"Hibernation" lasts more than three hours, which is a length that Ceylon has never reached before. Campion, the chairman of the jury of the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival at the time, said that she had been "terrified" by the huge production of the film before she watched the film. She quipped: "I thought,'God, I have to go to the bathroom in the middle of me.'" "(But,) The rhythm of this film is very good and it attracts me-it doesn't hurt to watch it for a few more hours." This fully affirmed Ceylon's artistic creation this time. Judging from past experience, movies are either weak in heavy screen plots or strong in multiple dialogue plots. Ceylon went the other way. His previous works such as "Distant", "Climate" and "Three Monkeys" were all oil painting-like photography collections, but they also had a strong sense of story. Lan added dialogue, but the story is still full. In "Hibernation", Ceylon obviously weakened the plot of the movie, and focused on the inner exploration of the characters, supplemented by a lot of dialogue. The movie basically consists of two and three dialogue scenes. The volume and content of the dialogues remind people of Godard, the leader of the French New Wave, such as "Weekend" and "Elegy of Love", but their styles are very different.
In addition, the role of the movie is set as an intellectual, and the dialogue is basically based on metaphysical things. This excludes most of the audience who are still stuck in material needs from the threshold of viewing movies. The movie talks about religion, charity, drama, and love, but everything will always end in a quarrel. The male protagonist seems to have different opinions from those around him, and his controlling frenzied character also leads to isolation. Perhaps there is a sense of crisis more or less when you are older, so you can gain an advantage from your words to ensure your own status is unshakable. Therefore, the film discusses in fact very single, nothing more than a mid-life crisis or human plight, which is a bit like Fellini's "eight and a half" meaning. The living conditions of the low-level characters also appear in the movie. It is more to convey a kind of class antagonism. From the dialogue and attitude between the two groups of people, cracks can be seen. The poor stand and the rich sit while the poor respect the rich and do not appreciate the rich The poor don’t appreciate it either. The rich stretched out their hands and waited for the kiss from the poor. If you look closely, you can notice these details.
Ceylon is also a control freak, and all kinds of film work can be handled by one person. This may also be related to his film creation experience. Due to lack of funds, Ceylon, who was a photographer, often asked relatives and friends to help filming. Before "Reminiscence of Anatolia", it had always been a family workshop-style filming method. It is shown in his autobiographical film "May Blue Sky". And the male protagonists in his movies are usually the kind of people with strong desire for control. There is a character of Virgo. Basically, some details of each of his movies can be seen in his cleanliness, tidying and controlling madness. This is true of the photographer in "Distant", the professor of "Climate", the father of "Three Monkeys", and the theater actors in "Hibernation". Powerful directors often produce excellent works. Kubrick, Orson Welles, and Hitchcock are all famous tyrants. Perhaps only a strong centralization of power can gain the right to speak, and the film has its own style and can express itself. Thought, those directors who are led by the nose can't make it to the movie temple after all.
Ceylon's unique aesthetic style, continuous attention to the middle class, and active exploration of human plights have continued to grow in the film. Ceylon had previously won awards in Cannes for his works such as "Distant", "Climate", "Three Monkeys" and "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia". status. After the tempering and the formation of style, we can indeed see Ceylon's masterful calmness from these three movies, and Ceylon has become one of the helmsmen leading the trend of future movies.
Movies are amazing. Some directors can’t calm down for a long time after watching their works. They want to share their feelings about watching movies. Moreover, the short 140 characters on Weibo are not enough to express clearly. Ceylon's works seem dull, and the aftertaste is extremely informative, completely distinguishing the pale and dry movies. The director's thoughts will spread with the screen of the movie, and the masters are all philosophers, and this is not false.
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