Stunning, it's hard to imagine this is a masterpiece from the silent film era!
This is a film that happened exactly 100 years ago, at the beginning of the 20th century, Europe had entered the age of electrification, and all industries were influenced by science. The movie is no exception. Although "Ghost Carriage" is adapted from a novel, director Victor Sjostrom used some technical means of photography, as well as rich film language and expression means to enhance the viewing value of the film. .
The first is the structure of the script. The director used the narrative technique of interlude, and used a series of intricate flashback techniques to walk the story in three layers of time and space: the past, the future, and the present. Dream and reality, wakefulness and trance, and statement tone It is separated from the conditional tone, and it penetrates into the deep psychological space of the characters. Through the excavation of rich imagination and creativity, the film has a critical color. It is worth mentioning that the violent scenes and naturalistic philosophical views, Protestant and folk traditional mysticism ghost scenes in the film, because of their sharp contrasts, make the style of the film more prominent.
In addition, the film also has a profound critical attitude at the level of realism (mainly social issues and moral issues). The original work of the novel preached that life is bound to be bound by strict creeds; and the director criticized and criticized it by adapting the protagonist's moral decay. At the beginning of the 19th century, the bad habit of drinking alcohol in Sweden spread in the society. The director arranged a scene for satire. Three men were drinking on the street. At first, the atmosphere was harmonious. killed.
Photography uses a variety of technical means such as special lighting and multiple exposures, and the contrast between indoor and outdoor cool and warm colors creates a magical and illusory cinematic aesthetic space.
Insert an interesting digression: Ang Lee is a loyal fan of Bergman. Ang Lee has a famous emoji "Although I don't understand, but I am shocked", the source of the documentary "Looking for Bergman", Several of Ang Lee's other directors went to a small island in Sweden to visit Bergman, who had not lived for many years. When Ang Lee saw Bergman, he burst into tears; while Bergman was Victor Sjoss Loyal fans of Trom. The island where the Swedish director Bergman lived, the house was where his idol Sviktor Jostrom died, and 36 years later, Viktor played the old man in Bergman's Wild Strawberries The name of the film was made history by the professor of medicine. ?
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