After thinking for a long time, how to analyze director Linklater's "Love in the Trilogy" and fill in the hole that I dug. The day before yesterday, I wrote no less than 5,000 words. I analyzed it from the content form, the director's video style, etc., to find out why it is a classic evidence. However, the more I wrote, the more disgusted I felt in my heart, as if my appetite was spoiled by eating without appetite. I can't help but ask myself if this is what I want, and the answer is clearly not. Prove that this word is too rational, mechanical and cold! Explaining love and art in this way is tantamount to solving love with an equation. However, love is not a product of reason. Although it is restrained by reason, once the gate of emotion is opened, the barrier of reason cannot be resisted anyway. I have always believed that love is closer to the essence of human beings, naturally and spontaneously. There is no need to make a decision before deciding whether I love someone or not, this is just to find a cover for whether I love or not. Strange to say, when we fall in love with someone, we know in our hearts, because that person will become as dazzling as the sun and as indispensable as the air to us. So, I decided to take a perceptual way to write.
Description is the bridge between life and art, so successful art is successful description. Linklater made his debut as a film lover, and has formed his unique style of feature film documentary during his long directing career , making his images have the unique texture of "carving time". "Love in the Trilogy" in The narrative time and the real time are highly overlapped, which achieves the maximum preservation of the sense of reality. At the beginning of "Dawn Breaking", the film relies on the celestial appearance and superb acting skills of Ethan Hawke and Delpy. Attract the attention of the audience. However, as the plot of the two continues to unfold, the audience can gradually enter the heart of the two. They exchanged views on husband and wife marriage and travel death on the train, and they touched each other and retracted their eyes in the record store. , the kiss in the Ferris wheel, the stroll in the streets of Paris, the milkshake poem written by the poet - you have me, I have you, and then go to the restaurant to express their feelings to each other on the phone, and explain their own feelings on the bench Philosophy of love. Jesse and Serena, two young people who have known each other for less than half a day, are getting closer and closer, and the entire romantic encounter process is accurately presented on the screen by Linklater, so that we as audiences can observe The subtle movements and demeanor of the two restore the delicate feelings and surging love in their hearts.
Each of us has had the experience of love or the vision of love. A successful work of art can always successfully awaken our dormant memories and impulses, and mobilize our senses. After watching it, you will be amazed or immersed in it for a long time and cannot extricate yourself. So we relive the whole process of love in our own imaginary world. Regarding love, American psychologist Sternberg proposed the three-factor theory of love , that is, the basic components of love are- passion, intimacy and commitment . Passion is the sexual component of love and emotional fascination; intimacy refers to the warm experience that can be caused in a love relationship; commitment refers to the decision expectation or guarantee to maintain the relationship. The three elements are combined into seven different love modes, namely only intimacy-like love, only passion-infatuated love, only commitment-empty love, lack of passion-partner love, lack of commitment - romantic love, lacking intimacy - stupid love, and only when all three are present is the perfect form of love. Dawn, sunset, dusk, and midnight, these three periods not only symbolize the process of human life and growth, but also reveal the process of love development. At the same time, the three also focus on corresponding passion, intimacy and commitment.
The passionate joy and intimacy of "Love Before Dawn" constitute the pinnacle of romance, and out of good wishes, people want time to stay in this moment forever. But the reality is that after dawn, the sun will rise as usual, illuminating everything around, and the laws of nature will not be changed because of the sincere hope of human beings.
"Love at Sunset and Dusk" corresponds to the middle age of human beings. When Jesse signed the bookstore, everyone focused on the gossip raised by the female reporter-that is, whether the two were together. At this time, Serena was watching in a soft light. with Jesse. The director played with a clever trick to make the audience mistakenly believe that the two were already together under the intentional guidance, only to find out that this was a reunion after a long absence. Compared with the straight to the point of the first part, the drama treatment at the beginning of the second part not only avoids giving people the feeling of a bloody plot, but arouses the strong curiosity of the audience, why are the two not together? What happened afterward? At the beginning of the second part, the film also gives a tight time limit - Jesse has to catch an afternoon flight. Under the urging of time, the two strolled the streets again, talking about the past and sharing the present. With the passage of time, the emotions in their hearts leaked and emerged little by little, until they completely broke through the shackles of reason. The two went from being polite and polite at first meeting to gradually expressing their true feelings, and then to sharing their inner secrets. Let the audience witness the joy when the two meet again, the trepidation when they test each other, the joy when recalling the past and expressing themselves, the pain of reason and emotion surging and struggling in the heart, the hidden hatred and deep hatred for the two people's unrequited love. sad. Since the beginning of the second part, it has given the audience the impression that Jesse is taking the initiative and cares more about the relationship between the two. Jesse travels across the ocean for an appointment, and Serena is absent. Jesse was fond of that night, but Serena claimed that she didn't even remember whether the two had a relationship. Jesse's married life was not happy, and he chose to maintain the marriage with his wife for the sake of their children. However, the reunion with Serena once again awakened Jesse's emotions and awakened the romantic soul within the man. This passion and romance swept away the middle-aged fatigue and lifeless soul of Jesse at once, and hoped and revitalized Jesse's body. Seeing this change in Jesse, my heart is filled with emotion, as if witnessing a miracle - love brings people back to life. The director's biggest chicken thief, and also the second biggest ingenuity, is at the beginning and end. In the middle of the process, Serena's emotions were intentionally concealed. At the end, when Serena played the guitar for Jesse, Serena's feelings and nostalgia for Jesse came to the fore. The audience and Jesse have been kept secret for so long, and now they realize that this feeling has such a heavy weight in Serena's heart, and it is not weaker than Jesse, but the concept and expression of the two are different, of course, because of Differences in gender positions. Men's pursuit of love is full of speed and passion, while women are much more thoughtful and introverted, even French women who are more open about their sexuality. This deep-seated feeling, Men are trapped in the regulation of reality, but their inner strong impulses instinctively turn into external positive behaviors. Women are trapped in the depths of their emotions, fearing loss and instinctively avoiding or even denying them. The film makes a delicate anatomy of the psychology of the sexes, and we can find the corresponding inner self in every reflection of the light on the scalpel. As a man, after watching the film, I felt a deep sense of identification, and more and more understanding of women."Yiyi" says: "Since there was a movie, human life has been extended three times." There is also such a sentence: Poets are human senses. The director condenses his personal experience and life insights into the film, and every audience can share, immerse and even communicate with it. To this extent, the director is not only a dream maker, but more like a guide in life, extending the length and thickness of our lives. " Love in the Trilogy" skillfully combines poetry and reality, showing you a paradigm of perfect love. There is passion, there is adventure, there is confusion, there is concern, there is miss, and there is remorse. It presents the reality of romance, the romance of reality. I don't know how to describe it other than to say that it is too classic and captures the core category of art. The film is especially interesting. If Jesse didn't follow Serena into the house and Serena didn't pick up the guitar, can the feelings between the two of them still be conveyed, and can their relationship have a happy ending? It would be too romantic to say that love can overcome everything. But on the other hand, it certainly won't, which would be too realistic and pessimistic. Of course, the answer doesn't matter at all. The most important thing is what you believe, which shows your attitude towards love.
"When Midnight Comes" pulls the protagonists to a more trivial reality of marriage. We look at the undisguised wrinkles on the faces of the two protagonists, their out-of-shape figures, and feel the passage of time on them. The protagonist's life focus is completely centered on various realities such as working and children. The moments belonging to two people are less and less, and the space of the two-person world is gradually squeezed. At the dinner, everyone talked about gender differences, marriage stories, artificial intelligence, environmental changes. At the hotel, the two also quarreled over Jesse's son, moving, and career. The quarrel between the two gradually escalated, and the relationship was on the verge of collapse. The director keeps reminding us that after forming a marriage and family, the density and difficulty of facing difficulties are all higher than the love stage. There are too many choices to balance each other, and the process of making choices is full of pain. Family marriage is full of sweet temptations and difficult pains. When it comes to family marriage, I can't help but mention Ozu Yasujiro's "Tokyo Story". The old woman said to the old man, "Tokyo is so big, if we get separated, I am afraid that we will never find each other for the rest of our lives." The old man said quickly: "Yes , Yes. " At that time, the feeling that it brought me was so heavy, people lived a lifetime, and two people bridged the gap between time and space in nothingness and held hands with each other. What kind of coincidence and chance is this? In this vast and unintentional world, who has the courage to go to the end alone and turn into a pile of green smoke on the roadside. The human species has been afraid of loneliness since its inception and craved love and attention. Throughout the ages, all human activities and history have been explained only for the sake of survival and the pursuit of happiness. People ask for love after trying to survive. Of course, everyone loves themselves. Loving oneself seems to be the safest, but it is actually the most dangerous. The process of one's extreme self-love is also the process of constantly excluding oneself from human society. Buddhism says to dispel sluggishness and resolve ego-clinging. The reason why people have thousands of troubles and strife is because their self-consciousness is too strong. The process of marriage and family is to properly dissolve the strong personal consciousness of two people and integrate them to establish a common family consciousness. This is the only way to happiness. In the troubles of a whole city, the two sides' love for each other is a strong rope. As long as the love does not break, the two will never get lost. So, at the end of the film, Jesse walks to Serena's seat, imitating the first acquaintance of the conversation, so that I can see that even with the passage of time and the wind and the sun, their love chain still shines.
The highest and lowest value of art is to impress the audience. Although Ai Zai trilogy describes the stories of Westerners, it can also impress us in China, and it can also impress the world in the world. Because the emotion in it is universal. Aside from the differences in people's nationality, gender, race, age, language, thinking, education level and cultural differences, the inner feelings of human beings are common. class, universally welcomed by mankind. China's "A Chinese Ghost Story" did not impress audiences in other parts of the world. The connotative theme contained in it is exactly the same as that of "Dawn Breaking" - love is coming, and I hope to keep love. Attached below is the lyrics of the theme song of "A Chinese Ghost Story". Ye Qianwen sang "Dawn, Please Don't Come". During the process of hand tapping, the melody and pictures kept floating in my mind.
Dawn, please don't come / Just let the dream be tonight, forever / Stay true to this moment, with this love in your heart / Command the soul to come in / Please call the dawn and don't come again / Feeling romantic now, let me go Outside the world / And the warmth of the breeze, send love in the cold rain / Silently let infatuation break through the obstacles / Don’t allow the red sun, tell people to be separated / Long good night, don’t change / Please let the dawn not need to be more beautiful
The final conclusion, the so-called classic, can stand the test of time, can withstand repeated scrutiny, and depict the real human nature. The process of feeling the classics is the process of being moved, shocked and inspired. If it goes beyond this level, it should be liberation.
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