in the directing department, and the question is accurate to how long a long shot refers to.
Four months later, Taiwanese director Yang Dechang left with a crane. The most impressive thing in his films is the regular long shots.
A few days ago, I saw Su Mu, a teacher from Beijing Film Studio, write in the bookstore: European filmmakers are good at using moving long shots, while Chinese long shots are still
. As the story stretches and becomes multi-dimensional, at the end of the film, the audience suddenly realizes in a sentence from a child: "Yiyi" contains so many things.
Yang Dechang tells the trivial matters of this middle-class family with delicacy and full patience. In the film, the protagonists who are tired of worldliness and utilitarianism are all seeking to escape. First of all, after her mother-in-law fell ill, her wife could not bear the grief and lived alone in a temple. Immediately afterwards, her husband also had the idea of eloping with his first love while on a business trip to Tokyo. But none of this happened in the end. The husband played by Wu Nianzhen, a man who has always been honest, finally found a balance between reality and the past.
Wu Nianzhen's performance in the movie is very good. It makes people think that he is the husband in the film, but we will sigh for a while after the film ends, maybe the prototype of the husband is the director.
The love affair with Cai Qin became the main reason for the "popularity" after Yang Dechang's death. Now the media is hyping up the "sexless marriage". In fact, from the director's future marriage (having two sons with a pianist), it can be concluded that the previous "sexless marriage" "It's just a rhetorical lie, and it is ruthless in the world to let such a person who advocates quietness and forbearance suffer these unnecessary noises after his death.
And 7 years ago, Yang Dechang already used the film "One One", which is piled up with countless long shots, to answer the long-term interruption of the world's mind. In the movie, most of his shots are still. When I saw my husband going to Tokyo, his head was leaning against the window that reflected the bustling night scene of Tokyo. I was moved. This shot lasted for a while, but this time In his time, I have experienced his loneliness and helplessness.
The extreme directors of the French Left Bank have experimented with the use of photographs instead of images in films. They stopped the camera on a photograph for a long time, so as to see the slow process of time passing. Yang Dechang also appeared in photos in "One One", and the back of those who were photographed secretly obviously foreshadowed the next story. But the director said slyly through the mouths of children in the movie: I want them to see the side they can't see themselves.
The innocent answer implies the director's despair for human beings themselves. Humans always miss time and opportunities. They lose the most precious things in their lives because they can't see their original side. What blinded people, Yang Dechang boiled down to: the fast city life and the intense utilitarian struggle in the secular world. The back of those people's heads just hold the memories of people losing themselves.
two. The multi-dimensional narrative
"One One" is also quite innovative in narrative. The experiences of the youngest son and eldest daughter in the film are actually the past of the husband. When he was young, he was often bullied by girls because of his weakness. When he grew up, his first love was because he refused to take on the burden of loving someone. run away from responsibility. These lingering memory fragments are repeatedly interspersed by the director to give the audience a deeper understanding of the protagonist's state of mind. When he met his first love girlfriend again on the way to Japan, and talked about why he broke up with her, we saw his take off. Ci: At that time, except for some nonsense reasons, you didn't know me. I was actually very tired of electricity, but you said that after you learn it, you will be very rich, otherwise I will not be able to support you. At that time, my parents also insisted that I learn electricity, and I suddenly seemed to be nothing. No one can understand me.
In this conversation, what he said seemed to make sense, but now he seems to be a wealthy middle class, and this is all due to the electrical science he learned at the beginning. When a man complains that others don't understand him, he still thinks of himself first. This selfishness can only be seen after its success. <11> used a few quiet scenes with piano music to express his lies ironically.
In Japan, he had many opportunities to fall in love with the woman of his first love again, and when the woman was charming and even begged him to stay, he stammered and declined incoherently. The pure and precious feelings of the old days have become full of impurities after many years, the families of both parties, social discussions, and the reputation of men. All these made him unable to bear to abandon the present.
Ironically, his first love girlfriend thought he had no money. But now, she said: let's go, I don't need you to have money now, I have enough money for both of us for a lifetime.
When the man's story is not over yet, the younger son's fascination with the school flower deepens. He always peeks at the girl swimming. In order to communicate with her, he also gets into the pool who can't swim. The eldest daughter's sad first love during her father's business trip has made her greatly mature.
three. The audience who saw the ending of a fantasy drama in life
are very patient. When Yang Dechang designed a very unexpected ending, we finally didn't watch "One Eleven" in vain.
"One One" is a film composed of long takes, and the most commonly used montages such as dissolving mirrors are not even present in the film. <11> It gives the impression that it is very quiet, like a child talking to himself, he is lonely and unrestrained, and doesn't care about others.
At the end of the film, the younger son said to his mother-in-law's portrait: "Grandma, when you see the little grandson, you say, you are old
, but I finally found out that we are also old.
Finally, we are getting old too. Obviously not from the child's mouth, but the helplessness of the characters in the play in the face of fate. Fate disrupts people's vows when they are young, and when people look back, they find that the most precious things have long disappeared. They are either shrouded in material desires, or by other factor instead. In short, we cannot go back to the past.
There are several scenes in <11> describing the empty home after my mother-in-law left. The director spreads the shot horizontally, and we see the side from the door to the living room. At this time, the yellow sunlight outside the window shone on the floor and walls. Everything was as quiet as death. This can't help but remind people of the lively living room at the time, when the mother-in-law was still there, the eldest daughter did not go through that unhappy first love, the younger son did not like the Colonel's flower, and the father would not have the opportunity to get close to the woman of his first love. In the evening, my mother had dinner, and the family sat around the hot plate. What a warm and comfortable atmosphere!
Yang Dechang may be inspired by Bergman's "Finney and Alexander", because at the beginning of "Finney and Alexander", there is a group of "empty family interiors". And this kind of use of still shots to represent a family's living room and room deepens people's sense of loneliness.
Bergman's films are not as rigid as Yang Dechang's long-lens. He will constantly change his methods and keep pace with the times. Yang Dechang regards film as a religion and is very religious to long shots. Although there are so many differences, the friendship they express in "Finny and Alexander" and "Eleven" is the same.
<11> is an adult's dream. He experienced his first love, marriage, and "derailment". finally return. It's similar to what Granny says at the end of "Finney and Alexander", when Granny recites Strindberg's "Fantasy": All troubles will disappear, and a new rainbow will appear in the sky. At that time, Alexander seemed to have escaped from the golden cicada.
Looking back at the youthful time , the
dream surrounds
the surrounding sunshine, the warm sun shining through the window, creeping on the ground
, their shadows are hanging upside down,
only because they are afraid of being naked and pale.
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