On December 28, 1895, the Lyon photographic equipment manufacturer Lumiere Brothers held the world's first film screening. This day is recognized as the birth day of the movie. In 1928, France's first sound film, "Waters of the Nile", was released.
In the 1930s, French films were mostly based on real life themes. The combination of poetic pictures and real-life situations is known as "poetic realism".
At 4:45 a.m. on September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany dispatched a large number of army and air forces to raid Poland in three routes.
At 5pm on September 3, France was forced to declare war on Germany after the peace talks were rejected by Hitler.
After the outbreak of World War II, a large number of famous directors and actors were forced into exile abroad. From then to the early 1950s, the French film industry was in a downturn.
From February 1955 to June 1958, France established five governments successively. During this period, France was engaged in a protracted colonial war in Algeria, which exhausted its financial, material and human resources, deteriorating France's finances, deepening domestic class conflicts, and exacerbating social crises.
In the late 1950s, there was a new wave in French cinema.
"Red Balloon" is a children's film for adults.
In the opening scene of the film, there is a cloudy sky in the middle, and there is a hazy gray-blue city silhouette in the distance. In the center of the picture is a railing, with tall buildings on both sides. In strong contrast with the sky, it almost becomes a Dark depressing silhouette. The boy came from the lower left corner of the screen and played with the cat naturally at the entrance of the stairs.
The film's themes are innocence, freedom and hope.
The urban buildings in the picture are regular and dilapidated, and most of them are traditional stone buildings that are square and square. The overall tone is blue-blue, which makes people feel cold and hard.
The adults in the film are dignified and mostly dressed in black, white and gray. They are usually under the shadow of the building in the composition, and seem to be oppressed and shrouded by something invisible.
The balloon itself symbolizes innocence and freedom, and the warm red symbolizes hope.
The balloons in the film can't help but remind people of naughty and cute dogs, especially when the balloon is hit and leaked, the picture is almost still, and the soundtrack stops abruptly. Breathless. With the bad boy's kick, the balloon completely burst.
The child seems to be forgetful all the time. When he is flying into the air with the balloons of the whole city, will he still miss the red balloon that was discarded on the grass?
Perhaps on the other hand, the red balloon itself is an external manifestation of the boy's innocence. With the suppression of adults and the group beatings of bad boys, the boy's innocence finally left him, and he seemed to fly into the sky. , has grown up.
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