At the end of the movie, I told my friends next to me that this level of experimentation was just acceptable for me to put into the movie, and it played a good role in making the audience understand the movie without being vulgar. "I'm not there" continues the experimental style of "Velvet Goldmine" and goes a step further, using 6 actors to describe the life of the same person, ranging from skin color to age and even gender. "Presence" echoes just fine. I won't go into detail about the many bright spots in it. I believe you can tell them apart even today when everyone has read countless films.
This time, I decided to talk about the application of experimental techniques to film (this sentence is really official). Generally speaking, we divide movies into three categories: plot, record, and experiment. Of course, in recent years, there have been forms such as Dramadocu, which are just variants. When I studied experimental films in school, everyone thought it was just fun, but it was useless. 80% of what you made was so unreal. You had to rely on the director to explain how there could be an audience. At most, you can only label yourself as arty arty. Later, the teacher said something that made me realize that the purpose of learning experimental films is to add experimental elements to the film. So the films "Essence Train" and "Eraser Head", which were used as examples later, have become my favorite films. The good use of the experimental method will definitely allow the audience to get closer to the movie and deeply understand the characters' mood, at least it has the joy of teaching people that the movie can still be shot like this.
Speaking of experimental techniques, David Lynch has to be mentioned. Of course, he is more experimental, while Todd Haynes is more commercial. "Mu Holland Road" seems to be too experimental, so that everyone can't understand the plot, but David Lynch's bull X is that he doesn't explain anything, let all film critics think for themselves, so after finishing the research of this film Afterwards, I thought the film was too good, and I don't know if it was the original meaning or the imagination of the film critics that made the film more interesting, and then I found that David Lynch was actually experimenting with the audience.
Going back to "I'm not there", the ten thousand-year-old dilemma of whether a film is good for business or not for business is put aside. No matter how professional and non-professionals like it, it must be a good movie. Biographical films of musicians are very easy to make and vulgar. I believe that you have seen many such films that are described in chronological order and the whole piece of music is used. The ability to make achievements in seemingly unbreakable themes shows the director's screenwriting skills.
Yesterday's news of Michael Jackson's passing made the headlines of almost all the news, and I'd rather believe it wasn't true, but it seemed just right to end his splendid life at such an age. I believe that there will be a biographical film about Michael Jackson soon. I still hope that Todd Haynes will show the life of the king. I am too worried that other directors will ruin MJ.
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