Diao Yinan further deepened his exploration of the environment and space. If the city of Harbin is snowy, depressing, and indifferent during the daytime fireworks, then Nanfang Station is rainy, restless, and outgoing under the low pressure somewhere in Hubei. The environment and space of the film become the visual themes that run through the whole film, and it is through the open space and the environment with sound and color that the ideographic system is formed.
In many cases, the environment and space come first, and people are always the people in the environment. For example, Gui Lunmei went to the textile factory to inquire about news, but the noise in the factory completely drowned out the lines. The lines can only appear in the form of words, so there is no such thing as a The so-called lines are only the sounds in the environment. For example, seeing Hu Ge's wife in the wooden wardrobe for the first time can make people feel her simplicity. The narrative also revolves around the theme of space, always emphasizing the exclusivity of space and a certain sense of territory. The dramatic tension of the film also arises from the tension and strangeness of people entering a certain space. The thieves' meeting started a dispute over the ownership of the territory. The dispute led to the dissatisfaction of the space owner - the hotel owner, the station restaurant and the end restaurant always emphasized consumption before entering. At the end, Gui Lunmei accidentally broke into a workshop (she was raped because of this) - Merchants refuse to relocate. The police in the film have no dominant power at all. They are all temporarily transferred from other places, and they are always in a sense of fear of entering an unfamiliar environment. At the beginning, they asked about the place to fight, the light-emitting shoes during the square dance, and the posing brother showed their identity. Hard hats, parallel Givenchy short sleeves, all show that they do not belong to this space, and also prove their illegitimateness. A force from the outside cannot really understand what is really happening in this land (only the audience who follows the camera can), the film allows us to enter this space through a complete and open space with a large depth of field and a slightly elevated perspective. The news report in the film, using a grey-tone lens with an overhead view and a distant view, arbitrarily and simplified to conclude that this was a deliberate attack on the police. Of course, the audience knew that this was actually just some kind of "outsider"-style accidental murder. . The police force violence by breaking into a space and are resisted, such as causing a riot in a wonton shop - causing Hu Ge's wife to go crazy, such as breaking into Hu Ge's wife's house (the audience knows she can't find anything), such as Breaking into the zoo was stared at by the animals, such as when they entered the tower at night to hunt down fugitives, and they were met with violent protests—even if they had the right identities and reasons.
Hu Ge and Gui Lunmei can't have space either. When they are alone in a space, that's when they can exist. Hu Ge lost the right to have any space because of the pursuit. He also imagined through the newspaper when he was alone in the hut (shooting scene - killed, plane - escape), and was asked why not when meeting with Gui Lunmei at the station get away? In Hu Ge's view, there is no escape and no existence. At the end, Hu Ge broke the only peace of the seriously ill old man when he sought asylum in Tongzilou. Gui Lunmei lives in a bungalow with no privacy, or bunk beds. Because of her identity and the conspiracy she knows, she wanders around in fear and anxiety. She accidentally breaks into a workshop and is finally raped. At 300,000 hours, Liao Fan replied that he would return to his hometown to do business and escape from this place in the future. Out of the need for the rationality of the report, Gui Lunmei and Hu Ge sailed to an independent space far away from the world—a safe space at their disposal. At this time, there were no complicated backgrounds and spatial elements in the picture, and there was no noise. Now, the two dominate all the visuals and sounds, while also sharing emotions (even if they do it with purpose). In another place, after Hu Ge went through a dangerous fight and escaped, he and Gui Lunmei went to a restaurant for dinner. In this closed private room, perhaps it was the sense of security of having space or an emotional catharsis, which made him eat a lot of things.
So far, the meanings of several spaces can be roughly summarized: lake - erotic/intimate space and private space that can coexist; station - as a public place, the best place to report is to give up/escape to a distant place to start over; messy urban villages and Tongzilou , hotels and other interior spaces - full of hostility, contention, danger, betrayal; sunny city centers (courts and banks at the end) - modern civilization, rational and safe. At the end, it is worth noting that Hu Ge staggered and fled, fell, and finally touched the lake with his hands and head - the place where he gained warmth.
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