A God-like Overlook——The Power of Jia Zhangke

Jamir 2022-10-25 09:29:54

Zhao Tao, as Jia Zhangke's royal actor, I think, has created a new realm of film performance, and it is a new performance realm that has never appeared in the history of film in the world that I have come into contact with.


The essence of artistic creation, whether it is novel or film, is a kind of ability to observe and experience through the genius of the writer, "sample" from the reality of life and human nature, and re-create and process through their genius, in order to achieve the The purpose of spreading others and influencing their emotions and souls. As Liu Xiaofeng said, reading novels is an accompanying need of a lonely soul. There is no doubt that works of art have been abstracted from reality through re-creation and re-organization by their authors. "Sampling" is a term in electronic technology, which refers to sampling discrete, non-continuous point signals from a continuous "analog signal" representing the real change process to replace the real process, so that the sampled signal can be processed and reprocessed. Processing, zooming, transmitting, receiving, storing, replaying and other operations. Sampling is like an artist's creation. If the sampling rate is too high, it means that the more information the sampled signal carries, which is more consistent with the real process, but the cost is high and the amount of data is large, which is not conducive to processing and transmission. On the contrary, if the sampling rate is too low, information distortion will be caused. For example, in the previous Facebook TV series, people felt fake at first glance, which is far from the real situation of human nature. The reason is that the creator's simplistic understanding of human nature, the sampling rate is too low, too much typicalization, and the truth of the details. , is completely lost due to the inferiority of the creator's talent, or supplemented by kitsch and arrogant imagination, or is deliberately discarded out of fear of some insincere factor. This is not the case with clever and sincere writers, who possess the sensitivity and experiential ability to approach God, expressing sincere opinions with the utmost truthful detail. Skeletons are no substitute for flesh. Art is thus itself a trade-off between authenticity and communicability. A record of life that is completely unadorned, although true, has lost its value as a work of art, because who has such patience and such feelings to carefully observe the life of others? And how can the spectator be able to extract from it the fragment of the need that is the attendant of his own soul?


"The author does too much work, depriving the audience of space. When the author does less work, the audience is not strong enough to perceive." This statement itself recognizes the gap in human ability, including the ability to perceive and care. That said, there are people who don’t understand logic who say they discriminate against the audience, because more people who make a career of confusing logic have said that a people’s artist is to use the people as teachers and the masses as teachers to create works that the masses love. This is shit. It is an iron fact that people's innate abilities are not equal. Thinkers, philosophers and artists are born with a higher perspective than others, thinking more deeply, and feeling a more delicate soul, rather than a central plan to "distribute" some people. The artist, the thinker, the philosopher of the past. Equality means equality of status, not status monopoly and status discrimination. For example, a person watching a movie in a movie has a different identity than the director who created the movie, but the identity is not closed. If the audience has the ability, you can also make movies. If the director doesn’t like making movies, you can also be an audience. No nonsense.


The debate among the judges of the Hong Kong Film Festival is also reflected in this contradiction in artistic creation. People who admire Zhao Tao are mostly meticulous and full of "sympathy", caring about the real living conditions of others, while those who criticize her are mostly isolated from the mountains and waters because of their unfamiliarity with the living conditions in the interior of the mainland. Her performance is not a performance at all, or she feels that the performance is too much and has a literary accent. Although this kind of estrangement does not prevent them from accepting the concepts of high degree of "extraction" such as migrant workers, disadvantaged groups, relocation of the Three Gorges, environmental protection, etc.


And Jia Zhangke and Zhao Tao's brilliant is also here. It lies in their balance between the authenticity and expression of artistic creation. They keenly capture the truth, and this truth is also the "typical" concern that a conscientious mainlander can experience. It's just that people's more common situation is that they are separated from each other's souls, coupled with arrogance, ignorance and arrogance, and their vision is ultimately within the circle of the horizon with themselves as the center; it is also more because of arrogance, greed, selfishness, and fragile powers. The right to express, create and disseminate, so that the real state that should have been noticed long ago has been ignored for a long time. The purpose of not being noticed must be to change something, at least, people are not so narrow-minded and ignorant. Perhaps, or because of the speculative psychology of thousands of years of "disaster victims", people who lack self-esteem simply have no ability to care for their own and others' souls? ?


The following is a copy of Mr. Jiangming's evaluation of Zhao Tao, the judge, I am eager to.


Zhao Tao's performance is neither pleasing to the audience nor praise... Her performance really enters the role. She doesn't want to show you her acting skills, nor does she want to show her good-looking side to the audience. (I secretly think that the good-looking side is for the audience, but it is actually entertainment - author's note)... When Zhao Tao in the Three Gorges Good People took a water bottle to fill the water, the orchid finger was raised high, which looked very contrived, but what she played was The kind of woman who lives in a small town, is dissatisfied with her surroundings, and wants to integrate and break away, that is her true state... It


can be said to be pertinent. It is true that very few people from foreign or even domestic coastal cities can understand the living conditions of inland secondary cities. Those who have some ideals, some beautiful feelings and fantasies in their hearts are facing the world outside. In the face of changes, the former partners flew out of their hometowns one by one to hunt for gold, and occasionally returned without recognizing each other; in the face of the streets and alleys in the mainland, tragic stories caused by injustice and corruption can often be heard, and in the face of the popular way of life When he was increasingly influenced by the Hong Kong film and Hong Kong drama videos that were once considered to be the capitalism of the flowery world, after more than 20 years of reform, after years of hesitation and struggle, his mind gradually became calm and strong. Zhao Tao in the Three Gorges Good People is decent and elegant. Whenever she goes to a place, the first thing she always remembers is to find a water dispenser to fill her mineral water bottle with water, even in the face of the noisy scene of the quarrel between the factory relocation workers and the leaders. , she was still calm, but by no means indifferent, she was drinking water, sitting quietly in the back, watching them arguing and fighting with a little curiosity, she never forgot that she was here to find someone, so she would not be naive. The world-like or journalist-like expression of professional interest in such conflicts, despite the disputes between workers and closed factories, what a typical scene with "the significance of the times". This is real. Her role is an ordinary person, and the director will never casually cater to the audience's expressed views, and will never allow the actors to express views that are inconsistent with the role. She is calm and strong, and she does not forget to pursue decency in her heart. The weather is hot and she lives in other people's homes, making it inconvenient to take a bath or take off her clothes to sleep. She is self-sufficient and expensive. Maybe that's why she didn't go out to the outside world to pan for gold like many of her hometown partners, preferring to pursue a peace of mind. A mineral water bottle that is never lost can be replenished at any time in one place. It is clean and hygienic without losing the dignity of a woman, and it also saves money and does not need to buy water all the time. How can you take care of yourself.


This is real. Authentic beauty in meticulous detail. (Leave aside the real beauty of the house demolition workers here). If you can experience it in your heart, how exciting it is. In my own words, "the beauty of divinity that only the eyes of God can capture!".


There are two kinds of people's aesthetics: the beauty of seeking truth and the beauty of seeking ideals (ideas). The two cannot be completely separated. The aesthetics that really accompanies the soul must necessarily require real beauty; most people who only like the beauty of ideas are mostly superficial and numb arty. Because they separated the beauty of their ideas from the reality of human nature, the so-called beauty does not come from the feelings of their souls.


Human thinking is naturally structured, and cognition starts from the structure, so things that are easy to conceptualize are easier to understand and accept. On the other hand, people are naturally emotional animals, and intuitive emotions are easier to spread. The trouble is with works with a high degree of inclusive tolerance, which are neither intuitive emotions nor simple forms of structural ideas. He naturally requires the audience to have the same keen and passionate mind as the writer, full of curiosity and concern for the souls of others other than the soul.

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