Jia Zhangke's film "The Three Gorges" won the Golden Lion Award at the 63rd Venice Film Festival. When I finished watching this film, I thought that the excellent thing about this film was its realism. Overall, the film used a lot of long shots, fixed panorama shots with deep depth of field, and also used many close-up shots. The appearance of Han Sanming Han Sanming is the initial fragment of the film. The beginning of the film begins with the introduction of the background sound. First of all, we hear the sound of the river flowing and the chanting of the Sichuan song, which hints at the characteristics of the beginning. And sure enough, it started on a cruise ship full of people. At the beginning of the film, the film is shot from a long-lens angle to create a different but continuous space. The camera lens starts to move slowly from the left to the right, showing the actions of different people on the boat at the same time. The lens shows up. When the camera is advanced to the back, the film adopts a blurred shot to edit the next space screen, which is also a rare montage shot in the film. Push right and repeat the step again. Finally, when the camera moves to the stern, the camera starts to freeze on a person and focuses on the person's movements, which clearly shows the appearance of the protagonist Han Sanming.
Another scene of Han Sanming is talking in the same room as he and his co-workers. Here the director places the camera in the innermost part of the room and freezes the camera, forming a fixed space with the room, and the various characters in it. The movements of the outside workers and the entry and exit of the outside workers are carried out gradually in front of this fixed mirror according to the time flow. Later, as the content of the conversation talked about the scenery of Kuimen on the 10-yuan banknote, the camera zoomed in to give a close-up of the banknote. Afterwards, Han Sanming stood with the banknotes and looked at the real scenery on the banknotes in the distance. The camera used a panoramic shot with a deep depth of field. The camera then turned to the scene of construction everywhere in Kuimen, which contrasted with the scenery of the past.
When Han Sanming was working on the construction site, he saw a pair of disinfection and protection personnel disinfecting the broken house in the distance. The camera followed Han Sanming's gaze to the disinfection personnel, and the camera also moved to a room with the disinfection personnel. The wreckage of the house between the wreckage, the calligraphy and painting with "hard work" written on the wreckage, the certificate of the primary school student, the photos on the wall, etc., these small symbols tell the audience that the houses here once lived in rich and ordinary people, but Today, with the demolition of the Three Gorges Project, it no longer exists.
Similarly, Han Sanming and his co-workers were sheltering from the rain under the construction site. Sanming remembered Xiao Ma, whom he hadn’t seen for many days, and called him. At this time, Xiao Ma’s Shanghai Tang mobile phone rang not far away. The camera moves as Sanming moves, and Sanming follows the bell to find the source of the sound. Afterwards, the camera followed the direction of the sound and followed Sanming to the pile of ruins. At this time, the text symbol "Phase III water level" appeared on the wall in the distance, implying that Brother Xiao Ma died tragically under the ruins, just like this A former city will then be buried under the Three Gorges Project and submerged by the river.
At the end of the film, Han Sanming and his co-workers stopped to look into the distance while leaving the Three Gorges to dig coal mines in Shanxi. At this time, the camera uses a medium shot with a deep depth of field. In the background behind the character, a figure walking a tightrope in mid-air stands out, indicating that the people at the bottom of life are like walking on a tightrope, struggling on the brink of death, just like Han Sanming Going back to the mine where people might die is like digging coal. The appearance of Shen Hong and Shen Hong in the film is transitioned by Han Sanming looking up at the motion of an unidentified luminous object flying in the air in the distance. In this film, the unidentified object crosses in the air to the other side, and Shen Hong is also looking up. , completes a montage of shot transitions. The strange symbols such as UFOs that seem to be inconsistent with the reality of the film, and the rockets from the buildings behind, essentially imply that the Three Gorges Project is also grotesque and inconceivable. Then, Shen Hong came to the machinery factory. Before entering the factory, there was a scene where the workers were arguing with the factory manager. The camera first went from the hanging portraits of Stalin, Lenin, Marx and others to the central figure, and then people started arguing. , the factory manager sold hundreds of millions of assets, and disabled workers were not compensated. This also happens to be related to the symbols of Marx and other hanging statues. In the ideal society representing the working class, people are talking about assets. Disputes, the rights and interests of workers are not guaranteed. After Shen Hong came in, she had a detailed action of holding a mineral water bottle and filling water. This action also appeared many times later. My analysis is that she frequently drinks water to express her inner hunger and thirst. The desire to see her husband also expressed her nervousness and anxiety about wanting to divorce.
Shen Hong has a scene where she can't sleep in the room in the middle of the night and blow the fan. This scene gave Shen Hong a medium shot, and the camera shot the process of Shen Hong's continuous blowing of the fan to dissipate heat. This shot illustrates the hot and humid climate in Sichuan, and also shows Shen Hong's inner restlessness.
Among them, Shen Hong also has a unique face close-up, which is a conversation with Wang Dongming while cooking in the kitchen. Wang Dongming asked why Shen Hong was in such a hurry to go by boat tomorrow, and then the camera showed a close-up of Shen Hong's facial expression. Shen Hong thoughtfully answered Wang Dongming's question, and said, "It's been two years without any rush. ", this side shows that Shen Hong has been entangled with the issue of divorce before seeing her husband, and hopes to forget this relationship in the future. This is related to the fact that Shen Hong resolutely left behind after finally telling her husband about her divorce. The latter's Shen Hong was free and finally let go of her heart.
Tobacco, alcohol, tea and sugar In this film, the director gave key words and symbols such as "tobacco", "wine", "tea" and "sugar". "Smoke" not only appeared in Han Sanming and his co-workers' daily smoking to relieve fatigue, but also appeared in the close-up shot of Xiao Ma's cigarette lighting. After watching the movie God of Gamblers, Brother Ma imitated Chow Yun-fat's cigarette-lighting gesture in the movie, showing that Brother Ma was a person who yearned for an ideal life and tastes life. Destined to deviate from the ideal, and finally died in this city to be submerged. "Wine" in the film expresses the "gift of kindness" in interpersonal communication. Han Sanming gave wine to Brother Ma, and finally Han Sanming and his co-workers had a reunion wine. "Tea" is bitter, and tea needs to be preserved for a long time to become more valuable, which represents the living state of people in the film. Just as Shen Hong took away the tea leaves that her husband had forgotten, it meant that their relationship was bitter. Her husband's leakage of tea leaves in the former factory also implied her husband's neglect of Shen Hong, and this relationship would eventually disappear. "Sugar" is sweet, representing the sweetness and festivity in life. Just like in the film, Brother Ma gives everyone white rabbit candy, hoping for better days in the future. Ma Yaomei gave Han San an understanding of the rabbit candy, which made Han Sanming regain hope in life, and also expressed the re-running between the two husband and wife. There are many other symbols and elements in the Three Gorges Good People, as well as close-up shots, which endow the film with a lot of unique realism. Just as the TV content in the film is also a symbol of the close-up, three generations of national leaders are committed to the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, and people have demolished an existing city within two years. The Three Gorges scene that is not there. A project that was built under the strong will of the country, the film Three Gorges Good People allows us to see the real living conditions of the local people at the bottom with a realistic lens, and allows us to think about what the final meaning of this project is.
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