Dyke is indeed an experimental sci-fi film, but it is better defined as a romance than a sci-fi film. A person rushes to death in memory, loves on the road of death, and uses the most heart-wrenching memory moment to rush to love through time.
Under the influence of the French New Wave, "Dike" uses all jump cuts. In fact, from the very beginning, I was used to the influence of flow and my perception was very poor. Even after watching the French voice narration for about 10 minutes, I felt completely There is no need to deliberately use fixed frames. However, it was not until the moment when the woman in the hero's heart blinked, that she suddenly felt "sunk in", and a heartbeat that could empathize with the hero appeared. It has been narrated in a fixed rhythm and narration. In the end, when the male protagonist returns to the past and realizes the fate that will come, the moment he runs to the woman in his heart, the whole picture does not follow the principle of "visual residue", but from the perspective of the state From the above, the male protagonist is running towards the female protagonist on the screen, and when the narration says that the male protagonist cannot escape fate, time and the fallen man in childhood memories, the whole film is connected, from the content. Perfectly echoes the opening narration: "Memories are no different from ordinary moments. Only when those moments leave scars will you really remember them."
Although the short film is only 28 minutes, it fully expresses a fatalism that cannot escape time. The male protagonist who has arrived in the future knows that "people can't refuse their past, because that means their own survival." So at the moment of his fall, he may have a lot of thoughts and memories flow, and he still feels happy. I suddenly realized that in 1962, Chris Mark had already realized that the time-travel itself was a reflection of the fate of the loop, and no one could escape time.
In fact, "Dike" itself is extreme, but this does not mean that it has no merit. As an experimental short film, it further confirms that the film is based on the image and the story, and the audience is based on emotional empathy. A single picture with emotional content can achieve the viewing experience of a moving picture, so we still pay more attention to the core rather than the expression and means on the way of creation.
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