Beginning with Virgo's "Small Town" in 1997, Ceylon started from childhood memories and focused on the increasingly declining hometown. This is also the first time Ceylon has emerged on the stage of an international film festival. From then on, "The Blue Clouds in May" and "The Far Place", he continued the creative road of "Small Town" in which the environment was used to set off the characters and the nature to show the poetry. While exploring the anxiety of human nature, he carried out a "soft" approach to social issues. criticism". The utopian innocent life in the small town is broken by the difficulties brought about by urbanization. Although the scenery remains the same, it has long since become a reality-more and more young people are facing the crisis of unemployment, and the city has become their only hope and Way out. However, the journey to Istanbul is a confusing journey. The hillbilly who came to the metropolis in "Far Away" chose to leave amidst both career and spiritual setbacks. And the urban middle-class life is far from being as glamorous as it appears on the surface. The huge pressure in life is that they are emotionally indifferent, and they can no longer bear even the most basic sense of family responsibilities. From a closed town to a relatively vast city, Ceylon has completed the expansion of the spatial breadth and the cultivation of emotional depth through the "Hometown Trilogy". Since then, the production of "May Blue Sky", "Three Monkeys" and "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" has become more atmospheric, and the overall Ceylon style of collage with details has become increasingly clear. The loneliness of the individual is still the theme he is dedicated to expressing, but the richness of the storyline has been greatly enhanced compared with the previous works, especially the "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" filmed in 2011, although it is a process of investigating , But deliberately weakened the drama of the plot. A convoy composed of the military, prosecutors, police and other departments drove on the roads of the Anatolian Wilderness in the dark night. Representatives of all parties evaded each other and complained about all kinds of unsatisfactory life in life. Ceylon did not intend to tell the ins and outs of the case, but tried to make the characters leave their familiar environment and experience the subtle changes in their mood in a closed abnormal state.
"Hibernation" is obviously more ambitious in the performance of the characters. Ceylon did not continue to follow the "majestic and majestic" style, but put forward new restrictions for its own script. Although on the poster, we can still see his signature empty and natural scenery, 95% of the plot of "Hibernation" takes place indoors. The main plot of the film is advanced by dialogue, which is somewhat similar to "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia". However, compared with the latter's long-distance movement in space, "Hibernation" restricts the protagonist's activity area to a small hotel in a tourist attraction in Cappadocia. Ayduin is a retired actor who occasionally contributes to newspapers on weekdays and plans to write a huge story about the history of Turkish drama. This knowledgeable and eloquent man actually has huge problems in communicating with his family. As the title of the movie implies, his inner world is in a long hibernation. The seemingly eloquent words are just a means to conceal his indifference, as Shakespeare said, "Language is the vocabulary of a coward." He often educates his sisters and young wives who live with him through general principles, and constantly quarrels with them because of metaphysical problems. The inexplicable strong sense of superiority brought misfortune to his life. The long talk did not mean effective communication, but alienated the relationship between him and his relatives. His condescending position also brought crisis to the unharmonious married life.
Just as the different roles in "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" gradually participated in the performance with the deepening of the case, "Hibernation" also used Ayduin's activities in the mountains to string together the portraits of the characters, the hotel front desk, the friends living in the farm, and the guests. , Foreign tourists, these dispensable characters constitute trivial fragments of his life in the mountains. Cappadocia's winter begins with the first snowfall. The strange landforms covered by white snow look like a long-lost alien world. The blockage of traffic seemed to give Ayduin a chance to contemplate and release. After a drunk at a friend's house, his long-sleeping heart finally began to regain his temperature on a cold day. At the end of the movie, he returned home with his affectionate soul monologue. What he reproduced was not only the meaning of life, but also the love for his wife. He finally typed the opening chapter of "History of Turkish Drama" on the computer.
"Hibernation" is full of various thoughts about communication, which also makes "talk" replace "landscape" as the unparalleled protagonist. In order to express the characters' hearts in words, Ceylon wrote a 196-page script. Several character dialogues in the film lasted for more than ten minutes. While the dialogue has become more complicated, the movie scenes have become simpler. In photography, Ceylon has returned to the original minimalism. In the indoor scenes, the lens follows the characters. Except for the occasional panorama and close-ups, it is the most common. Fight forwards and backwards. For the display of the magical landforms of Karpasia, it is only to the end, and not too indulged in the gaze of tourists. The space occasionally extends from indoor to outdoor. The emergence of natural landscape eases the depressive feeling that is constantly gathering in the indoor play, allowing the audience and the protagonist to have a chance to breathe and buffer, and perceive their own existence in the deep and silent. For the audience, this seemingly less relaxed movie is an encyclopedia about the state of individual existence, and "loneliness", "vulnerability", and "helplessness" are all entries in this tome. "Hibernation" is slow in pace, but it is a movie that can make the audience more and more excited. The long-term dialogue draws out the cocoon and portrays the characters' hearts. As the characters of Ayduin and the surrounding characters become clearer, the audience is as curious as the people in the play, whether there is still a possibility of bridging such emotional gaps. Ceylon finally provided us with an optimistic answer. No matter how many injuries and misunderstandings have been experienced between individuals, the frozen heart may look forward to a moment of warming up again.
Originally published in the 2014.6 issue of "Movie World"
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