According to Bazin's article "The Prohibited Montage", he opposed montage's division of spatial unity and action elements, and recognized that the long shot of the film retained two or more action elements at the same time. Bazin opposed film technique, the "trick" of montage, but accepted the "fake" of balloons in red balloons, because long takes made the stunt acceptable and acceptable to the audience. The question is not whether the balloon actually swims, but the swimming of the balloon, which obeys the spatial unity of events. The unity of space is also reflected in the depth relationship of space. A large number of scenes in the film use deep depth to strengthen the reality of space, which is also the aesthetics that Bazin agrees with. Therefore, for the audience, following the spatial unity and complete action elements, the disabled montage makes the audience actively choose to believe in the "technique" of balloons and devote themselves to the dreams created by children's games and movies.
Bazin also points out that The Red Balloon gives non-living things biotic qualities. Yes, the children's interaction with the balloons is like a game in terms of the film's plot. According to Zhu Guangqian's "Talking about Beauty", the game is a kind of "take it for granted" activity. Only children can concentrate on it. Although they are playing, they are not consciously playing, whether it is a child who protects a balloon or a person who destroys the balloon. A group of children, it is undeniable that they are unconsciously immersed in the game of balloons; and the game has an empathic effect, adults clearly distinguish the boundaries between people and things, and distinguish between imagination and reality, children. Treating things as oneself, thinking that they also have life, can hurt or itch, the child guards his balloon, believing that the balloon has life, which is diametrically opposite to the attitude of the adults in the film; in the end, it is also the game that gives the child Create an ideal world outside the real world to comfort the emotions. The loneliness of the child has been created at the beginning of the film, and the appearance of the balloon is a dream jointly built by the child and the game, soothing the child's loneliness and loneliness.
But children and balloons are always a game. The biggest difference between games and art is that art is social, while games are not. It is the director behind the camera and the entire film team who make the children's games with balloons an art. Through the medium of film, the images of balloons are used to form works to convey feelings to future generations, creating a game and a dream for the audience.
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