Narrative fault and collage text

Toby 2022-03-23 09:02:11

Overall, this is a film that lets people see that life is, accidental and varied, and objectively cyclical.

The feeling of watching "Fanny and Alexander" is like this, always bewildered by the sudden digression in the narrative clues brought up by the film. At first I guessed that this is a story or a suspense film with multiple narrative clues. According to several typical characters of this family, the branch of the movie will gradually be developed, and it will indeed come true in the end. This is indeed a movie with almost no protagonist and main narrative clues. Some of the plots are scattered everywhere, not coherent enough, and the development of things. There is no single storytelling that echoes the same cause and effect. But at the end of the day, I finally gave up my guesses about the film's diverse structure. It is precisely because of this that the text of "Fanny and Alexander" itself has a sense of unceasing ups and downs brought about by narrative faults. Ready to jump to the next topic and complete a new narrative. Just like suspense novels, the way to promote interest itself is not just logical deliberation. What is more attractive is actually the layer-by-layer advancement of this sense of secrecy. David Lynch is probably very skilled, but this is different from David Lynch's Empty momentum is not the same, the narrative fault of "Fanny and Alexander" seems to always come to an abrupt end at the beginning of people's interest, as ethereal as smoke, people will catch the smoke like a tree trunk The actual feeling of the ins and outs of the wisps, but after grasping the air with both hands, a new narration of the wisps of smoke begins to unfold. Just as Freud's paintings are a kind of hyper-realism, the film depicts not the technique of how to shoot close to the realness of the form, but the logic of expressing the feeling, which eventually returns to a realistic frame. How to show the different textures of each person who has walked the path of life, using different and independent plot texts, each plot text is like a tuber that nourishes itself, has spontaneous ability, and then makes text collage, in a realistic The frame is a seemingly unimportant family thread (almost no help to the story, just an auxiliary), and finally a collage of images of different textures of each person who walks the path of life completes this super realistic film. The effect is obvious, presenting the contingency of a seemingly scattered but finely crafted life to the audience, showing a loss that is not enough to be lost, a love that is not loving enough, and absurdity that is not absurd enough.

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Fanny and Alexander quotes

  • Ekdahlska huset - Gustav Adolf Ekdahl: The world is a den of thieves and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog.

  • Ekdahlska huset - Gustav Adolf Ekdahl: Therefore let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate and good. It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world.