8.2
I had the feeling when I first watched Impressions of Nice. The image itself is enough to form a point of view, without the help of narrative, and the texture of this film is even more full. Many people are saying that the front and back are out of touch. The driver's child, Aoki Shinichi, was redeemed as a dividing point. Some views are that the first half is too boring, and some views are that the second half is too protracted. These movie viewing attitudes are actually similar. Everyone thinks that this movie "should" be a crime movie or "should" be a criminal investigation movie, so what people expect are the "type coolness" corresponding to these routine movies. ". But in my opinion, similar to "Impression of Nice", this is an urban space film where director Akira Kurosawa does not tell a story, but creates and presents a world. So he needs to reveal every face and every word in detail, as well as the details of the case in the latter part, so that we can really see the mountains, the sea, the cars, the bridges, the phone booths, and the citizens the police officers visited. Really hear what the lower world under the villa would make.
Even though the criminal Takeuchi Ginjiro is always looking up to the heavenly villa, he can only pose a threat to Gonto Imago. If it were Baba, Ishimaru, Kamiya, and Kasai, the kidnapping of the driver's son would be completely ineffective. , For the audience, the previous setting stems from the film's start, Quanto refuting the public's claim that quality is better than profit, and the criminal Takeuchi is strangely omniscient in this regard. In the beginning, the kingdom of heaven and hell were instantly intertwined between Kwon Teng and the driver Aoki, and Kwon Teng never was able to call the police, "the money can be earned again", and immediately contacted and paid the ransom, until he knew that his child was safe and immediately called the police, "This is the case. "Money matters to life", reluctance to pay the ransom and expecting the criminal to directly return Aoki's son, the change was unexpectedly natural, so that it was impossible to tell whether he was pretending to be confused or naively thinking that the criminal would really let the driver's son go. . The change of decision was also at the right time, and it was completely impossible to tell whether it was driven by his own conscience, or the moral kidnapping of criminals, family members and drivers, or the pure interests of Hexi's public opinion that will not help you. Perhaps there is no fundamental reason. After this dilemma has been established for so long, it has formed an isolated situation like "Twelve Angry Men", and the choice of following the majority has become a must for the audience. In the second half of the film, the performance of Kwonto Imago loses its previous delicacy, which just confirms the power of the media. The newspaper describes what kind of person you are, and you may really approach that image.
I am also trying to compare the vertical movement of the narrative in "Parasite". The latter's urban space exploration is actually far behind. Most of the views are purely based on plots, rather than calm images. At that time, President Park called "the taste of the subway". In fact, it can also be compared with the "hot" in the mouth of Takeuchi in this film, they are all publicized in the form of lines. Why did director Akira Kurosawa show this perception more brilliantly? One is the way of repeating it repeatedly. After the phone is tapped, it is played repeatedly. This plot device itself must belong to the type of criminal investigation, and it is also a self-inspection of the media. Going back to the same context again and again, this is the magnification of space relative to time. On the other hand, the latter requires the characters to take the initiative to mention it in different plots, and pretend to "sniff" in different plots, which seems a lot stupid. Furthermore, it is the way to provide motivation. The Tokura Police Department descended from the hilltop villa to the slums, trying to relive the life of a criminal. "Hot" can reasonably become the reason for the crime. "Taste" always stays on the lines, "Subway" As a modification, it eliminates the need for the image to establish this understanding, and only uses people's inherent presuppositions to provide motivation to people in the world of the film.
Even if this vertical movement is what the film's theme calls for, it doesn't mean that some of the scenes in the first and second half are unnecessary. Of course, this kidnapping case is just a simple case, we can regard all the actions that affect the key behavior as "the continuation of the present" in Gildelez's words, with perception, emotion, action, and relation. What the film presents is a "time icon", which contains not only the appearance of the present, but also the coexistence of past, present, and potential time, and can even be used as ethnographic research material. The city is a condensed field, not a stage. It is woven by the action plan of the city's police force and Aoki Shinichi's memory network. It is a whole rather than a whole. If I go back to the concept of "hot", I will feel it from the beginning. The tit-for-tat meeting of the board of directors of the shoe industry at home, to the hot bath interrupted by the telephone ring. That is a process of increasing entropy. Once the 30 million yuan is taken out, Quan Teng will be swept out of the company by the company, and the family's living standard will also plummet. This is not even his own child; after making up his mind, this heat comes from the sense of responsibility of the Tokura police department. , he is willing to spend his own money to save other people's children, so we have to do our best to recover his money. Director To Qifeng is right, all the characters set in this film are great, and it is the visual thinking that pushes it to a completely different realm. We have seen all the heat in the so-called "Kingdom of Heaven", the complexities and contradictions between the capitalists and people in the periphery, the open and secret struggles, and the "evil" of the people's hearts. Only the time we spent on the top of the mountain for the previous hour was long enough, and we descended to the The whole city of Kamakura will realize that the heat of "hell" is even worse. The smell of fish, urination, and the rotting smell of two corpses seemed to penetrate the screen. The rubbish covered in the pond, the letters piled up in the newspaper, the sweat alkali squeezed out of the dance hall, people lived in gold like walking dead. Cho, everyone in this place needs no morals, and won't be kidnapped by mundane things. The only thing that brings the coolness is that everyone suddenly looks out the window at the pink smoke, which is probably the highest point in the city, and everyone can see it equally, that's all.
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