At night, I watched one of Michelangelo's masterpieces, The Red Desert, and wrote a superficial opinion. First of all, in terms of content, although the first half of the movie is very laborious, and it is very difficult to find the center of the movie, many details and the story Gilianna tells the children clearly reveal the real theme, that is, people in a mechanical environment mood. From this point of view, the whole film makes people depressed, uncomfortable, hysterical, and even creates a sense of emptiness, strangeness and alienation; the former feeling is mainly shown by the performance of Giriana played by Monica Vitti, the kind of breakdown, nervousness And neuroticism makes one feel the pressure of everything under the mechanical civilization and pollution, the latter feeling is mainly shown by the behavior of the various characters connected with the heroine, from the riverside cottage at the beginning, that expressive shot ——Everyone can't see clearly in the fog from a distance, everyone's face is blurred, and it's so far away from Giliana-it seems to directly pick out the vague and unreal clues about the relationship between people and put it in the light; and Gilliana's husband's frosty relationship with her later on is also a good hint of this. At the same time, the contagion brought by the distant ship in the film can also be understood as the disintegration of absolutism; the ship symbolizes technology and industry, and as a means of transportation, it itself means the relationship between place and place. Communication, so on the one hand it is technology that corrupts our morals, and on the other hand, technology breaks the original absolute local, as Mayadren said, every absolutist tribe is turned by the advent of aircraft, trains, etc. On the contrary, the machine makes each part add up to form a whole, and the people who were originally in the absolutist tribe cannot adapt to the moral position in the contemporary context, it permeates like a contagion, and finally makes everyone in a huge and oppressive ". The boat” is overwhelmed, morally unable to adapt to the current era, unable to find his place, and still unable to get rid of the “boat” – just like the ship’s chirping that is repeated throughout the film, on any occasion exist in. Including the fact that Gilliana wanted to board the ship at night, but she chose not to board the ship. The whole film shows the trance and bewilderment state of contemporary people under the technology and pollution, everyone is on the verge of collapse, and Giriana gathers all the people, showing the unspeakable pain that the audience can't breathe. Technically, refusing narrative is still the best method, which allows every scene to be carefully shot, every thought can be embedded in the film, and at the same time borrows a lot of symbols, so that these ideas are not too exposed, but in appropriate The scene reminded the audience again. Long shots can always deepen the source of pain and make people feel tormented. A long period of silence is the best way to express it. Without these long speechless shots, these pains would not be able to show so deeply. .
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