The film tells the story of a director who advertised as "quick, cheap, and hasty", who recreated VTR's life by shooting variety shows on a daily basis, and took over the special TV series mission started by the zombie channel. There are only two requirements for TV dramas: one is to live broadcast for 30 minutes; the other is to use only one camera and one mirror to the end. From the beginning of the trial session, the director kept making concessions: the heroine who didn't want to be vomited, the hero who stabbed the script, the crying scene that used eye drops, the actors and actresses who flirted... The situation was full of situations during the official shooting. Even when he was finally asked to drop the important scene at the end, he was only asked "Who is watching?" and almost agreed.
At the end of the story, the daughter helped the director's father to complete the persistent ending scene together.
In the film, the daughter will, in pursuit of realism, hope that the actors do not use eye drops. Even if the director doesn't care, she will not hesitate to quarrel with the actors. When her father persuaded her to learn to make concessions for life, she would smash the eye drops at her father.
Different from his daughter's performance, the director's father is more often in the film, repeatedly giving in and constantly compromising. The VTR was filmed mechanically, the actors didn't even know why they were crying (eye drops were used), and the director didn't even look at the picture and it was OK. Maybe from the time when he advertised as "quick, cheap, hastily", he gave up struggling. Although his enthusiasm and pursuit seem to have been exhausted by life and reality, in fact, he just kept these things in his heart. At the same time, countless locks have been placed on them, one is to leave a pure land for the original intention, and the other is to fear that these restless feelings will come to mind. If you can't do it, don't think about it.
But in this unprecedented attempt, he shouted to the camera, "Continue photography! Don't stop the camera!". The beast he had locked was released. So even if the actor was absent, drunk, had diarrhea, or ran wild; or the tripod was damaged and the props were not enough, he would not stop the camera. In front of the camera, he scolded the heroine that her life was full of lies. He scolded the heroine that he should not point fingers at his script. He ran up and down to solve various problems, and finally lifted his daughter up like a child and completed the shooting.
At the end of the movie, he smiled. Although this smile was the first time I saw it, it always gave me a feeling of deja vu. It seems that I saw what he looked like when he first finished shooting more than ten or twenty years ago.
In the movie, in addition to the father and daughter, many staff members are also running. It was the camera assistant who got up and caught up immediately after falling, and the makeup artist who applied makeup to the actor when he had diarrhea... Even if they were covered in blood and dirt, they kept running.
Their love for movies is not holding a banner and shouting the slogan "I love movies", but actually putting it into action. It is precisely because each of them is responsible for the film, so even if unexpected situations come one after another, their own link must not be left behind. If it weren't for this love and sense of responsibility, when the first accident appeared, everyone could say that it was helpless and hastily ended. It was he who had done his best to smile so reassuringly when the movie was finished.
"Don't stop the camera" is the director's determination in the film, and it is the director's message to himself, so he is full of strength and moves forward bravely. Even so, when the person in charge, when the reality asked him "Who が?" and asked him who was watching, he was speechless. This sentence "Who が?" also makes me want to refute but have nothing to say. As viewers, do we really value the efforts of these people... When more and more people only look at traffic, where do we put the efforts of those who persevere silently... In While complaining about more and more "quick, cheap, hasty things", should you also reflect on who quenched their enthusiasm...
May those who shout "don't stop the camera" keep shooting.
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