First of all, let's talk about Andre Bazin, the banner bearer of realistic traditionalism. He opposes the exaggerated montage expression technique, which he thinks is the structure imposed on the real world and distorts its essential meaning. He believes that editing replaces real life, forcing the audience to make pre-set judgments and thoughts. He advocates "deep focus photography", a shot that can contain as many elements of things as possible, making the scene scheduling a metronome of narrative, and abandoning the montage of false and empty space. To put it bluntly, he wanted the montage to fail and die.
The fat brother simply translates it, that is, you use a camera, spend two hours, shoot a few people, and tell a story, in which, whether it is scene change or fixed lens shooting, it is all formed at one time, and there is no editing or jump-cutting in the later stage. That's what it looked like at the time.
"Victoria" is so good. It tells the story of a young girl's journey to death from 4 am to 6 am. She drinks alone in a bar. She meets someone on the road to strike up a conversation, and she falls in love at first sight. Entering the bank robbery incident, the robbery was successful, it was not easy, and it seemed that the gun was ready. As a result, the police appeared, a melee, the hero and the group died, and she walked alone on the streets of Berlin from a new lonely... Only 30 years old Year-old photographer Sturla Brandth held a Canon C300 handheld camcorder, aimed at five young people, aimed at the streets of Berlin in the early hours of the morning, in two hours, only used one lens, changed 22 locations, and talked about a scene. Falling in love, robbing a bank, from loneliness to liveliness, to death.
The whole story is completed through a tracking lens. It is conceivable that the police encirclement and the shootout tracking in the climax part need to arrange many details in advance to complete it smoothly, because once a mistake is made, all the previous shootings may be lost. It is reported that just after the bank robbery, Victoria's actor Leia Costa did forget where to go and drove in the wrong direction at the turn. Everyone in the car panicked, worried that the entire lens would be abolished. Even the director, who was hiding in the trunk of the car at this time, shouted and directed the direction. His voice was removed during post-processing of the film. The car actually drove past many of the crew at the end, but fortunately the tactful cameraman lowered the camera angle just in time to prevent them from appearing out the window.
Therefore, it can be said that the preparatory work for this film must be done in every detail to a perverted level in order to ensure the smooth completion of the 2-hour "one shot to the end".
The reason why Fat Brother recommends this movie is not because it has Andri Bazin on it, but because it can be bold and extreme in the exploration of narrative skills, while spending time on the characters' emotions and story logic. A good girl, who studied in music college, has been with the piano for more than ten years, met and fell in love with strangers, and cooperated with them to rob a bank. Many viewers will say that this can only happen in movies. You can fully believe that all of this is indeed a "real" possibility through the 40-minute character modeling in the early stage of the film and the logic of the content.
All the audience said that the movie can be cut in a big way, and it does not need more than 2 hours at all. I said, if you go straight to the shootout after 20 minutes, it's like too many ordinary films. Or change the film in advance.
Experience this "reality" for two hours, experience the ambiguous feelings and the movie charm of "one shot to the end". This film has the deer mind of a little girl, the theoretical support of pretending to be b-style, the technological innovation of film fanatics, and the support of the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear. you deserve to have!
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