The magic of a mirror to the end

The first idea that broke into the mind of Sebastian Schipper, director of "Victoria", was not the "one mirror to the end" that has set off a wave of criticism in Berlin these days. At first, he just wanted to make a crime movie. Later, he found his good friend Tom Tykwer, a German director, and Tykwer, who became famous for his pioneering video work "Lola Run," and him co-designed the "one mirror to the end" shooting method to distinguish it from other movies of the same genre. The purpose of criminal emotion and presence. Facts have proved that the bravest choice achieves the best results.

The movie begins with a Spanish girl named Victoria partying alone in an underground nightclub in Berlin. At four o'clock in the morning, at the entrance of the nightclub, she met four less serious "Berlin men". They soon started talking. Wandering in the night in Berlin, the girl gradually got closer and closer to one of the men. After a brief moment of her heart to him, she couldn't control herself and plunged into a crazy crime... The 30-year-old photographer Sturla Brandth Grøvlen was holding a Canon C300 handheld camera and pointed it at the five young people, aimed at the streets of Berlin in the early morning. During the two hours from four to six, he used only one lens, changed 22 locations, and talked. A love, robbed a bank, experienced a life and death

, received applause and cheers at the end of the media field, and received repeated praise at the press conference. The "one mirror to the end" shooting method shocked reporters who were bored by other competition films that day . The director confirmed on the spot that this film that does not require an editor does not use editing techniques to combine multiple long shots like Hitchcock’s "Imperial Soul" and last year’s Oscars’ hit "Birdman". The effect of "one mirror to the end". The 140-minute "Victoria" really only has one shot.

The crew shot a total of three shots. The director chose the last one, and only this one achieved the emotional and on-the-spot effect that the director hoped to have, just like what Francisco Pola said when evaluating his Vietnam War movie "Apocalypse Now" "This is not a movie about Vietnam, this is Vietnam", the director found the truth of "This is not a movie about shooting crime, this is the scene of a crime" in the form of "One Mirror to the End". Moreover, this shot is not just stunning in the crime scene, the first half of the encounter, the temptation of wandering in the street, the establishment of trust in the terrace chat, the first-born feelings of the cafe to confide in the heart, the spontaneity of the role and the emptiness of the younger generation They are all really shown, and for this, the heroine decides to commit to a criminal act that ordinary people avoid and provide a reasonable personality and emotional motivation. Like magic, the romantic and free atmosphere in the first half and the thrilling and tense crime scene in the second half are perfectly stitched together by one shot.

Perfect in form, there is a risk that the content will be compromised. Because there is only one shot, too many situations are unpredictable. The performance has to achieve the emotional effect required by the director. In "Victoria", some passages are slightly exaggerated and unnatural. As well as a large number of soundtracks and silencers to cover up the mistakes in the radio, it was in the middle of the film festival reviews.

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