The first thing you need to know about the lens
is the choice of lens. It is also a work of the BBC. The lens of this documentary does not pursue beauty like "Beautiful China". On the contrary, what the lens reveals is bloody things, and even the strong shaking of many scenes during candid shooting. , the quality is not high. Its footage is very fragmented, but it is piled up to carry out such activities - recording, as at the 9th World Anthropology Congress, anthropologists passed the "Resolution on Film and Television Anthropology", writing: "Film, Audio and video tapes are today an indispensable source of scientific information. They provide reliable information on human behavior,
. , the architect of the lens is the top priority of the film. Leng Yefu said in "The Narrative and Structure of Documentary": "In a documentary, the structure is the embodiment of the narrative, and the narrative can be smoothly carried out only through the structure. Therefore, to establish the structure is to establish the way to unfold and complete the narrative. "It's such scattered shots, in a certain narrative sequence, that achieve the shocking effect of this documentary. The structure of "Citizens of the Earth" is very obvious, divided into three parts: the preface, animals and people and the conclusion. Among them, animals and people are divided into five parts: pets, meat, leather, entertainment, and science. Each article is divided into different occasions and detailed narrative, infiltrating all aspects of life.
Finally, let's re-evaluate the expressiveness of the lens. The film mostly uses close-up shots, such as showing the innocent eyes of the animals in the cage, giving people a strong and clear visual impact, which is very infectious.
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The film is voiced by Joaquin Phoenix. Qiao Kun did not have the sunshine and vigor that belonged to his original age. From his deep eyes, he could feel too much about human nature. His voice has a natural sense of vicissitudes. Listening to his mature and thick dubbing narrates it, it complements the content of this documentary and complements each other.
The author thinks that the highlight of the commentary is the use of a lot of information to persuade the audience. In addition to the collected shots, there are also historical, literary, religious and other materials. The documentary refers to Nobel Prize winner Singer's novel "The Enemy, A Story of Love", and quotes the words in it to illustrate the point of the film: "When Herman often witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always There's this idea: From the way humans treat other animals, all people are Nazis." Also relates to Shakespeare: In the Wilderness, King Lear asks the Earl of Gloucester: "How do you see the world? ' replied the blind Earl of Gloucester, "I see with emotion." And called to see the world with emotion! And tactfully quoted Emerson: "More than a hundred years ago, Emerson said: We dine gracefully in front of us, the bloody slaughterhouse carefully hidden and skillfully located miles away, There is a tacit understanding." "Where there is a slaughterhouse, there is a battlefield." These Lev. Tolstoy and other famous quotes are interspersed throughout the film.
In addition, Buddhist ideas are also reflected in the film. It can be seen that the film is rich in information, gathers the famous sayings of various schools, and gathers the thoughts of hundreds of schools.
The soundtrack
of the whole film is Moby, known as a musical genius. Perhaps, only Moby's music can interpret the heavy content of the documentary and highlight the alertness of the documentary. Moby himself is always full of a futuristic temperament. In his music, he always has more or less inner alert thoughts. He is away from the hustle and bustle, depression and confusion of the city, and even from the earth where he lives, and strives Pursue purity and freedom. Although he is mainly electronic music, he is always able to incorporate other types of music into his music.
The film starts off with ethereal music. The ethereal person is difficult to understand. It seems illusory but not illusory. It is light and ethereal. With the blue planet shot from multiple angles, it feels more natural and mysterious. Lao Tzu once said, "The sound of the sound is great," and the sound that is hard to detect is the sound of the sound. The same is true for Moby's soundtrack. He would not choose the majestic and imposing sound of "Pirates of the Caribbean". Instead, he chose the ethereal music in the genre of light music, as if whispering in a whisper, but it further highlights the heaviness of natural forces.
When describing the pet chapter of daily life, the percussion element is added to the ethereal music, which is integrated with the daily fast-paced life. In the soundtrack of the filming of the tragic death of animals, there will be whispers and sings, as if the last moan before dying. In Kang Chang's description, Moby maintains his consistent composition style, inserting poignant string sounds into the electronic ethereal music, enriching the elements of music, so that people's feelings will not just stay in the ethereal.
Moby himself has created a Guinness record. He has a single with a speed of 1015 beats per minute, making it the fastest song in the history of the Guinness record. In the documentary involving massacre and other clips, Moby did not forget to play his fast-paced speed, which was exciting.
By the end of the sentence, the soundtrack has turned into a light and romantic guitar sound, which is gentle and beautiful, and the sound is endless, which is in line with the entire theme of the documentary.
What is an impact
documentary about? Documentaries are not just to present the natural development of individual daily life or events; the purpose of documentaries is not to mechanically reproduce the natural face of life coldly. The world documentary has developed as an art. Although the genres, types and creative concepts of the East and the West are different, and the themes and creative goals that documentarians focus on are also very different, they have one thing in common, that is, those who only stay on the surface. Documentaries that document form without thinking are worthless. It can be said that the soul of a documentary is thought.
Influential works are often controversial. In fact, human beings' understanding of the relationship between themselves and animals has been in constant debate. Perhaps in the 18th century, Rousseau made us realize that human beings and nature are one, but Kant told students in his ethics lecture that human beings have no direct obligation to animals, and animals are unconscious. After reading a lot of film reviews about "Citizens of the Earth", most of them expressed the feeling of becoming a vegetarian, and at the same time, there are many people who oppose vegetarians, thinking that the food chain is a natural choice. The film is narrated with the Buddhist thought of compassion and compassion, and finally proposes that the three main life forces on earth are: nature, animals and human beings. We are all part of this big family of earth, we are connected to each other, there is no way to separate!
As a documentary, "Citizens of the Earth" has recorded every bit of what we have done to animals for five years, revealing the truth. To treat such a truth, as said at the beginning of the film: the three stages of truth being accepted by people: 1. Laughing. 2. Strongly opposed. 3. Acknowledge. No matter what disputes and opinions we hold, seeing what human beings have done, at least we should reflect on them through documentaries: human beings should love animals, just as those who know pity those who know later, and those who are strong love those who are weak.
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