①The male protagonist Zama is a native Spanish governor in a remote mountain village in Argentina. He longs for a promotion from the Spanish king and despises the local aborigines, but after a series of efforts, he neither gets the echo of the king nor defeats the local robbers. In the end, he was besieged by robbers and paid the price of breaking his hands. With the help of the aborigines, he barely escaped on a boat.
② An atmosphere of "lost" (corresponding to the male protagonist who was born in South America as a colonizer but wanted to be a colonizer, but was used as a tool by the colonizers' high-level officials), which is just like many African-Americans in Argentina. The creation of the duckweed mentality of aboriginal nationals):
- Various off-screen events in the form of off-screen voices (enhancing the difficulty of substituting and understanding the plot, allowing the audience to experience the "confused" feeling of the male protagonist);
——Slow and restrained narrative/editing/performance rhythm (same role as above);
- Clips that blur how much time has passed (that is, how much time has passed as the event progresses);
- psychedelic sounds (such as various insects and birds);
- Frame occlusion on many defocused lenses and composition (that is, some parts of the person are outside the painting, for example, sometimes only part of the person's head can be seen in the frame but not the forehead) and foreground occlusion;
——High-level photographic art with full colors and like classical oil paintings (this not only creates a sense of classical history, but also creates a sense of detachment in time and space: that is, it makes the audience feel that this happened in "ancient times", thereby enhancing the The audience's sense of alienation from the story, which in turn enhances the audience's "confused" mood)
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③The narrative context is too complicated and seriously affects the audience's perception of the emotion of the image, deduct 1.5. Perhaps it would be better to make the storyline clearer and simpler, as Godard did.
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