In fact, kindness is relative!
(Because the ending is unexpected, so I hope you see it for yourself, there is no answer here!)
---kavkalu
Danish director Lars von Trier, who was once the standard bearer of dogme95, went the opposite way this time. In short, like Callas Saura's "goya in bordeaux" (which also relies on stage lighting and setting, no walls), a minimalist film is completed on the stage.
Facing the empty stage, let us imagine filling all the space, movies, and first of all, human art. What can really move people's hearts is the emotional story of these ordinary people, which is beyond the reach of high technology.
Where there are people, there are joys and sorrows, and the relationship between individuals and groups is the foundation of the existence of the world. The convergence between populations often overshadows a world that should be colorful, and also puts individuals who oppose them on the edge of despair.
When we come to an unfamiliar group, we are destined to face unfathomable human hearts. In the days of knowing and being understood, we cannot grasp the direction of events.
The movie "Dog Town" [Note 1] begins with a rigorous classical drama structure. The narration introduces everything in Dogtown straight to the point. Then, let's follow the narration and slowly chew on this human drama!
The director told us at the beginning that this is a closed town, people live step by step, living a simple and dull life. The composition of matter is often only a foil for the human face. The important thing on the stage is the human being. At this moment, on the stage of "Dog Town", chalk draws lines to give the audience full freedom of imagination. America, it is a geographical term, America, It's where your mind can imagine. People determine the trajectory of the development of things, and it is like a blue-screen fiction that you can paint.
The shuttle of the dv machine shows the subtle expressions of people between the faces. Our eyes follow the director's point of view, as if we were in the rehearsal scene of a drama, building a human story in a prescribed situation.
The prologue introduces the basic situation of the characters in the town, and everything behind the serenity is a necessary condition for the climax of the drama.
The arrival of the beautiful woman Grace at midnight broke the tranquility of the town, and a drop of water fell into the boiling oil was destined to cause an uproar. Tom's generous speech in the church set the tone for the play. The other side of what Tom said was often the willingness of people to pretend to be unknown, the attitude of people to avoid the world.
The residents of the town discussed Grace's fate with an indifferent gesture of nothing to do with themselves, revealing the selfishness of human nature.
Grace, who is walking in Dogtown, can perceive people's strange eyes, and the dissent in their eyes is enough to break any balance. In order to win the chance of asylum, Grace looked for every way to get close to the residents of the town. After a two-week trial period, the residents of the town accepted her. The good times didn't last long. The police's reward order made the townspeople think again about where Grace would go. With Tom's efforts, Grace kept her with her double labor. The director used downgraded shots to show Grace's busyness. . However, her efforts failed to win the respect and sympathy people deserved, instead they used her weakness to punish her.
A weak woman with nowhere to go, she can only bear her destiny silently. Behind the hypocrisy is the chill of human nature. We always make a hypocritical confession: negotiation and nobility, but when our selfishness swells, evil always accompanies Our imperfect selves are harming others and mistaking ourselves in this world.
We came into the world with original sin, we carried God's spell, our evil was decided the moment we ate the forbidden fruit.
The way the people of Dogtown treat Grace reminds me of another movie, A Beautiful Sicily, where human jealousy and cruelty distort a world that could have coexisted. Women are often hurt and hurt together, especially in emotional crisis, they always strike a balance by hurting others to prove their grievances. Women are more cruel than men!
Midnight's guilt is a complicity, and smashing the little porcelain man is a kind of vent, but such an act deeply hurts Grace's desire to integrate, and it also makes her have to re-examine her situation in this small town.
Broken china can be bought again, but heartbroken can no longer match, Grace's tears are full of despair and grievance, and the fragile connection between the town and her is broken.
People, when it comes to themselves, often forget or deliberately forget the feelings of the other party, and in the process of venting, the world has become a desert of the heart, and salty tears cannot water the flowers of friendship. The dark night covers the bright colors of people's hearts. Whose fate is in her hands? !
Running away, of course, is good, but the way makes her stop and worry. People in the small town are used to protecting themselves. They are afraid of getting into trouble. There are many people who are the icing on the cake in their lives. However, it is rare to give help in the snow. Or trying to stop someone from breaking the structure and letting it all rot over time.
Grace understood that running away was her chance to be reborn, and she chose to say goodbye to any reason that prevented her from going far.
A surreal lens allows us to see her determination and conviction under the felt. The car, bumping on the mountain road, at the next crossing, what will be waiting for her!
I don't know how long, the driver who took her to escape, Ben got into the felt cloth, told Grace that someone was guarding in front of her, and suggested that because of the danger, Grace had to exchange sex as a condition to continue the journey. The director expresses Grace's helplessness with the composition of the number of apples.
Finally, Grace fell into a drowsy sleep, and a few barks woke her up, she was deceived by Ben, and he returned to the town after a circle. The real disaster begins.
In order to prevent her from escaping again and implicated the residents of the town, they locked her like a puppy. She waited silently in humiliation and survived!
The blind Caput also took the opportunity to wipe Grace's oil, and the town became the epitome of "evil" in the world. In the world of the crowd, individuals have no choice. Following the crowd is the law of the world, and being a little boy in the "Emperor's New Clothes" has a price. Yes, when the cost is life, does individual courage make sense? ! Forbearance is for the future, it has nothing to do with living!
The crowd created Grace's hell. They treated Grace with a beastly nature. When they destroyed her, they also reduced themselves to "bipeds". They were like the villagers in "Salem's Witches".
Grace's novel "Tom Sawyer" director's view of the town, the duality and hypocrisy of people in the face of religion and customs. And where should the story go? !
Grace, who is deep in the mud, will see the sun one day? !
Everything is hidden in the vast sea of bitterness!
The drama has to have a climax, and when those cars came again, the director revealed the mystery (considering that some of my friends haven't seen it, I kept it silent), it was stunned!
At the beginning of the film, the director has an inconspicuous narration: the scene of the road leads to a dark tunnel, and that moment has already decided Grace's fate. The dark tunnel is a symbol of human evil. And this imaginary American town is a kind of censure of the director's humanity! When you are sincere and kind, what do you gain? ! Grace proved it herself.
When the gunshots go off! A bloody moon is huge in the sky!
Goodbye, dead in gunfire!
Goodbye, gunmen! !
Tears fall from the corners of your eyes, it's over! The story or the person
The chalk-drawn dog came alive under the director's camera...
A town that was gradually quiet, only the angry dog barks cut through the night sky.
This is Dog Town!
This is the dog's world and stage! !
Such a film form is more like an exploration, like dogme95's "play". It's a bit too much for the general audience, virtualization is a feature of theater, and it's a product of stage constraints. Cinema is first and foremost entertainment for the masses, not an experiment in images. Too much experimentation can scare off a large audience. Also, for me personally, I still don't like the shaking effect of the dv machine. I always feel dazzling and uncomfortable when I watch it too much.
However, the film's rigorous structure and ups and downs in the plot show that the screenwriter has a solid drama foundation, which played a decisive role in the success of this film.
On Thursday, October 23, 2003 at
15:20 osama kavkalu at the Jackdaw Jingshe Pudong as the sun was setting
[postscript]
After watching this movie, I believe that everyone will think about our surroundings and ourselves, how difficult it is to be peaceful in our world. A few days ago, I went to Zhouzhuang, Zhujiajiao and Suzhou with the photographer Pan Jingkai. Along the way, I learned A lot of things have arrived, and the great enlightenment of Big Brother Pan, who has been away all year round, is the result of many years of cultivation. I said to yoko: The enlightenment of life lies in the accumulation of bits and pieces in ordinary life, in the transcendence of oneself and the generosity of sentient beings.
In the past few days, the altar has been very lively, and all things will pass. Facing all the friends on the altar, I would like to say: all the grievances and grievances are in vain.
Shake hands, in the name of the movie!
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