Character and era copy, cut and defamiliarization of lens, Reivew on Across the Universe

Giulitaimo’s films are influenced by modern art, especially by modernist painters such as Van Gogh, Dali, Frida and other art masters. The lens of distorting movies makes the background and even the subject matter unfamiliar. In many cases, the director still A single color such as black, blue, or red is deliberately used as the background to highlight characters and plots. For a director who does not pursue image narrative, he likes to separate the story from the story, and only retain a basic structure. This is what contemporary artists like to do, and it can even be said to be a fashionable operation in contemporary art. In the movie "across the universe", the director used the conscious arrangement of the betles' 23 songs as a basic framework to unfold a dispensable story in the strong anti-war background of the 1960s: a British young people left their hometowns and met a group of radical, outside the mainstream society, but with their own unique experiences and ideas in the United States. They became friends and experienced the freedom, restraint, suppression, Love, pain, hesitation, fear and dreams. The reason why this story is dispensable is because in the 1960s when the political background was very strong, no one was a rock musician, a revolutionary, a poet, a philosopher, or a traveler who experienced what the director said all the time. The story, its universality makes the story lose its due strength. Obviously, when admiring the betles and using their 23 songs as a framework, the author does not take narrative, depiction of the times, or accusations of violence as the main purpose. He is dedicated to analyzing the meaning contained and reflected in the betles' works, whether it is philosophical, contemporary, physical or spiritual. Imagine a story as a necessary step to make it a movie and be accepted by the public, but the director eventually falls into a lyrical whirlpool, making his analysis retreat in the face of agitated emotions. Lyricism is the core of this movie that shines and begins to decay in the end.

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