"The Square" by Ruben Ostlund, winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2017 Cannes International Film Festival, was screened at the Pingyao International Film Festival, and we were fortunate enough to watch it. The pictures allotted above are all squares! Picture 1, the old stage in the ancient city of Pingyao; picture 2, it is said that the wooden bed where Cixi stayed when she escaped from Pingyao; picture 3, the modern big screen at the opening ceremony of the Pingyao International Film Festival; picture 4, the schedule of the Pingyao National Film Festival. It can be seen that people have been inseparable from the square since ancient times.
The director of the Swedish film "Square" used a lot of film lens language to interpret the square in this film: a decorative painting composed of squares spiraling upwards in a radiating and diverging pattern hangs on the wall of the entrance hall of the hero Christian's house; The little boy who was wronged came to the door to ask for an explanation. He stood at the bottom of the stairs of the male owner's house. The camera looked down from the top floor and shot the staircase with a square spiral. The little boy stood in the square corridor and looked up; the spotlights at the entrance of the exhibition hall showed The square shape illuminates the square at the entrance of the exhibition hall; the actor playing the gorilla jumped out of control and jumped onto the square table, messing up the items on the table, and teasing the female guests.
The film's leading actor, the director of the pavilion, Christian, and his team designed a performance art exhibition in which a square pattern was drawn on the square. People entering the box must abide by the rules of "mutual respect, sharing happiness, and equal rights and responsibilities". What does it look like when people enter the cube?
However, as soon as the plan was introduced, the male protagonist and his team kept getting out of control! In the end, in the pouring rain, the male protagonist emptied all the garbage in the trash can downstairs and rummaged through the filth! The camera is shot from above: on the square screen, the male protagonist is sitting on the garbage all over the place and is embarrassed...
There is a Chinese saying: Don't go out of the circle when you do things (square rules are also a kind of circle)
At this point, I suddenly understood why the film (The Square) was translated as "The Square".
Walking out of the movie palace, I suddenly found that the city wall of Pingyao ancient city also happened to be surrounded by a square shape! It's just that people in Pingyao have been in and out of the six gates of this ancient city for more than 2,700 years, and they have been living and living to this day...
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