Youthful splendor in long shots and non-linear editing

An American independent film that cannot be underestimated, one of the death trilogy presented to us by Van Sant, the theme is the American school shooting incident, youth will pass away no matter what... The film can actually be attributed to the youth subculture, calm and boring One day on the campus, a murder narrative is about to be launched. Violence, bullying, and rumors are hidden inside the campus. The narrative of the movie relies on three weapons, long shots, editing, music... A large number of follow-ups are derived from the randomness of the movie. The truth is that the first segmented narrative made us unclear and lackluster. However, with the foreshadowing of the plot, we suddenly realized that, in fact, this movie needs to be watched multiple times before we can see the beauty of the movie. , for example, the long shot of the original playground is actually the stillness of the camera, the students are on the scene, when Jordan walks into the teaching building, the camera starts to move and follow for a long time, which is simply unbearable for classic Hollywood editing. At that moment, the camera stopped, watching Jordan enter, and then cut to the next picture, so the camera became God's eyes, everything became fate, God couldn't bear to see Jordan die, but he could only watch it all, on the contrary, Although John had a very unfortunate day, he came out of the campus and became a survivor among several protagonists. Therefore, the result of the follow-up filming is that the death of entering, the survival of leaving, life is like a joke like this... It’s a pity to cut it. In fact, under the editing, each narrative is disrupted, not only in space but also in time. Therefore, it must be attributed to fate, a few young lives, they are dying The intersection and tranquility of the past are in stark contrast to death. The nonlinear narrative, under Van Sant's hands, plays very Quentin's flavor... In addition to the characters and space throughout the nonlinear narrative, let us clearly It's music. In the movie, the piano plays all Beethoven's music, and the moonlight on the court turned out to be played by two murderous teenagers in the room, and the girl on the way to the library heard a harsh sound, It turned out that two murderous teenagers were trying out guns. When the two teenagers slaughtered, the students in the school didn't know why, so they panicked, or panicked to the point of being at a loss. Everything was so illusory, just like the computer games that two teenagers love to play True... In fact, this movie is a continuation of the brutal story of youth, very "All About Lily Zhou" feeling, the teenage duo has been bullied, they are weak, they are addicted to video games and Nazi films. Under the infection, they can no longer bear the reality, so they exchange the virtual with the reality, or treat the reality as a virtual game, the key is to havefun, they don't get the attention of the teacher, they are bullied by their classmates, and they are not liked by girls. They have no purpose in their youth, so they choose to end the kiss between the two teenagers, but there is no homosexuality at all, because they They are the same individuals, they are teenagers who need to break out. The most interesting thing about the movie is that the movie is like a documentary, it is just a presentation, just a catharsis, just like Godard's "Exhausted", this is the sense of existence of a teenager, no wonder It was favored by Cannes... And for the director, the footage of this film is very fancy, and he took a huge risk, because few people can insist on seeing the second half, but when they watched 50 minutes, The more you realize, the more wonderful the movie is...

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