Not only tango but also movies and everything is about "time"

Gudrun 2022-03-21 09:03:06

I started watching this movie without knowing anything about it. It's been nearly an hour since I entered the theater, so this movie is only over six hours for me personally.

I don't understand the language (there are Japanese subtitles but it still looks hard) I didn't preview it I missed the beginning and I didn't understand the plot This made me focus all my attention on the point of "time"

John Cage said, "I don't see time as a law, I see it as a medium that allows sound to occur." He became a great experimental musician (and mushrooms) by escaping the concept of time defined by the division of the score. expert)

Music and time are inseparable and intimate as if woven together with time

Tango and time are inseparable and intimate, as if stepping on the body of time

Film and time are inseparable and intimate, as if they are faced with copying paintings in time

A seven-hour film with no color, no fast-paced dramatic editing, no complex storytelling, it's all about doing one thing well—bringing the viewer closer to the film, breaking the fourth wall in time

The brilliance of movies is often reflected in the freedom to manipulate images. Time is not like life. You have to spend every minute and every second. All love, hate, parting, joys, sorrows, and sorrows have to be displayed in front of you every second. You probably only have two kinds. Ways to make time go faster

The first one is sleeping (I like sleeping in the movie theater. The intermittent movie viewing experience can also make you more embarrassed to the smell of the image instead of being blindly attracted by the plot)

The second is Douyin (an average of five times per minute to deconstruct your concept of time)

But when this movie unfolds in front of you so slowly and long, what the director really wants to do is more clear when I wake up after falling asleep in the cinema

Take advantage of the audience's fatigue to show the desperation in this day-to-day life

Use slow shot scheduling to make the image time infinitely close to the real-life time rhythm

Use black and white to remove excess interference to increase authenticity (the human eye is more objective in shape than color)

Seven hours to get rid of the tiredness of my body My brain doesn't feel very tired because it averages 16 hours a day awake year after year

Every time I think of this film, I am always moved by the time rhythm that is different from most films.

In documentaries and movies, there is always such a work that is willing to make such a beautiful balance of image time and image texture (the designed lens scheduling, face art sound, etc. that documentaries do not have), just like a big pot of pig's trotter soup. Bubbling bubbles in my heart forever

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Extended Reading
  • Wilfrid 2022-03-23 09:03:10

    I give a pair of scissors and cut it to within 5 hours. Besides, I have nothing to say.

  • Marlene 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    The "people" in Beratar's shots are worth noting: different from Tarkovsky's position that people are equally regarded as one of the "objects", his eyes on people always seem to be divided: on the one hand, the film The characters and their relationships play a more or less central role in the allegorical/metaphorical nature, while the camera, on the other hand, is repeatedly moved away from the characters, either causing the action to take place off-screen, or simply focusing on On the one hand, the characters are flat and symbolic, on the other hand, the camera is obsessed with capturing their hypocritical "everyday"; in his works, there are never any human characters, and the gaze on them always focuses on their An animal rather than a human side, so the characters are always reducible, born only for concepts, which at the same time puts the meaning of the gaze in jeopardy - in short, the gaze is inhuman and loveless. Leaving aside the long-shots that baffle the necessity of shifting perspectives, the film's most laudable feature is the circular structure of text organization - but is this structure literary or cinematic? It continues to leave us with lingering doubts.

Satantango quotes

  • Százados: Not that human life was so highly valued. Keeping order appears to be the business of the authorities, but in fact it's the business of all. Order. Freedom, however, has nothing human. It's something divine, something... our lives are too short for us to know properly. If you're looking for a link, think of Pericles, order and freedom are linked by passion. We have to believe in both, we suffer from both. Both from order and freedom. But human life is meaningful, rich, beautiful and filthy. It links everything. It mistreats freedom only... wasting it, as if it was junk. People don't like freedom, they are afraid of it. The strange thing is there is nothing to fear about freedom... order, on the other hand, can often be frightening.

  • Futaki: I shouldn't drink. When I do I keep thinking of coffins.