Beside the piano, a handsome young man in a formal dress, his cheeks are full of fine sweat, wet curly black hair flying across his face; under the blue sky, a young man wearing headphones and a brown-yellow trench coat stretches his arms, golden The brown skin dazzled in the sun, like a bird that had broken free and was ready to fly.
These are two posters of a movie, and the two scenes in the posters are two of the most beautiful moments in the movie. These are two key points in a person's growth process, and also contain several key words that reveal the theme of the film. This person is the famous Australian pianist David Huffgart.
If, in conventional movies, film music is only the background, in this biopic of musician David Huffgart, the music is the theme, the plot thread, and it participates in the narrative and occupies an important position.
Like other biopics of musicians, "SHINE" makes extensive use of classical music, but it is not a simple choice. Like other films about musicians, "Shine" makes extensive use of classical original music, but it is not a simple choice. The needs of the plot are imposed on the music, but rather the music is brought to the fore. The mood of the character is determined by the music, because his fate has already been determined by the music. Here, the music is not used to sensationalize, but to outline the life state of the characters.
At the beginning of the film, David, who was still a child, participated in the piano competition in his hometown, and the selected piece was Chopin's Polonaise (THE POLONAISE). I don't have a deep understanding of music, or even familiarity, but with intuition, it is almost certain that this piece of music chosen by the director and music director is hinting and laying out the tone of David's life. When this piece is played, the sound of hitting the keyboard is very dull and heavy. During the performance, little David kicked off the stool. The outer silence is in stark contrast to the inner anxiety. Although the song is very brilliant, it is somewhat mechanical and anxious at the same time. Perhaps this is a portrayal of David's character, obsessive, sensitive and anxious. At the same time, this song also accurately summarizes David's childhood under the strict control of his father. The state of his life is an ingenious metaphor for the tragicomedy of his life. Like the foreshadowing in the narrative, this song buries the suspense about David's life and draws out a rich plot clue.
For David, Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 is the absolute spiritual center. When he was a child, his father expected him to play; when he grew up, he became a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and it was for this piece that he won the Academy's Gold Medal.
Of Rach's three piano concertos, the third is the most difficult. Ordinary pianists dare not try this piece at all, and his spiritual depth makes young pianists even more timid. But as a 7-year-old child, David was pulled into the quagmire by this song. He has been a slave to this tune all his life. We can imagine the enormous pressure on his body and mind. Eventually, he had a nervous breakdown after one gig. I think, only this song can have such a powerful force. Rach's third piano concerto, for David, has become the master of life, and it is the most climactic plot point in the plot.
In David's life, he played many classic songs. He found himself in Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody. This piece of music makes people fall into a confused mood, but for him, it just happens to wake him up from another kind of confusion.
After he returned to his hometown, he often entertained himself by playing some ditties in small local bars.
Among them are Chopin's "Raindrop" Prelude and Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee". What impressed me the most was the song "Flight of the Bumble Bee".
After a rainy night of madness and chaos, David looked beyond the photo of Rachmaninoff on the floor, rushed into a small hotel, and played another Russian music great, Rimsky-Korsak, on the piano. Her husband's "Flight of the Bumblebee". David held a cigarette butt and moved his fingers on the keys. The panorama used in the film captures David's autism right in the middle of a crowd. The performance of the leading actor Joffrey Rush in this scene made me admire the whole body. The smooth and accurate playing and the professional sense of finger touch made David seem to be the prince who turned into a wild bee. Fly and bite all the darkness in your own unique world.
However, the real redemption came from the distant Baroque. When a teacher at the Royal Academy of Music gave a lecture to David, it was Vivaldi's sympathetic "Sura of Glory" that sounded. Under the love and tolerance of the professor, and in the solemn and holy music, David stepped out of the shadow of childhood and began to really touch the notes with his heart. When David leaped naked under the blue sky, Vivaldi's music came out from the headphones, a female chant adapted from Vivaldi's motet "The World Needs Real Peace". When the youth became middle-aged, Gillian, a beautiful woman on the way, gave David love, confidence, and the courage to return to the stage. When David and Gillian left their father's cemetery, the camera gradually zoomed out. Among the densely packed tombstones and crosses, a trio of simple and transparent female voices, harpsichord and cello accompany them towards their future lives. ,,
At this time, music has become a kind of redemption for his spiritual world, and it is also an important turning point in the plot. In "Spring in the Cattle Class", the music plays, and the unprovoked resolution of the contradiction between teachers and students makes people feel abrupt and insufficient, but in "SHINE", when the music plays, David slowly walks out of the confusion of life, letting People are convinced, and for good reason. Because music is the master of his life, and destruction and redemption are all handled by music.
At the end of the film, the gradual peace and tranquility of David's spiritual world reassures the audience. At this time, the music is like a fish swimming in the sea, and he is free.
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