Before that, through various channels and methods, I watched the movie three times, and after the novel was introduced in China, I also read it again. To be honest, before reading the novel, I could only feel what Kubrick showed in the movie. The mysterious cosmological philosophy is more of a doubt. Especially in the opening paragraph, the orangutan waved the bone rod, and a group of orangutans stood upright and drove away another group of orangutan tribes in the water source. During the fall of the bone rod thrown into the air, it was converted into a near ground through montage. Operational space station. The novel fully explained all of this with more information, so when I watched the movie later, I noticed the black cube and its connection with the later black cube on the moon and the Jupiter plan. When the mysterious black stele landed on the earth, it triggered the wisdom of the orangutans, and allowed human civilization to evolve to a stage where cosmic exploration could be carried out. On the moon, the satellite closest to the earth, the human who took the step of cosmic exploration once again The trace of the black square was found, which also led to the Jupiter exploration plan carried out by Poole, David and others later, because from there, the signal of the black square was also transmitted.
However, every time I see David going through the stargate (yes, that lengthy light and shadow that the hippies call hallucinogenic), I always feel exhausted and sometimes even need to pause to take a sip of water. , so the result is that every time I see David entering the room, to the part where he becomes a star child, I can't really understand the director's intention (this part is the only part I can see from Kubrick where deduced from the text of Arthur Clark). This time, I was fortunate to see this film at the film festival. With the good viewing effect on the big screen, I finally watched this part seriously and gained a new understanding of this film.
First of all, regarding the star gate, what we saw at the beginning was the star gate triggered by the black stele after David controlled the spacecraft to reach Jupiter. , you can see the earth scene shot by high-altitude flight, but Kubrick used the film processing technology at this time to make the exposure disorder (may be wrong here), thus creating a strange and unique perspective, this The point of view is not that Kubrick wants to show the mysterious nature, but the flying state of the black cube when it arrived on earth four million years ago in search of species that can trigger the origin of civilization, and David's flashing in it. The close-up indicates that at the end of the "Jupiter Mission", the Black Cube expresses the answers it hopes to give to the human beings who are constantly searching for answers in the film. When the bizarre scene ended, Kubrick created a "special" room. First, the camera always gave a panoramic view and partial close-up of the room. At this time, we noticed that there was a spacecraft in this room at first. When David peeked out of the cabin, the most illogical scene in the film appeared. He found an aging self outside the cabin door, standing at the door leading to the bathroom, and when we followed the camera After peeking into the bathroom, the aircraft in the room was no longer there, and the main perspective of the camera became the old David. With the sound of water droplets, he began to look back at the interior of the room. At this time, the interior of the room appeared again. An even older David was eating, and the sound of water drops disappeared. The camera moved from David in the bathroom to the old man David who was eating silently. The sound of water drops sounded again from outside the painting. The old man turned his head to peek in the direction of the camera, and then stood up Get up and walk towards the camera. At this time, Kubrick has successfully switched the narrative perspective in the audience's logic from the main perspective of David in the bathroom to the objective scene of David in the dining room, and then into the objective scene of dining David. From the main perspective of the dining David, at this time, the dining David found that the bathroom was empty, and sat at the dining table again. Looking sideways, a dying and dying David was lying on the big bed in the bedroom.
I suddenly understood the significance of David's subsequent transformation into a star child and looking back at the earth. Here Kubrick used the exquisite actor's positioning and camera language to express a complete logical narrative and bizarre use of mirrors and scenery. Reincarnation concept. When David received the call of the black square and successfully enlightened again, he has become a totem in a sense. After becoming a "star child", he faces the mother planet Earth, which echoes the two inspirations of the black cube, which indicates that David himself was nurtured by the mother planet, and he was inspired by the second time. Later, he has a more austere view of the universe that is detached from human civilization. As a kind of totem, he has to look back at the one who once brought him life and had to give up the "umbilical cord" in a mystical way. Mother Earth bids farewell.
At this moment, I seem to understand Kubrick better. Thanks to the organizer, I can once again show the director's charm on the big screen. It also makes me look forward to the screening of "The Shining" even more.
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