What impresses me most in this film is the full use of light and shadow in its shots, which are hidden in every corner, on faces, on walls, on glass windows, and on the swaying leaves. I marked the appearance of these lights and shadows, and finally integrated them into three categories: 1. Pure light changes 2. Light and shadow intersection
3. Light and shadow and glass windows. The glass window is specially taken out here, because this film is completely associated with the August photo studio on the corner. His large window and the plane tree outside are also a symbol. In short, he has a unique role.
The use of light and shadow can be seen everywhere throughout the film, and they are all accompanied by a certain narrative or lyrical effect. The use of long shots is also the main style of Xu Qinhao's film, with a strong idol atmosphere, but a different feeling is born from the idol's style.
Part 1: Changes in Pure Light
These pure light representations are basically long shots and basically no dialogue.
● 55 seconds - 1 minute 20 seconds - 1 minute 43 seconds
This shot is Yu Yongyuan waking up in the morning sun gradually brightening, this is the beginning of the story, fades in at 55 seconds, at 1 minute 20 seconds outside the playground The sound of children doing exercises entered until the end of the scene at 1 minute and 43 seconds, but the sound continued. In this long shot, we see the process of the early morning sunlight changing from dark to bright on Yu Yongyuan's face. The scene from this very beginning has set the tone of the whole film slow, as if life has been slowed down. It is estimated that this is the director's intention to make the audience feel that when death is approaching, he wants to savor every inch of time.
● 2 minutes 48 seconds - 3 minutes 08 seconds
This is a continuation of the sound of the first shot, and the sound of the first shot is the foreshadowing here. Yu Yongyuan sat on the tire on the playground and gave him a panoramic view here. He sat there alone with children playing next to him. The sun gradually brightened, and the whole picture gradually became brighter, and the shadow of the tree shadow on the sand gradually became clearer. This long process makes people feel Yu Yongyuan's nostalgia for life and the rush of time.
● 49 minutes 05 seconds - 49 minutes 18 seconds
It was a night of lightning storms. Yu Yongyuan woke up at night and couldn't sleep. He sat by the window and looked out the window. The blue light of lightning flashed on his face, accompanied by He has no glasses on his face. The sound of the rain outside sets off the quietness of the house. This kind of realm where the silence is better than the sound can be regarded as effective. We can really feel the blue light and the sound of the rain reflecting the blue sky outside on his face. of sadness.
● 1 hour 12 minutes 33 seconds - 1 hour 12 minutes 53 seconds - 1 hour 13 minutes 15 seconds - 1 hour 13 minutes 28 seconds
The whole process was closed after Yu Yongyuan was admitted to the hospital with a sudden illness. The process of waiting for Yu Yongyuan outside the photo studio. At 1 hour, 12 minutes and 33 seconds, it is a medium shot of Jin Delin, leaning against the plane tree across the street under the setting sun, and her eyes are looking at the photo studio from time to time. At 1 hour, 12 minutes and 53 seconds, the camera switches to a close-up view of Jin Delin. At this time, the light of the setting sun has slowly faded. Jin Delin walked out of the frame and walked back, wandering endlessly. After 1 hour, 13 minutes and 15 seconds, the painting was overlaid, and it was changed to Jin Delin's panoramic shot. At this time, she had crossed the street and stood outside the window of the photo studio. The car drove by constantly, alternating with the fallen leaves of the parasol. In the whole waiting process, there is not a single line, not even a close-up of a character, but through the sunset, the picture goes from bright to dark, the characters enter and exit the frame and constantly change their postures, the cars move, and the fallen leaves of the parasol are waiting for Jin Delin. The mood is truly and delicately displayed.
The second part: light and shadow meet
tree shadows, lamp shadows, human shadows, the photo studio is still the same, but things are different. The interlacing of light and shadow, only at this time does it seem so real and cruel.
● 8 minutes 17 seconds - 9 minutes 23 seconds
In the summer of August, in white shirts, Jin Delin and Yu Yongyuan eat ice cream under the shade of the plane tree in front of the door. This is August in the summer, and the two leading actors are wearing white tops. In the summer when the sun is so dazzling, white seems to be more hot. The two people are in the shade of the tree, the dazzling sunshine at noon, the breeze blows the leaves, and the shadows of the leaves sway on the two people.
● 17 minutes and 15 seconds - 17 minutes and 35 seconds
Jin Delin and Yu Yongyuan sat on the sofa in the photo studio, Jin Delin sat and rested, and Yu Yongyuan adjusted the electric fan for her. The sunlight at this time seemed to be evening. The two of them were sitting on the sofa, and their shadows fell on the wall behind them. This slightly yellowish tone with the same tone as an old photo is the main tone of the whole film, and the shot of sitting on the sofa also appears many times. Here the evening sun shines faintly on the faces of these two people, and the shadow falls on the brown-yellow wall, and Jin Delin's white work shirt seems to have a layer of white light. Still a long shot, a slow lapse of time.
● 1 hour 33 seconds - 1 hour 1 minute 57 seconds
One weekend, Jin Delin and Yu Yongyuan sat in the photo studio eating dried fish shreds and drinking beer. It was already dark outside, and cars kept driving by outside, and the headlights flickered from time to time, reflecting the shadows of the trees outside on the two people. Throughout this section, the yellow light flashed a total of 8 times, and the director implemented this tone very well.
● 1 hour 8 minutes 18 seconds - 1 hour 8 minutes 43 seconds
A medium shot of Yu Yongyuan crying while covering the quilt on the bed, he slept close to the door, only the light from the door separates his quilt from the darkness in the room separate. The shadow of his father appeared on the door, a black shadow stayed on the door for a while, hesitating to open the door but stopped, and finally the shadow left. This kind of scene generally appears more in horror movies, but what people feel here is the despair and sadness before death is approaching. Here, the shadow on the door is used to show the father's concern for his son. The pain of the white-haired man sending the black-haired man is as indescribable as this shadow. The dim light in the room is like Yu Yongyuan's mood at this time. He wants to cry, but he can only cover it up with a quilt. These details vividly express the emotions of the male protagonist.
● 1 hour 22 minutes 27 seconds - 1 hour 23 minutes 04 seconds
Yu Yongyuan was sitting on the sofa reading a letter alone. The yellowish sunlight cast his entire shadow on the wall. It was winter, but the sunlight didn't seem to have changed. He raised his head and looked out the window. On his face, it was still orange, and the shadow on the wall behind the sofa was so lonely.
● 1 hour 28 minutes 15 seconds - 1 hour 29 minutes
Yu Yongyuan is looking at the album, close-up. For the first time, the car lights flashed, and the street lights appeared on his face. He flipped through the album slowly, the barking of dogs, the sound of cars, and the ticking of the pendulum all melding together. The use of the director's long shots has been perfected. During this period, the headlights flashed three times in total. Same place, same person, different mood. This time when light and shadow meet, it is difficult for ordinary people to comprehend, because the protagonist is slowly waiting for death.
The third part: Light, Shadow and Glass Window
In the whole film, the glass window appears no less than the protagonist. In the process of waiting for death, the glass window has become his connection and barrier to the outside world. The director has done a very good job of using glass windows and scene scheduling, and a few shots can fully reveal the characters' emotions.
● 6 minutes and 13 seconds - 6 minutes and 35 seconds
This is the first encounter between Jin Delin and Yu Yongyuan. To be precise, it is the meeting of the shadow of the portrait on the glass window. The director skillfully placed such an encounter on the glass doors and windows of the photo studio, which I have to say is very special.
● 20 minutes and 56 seconds - 21 minutes and 37 seconds - 21 minutes and 48 seconds
through the glass window to meet the first love. Yu Yongyuan was cleaning the photo studio, the first love appeared, a brief greeting, most of the shots were given to the window, and the people who saw through the window. At 21 minutes and 37 seconds, Yu Yongyuan was washing the foam with water, and his first love was in the room. Through the flowing water on the glass, he saw that his first love was also looking at him. There was no sound here, the water was flowing through the glass window, and the person was in the middle of the water. At 21 minutes and 48 seconds, the glass windows were clean and bright, reflecting Yu Yongyuan's front and the appearance of his first love in the house. People and shadows meet on the glass, but there is a layer of glass, past and present, fantasy and reality.
● 1 hour 8 minutes 44 seconds - 1 hour 8 minutes 53 seconds
Father went to the window to meditate, the light through the edge of the window was clear on his face, the silence of the night. The sky outside the window was as heavy as his father's complexion, his father's gaze was down, and the shadow on the glass window was dark blue and gloomy.
● 1 hour 19 minutes 51 seconds - 1 hour 19 minutes 57 seconds - 1 hour 20 minutes 08 seconds - 1 hour 20 hours 29 seconds - 1 hour 20 minutes 49 seconds In the
evening, after Jin Delin came out of the bar, she was in the photo studio Standing before. At 1 hour, 19 minutes and 51 seconds, tree shadows and street lamps were cast on the window. At 1 hour, 19 minutes and 57 seconds, Jin Delin appeared. The shadows from the back and the window were too dark to see her face. After 1 hour, 20 minutes and 8 seconds, Jin Delin stepped out of the frame to the left, and there were footsteps. After a while of silence, the footsteps started again. 1 hour, 20 hours and 29 seconds, Jin Delin's footsteps became fast, returned to the picture frame, and threw stones at the glass window. Then, through the broken glass window, I saw her aggrieved and angry face, and finally her front appeared, with tears in her eyes. 1 hour 20 minutes 49 seconds, fade out. When they saw Jin Delin walk out of the frame, but the picture was still frozen in the photo studio, everyone must have been waiting for something to happen. Knowing that the glass broke, the heroine's emotions finally reached a climax. This is probably the only fast and focused shot in this slow film. This long shot makes the audience look at Jin Delin's back, listen to her footsteps, and feel her helpless and aggrieved emotions.
● 1 hour 24 minutes 52 seconds - 1 hour 25 minutes 22 seconds - 1 hour 26 minutes 03 seconds - 1 hour 26 minutes 22 seconds
The blue glass window appeared, and Yu Yongyuan was sitting in the corner of the cafe near the window. Through the glass window, observe the process of Jin Delin's work. The shot was taken from outside the window to the inside, and what I saw was the shadow of Jin Delin and her colleagues working and Yu Yongyuan's smiling face. Beginning at 1 hour, 25 minutes and 22 seconds, the camera is switched from the inside to the outside, and the front of Jin Delin is seen through the glass window. She was on duty seriously, it was already the middle of winter, there seemed to be a thin layer of fog through the glass window, the white was hazy, and the close-up of Yu Yongyuan's hands slowly met Jin Delin. At 1 hour, 26 minutes and 03 seconds, the camera returned to the glass window again, and Yu Yongyuan's eyes were eager and helpless when he saw the shadow of Jin Delin entering the car and slowly disappearing on the glass window. Only such a shot was used here to thoroughly show Yu Yongyuan's love for Jin Delin. It was hidden in the bottom of his heart, unwilling to disturb, and painful and helpless. It is through the glass window, parting of life and death, sometimes not so vigorous and inseparable. With the help of the glass windows, the director uses the scheduling of the characters on the scene to express this picture of life and death in such a subtle and gentle way. The white sadness can be described as a style of its own.
In fact, there are many good shots in the whole film, and the director's arrangement of the sound is also very good. The light and shadow in the film brought me the greatest feeling. The passage of time is always inadvertent. Mr. Zhu Ziqing's " The description is very real in "Hurry". Time will not stop for a while because of your imminent death. Only when you are quiet can you detect a trace of time slipping away. August Photo Studio stayed quietly in the snow, Jin Delin walked through the pure white snow in black, only the plane trees with their leaves fell off still accompanied the August Photo Studio.
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