It is Hirokazu Koreeda who can capture any emotion in a delicate and clean manner. Every shot has its meaning, and every film can be watched and pondered over and over again. For example, the film "Air Doll", the title at first sounds like a domestic third-rate film, without connotation, emotion, and technology. The same plot can be filmed by a domestic third-rate director, and it can be boring. It was Hirokazu-eda who could make a movie of such a theme so grounded, short and tall.
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Opening: At the beginning of the movie, the air doll's male owner is riding across the city on the train to get off work. The camera zooms in from the city outside the window to the inside of the car. The neon lights outside the window are bright, and the facial expression inside the car is a contrast. A shot explains the male host's daily working hours, as well as his work and life status. After the male host returned home, the door was closed, but the camera did not enter the room, but stayed for a short time, waiting for the male host's voice outside the painting "I'm back". It subtly illustrates the male host's feelings for the air doll.
Garbage sorting: After the air doll gained the heart, when the garbage truck was collecting garbage, there was a scene of garbage sorting. The flammable ones were thrown into the car, and the non-flammable ones were thrown aside. When I first saw it, I felt inexplicable. It was only after I saw it that I understood what it meant. The combustible is human, the non-combustible is the air doll. Apples are flammable and solid, and bottles are non-flammable and hollow. All have their metaphors. At the end of the movie, the gluttonous woman is amazed at how beautiful the air doll is lying in the colorful bottles in the garbage, like a birthday cake...
Repeated emphasis: In the movie, the air doll will have an inner monologue after each sexual intercourse, "I am the air doll, I am a tool to vent sexual desire." Repeated emphasis makes people feel a kind of morbid numbness. In fact, the metaphor here is that most people's living conditions are numb and passive. In the old man's house, when the old man said "touch me", she naturally put her hand into the quilt. The old man smiled lightly and pointed at the finger. After repeatedly emphasizing, such a change makes the viewer feel that life should actually be like this. .
Editing with care: The genius of the movie is that, in addition to the main line of air dolls, everyone who has an intersection with it has different life and work scenes interspersed in the movie. Although they are different people, they share joys and sorrows. , through a few ordinary characters, but outlines the life of the society.
Breathing: Off-screen breathing occurs twice in the film. Before the air doll got the heart and after the air doll died, especially the breathing sound at the end of the film accompanied the dandelion flying in the sky, it was beautiful. Later, I thought that the breathing sound is the same as when the male protagonist blows air for the air doll. Air is the life of the air doll, and every time the male protagonist blows air, it is the fusion of life.
Having said so much, I think I have only seen a corner of the hundred buildings. The use of the camera lens and the soundtrack in the film are also very particular, and it is worth watching several times.
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