1. Yang Dechang
In the film directed by Yang Dechang, this "Terrorist" is earlier than "Guling Street Teenage Murder", "Independence Times", "Mahjong", and "Yiyi". Compared with the famous "Guling Street", it is more stern and pure. Compared with "Independence Times" and "Yiyi", it pays more attention to narrative structure and less preaching. I still remember watching "Yiyi" before. ”, the feeling when I was almost out of the play by being too bluntly preached.
In Chinese-language films, there are very few directors like Yang Dechang who completely ruthlessly satirize and analyze social reality. Compared with Yang Dechang, who focuses on storytelling, Hou Hsiao-hsien focuses more on artistic expression, and Cai Mingliang is obsessed with making hidden emotions poetic. Among the mainland directors, Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou's criticism of realism is not so thorough, and Jia Zhangke and Lou Ye's story text and video photography are not so delicate.
Last year, the documentary "Ten Years, Goodbye Yang Dechang", through interviews with more than a dozen filmmakers around him, showed from the side the valuable wealth left by his decades of film career and the influence on future generations. Director Yang Dechang passed away in 2007. He left behind not only those shocking works, but also his attitude towards film art, which is rigorous and even too serious, strict and even ruthless. Among today's Chinese directors, there are few people who respect movies, respect art, dare to express, and dare to deny like him. His contribution and status to Chinese movies are unique.
2. Ineffective expression, total loneliness, and middle-class anxiety
In "Terrorist", whether it is a policeman, a doctor, a writer, a photographer, a criminal, or a husband, wife, colleague, friend, lover, mother, whether it is from social life or from family life, people interact with each other. The communication between the two has always been separated by an insurmountable gulf. From people's inability to communicate and understand, lack of emotional communication, to the loneliness and pessimism in the depths of people's hearts, to thinking and anxiety about the meaning of human existence and way of life, all of this is that people in modern society, as alienated individuals, cannot integrate into each other. real picture. The content of the conversation between husband and wife, the photographer's wishful thinking about the girl, the hug between cheating men and women for warmth, the friendship of tobacco and alcohol between friends, and mutual use, these seemingly everyday deformed relationships that are seriously dislocated eventually lead to Each becomes the other's "terrorist".
In social life, people appear glamorous on the surface, get everything they want, status, wealth, marriage and even ideals, and they seem to have successfully become successful people on stage. However, just like people drinking water, knowing whether they are cold or warm, in the struggle of fragile hearts that long for mutual understanding and emotional dependence, those who are good at accepting see through everything and live a life of ease, while those who are narrow-minded and difficult to reconcile themselves can only be themselves destroy.
3. Fiction and reality that blur the boundary, accidental and inevitable
At the end of the film, the doctor steals the policeman's gun and takes revenge. It is a nightmare the female writer has on her lover's bed. It is the tragic experience of the characters in her novels. In dreams, in novels, and in all illusions, those who are deceived by cruel life, those who are devastated by fragile values, and those who are forced into the corner of life, they can choose to explode and destroy everything. In reality, people can only self-destruct. If the self does not exist, then the world will disappear, and this idealistic self-deception becomes another illusion that is independent of human existence. Fiction and reality have always been indistinguishable and mutually transformative. Reality is the source of fictional stories, while fiction is a prediction of reality.
In the movie, that harassing phone call is the inspiration for the novel and the fuse for the development of the real story, however, the phone incident is just an excuse to trigger a series of events, the progress of the novel and the real story is almost inevitable, they eventually All lead to tragedy, and the outcome of this tragedy is not changed by some accidental time. In this story, fate inevitably replaces the chance of the butterfly effect. In the end, people can't distinguish what happens in fiction and what should happen in reality. It's not that people's imagination is rich, but Life itself is so dramatic.
4. Unique image style and shooting techniques, everyone is a terrorist
In the film, there is a dialogue between a female writer and her husband in the kitchen. The director handles this line almost in the form of a monologue, and this line is almost a microcosm of the whole story. The way the actors look directly at the camera makes the audience feel that the characters in the film seem to be communicating with themselves. The director is telling the audience that all this does not happen in the film. In our lives, these anxieties and grievances are everywhere. , it looks directly into the heart of the audience and triggers the audience's self-examination. And this shooting method is reminiscent of the last scene in French director Truffaut's "The Four Hundred Blows". The little boy turned his back to the sea and looked directly at the audience. Although he didn't say anything, his eyes were telling us. , we are in the world that the movie shows, we are in such a situation, there is no escape.
As a movie called "Terrorist", most of the scenes in the movie are not scary, and the horror of several murder and bloody scenes is not comparable to that of one scene: the doctor male protagonist learns all the truth and his faith collapses after , came to the police friend's house and told his friend what happened to him. However, instead of telling the truth to his friends, he made up a false story like a stage show that didn't exist. In this performance, the actor stands in the middle of the screen, facing the police friend who does not exist in the picture, but also facing the camera, as if standing in front of every audience member. He is like on a stage of a drama, showing everyone what is hypocrisy, he is deceiving others, and he is also deceiving himself. At this time, we found that the more exaggerated his expression, the more contrived his smile, the more obvious the horror in his heart. After this scene, we are almost certain that he will fall into doom. What's most chilling is not the final gunshots, but the expression of one's psychopathic and irrational fantasies in a creepy, weird and absurd smile. This scene tells us that the real horror is not the violence itself, but the inevitable evil hidden in everyone's heart, which permeates our lives.
The terrifying bullet had already been loaded, but the trigger had not been pulled.
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