In any form of expression, the opening is the most critical. Readers and audiences are naturally dull and impatient, and how to tell the first 5 minutes well is always a major premise for creators to stand on. Under this premise, the long-term effective entry point is the special perspective; in the special perspective, teenagers are a large category. "When the Monster Knocks on the Door" is a slow, firm, deep and warm film from the young man who entered, brought out the tree monster, and walked out of the story.
Personal Rating: 5 points
1. Slow youth
Youth is colorful and ignorant, simple and beautiful. This statement itself is silly and naive. As the transition from child to adult: because of physiology, youth is bound to be slow; because of fragility, youth can only be helpless. Of all the helplessness, fear is the most impressive. Of all the fears, nightmares are the most photographic and repetitive. So the teenager kept struggling with his nightmares, so we N times relived our youth with nightmares.
There are piles and piles of methods and reasons for dealing with fear. But for males, only fighting. Break the face, get dignity; break the furniture, get the communication; break the fear, get the responsibility.
The art of firmness
The ability to paint is born in the blood, and it is more and more difficult to discover, explore, care for, and persevere. The boy's grandfather is an artist, his mother is also a romantic and sensitive person, his father is simple, handsome and embarrassed (high-level black American) is also very loving, and his grandmother is strict and serious. This kind of family is not easy for ordinary people to bear, and it is the best greenhouse for artists. Because art lacks the most firmness, this family is the only one lacking. The following are the four components of firmness.
1. Talent: Genius is 99% perspiration plus 1% talent, and the most important thing here is the latter. Because the latter is the foundation. When talent becomes life and survival instinct, artistic achievement comes naturally.
2. Enlightenment: It is often the parents who turn talent into instinct. When the closest parent just understands the talent of the offspring and guides them carefully. Interest begins to turn into expression, and the commonality of expression is art.
3. Frustration: No matter the bullying classmate, the strict grandmother, the father who never shows up, or the dying mother, all of them are Tikan. A ridge is not a mountain, it can be crossed with every step. Other people's mountains, the artist can be just a ridge.
4. Tolerance: What would you do if your son was bullied? In the film, the mother dragged her seriously ill body and took out her father's movie projector to play "King Kong" for her son. "People are generally afraid of things they can't understand," Mom said softly and lightly. - Advanced education comes from understanding.
3. Profound history
The film business can have various verticals, various series and various modes, and the film itself can only be to C and not to B. Because we always serve only individuals. Then the story itself is significant. The extension of the story is history, and the history of to C is naturally family history. Like all family histories, the family history in the story of the tree monster gradually changes from a grand and complex other person to a detailed and specific self.
The bigger and more complex a story is, the easier it is to catch people's attention and forget it; the more subtle and specific it is, the harder it is to be a sensation, but the easier it is to quote from time to time. Telling stories, making stories, and life. The so-called history is nothing but a record and summary of one life after another.
Fourth, the warm room
So the question is, can this "When Monsters Knock on the Door", which is so artistic and profound, still count as a film that is easy to watch, understand, and communicate? After all, almost all the films that are called slow, artistic, and deep tend to be bad.
The answer is that it still looks good. because of the temperature. Someone's temperature is there.
1. Light and heavy
The weight of the drawing paper is the lightest, and charcoal is used to repeatedly outline the calligraphy and painting to increase its weight. The second hand is the lightest and fastest, but the time is set at 12:17 to emphasize the meaning. So in the face of the heavy tree monster's vicissitudes of voice, we still take it easy.
2. Urgent
All the real world shots are stepped slowly, and the dream scene is not quickly edited and switched, but the whole is not sleepy at all, why? Difficult first, then easier. Throw out the most complicated, grand and splendid prince stories first, and then do subtraction.
3. Falsehood
In addition to reality and dreams, the film divides dreams into illusory stories and real nightmares. We are interested and curious because of the distinction, and we will not feel uncomfortable because of the unity of the picture.
4. face
No matter how complex and advanced a movie is, it shouldn't nest more than one motif. "When the Monster Knocks on the Door" is no exception, it only tells the story around the word "face". Of course, its object core is a tree monster, its action core is a dream, and its story line is the death of her mother - all of which are faced by teenagers.
To face is to be brave, and it is also the starting point of all real growth. The adults are not tree monsters, but can understand more people, even if they can't make changes. Growth is not extraordinary, growth is to see a bigger world, even if the picture is not as beautiful as thought.
When the teenager kept asking why he didn't punish himself, the introspection came unexpectedly. Introspection is the most personal temperature and the temperature that lasts the longest. Juveniles influence the world because of introspection, adults influence juveniles because of hope. May we always walk like teenagers and stand like tree monsters. Both inside and outside the screen.
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