The film "Eight Hundred" has attracted constant controversy since its release and deletion. As the second film after the movie theater resumed work, it started this year's film work with a good start and achieved good box office results. The blessing of iMax makes the description of the scene in the picture better presented. Being the first film in Asia to be filmed entirely by imax also made it a big selling point in terms of publicity. It eclipsed the Oscar blockbuster "1917", which was released almost at the same time as the war theme.
In the film, animals are not only common in life, but also become an element of meaning, which not only increases the beauty of the film, but also increases the metaphorical content of the film, and becomes a symbolic element in the film. As early as in surreal films , animals appeared. Animals are both beloved and terrifying for human beings. All kinds of animals classified by human beings have become and become various symbols in the movie, such as "An Andalus" In "Dog", the ants appearing from the hands have achieved a surreal symbol. The close-up of the lens makes people unable to escape, and people's psychology changes. The director uses animals to highlight the mood of the characters and the presentation of the environment, which has become a symbol of the director as an ideological element.
There are four metaphorical animals in "Eight Hundred", namely, mouse, eagle, white horse, and peacock. Existence is meaningful. In this review, according to the plot, there is a certain symbolic meaning between animals.
The mouse that appears in the title has two layers of meaning, and it has achieved a good construction effect, showing the harsh environment of the city after being bombed by the Japanese army. As a kind of scary animal, the mouse walks through the ruins of the city in the movie "1917" It is also shown in the middle of the movie. After that, there is the eagle. The eagle is the natural enemy of the mouse. One is strong and the other is weak. It is also known from the next shot (or historical event) that the strength of the Kuomintang army and the Japanese army at that time was very different. The next shot is The evacuated Kuomintang army, on the other side is the killed Kuomintang army prisoner. The appearance of the eagle and the mouse not only matches the environment that the film needs to build, but also symbolically metaphors the respective situations of the Japanese army and the Kuomintang army under the general environment at that time.
If the white dove is peace, then the white horse symbolizes more hope, and the bony white horse has the most scenes among animals. Like the mouse above, he expressed the situation of food shortage. This is the director's presentation to the audience in detail, which plays a role in restoring history and based on reality. The picture of its running is also similar to the ostrich running on the road in Guan Hu's other film "Old Pao'er", which seems to have some kind of unclear connection. It seems to be the highlight of the whole film, a symbolic collective burst.
For the person who led Xiaohubei, Baima is his hometown memory (when Xiaohubei asked him why Baima listened to it, he talked about his hometown) and it was a kind of concern.
For Xiaohubei, the white horse is his imagination of heroism, and it is also the product of witnessing his brother from cowardice to tenacity. For the first time in the film, the symbol of heroism he produced, dressed in military uniform, riding a white horse, incarnating the image of Zhao Zilong, with thousands of troops in front of him, and the plot of going out of reality has a heroic image, the second intention It was his elder brother who incarnated into the image of Zhao Zilong, a person he was familiar with, and became a symbol of his heroism, which was also a symbol of passing away.
The white horse means hope to the audience. When the white horse breaks free and runs on the other side of the river, the crowd on the opposite side also runs. "The horse is running, the horse is running." Contrast played an indelible role. Dressed in uniform, riding a white horse. This is not only a picture that Xiaohuo imagined, but when Colonel Xie was negotiating with the enemy, this is what the people on the other side saw. This is also the real scene of Xiaohubei turning his dream into reality, when the horse disappeared. , the national army also announced the withdrawal.
The white horse also symbolizes that the "deserters" are frightened, flee, return, and eventually become the soldiers of Colonel Xie. For the first time, when others are frightened, this scene also mirrors the cowardice of the "deserters" in the first scene of the film; The second "escape", fell to the ground. To come back again is the change in the hearts of the deserters. Returning to the head of Xie to negotiate, the "deserter" at this time became a soldier in the true sense. White Horse's lyricism in the film also had an unexpected effect. The mention of lyricism seems to be a failure of the film. According to the theory of "alienation effect" proposed by the Brecht system, "Eight Hundred" did not do anything. To achieve a sense of distance and deliberate lyricism with the audience, the masterpiece becomes a little greasy. But it is always the support of the equipment that makes the audience's grandeur displayed on the screen to make the film's box office achieve good results.
Back to the topic, there is also an animal on the opposite side of the bank - Sister Rong's white peacock. A river separates two places, each with a "white". Unlike the running "Shiro", the "Shiro" across the shore is imprisoned. If the "white" of the Sixing Warehouse is a running resistance, then the "white" on the other side is a kind of dark resistance. The two "whites" form an invisible bridge, and the two sides take care of each other. The long white horse, on one side is Sister Rong's white peacock, the shore is clearly fighting, and the other side is also fighting vigorously. In the end, the visible bridge builds life and death, the invisible bridge builds a belief, the visible bridge makes a contrast, and the invisible bridge builds the same belief in the film.
Indian Buddhist scriptures say: "The world and my view". This is why every hit movie is controversial. Among the fans of "Eight Hundred", some people value the beauty of the picture, some people pay attention to iMax, and some people pay attention to the origin of history, all of which are not wrong. Movies are meant to progress through criticism. I have no objection to this. I respect what you said, but I can also object. This is the case with "Eight Hundred" and other movies, and he can be recorded by the long river of history.
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