Among the many European films, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" is a typical horizon film. There are often blurry shots throughout the film, which is the director's technique of blurring in-focus and out-of-focus, while the movement of long takes replaces the Hollywood montage (the director is American). The reason for this is that only in this way can we see clearly the background pictures that we ignore in our daily life. After all, we are used to focusing on a specific thing with our eyes and blurring the background, sometimes even blurring the background. Squinting just to catch the target. This act of self-seeing clearly lacks the overall picture, so in this film, we often see the protagonist alone in the sea or the city. When creating the feeling of a drop in the ocean, horizon gradually enters. our sight.
Another unique feature of the film is that the director interspersed many different pictures in the narrative. Some of these pictures have nothing to do with the story at all, and some are the protagonist's own memories and imagination. The setting of the former may make us feel a little awkward. After all, the two sets of pictures before and after are not related, but the reason for this is also for the purpose of showing horizon, because the film wants to express not only the fate of the protagonist, but also a deeper It is the inner relationship between man and the world. An individual is just a drifting point in the boundless horizon. The world is intertwined with countless points and planes. Of course, it must be emphasized that the insertion of irrelevant pictures is different from Chaplin. In the vaudeville montage effect that is often seen in movies, Chaplin wants to make the story progress more enjoyable, and the irrelevant pictures reveal an extension of the world.
As for the occasional storytelling of memory and imagination in the film, it is also commendable. When I watched it, it was difficult for me to figure out which was the protagonist’s memory and which was his imagination. Such stream-of-consciousness editing was intended to make us blur the past and reality, time and time. In this way, the concept of ' is incorporated into the image. Time is not a spool, but more like a cone. The mixture of memory and imagination at the upper layer forms the time at the bottom. That is to say, time is a spout of memory and imagination. This also seems to imply to us that film is actually an art of time, only time can help us roam in horizon, and the movement of space will only frame us.
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