Regardless of color or scene scheduling, the minimal and rough film texture and lonely atmosphere always run through the film. Under the director's restrained and slightly absurd lens, he composes a lonely memorial for the audience.
The use of light and color creates an atmosphere of desolation and loneliness. Blue is the characteristic of the band, and it doesn't stand out under the light green filter of the film. A woman is a distinctive symbol, and the red dress symbolizes desire, but this desire has nowhere to vent, and it is hastily extinguished in the restrained and slightly embarrassed conversation. The most prominent is the scene in the restaurant, looking from the window inward, with a regular framed composition. Compared with the woman's red dress, the band leader's blue military uniform symbolizes calmness and loneliness, which is just right for her character. In the romantic music, there is only eye contact, and there is an ambiguous smell in the air, but a dining table is always the distance between the two, and the two completely different people have their own desolation. Standing at the door of the house, the two silhouettes standing in the shadows talk about the past. At this moment, there is no desire. What remains are two soft silhouettes caught in the quagmire of memories. Using emotions to communicate with each other, the feeling of loneliness and alienation strikes again. .
The rich shots and scene scheduling explain the emotions from multiple angles. A low-key opening, a slightly comical account of the protagonist of the film, two long empty shots of street lights show desolation and desolation, as if to indicate the difficulties and confusion ahead. The passers-by in the foreground hurried away without casting any glances at the band, highlighting a sense of alienation. After the band got out of the car, with the panning of the camera, a panorama showed the barrenness of the desert, and finally stopped on the band group at the bottom left, like a column of ants, alone and insignificant. In the scene of the phone call in the waiting room, the small depth of field clearly outlines the outlines of the characters, and the band leader's unease and anxiety are particularly prominent in the blurred background picture. It is also a small depth of field. In the long and narrow aisle, the band leader and the woman walk side by side in silence. The sound and picture are unified. Finally, in the park, women introduce things that do not exist one by one. The rich visual angles also bring endless illusion and loneliness to people.
The texture of the film is minimal and rough, without cumbersome decorations and gorgeous plots, but it makes the audience pay more attention to the characters themselves. Silence is used instead of words, and the camera is the main way to explain and promote the plot. The gray color and the noise everywhere may be deliberately done by the director. The emotions of the characters stand out, understated but exciting, like a lonely memorial. The director may still be optimistic, whether it is the estrangement of eating in the restaurant, the intimacy of chatting in the park, or the revealing of his heart at the door of the house, this subtlety is the uniqueness of the film. Individuals, in this unknown town, are getting closer little by little, adding a little humanity to this eternal proposition of loneliness.
After a visit is over, what matters is no longer the success of the show, but that people have opened their hearts. Their loneliness has never changed. The change lies in the fact that there was a stranger who could tell that what is precious is the tenderness that will always remain in the memory, like a melodious movement, composed of loneliness, but more than loneliness.
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