great mediocrity

Everything is animistic and beautiful, and the photography of reincarnation fully demonstrates this. The description of any text is inferior to the lens itself, which means that the real has its own power. So I won't go into details about the specific content of the movie. But as far as the film Reincarnation is concerned, it is fundamentally different from the general National Geographic TV program. This difference mainly focuses on two points. First, the film builds a film context through montage combinations and various ritualistic soundtracks. In this highly individualistic context, ordinary shots are given The meaning of "superego". It's hard to judge how much of an imposition is in this assignment of meaning, but the act of constructing the context itself through the language of the film is commendable, reminding me of the grotesque ten minutes at the end of a 2001 Space Odyssey, though Kubrick is more extreme and abstract, but I think reincarnation has something in common with it. The essence of the second point I listed is also included in the first point. The reason why I listed it separately is that in the four Flick films I have seen, there is such a scene, where the subject is expressionless. staring at the camera for a longer period of time. Whether it's the colonial stare, or just plain deadpan, this shot has become one of Frick's "symbols." I personally don’t like this kind of footage. This kind of non-discriminatory treatment on the surface hides the unique emotional expressions of different classes such as timidity, anger or confusion about their own state.

Greatness, as I titled it, is just about embellishing mediocrity, and while the film is almost beyond reproach in terms of aesthetics, I don't think it's even as specific as Flick's unbalanced life in the 1980s ( screenwriter of photography rather than director). The film is mainly divided into three stages: prehistoric civilization to industrial civilization and then to the decline of industrial civilization. The time distribution is relatively uniform, and through the comprehensive use of rhythmic soundtrack, double exposure, time-lapse footage and other elements, the whole film is made The sense of hierarchy is clear, and the beginnings and transitions are relatively obvious, so the prominent themes are also easy to accept. The next two films, Time and Heaven and Earth, are presented in the sense of time, but in these two works, Frick's point of view has become higher and higher. When he was interviewed later, he said that the most different thing about filming Samsara from Tiandi Xuanhuang was that he installed a disturbing line, which I thought was absurd. This sense of absurdity comes to disturbing itself, because in the reincarnation human beings have been divided into different groups, if at all in Flick's films as a whole. The fact is that Frick, as a director, cannot be separated from the class attribute of the group itself, so it is absurd to mention disturbing itself based on the intersubjectivity of the group (line in the film). Since there are many lines in reincarnation but lack a common starting point or end point, although this film reveals the collective unconscious radioactive fear, the loneliness of individual alienation, etc., the interpretation of the whole reincarnation theme is not profound. Even when the film is called Tiandi Xuanhuang 2 is acceptable to me.

Lévi-Strauss said this when describing the French Revolution, which I think is the right way to describe the film: "The Revolution instilled in people's minds a sense of society as an abstract category of thought. "Customs and habits are ground on the stone of reason." If done in this way, "the way of life built on long traditions will be ground into powder, and everyone will be reduced to a state of exchangeable and unknown particles. . "So the biggest regret of the film Reincarnation is that the sense of reincarnation it brings to us is too flat, because it is born out of the director's more abstract thinking about society.

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