Personally, I don't like the rhythm of this film very much. Maybe the director wanted to shoot a narrative rhythm that explores the nature of man and the relationship between man and dog under the shell of black humor. But I personally feel that the humor in this film did not meet my expectations, and the reversal and discussion of human nature also made me feel a little boring.
The montage method in this film is actually quite ingenious, but it is also a very common dazzling technique. If it was more than 20 years ago, I might have thought it was very novel, but now I look back at it and I don’t think it is so ingenious. Of course, I can't expect to re-watch this movie after 18 years, and I will feel how novel its audio-visual language is, but at least it allows me to fully guess the direction of the plot. When the director used the montage echoes before and after to deceive the audience, I completely guessed the director's intention and felt very boring.
In fact, there are many scenes that were well filmed. For example, two girls use a mirror to reflect light on the subway. For example, the protagonist uses a tape measure to measure the distance. .
Who are the higher animals and who are the lower animals? The three dogs in this film are the thread that runs through the text, and the people inside seem to be indistinguishable from the dogs. Some dogs can't bark, some dogs can bark, some people can bark, and some people can't bark, and there seems to be no essential difference between humans and dogs.
The first novel of a new director generally has one problem or another, but the most important thing is whether he has a heart that can make a good film and want to make a good film, which is what we call a Whether the director has the potential to become a great director. Therefore, we can see that many directors' first works are amazing and brilliant, and then fall quickly like shooting stars, and no new works have come out. Some people have made refreshing works even though the budget of their first works is very low. The road behind is getting better and better.
Therefore, Feng Junhao filmed "Memories of Murder" three years after "Kidnapping the Dog at the Door", which is a qualitative improvement. Although "The Dog at the Door" is a very ordinary black comedy, But from this work we have been able to see the potential of his future masterpieces.
Therefore, the low-cost "Zhongxie" can give us hope for domestic films, and the "Little Widow's Ascension to Immortal" ("The North is Vast"), which was shot in a few days, can also make everyone applaud. I hope we can see more new directors and shoot more feature-length works, so that we can find a group of directors who can stand up to the new millennium movies from these works.
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