film just started to show the theme "hand" with light and shade, bright color pictures and soothing romantic music.
The context of the story is simple, the narrative is stable, there are no jump shots with strong symbolic meaning, and most of the shots are panning shots, moving from a blocky alley or a large wall to the characters, giving people a sense of unity. This gloomy and dull feeling sets the emotional tone of the film.
The protagonist, Xiao Zhang, a tailor, falls in love with the courtesan Miss Hua because of his young and ignorant "virgin complex". So continued a nearly two decades of unrequited love. Miss Hua first said lightly, "How can I be a tailor if I have never touched a woman?", and then used her skilled hands to help the young Zhang. She has always been making clothes for her, and she is familiar with her body changes. She has accompanied her from youth to aging and embarrassment. Although she has always been an outsider to her emotions, she has always maintained her.
This kind of forbearance is like a rainy night. At the end of the picture, Xiao Zhang's wet eyes and the wet seaside that is not mentioned in the picture, this kind of wet and silent love is hidden in Xiao Zhang's heart. Also hiding in the torrential rain.
Judging from the footage, most of the space is closed and narrow, and the Xiao Zhang and Miss Hua appearing in the picture are framed by walls, alleys, corridors, etc., which shows that they are in a very low social class. Voiceovers also appear several times, evoking what is happening off-screen. For example, when Mr. Zhao threw something in the house, he did not take a picture, but took a picture of Xiao Zhang Tailor. Secondly, when the director described Miss Hua's phone call, the camera and the picture also showed the plot of Xiao Zhang coming to deliver the clothes. The two groups of conversations were carried out at the same time, and the camera lens was mostly panning. There are also many voyeuristic perspectives in this film. For example, the close-up legs under the bed appear twice, and the meanings brought by the two times are also different.
The background music is mainly Shanghai romantic petty bourgeoisie music, which sets off an ambiguous atmosphere with a strong sense of the times. Beginning with the iconic deep and melodious cello classical music, a series of old spring pictures show the theme of love. The dim and ambiguous lights and the street lights on the sidewalk make the whole picture out of touch with reality, like reading an old yellowed photo album. After a Miss Hua was thrown away by Mr. Zhang, she described her sadness and desolation by expressing the emotion of "sorrow" through a song of "hi".
The setting of the scene is also very simple, the tailor shop, the apartment where Miss Hua lived before, and the hotel where she lived after, the picture structure is basically built in these three closed scenes. And in these places, the mirror is used very well. The shooting angle is mostly to shoot Miss Hua and Xiao Zhang in the mirror, and shoot with a unique perspective to reflect the psychological movements and expressions of the characters.
In this film, the "hand" is the expression of desire. There is no bold and unbridled naked scene, but it expresses desire in a very touching way. A hand with bright red fingernails soaked in the wind and dust supported the young boy's leg, while the little tailor's hand was subtly restrained, but affectionately, measuring her figure with his hand and slowly stroking it inch by inch. In a scene, the director boldly only shot the hand of the heroine, Miss Hua, to complete the plot that Mr. Zhao wanted to be intimate with her, expressing the whole with parts, and expressing love and desire with simple hands.
The performances of the two are perfect. Miss Hua is sloppy and erratic. The more self-respect and Jiaowei often get, the more she wants it. Her words are almost harsh. She retreats from life step by step. Put on a splendid appearance. The little tailor is a humble man with a dream. He puts Miss Hua in the position of an ideal god, and sinks into a lifetime of sacrifice and loneliness, even if he wants to be presumptuous for a while. Make cheongsam for her attentively, repressed, silent and shy. In his heart, "I'm going to see Miss Hua today, she is very happy and beautiful."
The tone of this film is dim and yellowish, mainly gray-black and dim-yellow, which determines the tone and environment of the film. , showing the poignant and mournful tone of love in the alleys of the old city.
The rhythm is slow and eloquent. First, I start with the dialogue between the two at the end. "Do you remember the first time we met?" "Do you remember my hand?" It echoes with the final ending and plays a role of guiding and echoing. . The rhythm of the whole film is very slow and steady, which better connects the relationship between desire and hand.
The prosperous and old reincarnation plot of this film, the euphemistic and desolate love fable not only shows the love of the protagonist, but also shows the romance of the image of the hand, sublimates the word love, and expresses the selfless and forbearing side of love. If in the end Miss Hua got sick and covered her mouth with her hand, she didn't want to infect Xiao Zhang tailor. Such a forbidding and mournful kiss sublimates the theme of the hand.
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