This article was written in 2017 and can be used as homework. . I like the Safodi brothers better, and I also watched "God Knows" at the time.
When the film was screened in Cannes, the media was so addicted to the media. Now it is released in the United States and the Safodi brothers are on fire. Before that, they were independent film authors who wandered the streets of New York and the edge of the Hollywood Film Center. Pure impulse and love to shoot my own low-cost movies. However, as the only post-80s director in the main competition unit of the Cannes International Film Festival this year, the brothers have been to Cannes ten years ago. In 2008, " The Pleasure of Being Robbed " was shortlisted for Directors' Fortnight, 2009 " Go Get Some Rosemary " ( Go Get Some Rosemary , later changed to " Daddy Longlegs ") was nominated again. In 2014, " Heaven Knows What " went to Venice and also took the Tokyo International The best film and best director of the festival.
It seems that the two of them belong to the "Film Festival contestants", but compared to directors with similar characteristics such as Sean Baker ( Tangerine , 2015), they received good reviews in Sundance. This year's "Florida" " The Florida Project " premiered in the Cannes Director’s Fortnight and became a hot spot in the awards season, not to mention that from the mid-80s with independent films in the mid-1980s in Sundance, Cannes, the Coen brothers, Jamus and other big-name directors, brothers, etc. It seems that Nian has never been "mixed", if it weren't for the "fans" who met Pattinson, perhaps they would still be immersed in their own world to be discovered.
This collaboration is significantly upgraded from the previous one. The narrative is based on the role of Connie played by Robert Pattinson. The plot is more compact and dramatic, with obvious genre elements added, and a relatively consistent narrative. Undertake, such as photography style and picture elements, similar character settings (age, class, lifestyle, etc.), electronic soundtrack, strong extreme emotions, and preference for reality.
The film shows a story about robbers and brotherhood (although the director did not expect to express "brothers" when creating), the main part is on the point of "robbers", that is, Connie had to make various choices in order to understand and save his brother. , Step by step to the extreme process. The narrative rhythm is fast, and there is almost no meaning to stop. As long as the audience has this tendency, it will start to reverse, such as after robbing the bank and getting in the car, before the police interrogation, or even when Connie gets along with the girl (despite being hunted down) People think that the "crisis" has been successfully resolved by Connie, and the plot starts to move towards the next "crisis" at this moment, pushing Connie to deal with it continuously, and also pushing the audience to keep the focus on Connie's nerves. Watch it in a tight state.
Of course, in addition to direct narrative guidance, the electronic music soundtrack throughout the film cannot be ignored. The modern and noisy music not only fits the picture, matches the coherent rhythm of the characters' movements, but also conveys the psychological rhythm of the characters and strengthens the strong style of the film. The running shots of the two being chased by the police on the street, environmental sounds such as police siren, various percussion music, and continuous electronic soundtracks continue directly to the scene when their younger brother Nick enters the prison. At this time, the nearly 20-minute film begins to come out. The subtitles, the previous series of tense moments are just an introduction.
The rhythm of the film is also intuitively presented through photography and imagery. The photographer is Sean Price Williams (Sean Price Williams), who has been working with the director. It continues the fluid and rough image quality of the previous works, but is more expressive. A large number of hand-held follow-ups and close-ups close to the characters to maximize the presentation of inner emotions, coupled with fast-paced cutting, as well as off-center and oblique composition, have become expressive rather than documentary techniques. When the camera is a little far away from the person, it is like the motion shot of Connie walking through the corridor, the shot of walking down the stairs to the girl's room after learning the wrong person, or desperate or hesitating, it is also a manifestation of emotions. In addition, the almost ubiquitous use of opposing colors and shades in the painting not only conveys the rhythm of modern elements, but the intensity and excitement of its vision are also internal manifestations. The glaring red spray dye, the contrast of red, white and blue in the toilets of fast food restaurants, the blue, red, green, and purple lights in different rooms of black girls, the red, blue, green lights and cult elements in the playground , Even the streets at night, the light effects in the car, etc., the stylized modern images reflect the weirdness and extremeness of characters and events.
As for the characters in the film, his elder brother Connie is the most complicated and layered, and his sudden emotional turn is the catalyst for the advancement of the film. Like every moment of emergency or when there is nowhere to go, he blurts out a lie, maintains the other's trust and sympathy in himself to achieve his goals to the greatest extent, and this purpose is to protect his younger brother and make people unable to help them. He was fortunate that although things eventually went out of control (discovered by the girl and violently assaulted the security guard), he showed in front of Ray that the two are not the same. Wisdom, calm, action, and even charming, but extremely extreme, covering up indifference and danger, this role also made Pattinson get the nomination of Cannes actor. Among them, Ray's role is similar to Mike in "God Knows" (played by the same person), and the director seems to like to let him keep telling others in front of the camera. In addition, Benny Safdie (Benny Safdie) plays the younger brother Nick, we can see that his performance potential is really great.
From the success of the film, we can see the diversified trend of genre creation and the broader plasticity of artistry. Although it is a crime genre, it still retains the individual pursuit of art. For example, the performance of the sense of reality is still street shooting, and the scenes and characters are based on field research (the director even visits the prison); under the clues of large causality, the action units of the characters are connected by external emergencies rather than causation. The chain continues, and a certain sense of game and fatalism is strengthened; the stylization of the pictures and music performance is more prominent than the previous work, but it is manifested as the expansion of a type of element. The fusion of artistry and genre elements not only preserves the authorship of the film, but also makes it more "good-looking".
Of course, the film also has a flaw, that is, the emotional tension that can only be experienced when watching it for the first time and from beginning to end seems to be difficult to retain. This may be related to the fact that the characterization of the characters is almost entirely focused on "immediate" changes, while the past experience and the antecedents of events have been kept to a point, which enhances the sense of modernity and gameplay. Just like the end and the beginning seem to form a cycle, and what happened in the middle?
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