In terms of formalism, Zhang Yimou and his films are undoubtedly ahead of other national directors, and the "Shadow" released in the eleventh file of the national teacher has once again triggered the relationship between form and content by virtue of the Chinese elements of Tai Chi, yin and yang, splashing ink and landscape. bipolar discussion.
It is a pity that every time I watch the ancient style and national charm created by the national teachers with high cost and low efficiency, I feel more and more dull and clumsy. It can be said that Zhang Yimou has embarked on a road of no return with low-efficiency and high-pollution heavy industry films, which is extremely inconsistent with the development theme of energy conservation and environmental protection advocated by the state under the new thinking of the new era.
At the same time, in recent years, foreign language films have emerged as a series of thriller and suspense films represented by the "Unfriending" series, which are screen-shot desktop operating systems and social network media. This form has been overwhelmingly praised by audiences and fans. .
The reason is that apart from their low cost, small production, heavy editing, and strong genre, they use a novel, distinct, and minimalist style to lightly visualize the shape of the Internet and social networks. The core is to show us from a first perspective. Faced with the daily life of different LCD screens and various social software - we who are hiding behind the screen are very pleasantly surprised when we see our LCD screen in the movie.
The recently popular "Internet Mystery" is the above-mentioned "energy saving and environmental protection" and "full screen shooting" desktop social thriller and suspense type film. The familiar windows interface at the beginning of the movie is eye-catching, and the wife's life is quickly presented with the routine of "Flying House". Mainly browse social media and network tools to explain various information points, create interference items and reversal items, and after eliminating various obstacles, go back to the original point - the person who is most unlikely to commit a crime is the murderer himself. The entire suspenseful plot is induced by the estrangement of father and daughter, which is caused by the closeness of the female policewoman and her son to cover up the crime. Its teleplay-like sense of sight is not difficult to reminiscent of the old TVB criminal investigation drama and "Six Groups of Serious Cases".
The plot is extremely outdated: his wife died early, his daughter disappeared mysteriously, the male protagonist discovered the emotional estrangement between father and daughter through social networks, and finally fulfilled his father's responsibility to find his daughter and complete the arc of family reconciliation. The routine is also extremely common: the director deliberately delays the time for the male protagonist to find his daughter, and allows the male protagonist to communicate his thoughts on the familiar daily social media and the Internet (withdrawing messages, canceling straightforward text expressions, etc., and facing the falsehood of the camera) Sympathy video, etc.), reversing for the sake of reversal, although the procrastination brings a sense of immersion, it makes us tolerate bugs along the plot, ignoring the reasonable and correct direction of cracking.
With the development of technology today, the convenience of the Internet also confines us on the opposite side of the screen. The continuous flow of information or active or passive leakage and people's reliance on mobile communication devices have made it difficult for an ordinary normal person. Missing in the true sense. The constant binding of people by the Internet has become an insurmountable bottleneck for thriller and suspense dramas. "The Lost on the Internet" is also affected by this. The location of the daughter's last phone call is completely ignored by the plot. The role of the mobile phone is ignored, while those who check Baidu, find Weibo, flip through live broadcasts, WeChat videos, and watch gossip are daily behaviors , it is not a reasonable response of a father to the special event of his daughter's disappearance, and the police handling the case and the victim's family only communicate with video software... These various problems are deliberately made by the director in order to show our daily life. For this reason, the reality seen by the naked eye is not real, and what is seen through the LCD screen is also true and false. It can be said that you should not believe that the life of your eyes and ears has been captured by third-party screens.
It would be inappropriate to say that "Internet Mystery", which packs old wine in new bottles, is ahead of "Shadow", which packs old wine in old bottles. Looking back at China's well-known fifth-generation directors trying to touch people's online life today, they are limited to Chen Kaige's "Search", Gu Changwei's "Micro Love is Getting Better", and even the sixth-generation Jia Zhangke's "Mountains and Rivers". "The Old Man" is also incapable of showing the future, and Cui Jian, the real father of rock and roll, has an extremely naive understanding of online writers and hackers ("Blue Bones"). In the bones of their blind pursuit of the prosperity of the ancient world (or no pursuit or repetition of themselves), it is difficult to spend energy to understand the life of "superficial" young people and touch the sharp real social themes. To be precise, they do not think about progress They are getting old or the era has passed, and they have long been out of touch with the grass-roots life of young people.
In "Internet Mystery", the male protagonist was shocked when he saw a completely strange daughter on the social network. Today's people submit overly decorated real life or the complete opposite to the Internet, these imprints of life, real or false, for others to browse and ponder. Suppose one day you disappear, those posted on social networks, smeared, PS, and disguised content will become memories to replace the real you.
Ask yourself, are you still yourself after being refracted by countless networks? Fortunately, people will eventually die, and the system will always log out, leaving only our backs in the network, and it is not something that anyone can control.
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