felt a lot of emotion. There is no such thing as a tragicomedy in a dynasty, but it goes through ups and downs in a short period of peace, with war as the node of change, especially in life, where storms are brewing in peace. In the second paragraph of the film, "Face", the photographer Alexander came to London again. Facing a familiar lover and a city he must be familiar with, what haunts his mind is the broken memory and the dilemma of reality. His hometown is still threatened by war. In the film, "Peace is just an accident, not a rule." This is his most real understanding of life intertwined with vitality and unpredictable fate. It is also the film that breaks the linear narrative and uses intricate character relationships and inter-causal narratives. Logic's footnote to the obscure theme "Time never dies. The circle is not round."
[Son of Macedonia]
The film "Heavy Rain is Coming" is Macedonian director Mirko Manchevsky's screen debut and his most well-known and acclaimed film. The film was brilliant at the Venice Film Festival in 1994, and won several awards including the best film in competition, and was nominated for the best foreign language film at the Oscar in 1995. Personally, I think the film reflects the disintegration of Yugoslavia. Under the post-turbulent situation, the Republic of Macedonia's strict discipline and fearful living conditions in the violence and conflict shocked most moviegoers at that time, especially the children who were assimilated by violence during the war unconsciously showed their indifference to life. And the details of the life of the young people racking their brains to kill for pleasure are fully revealed, making the audience feel panic and at a loss when facing such a different world at the same time.
Can't help but think of the "Tower of Babel", which is also a paragraph narrative. Director Alessandro Gonzalez Inarido and screenwriter Guillermo Arriga completed a somewhat similar story, but the story is different from The political background is not as closely related as in "Heavy Rain". The stories of "Tower of Babel" take place in Morocco, Mexico and Japan, which basically meet the laws of linear narrative. The theme is that language barriers and cultural differences cause communication problems. The tragedy that could have been avoided has become doomed, but it is not difficult to find traces of ingenuity in the story of "Tower of Babel" by comparing "The Heavy Rain". It is obvious that the author is repeating his old skills in dealing with unfamiliar subjects, the play is very skilled, and the story also has gimmicks Therefore, it has received numerous nominations for film festivals of all sizes, but important awards related to directors, screenwriters, and films are ultimately lost. Although the award is the same as the box office, it is not enough to measure the quality of a film, because the judges market and the audience market are both Even if you have your own motives, you can't represent the creator's standards, but from the side it reflects that the film's intentions are speculative, at least the real problems and personal emotions reflected are not so clear.
On the other hand, in "Heavy Rain", director Mirko Manchevsky has experience studying in the United States and has a considerable degree of mastery of film text and photography skills. Reflecting on the fire of war, the images reveal inner grief and regret. It can even be inferred that the extremely emotional photographer in the film has more or less the shadow of the director himself. He also left the motherland and then returned to his hometown. Shocked, the feeling of being a human being and not being utterly horrific is excruciatingly painful for him, but in the midst of politics and war, there is no other way, so the contradictory Alexander in the story uses the "face" in the anger and "photos". "In the middle of nowhere to contend with fate, and finally return to dust, and the director made the world into contemplation through the sincere work of "Heavy Rain is Coming".
【Gunfire】
I'm interested in how the film handles scenes where guns and ammunition appear, and how guns shape the characters. The American Coen Brothers "Blood Maze" regards guns as symbols and clues (as well as Jiang Wen's "Looking for Guns"), the violent aesthetics of John Woo "Blood" associates gunfire and modeling, and then to the new generation of Russian director Timo Beckman Betov's "Assassin League" uses digital special effects as the main means and dazzling skills as the main appeal. Different from the above-mentioned typical types, in the first story of "Heavy Rain is Coming", the innocent child killed the tortoise in an almost cruel way, the bullets thrown into the flames were ejected in the flames, and the adults in the distance were like Frightened bird, although this paragraph is simple, it greatly exaggerates the atmosphere of fear and exposes the fact that the seed of cruelty has been deeply buried in the innocence of children. How about Tong Yan Wuji? How about being free from the world? In such a society in the depths, no one can stay out of it.
In the second story, when a furious Alexander returns to the dining room again, the calm is gone, and he bloodbaths such a corner of London like a resentful terrorist with guns and blood without warning minutes before, even if Those who were lucky enough to leave the restaurant early because they couldn't bear the quarrel between Alexander and the waiter could not have predicted that the situation would develop in such a bloody direction. However, this is the truth. The director uses gunshots and blood to set off jealousy and anger. Many panicked innocents have no signs of life in the eyes of hysterical Alexander. The director uses this scene to depict violence to complete the rendering of emotional out of control. .
"Photo" is the calmest of the three stories, but also the most critical. The director unexpectedly told the audience: In the first paragraph, the Nazi-like extremist who beat the cat sleeping on the roof into a sieve was just a cowardly donkey boy before he had a gun. What magic does the gun have to transform him into a bloodthirsty lunatic? It's not curiosity, it's not brute force, it's not hatred, he just suddenly gained the power to decide the life and death of others. He doesn't need intelligence to shoot, just pull the trigger, so the memory of being abusive becomes the driving force for killing, so let the donkey go The kid became a violent machine. People who are timid by nature are still like this. What about those children who are not yet skilled in the operation of rifles? Compared with the frenzied shooting scenes in "language" and "face", the "photos" seem even more helpless. When Alexander returns to his hometown, what he sees is nothing but the deserted eyes. Brothers raised their guns at each other, is this Macedonia? The heart-wrenching truth told him, yes.
[The Disappearing Omniscient One]
"The rainstorm is coming" finally came true at the end of the third story. Once the rain hits the dry earth, it will become turbid. There are gunshots in every story of the film, and after every gunshot, a main character walks through his life, his family or lovers are not far from the scene, and death, without exception, will save them from the helpless life. Freed so that I can't attribute the unfortunate death to tragedy, it looks more like a reconciliation to the desperate status quo - to die in ignorance or innocence, right to atone for the world you love, and to live forever. By the side of relatives, helplessness seems to be closer to the best choice.
As an art film, "Heavy Rain" tells three interrelated stories in a somewhat surreal way, but it is difficult to sort out the chronological order of the stories, such as the line "Time never dies. The circle is not round.", it became a loop connected at the cost of life extinction. After watching the movie, I couldn't help thinking of "One Day". It seems that each year in the film can be independent of each other. It is like a parallel universe. The characters in different time and space have not experienced other regrets and pains, and they are not affected by the sorrow seen by the omniscient. , to be immersed in his own destiny for the rest of his life. To understand the three paragraphs of "Torrential Rain" in this way may be relieved.
2012.05.27 Su Fa, Beijing
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