What do you think when you have a company with a market value of 2.5 billion, a website with hundreds of millions of registered users, and no friends? The questions kept popping up in my mind while watching The Social Network.
For me, maybe this is not a new problem.
People have to make a choice, between climbing the mountain alone and halfway up the mountain with relatives and friends. Everyone is not destined to have a perfect world. When you strive for success and are willing to maximize your talents, then your emotional intelligence may be close to zero.
So no one has to complain about who has better luck and who has a happier life. The peasants are destitute, but they own land, cattle and families. In modern society, I constantly imagine who is the happiest farmer or entrepreneur.
How long can the pleasure money brings to us last? To be a miserable thinker or a happy pig? Xiaobo said to be a maverick pig. This may be the embodiment of idealism in more sense, and the reality is far more cruel than the ideal.
On the other hand when it comes to film style, fast editing and fast, informative dialogue. Party, electronic music can be overwhelming. Now that the mind is processing information, there is no time to think about film editing. This may be a trend in Hollywood and even modern American cinema, with more and more skilled editing and stimulation through the visual senses.
I'm thinking that technical work like this does represent some part of the movie, but never the whole thing. I would like to accept Hollywood's fast editing system and hope to learn from this experience and transfer the advantages to Chinese movies to get more box office.
But every time I think of oriental movies, I feel that there is a charm, and this charm is unparalleled. I think it's good to be exposed to more and more Western culture, but I can gradually keep a distance consciously, and I don't want to be assimilated in the end. What he is sticking to in his heart is oriental civilization, with a hint of softness and ambiguity. It may not be delivered to you at a glance, but you need to taste the essence in your chewing.
While I would subconsciously distance myself from such quick cuts, I do agree that such a technique would make the film more engaging. But I also wonder if there is no other way for the film to develop in a variety of ways? I first started having the idea of an "anti-Hollywood monopoly".
Maybe what we need to do is to develop and establish an oriental film culture, a life that is not so fast, slower, but with charm and elegance.
And rhyme, this concept, is a very personal thing that needs to be understood.
As for the inspiration this movie has brought me, so far, for me personally, I will yearn for the elites, talents, and energetic learning atmosphere of the famous American universities, and I will be amazed by the jumps and speed of their conversations. .
But even if I enter such a society, I may not take the line of extreme development. First, I am not diligent enough, which can be changed objectively and rationally; second, because I always remember a word and never ignore it. It, that is: life.
I don't need to repeat what it means to me.
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