The male protagonist walks into the sand in search of insects and seeks to escape from urban life, and the local residents take him to stay with the female protagonist. During the meal, we talked about the wetness of the sand, and the hostess shoveled the sand at night. When he woke up the next day, the male protagonist found that the ladder he went down yesterday was gone. He was trapped in the female protagonist's house, and was conspired by the villagers to become a labor force. He tried to climb up and failed and was injured. After waking up, he tied the heroine and wanted to take the opportunity to escape, but was teased by the villagers and fell again. Trapped below, there was no water, and the two were in physical contact after the sandstorm. The thirst upon waking up made him give in completely. Shovel the sand in exchange for the rationed life of the villagers above and secretly prepare to escape. Fleeing and getting lost in quicksand, he was rescued by the villagers and put under the sand pit. He tried trapping the crows and asking for a good performance in exchange for watching the sea. The villagers asked him to have sex with a woman in exchange for watching the sea. He forced the woman to cooperate and the woman resisted. The way to get water from the sand was discovered through traps. A woman may also be pregnant with an ectopic pregnancy. The villagers took her out to see a doctor, and she did not want to leave. After they left, they left the ladder and took it away. The male protagonist climbed up to watch the sea and came back. He was not in a hurry to escape, as if he could leave at any time, he would tell the villagers about the water, sooner or later. It has been missing for seven years.
Characters and symbols:
men fight -> surrender, fail to escape -> give in, look for opportunities for hope -> give up when they have opportunities, and find the "meaning" here;
women are one of the reflection and driving factors of men's reverse character arc, A woman's attitude towards the outside world and being here has gradually become a man's later attitude. A woman's body is also a part of the catharsis of a man's desire; the
villagers are the one who uses power to promote assimilation;
the sand is the environment itself, and it is both the concrete and the figurative that creates the situation. The intention can be a desire or a metaphor of the external world, and it can express different meanings according to different situations, just like "Wind";
insects are not only a symbol of the male protagonist's situation, but also a desire for his original spiritual pursuit -> after getting it. Don't care (1h21) -> the clue of giving up completely; the
radio and the sea are representative of women's men's respective desires for the outside world.
Structure:
escape from one place -> enjoyment to being trapped in another place -> assimilation of identification with this place after various attempts to escape failed, and at the same time being forgotten there
Audio-visual language:
1. The black screen environment at the beginning is noisy, and then the seal people surrounded by the contour line to the seal list and title, from ambient sound to sound effects to background music;
2. From 7:54, sitting and lying The boat in the sand, the counterpoint between the bow and the crotch of the water cup, multiple metaphors and symbols, the psychological monologue of the voice-over; 3.
Washing dishes in the sand, "Wind";
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5. There must be two shots in a movement starting from 23 minutes, moving: hand-held, with the performance of different parts of the body according to the movement of the character, fixed: with the movement of the character with a logical light source, the foreground is dark and the background is bright;
6. At 48 minutes , the rhythm of falling, stop -> close-up;
7. Starting around 58 minutes, some big close-up shots of the characters are interspersed, the background sound is squeaking strangely (the temptation of snakes?), and the characters' reaction rendering (foot grabbing the sand) 8. The
villagers around 2h watched and teased, beams of light (the logical light source was a flashlight), drums, masks, flames in the villagers' glasses, the unstable physical conflict between the male and female protagonists, the shaking shots and the stable villagers and A montage between mask gazes.
Contrast with "Wind":
from character setting, forward and reverse arcs, situational use of wind and sand, handling of endings, etc. The difference between the same and the different, the difference in style and temperament, the difference in the depth and modernity of the theme.
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