# Electro-optic phantom# "The journey of the red balloon", floating away is the best destination, and nostalgia is the end of the turbulence.
The narrative speed, which is 18 million times slower than expected, is an impact on Hou Hsiao-hsien brought by "The Journey of the Red Balloon". In a sense, I was attracted to it, but in the face-to-face performance, it was almost drowsy, the spread of this rhythm was very anxious, and it needed to be pushed at a certain moment to enter the main topic of the story. I've been waiting, fortunately, there will be results.
Hou Hsiao-hsien's sense of mirroring is really calm, the whole movie is going on at his own pace leisurely, there is no way to speed up, it is swaying, it is very French, showing the taste of scrutiny. Once the rhythm of the story is opened, we will find that all the expressions are actually life-like, but Hou Dao does not refine the essence, nor does it summarize, let alone model, but let the film feel flowing little by little. Document all the process and become a part of the film. Those tossing and turning, those wandering, those unwilling, those thinking, just put on the table one by one, in fact, the trivial details of these stories represent to you, me, and him, it is not important.
Saying that this is a movie that pays tribute to "Red Balloon", I think it is more like a personal film note, describing all the pictures slowly in the way I like and am good at, and put the red balloon in my memory. The balloon is brought into the branches of the story and embedded in it, even if the expression of this work is completed.
Maybe the part of the film that belongs to life makes me more favorable. When the heroine and the mother of the child are surrounded by her family, she is fascinated by me no matter whether she is happy or sad. Song Fang, a female student from Beijing, doesn't know what the casting considerations are, and it may be necessary to set the character, but this perspective of existence is still a bit weird.
I heard that a large part of the filming was improvised, including the part of the postcard sent by the heroine, and I thought it was very interesting. There are many movies, for the director it is an outlet to talk about, for the actors it is a space to hone in, and for the audience, it is a hazy, indistinct rainy day. Nothing matters because you don't know anything. how nice.
But director Hou Hsiao-hsien finally gave me a reason to fall asleep. A little spark ignited by the red balloon, in bright colors, rushed to the sky.
Author: Little Buddha
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