This issue of listening to the movie brings you "Good Times" directed by the Safferdi Brothers.
This is an adrenaline rushing American independent film. Except for the ending scene of the film, the whole story takes place within 24 hours.
The plot of the film is simple. Constantine, played by Robert Pattinson, robs a bank with his brother who is suffering from cognitive impairment. Unexpectedly, while escaping, his brother was caught and sent to the police station; Constantine had to save his brother. Raising high bail fees, unexpectedly his brother was injured in the police station and sent to the hospital; Constantine had to venture to the hospital to save his brother. Unexpectedly, he rescued the wrong person. Confrontation with all kinds of people in emergencies...
The whole movie uses hand-held photography, with a strong sense of shaking, neon light and shadow cluttering on the close-up of the characters, full of psychedelic feeling, electronic soundtrack throughout the film, restless and crazy, the film is presented in an extremely stylized audiovisual presentation, showing the Queen of New York The other side of street society.
"Good Times" is a typical tumultuous movie, with trivial dialogue, great speed and density. The beginning of the film is a dialogue scene in the psychiatrist's office. The tight dialogue editing makes the characters' dialogue full of pressure, creating a sense of noise and impatience. The highly atmospheric electronic synthesizer music firmly holds us down again, allowing us to continue to be involved in the actions of the characters.
The Savedy brothers like to have multiple characters talking at the same time in certain scenes. For example, Constantine took his girlfriend to see a lawyer to pay bail. In this paragraph, one side is his girlfriend swiping his credit card, and his mother called and quarreled after the credit card expired. On the other hand, Constantine was urging the lawyer to bail his brother, and the lawyer called the judge to communicate the situation of the prisoner. Among them, many phone calls came in, quarrels and phone ringtones one after another, and different sound tracks were superimposed on each other. The audience's attention was completely unable to follow, and they felt the same as the characters and fell into extreme anxiety.
In this small office, the sound clips are arranged densely and orderly, creating a clear and recognizable sense of spatial orientation in the overlapping audio tracks. However, because the pictures are almost all facial close-ups of small scenes, they are constantly switching to create the effect of separating sound and picture, which makes the atmosphere of the scene upgrade, and it is especially chaotic.
Here we talk about the "Mc Gurk Effect" in linguistic psychology. When the information received by vision is inconsistent with the information received by hearing, the intervention of visual information will affect the expression of auditory information, causing people The third sound of the error is heard. For example, after a nearsighted person takes off his glasses, his hearing is also blurred, and he may not be able to hear clearly. This is because hearing and vision are not independent and depend on each other to a certain extent.
When we hear multiple conversations, we subconsciously have expectations of the faces and expressions that make the sound. In this office segment, close-up shots and complicated conversations and quarrels appear in a way of separation of sound and picture. Not only does the sense of hearing lose focus, it is right. Visual expectations have also failed many times. In this way, the mixing and editing succeeded in manipulating the audience's psychology, arousing the audience's extremely anxious and nervous mood, which is highly coincident with the character's psychological mood.
Of course, in order to release and adjust this emotion, sound details are inserted in the sound production, such as the sound of keys and the sound of a money counter. These clear sound details create a kind of breakpoint and rhythm, which makes people from one point of view. Break free amidst the noise and stay awake.
"Good Times" has to mention that the soundtrack is about to be covered in the whole film. The famous electronic musician Oneohtrix Point used synthesizer and electronic sound to create a trembling music atmosphere. Electronic sound is undoubtedly a powerful fuel for the film's restless mood. With the strong rhythm of action editing and blurred neon light and shadow, the audio-visual experience is particularly powerful and memorable.
The sound of walkie-talkies, TV programs, electric gates, cars passing by on the street, police sirens, etc. are scattered among the ambient music in the film. These sounds are juxtaposed after the separation of sound and picture, but they have a wonderful experience effect.
The almost overwhelmed music didn't overwhelm the audience to turn the film into a super long MV, and it also gave people a moment of silence and respite on appropriate occasions. When Constantine sneaked into the house of a strange woman like a desperado mouse, he sat in a dark room, illuminated by the blue light of the huge TV screen, the music was moderately quiet, and the night seemed to recover what it should have. It was the moment when the hearts of the few viewers fell.
The Savedi brothers are good at creating anxious and chaotic situations in the film, and the protagonists of the film need to deal with and solve the multiple difficulties. The Queen has a song called "So don't stop me now", the lyrics read: Don't stop me, Cause I'm having a good time having a good time. Don't stop me, I'm so cool, so cool.
As long as you don’t stop, it’s a good time. Just like Constantine in the movie, life is bad enough, but in chasing and fleeing one after another, these troubles and pains can be put aside for a short time. More freedom, even if it is constantly experiencing various headaches, as long as you don't stop, everything is the best and purest time. For the low-level characters, crime and morality are not opposed to each other. It is just a choice that the characters have to make in their living circumstances.
Something special is that at the end of the film, accompanied by the punk godfather Iggy Pop's deep soul ending song, the subtitles of the cast and crew rise, but the images and stories are still on the move. Go to the psychotherapy clinic.
Therefore, the film does not seem to have an end, it is more like an intermission between one chase and the next, and as long as it does not stop, it is a good time.
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