The director's lens language is very interesting, very similar to his shooting style and the theme of the film, as if strayed into someone's life.
In the two drinking table scenes in the movie, all the actors are present for most of the shots. The director's shot makes the audience feel as if they are also there. Who you watch will not be determined by the director and the camera, but by yourself.
You eat and drink with your friends, and everyone chats. Generally, we are used to seeing whoever speaks. But there may also be someone you care about at the dinner table, and your eyes only want to stay on this person. The only difference from reality is that you can stare openly at the person you want to watch in front of the screen. Of course, you may also be too lazy to watch anyone, just bow your head and eat your own meal and listen to everyone in general, but you may not listen carefully. You don't have to look up to know that everyone is just sitting in their respective positions and chatting for some days.
The director may also deliberately focus the camera on only one person. For example, in the last scene, Young-hee is woken up by the beach. Although two people are talking, the camera is only on Young-hee from beginning to end, because at this time, her Emotions are well worth savoring: cramped, apologetic, confused, lost, sad, pretending to be relaxed. On the other hand, there is no need for the other person to appear at all. He only needs to have a voice. Although according to common sense, everyone is used to watching the person who is talking.
Speaking of multiplayer table games, the more you think about it, the more sophisticated the structure becomes. Take the first wine table play as an example. There are five people on the table. The director's excellence lies in depicting the personalities of the five people and their relationship with each other in a very short scene.
Compared with Director Rohmer, Director Rohmer is characterized by "tension" when he depicts the relationship between characters, while Hong Sangxiu's characteristic is that the relationship between characters is "very subtle", and it is this subtlety that constitutes Hong Sangxiu's awkward aesthetics. . This should be regarded as a difference caused by Eastern and Western cultures. There are many subtleties in East Asian culture.
The five people and three old friends in the first wine table scene were somewhat spoiled and tolerant towards Yingxi, especially the female friend, but she was a stark contrast to the other woman (the female coffee shop owner). She was obviously the one who was the most dissatisfied with Young-hee at the wine table. Although Yingxi's three friends have similar attitudes towards her, things are a little different because of everyone's differences.
We picked out the female owner of the coffee shop for careful analysis. Although she has a small role, she is already very full, especially for East Asian audiences. Due to cultural interoperability, it is easy to outline her image: married women are common in East Asia, because too much Trying so hard to grab the husband left both parties tired.
One side wants to escape, the other side grabs it harder, entangled day after day in daily life. There are too many such couples in East Asia. They can't get to the point of divorce, but they are really urging people to get old. It seems that the woman is too hypocritical and the man is too ruthless.
The communication between the female boss and Mingzhu, although there are only a few sentences in the movie, is enough for the audience to outline their daily relationship. The woman can only blame but is unwilling to understand, the man will only escape but is unwilling to explain.
The positive descriptions include: Deliberately demolishing the platform when Mingzhu and Yingxi chatted to force Mingzhu to pick beans, and when Yingxi scolded Mingzhu, he immediately responded to Yingxi and almost quarreled, and when Yingxi was kissing with friends, he took the opportunity to kiss Mingsoo .
The side descriptions are as follows: Others have repeatedly mentioned that Mingzhu is old and many people have lost his mind. Mingzhu denied that she has a relationship between a man and a woman. After paying the money, Mingzhu smoked alone outside and looked tired.
There are also some small details, such as the fact that Myung-soo didn't send Young-hee to the hotel the next day, presumably because his wife did not allow it. The female boss voluntarily trapped herself in a small family with Myung-soo, and hardly cared about anything other than that. It was obvious that she was not familiar with Myung-soo's friends.
If one person places too much sustenance on another person and regards him as his own world, the other person will inevitably get tired. Now that things have developed, it has long been impossible to tell who is right and who is wrong.
The other two friends of Young-hee are not surprisingly both engaged in art-related work, and they are not married and have no children. The way of thinking of the two of them is different from that of Ming-soo, and they are also the people who can truly understand Young-hee. In the early years, everyone was similar, but slowly Myung-soo began to move closer to the female boss.
The delicate structure of the wine table play is that the director has already portrayed the subtle personalities and relationships of the five people. It is very interesting to frame the five people in one shot. I even think this scene alone should be watched six times. One time to see whoever speaks, and the next five times to stare at each of the five people from beginning to end.
If you can only stare at one person, it is naturally the heroine Yingxi, her character is the fullest and most profound, and her emotions are the most complicated and profound. Because almost all of her friends at the wine table liked and cared about her, she was at the center of the topic almost from beginning to end. But there was also a moment or two when she sat in the far corner of the wine table, and when others spoke, she showed a drunkenly soft and free attitude. At that time, because there were other people talking, the audience might be looking at other people, but maybe Young Hee at that time was close to her essence.
The setting of the seat and the setting of the camera are interesting, Young-hee is at the farthest position from the camera, but the camera angle is facing her.
This is how the director's ability is reflected. I read a sentence before, to the effect that a good work only needs to describe a person's actions for ten minutes, which is enough to describe all the inner parts of this person. In the movie, it only takes about 40 minutes from Young Hee's return to Korea to the end of the wine table scene. The seemingly random plot has hidden ingenuity everywhere.
Hong Sang-soo's films should be described as casual, but the result of this casualness is relaxation rather than confusion. The reason why he is so casual, and the reason why the camera language is so rough is because things really only need to be done to this extent, no matter how many places are useless skills.
All kinds of long takes and blunt lens pushes and pulls all feel just right: he never misses where he should shoot, and he never stops where he should leave blank. He is committed to unpacking the film and returning to its essence.
In Hong Sang Soo's films, the lines always bear a very important responsibility, after all, they are very talkative. List some interesting lines.
The first is some thoughtful lines in the movie.
The senior I met at the movie theater was straight and stubborn, and Young Hee said that he looked young. When talking about the director, Young-hee wanted to avoid it, but the senior mercilessly pointed it out. When Myung-soo asked about the director, Young-hee also avoided it. Myung-soo stopped asking, and Young-hee said that he looked old. This shows that the different psychological states of life of the two people over the years are finally reflected on the appearance. Similarly, Young Hee is said to be feminine.
When Yingxi was woken up by the sea, she asked who the other party was like in a dream. She still remembered her dream. She knew that it was unrealistic, but she still expected to get the answer in the dream. It's a pity that the other party avoided her question.
I can't go any further. There are so many places that can be analyzed in this movie. When I think about it, I feel that every setting is amazing, and the emotional feeling created by the movie and the heroine points to the core of the movie. The analysis shows that there are still some very important parts of the movie that have not been covered at all, so writing this can be endless. Continue when you are in the mood.
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