Combined with the simple music, the tone of the whole profound artistic conception is established. Some people describe this film as "big sound and sound, and the elephant has no shape". I don't know whether to say this is a perfect interpretation or a cunning justification.
For me personally, this documentary is beautiful, but nothing. The picture is exquisite and the soundtrack is high-level, but only high-level performance is not accompanied by high-quality expression. The director has deprived too much, the ambient sound has been erased, the core of the film is hard to find, and the audience has lost the right to participate, only reserved to visit the distance.
This is the first time for me to watch this kind of documentary from a purely bystander perspective. Others I have watched are either exposing problems and triggering thinking, such as "India's Daughter" and "Dolphin Bay";
Either approach a person or a group of people and observe their life or work status at close range, so that people and things that are rarely known can be shown to more people, even in areas that we have never touched. A little bit to show understanding of a person/group of people, a profession, such as "Freehand Rock Climbing", "I am repairing cultural relics in the Forbidden City";
Or like those done by the BBC, such as "Earth Pulse" and "Earth: A Magical Day", every frame makes people sigh the magic of creation, awe and love this blue planet.
How stingy is the director, every scene and character is not explained, such as what they are doing, the reason for doing it, what is the historical reason? No, I just introduced the location, and I don't even know if this is the original in the film or the subtitles team checked the information and added it, so there is a sense of distance, and the world inside and outside the screen is really clear. However, although the audience is limited to the position of the spectator X, the Y-axis provided by the film is still very rich. Sometimes I feel that I am looking down on all beings from the perspective of God, and sometimes I look up at everything and feel that I am so insignificant, of course You will also feel your ordinary existence as a human being.
The most impressive shot
One is the Kecak dance in Bali. At first, I thought it was a sacrificial ceremony, and the director didn't explain it. I didn't understand it, so I didn't understand it, so one civilization watched another civilization, and the middle There is a distance of ignorance, but ignorance does not affect reverence, it even brings reverence. The first is the visual impact brought by the number. More than 100 men are sitting there cross-legged, doing strange movements and making strange sounds, which is incomprehensible to modern civilization;
The second is the coordination of music. I have watched this part 5 times, and I am still not sure if there is music, so I assume it has (I say there is, I don’t want you to think, I want me to think), this is rare There are several parts of the original sound that are not processed, and the music and the original sound are almost seamlessly integrated. A good soundtrack should be a qualified green leaf. The ultimate purpose is to set off rather than dominate the host. It is almost impossible to perceive its existence, but the entire segment will be eclipsed without it. After all, it is a movie, not a MV. The 2-hour MV is also quite embarrassing ("Little Times" I'm talking about you).
Speaking of which, we must learn about Kaikake dance.
Kaikak was developed around the 1930s in the village of Bona, where it is still performed regularly. The whole play is based on the story of the Indian epic "Ramayana" (Ramayana), which describes the story of Prince Rama getting the help of the monkey army in an attempt to regain his beloved wife from the evil king Rawana.
The performances are mostly at dusk and the lights are very weak. The kechak dance is more religious than the barong dance. During the performance, a group of young people sit around a torch, shaking their bodies and making religious cries. It also seems to gradually bring the audience into the ancient legends. The artistry of Kaikake dance is no less than that of Barong dance, but it is not easy for audiences who do not know its background cultural story to accept it.
Because I revisited "Avatar" again this week, and found that there is a scene in it that is very similar to the Kecak dance, which is the scene of rescuing Dr. Grace under the tree of souls and changing Jack's body at the end, ten years ago. The film, I was stunned for it. After watching it, I downloaded the ultra-ultra-ultra-high-definition version of more than 20G, and I also downloaded the documentary about the production of Avatar. The total size is more than 50G. Write "Avatar"!
Another is the girls of the Kayabu tribe in Brazil. The camera slowly sweeps the immature body, and the sexual characteristics are hidden under the coloring and ornaments. There is no naked shame here, only the originality beyond gender. This is a very peculiar visual experience. Your first reaction when you see the picture is by no means any words with erotic nudity, but the purest "body".
I do not deny that "Xiandi Huanghuang" is the greatest documentary of the twentieth century. There are still images related to this documentary. Some classics cannot be surpassed. Even in the past ten or twenty years, they can still be recognized by the times. This is the case with "Tian Di Xuan Huang" and "Avatar".
Okay, I'm going to get to the point - "Grid"
(I know it's a bit late to get to the point when it's almost over, never mind).
The "grid" here contains two meanings. The first is the specific "grid" that is visually presented in the film.
Looking back on the life of an extended person, you will find that from birth to death, including the decades of life in between, we are all in different "frames": the cradle when we were infancy, one table per person after school, the cubicle after work, The buildings we live in, the urns after death, the cemetery, etc., all kinds of "grids", in this life, are framed by the two-dimensional "grids" and the three-dimensional "boxes", and then there will be endless "grids" between people. gap".
Then the abstract "lattice"
Qu Feng once said in "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City" - "Ancient Chinese people pay attention to examining things, that is, they look at things in terms of themselves, and they look at themselves in terms of things", that is, "examine things to gain knowledge". From my own perspective Go watch and interpret the movies I have seen, and then think about yourself through the movies in turn. The above "case" is a noun, which means lattice, and here, as a verb, it takes the meaning of "observation, understanding, and reasoning".
In the middle part of the film, there are about ten minutes (40min-50min) showing the busy traffic in the city, the assembly line on the factory, and the crowd on the subway in the square. The reason why this place is amazing and touched me, One is the perfect match between the music and the picture, the music of this film is really good, and the other is that it produces the effect of 1+1>2 by consciously stacking the material through editing.
The comparison of living bodies and non-living bodies, the echoes of chickens in chicken farms and the people passing by, and the comparison of assembly line workers and machines in different factories, you will find amazing similarities, and all living beings in the world are the same. If we stand in the perspective of God, what is the difference between us and the chickens who are picked and scalded on the assembly line?
Abandoning the consciousness of being an independent individual and enlarging the vision to groups and species, where is the sense of superiority of being born as a human being? We do not maintain a high degree of consistency like other species. The entire human society has developed different beliefs, different languages, different levels of civilization, and different classes. We rarely show the animal side, and solving problems is not only Relying on simple fighting, no longer only considers survival and reproduction, this is the complexity of human development and evolution, higher than life, but lower than the world.
shadow
2019.8.9
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