A few years ago, I watched Roy Anderson's "The Quietness of the Birds", but I didn't understand it. I watched his "Singing from the Second Floor" last year, but I was speechless by those very creative shots. I watched it tonight. His "You Are Alive" is also impressed by the flashing shots.
Never know Sweden, but intuitively think that Roy Anderson is the most creative director in the Swedish film industry, no one. How much talent does it take to make a movie like this? The last time I felt the same way was the Japanese director Shuji Terayama who died young.
Some films are realistic, and the director expresses his expression through a complete concrete story.
Some movies are freehand, but some unrelated screen lines can express the desired expression more profoundly. But such films are often obscure, sometimes only understood by the director himself.
And I think Roy Anderson is somewhere between the two. He is neither realistic nor freehand. He uses a realistic approach to freehand but also uses a freehand approach to be realistic.
Realistic films usually describe specific things, such as sounds and shapes. And Roy Anderson's style is that the silent is better than the sound. He uses the silent to describe the sound and the invisible to describe the form.
In fact, I don't know what I want to talk about, but I'm a little excited after watching this movie. I have to record how I feel at this moment, even if I'm just talking nonsense.
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