"Complete freedom = complete loneliness" ends with a black screen of Mona's despair and pain, which is still unfinished and heart-wrenching, her wandering, lonely and free, wandering and helpless, full of personality, unrealistically relying on the charity of others to survive , the last fallen life, finally, ended. The beginning advances in slow long takes, accompanied by the music of "Morning Slow", as if it were Mona's death knell. Narrator's commentary. Most of the way the characters appear is that the camera rises from the bottom (land, road,,,,). Multi-length shots, sometimes moving long shots, moving along with Mona’s movement, and also using long-range shots to show the barren, cold and rural environment (reminds me of “Nowhere”); sometimes fixed long shots, The method of panning is used to show the small and even dirty houses of the harsh environment; sometimes a medium shot is used, and the camera is moved laterally following the movement of the characters. The fusion of subjective and objective lenses, but most of the lenses still record objectively as a "bystander", aiming the lens at marginalized groups in society. The maid's speech to the camera broke the "fourth wall".
music! ! ! The most important theme of the film. Music is carnival, the best medicine to accompany loneliness.
In fact, you said that Mona likes this kind of drifting feeling. She also said at the end of the film that she hates this kind of life. When she met the man who pruned the grape branches, that man promised her a stable and stable life, and in the end, she broke his promise, which made her very sad to leave. She also said she wanted to be a janitor because there were so many big houses there.
The narrative method of the film is the interweaving of the past and the present, using cross-montage, the present - people's discussion and investigation of this "mysterious" orphan girl; the past - the orphan girl's floating life.
Cool tones throughout
Composition, Grandma Varda is a photographer, she is really good at composition sensitivity! Symmetrical, according to the figure,,,
Contrast, dirty hands
Granny's greed for death and nephew
Mona may be looking for the meaning of life's journey. She met all kinds of people on the road, some good people, but in the end, she still fell to such a point that she didn't like to be in contact with people, she didn't like "hypocrisy", free and easy, but, It's all about "how to survive".
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