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Last year, Piara's "Van Gogh" was watched on the big screen. It was a film that recorded the last 67 days of Van Gogh's life. It refused to soundtrack and refused to sensationalize.
Van Gogh died silently, lying on his side that he thought was comfortable.
In the middle of the year, I watched a documentary at the film festival, "China Van Gogh". Talking about the cottage studio in Dafen Village, Shenzhen, copying Van Gogh's paintings for export trade. The studio owner became addicted and embarked on a journey to Holland in order to worship Van Gogh's authentic works.
At the end of the year, this "My Beloved Van Gogh" sparked an upsurge of ticket-grabbing at this year's Shanghai International Film Festival, and it was also shortlisted for the Oscars for Best Animated Feature Film. The compulsion is high and the threshold is high, but for that Van Gogh, anyway, it is worth seeing.
This is a work about Van Gogh, but it is hard to see Van Gogh. It is also a film that reprocesses and recreates Van Gogh's work. There have been a lot of popular science introductions around "The Beloved Van Gogh"-almost a retrospective introduction to Van Gogh's life, ancestors and descendants, so many that you will make up your mind to do it once, like the boss of "China Van Gogh". Follow the grand tour of Van Gogh’s House.
"The Beloved Van Gogh" is an animation, but not the kind of animation familiar to Chinese audiences. To be precise, it is hand-painted in the form of oil painting. In terms of frame rate, it's not as flat and sleek as common animations. In some places, it is easy to see the stroboscopic light, the blending of colors (materials), and the psychedelic effect of the slide switch, the characters and the background are as one body.
Its story, although it revolves around the death of Van Gogh, does not have the suspicion of strong drama, and it is dangerous. It is more like the people around you time and time again, and the world has cherished and remembered Van Gogh countless times.
"he is my friend."
"He is an artist I love."
"The Beloved Van Gogh" is a fan movie. The fight is not flow, but flowing paintings, from the "Starry Sky" that no one knows to the last "Crows in the Rye".
The protagonist of the movie is not Van Gogh, but Armand (man in yellow), the son of Van Gogh's former friend, the postman Joseph. In the historical textual research, apart from appearing in the paintings as a model, this man has no other intersection with Van Gogh's life.
The film started with neither understanding nor understanding of Van Gogh. In the end, he knew the painter's heart (even if only part of it), symbolizing a complete stranger in the world, and finally entered and realized the beauty of Van Gogh's art. Kindness and understanding are probably the reason why human beings are human, and human civilization can still shine on history, keep moving forward, and urge the newcomers to explore the token of eternal pursuit.
Looking back at my own growth, from not knowing what art is, not knowing who Van Gogh is, to being in awe of the world and maintaining respect for artists who left before us. It was an era when even words were divided.
We are educated to give love to the motherland and the collective. Later, it was slowly discovered that it was a lie and a scam, and Dawang has not broken it until today.
We squandered and gave love to the youthful restlessness hormones, and soon discovered that it was nothing but the support of fellow travellers. Maybe someone trips you up.
In the face of Van Gogh, love is a helpless but warm force. The loneliness of touching Van Gogh is even more a reflection of human beings. People in that era did not understand or appreciate his paintings. Back to today, it is easy for us to doubt from our hearts whether we can be perceived, understood and accepted by people around us. Watching a painting and watching a movie are essentially lonely.
In Piara's film, Van Gogh said that the most difficult thing to paint is water, because water is always flowing. Van Gogh's life was as miraculous as water, and as calm as water. It was not only a silent story that only sold one painting during his lifetime, but also an awakening story that revealed that no one knew it during his lifetime and the world knows after his death.
Art will not be alone. But artists are probably the kind who are always alone. After all, this world has never been as beautiful as you.
The deceased Iranian director Abbas left behind a magical posthumous work "24 Frames". He made the painter Peter Bruegel's "Hunter in the Snow" flow on the movie screen. Abbas explained that he has been thinking about how true an artist can describe a scene. The painter only grasps a real picture, there is no way to go before, let alone a place to go after. What happened in this world when creating that painting? He used "24 Frames" to put all the things he imagined when he saw "Hunter in the Snow" into the movie.
Obviously, "The Beloved Van Gogh" is also a movie that makes paintings move. The flowing form includes attempts to restore the space-time environment and character emotions produced by the paintings (every frame of the movie can be regarded as a painting by Van Gogh).
It is even more challenging to pack, assemble, and edit these paintings and put them into Van Gogh's daily life. Such a huge amount of work cannot be accomplished with one person's strength. Therefore, "The Beloved Van Gogh" can be regarded as a movie full of the deep love for Van Gogh from future generations and all mankind.
So, even if you accidentally fall asleep in the cinema, but at the moment you wake up. You can still believe that there was such a beautiful time that really resided in Van Gogh's life. They were handed down as artistic images, and they were also shining in the dark time and space in front of you.
(PS. Remember to listen to the ending song in the cinema and read the subtitle list)
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