The film "My Father and Mother" is generally a big episode, and this episode is the main content of the film. The film distinguishes the sequence part from the interlude part through black and white and color. The film uses the voice-over statement of "I" as a clue, and tells the love journey of father and mother as a memory. The reminiscence part of the interlude is dominated by red and yellow tones. The bright red cotton-padded jacket, crimson red, and bright red hairpin are the witnesses of his mother's love; the golden wheat fields, bright yellow hillsides and winding dirt roads are the waiting for his love. Love always needs beautiful scenery. In my memory, this backward small mountain village is like a paradise full of vitality, warmth and harmony. In the big vision, the blue sky, the golden hillside against the young deer's jumping young brother, and the goose feather-like snowflakes wrapping the figure waiting for love, are all deeply touching and moving people. In the final shot, the color of the shot is separated from the black and white and merged into the color color, and the images of the old mother in the black and white shot and the young mother running in the color shot are switched and superimposed, and the environment also changes accordingly. The changing environment in autumn and winter is a metaphor for the mother's 40 years of running, and finally the film ends with the big vision of her running on the road and freezes. The perfect fusion of black and white and color, the combination of reality and history makes the emotion reach the highest point, which makes the film structure seamless. In the film's lens assembly, the director's use of superposition in this film is also of great significance to the shaping of characters and the expression of emotions. For example, the first use of superposition in the film is the black-and-white photo of mother and father standing side by side on the mountain road leading to the county town, and the road slowly overlaps and separates in the memories of color tones, which contains unique connotations And the symbolic meaning, the transformation of reality and memory in the same space is completed by this kind of superposition. The superimposed road in the picture symbolizes the deep and warm emotions between parents after decades of wind and rain. It tells Mother's persistent waiting in the storm. Another example is the close-up of the face where the mother eagerly expects her father to eat the food she cooks, and the many men who build the school move towards the row of tables with various foods. The love at first sight and the inner desire for love. Of course, in the film "My Father and Mother", there are still many places to praise. For example, the use of large blocks of tones, beautiful camera images, Sambo's original soundtrack, etc. But it is such a simple love story, but Zhang Yimou uses his unique directing technique to show us the scenes, which makes us feel the poetry, romance, lyricism and simplicity. and moved by it.
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