If you missed "Avatar" and "Hugo", please don't miss "Youth Pi" again . "Youth pi" is the first movie that I think the 3D effect is more beautiful than the 2D picture. I can download a lot of its high-definition stills, each of which can be used as my wallpaper, and each of them was rejected by me because I I have seen the magnificence when they are three-dimensional, and I can no longer accept those flat projections, just as people who came out of Plato's cave no longer want to see the shadows on the rock wall.
As the world's top art film director, together with Martin Scorsese, Ang Lee has taken the artistic height that 3D technology can achieve one step further. The new technical means have not yet been digested, and the new lens language needs to be summarized. Even the most conservative filmmakers finally have no reason to believe that 3D is just a flash in the pan, and begin to accept it, learn it, and appreciate it. . If this movie doesn't make you believe in God, it's enough to give you an idea of how far humanity has reached in order to preserve and recreate the world God has created.
At the same time, the film's performance capture technology, cgi technology is also amazing. Physical effects are more expensive than reality, while CG effects are expensive enough to be dazzling, cool enough, and beautiful enough. The phantom and real wandering journey in "Youth pi" happened to be vividly displayed under the CG special effects. Switching between motion capture and computer-generated tigers and real tigers, you can't see any flaws; sunsets like the whole sea burning, glowing jellyfish covering the sea in the quiet night, and elf-like glowing divine lights. Whale, Ang Lee's camera is like a modest gentleman, standing silently by the side, taking a panoramic view of the quiet beauty and ferocity of the sea. I still can't forget that when the camera pushed in and reflected the starry sea surface, penetrated into the world of various sea creatures, various ripples, and continued to penetrate, it was a huge face of pi's first love girlfriend, and continued to penetrate, it was the sunken ship The wreckage, as it goes deeper, the camera pulls back with the pi's mouth as the focus. Seeing the entire universe in one mouth, that ancient Indian myth was perfectly presented.
As a competent director, you have to understand when to let the camera talk and the characters shut up, and when to let the characters talk and the camera shut up. The second story in the film is completely told by pi's lines, and there is no scene to express it; the moment when Richard Parker entered the forest without looking back, it was completely uttered by pi's lines, The shot cuts to the pi just before it's about to act, giving none of the shots a chance to represent the scene. Only then do you realize that sometimes what you hear is more profound and unforgettable than what you see, because not only do you care about the story, but you also care about the people who tell it.
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maybe the story is the only regret of this movie. First of all, it is a story at the level of "Reader", with typical values and origins and transitions in the story of "Reader"; secondly, it is a story that is afraid of spoilers, and 90% of its shock lies in the reversal and reconstruction of the ending.
However, as a person who was passed over by the boring posts shared on the school a few years ago, I have to admit that even so, when I saw the ending, I was still worried and didn't want him to tell the truth. Because this story has no solution, it directly pushes human beings to the edge of morality, the edge of civilization, and the edge of the abyss, just like soaking the wound naked in salt water.
When discussing "cannibalism", the book "The Case of the Cave" pointed out that our human law is based on the premise that "people can coexist with each other", and when this condition is not satisfied, the law It also fails. In other words, at this time we are in a state of "natural law", we must eat another person to survive, we should eat that person, just like hyenas should eat giraffes, tigers should eat hyena. This is natural and therefore allowed. In the state of nature, survival is the only law.
In fact, in any state, survival is the only law. It's just that humans, for the sake of their fragile self-esteem, have given this law to animals alone, calling it bestiality. When they do, they will say, this is only done by beasts. This is a profound truth. In the movie "Young Pi", didn't Pi say that those disgusting behaviors were done by animals? And when we condemn the Japanese, don't we also say that they are beasts? It is beasts, not people, that can do such terrible things. As human beings, we have no responsibility at all, and we have no worries about "maybe it will become like that one day", so we can be carefree. to survive.
Many people will mistakenly think that eva is a robot. In fact, they are huge creatures similar to human beings, but they are covered with a layer of mechanical armor. This is a very interesting image, all our human civilizations are like that set of mechs, they wrap our original appearance, bind us, make others think that we are another kind of person (polite and caring.) Therefore, The animalization of eva is called "awakening". It means that the real us is revealed at that time. The real juvenile pi "awakened" after a shipwreck.
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But here we are not condemning the cupboards and the pi, we are neither legally convicting them nor morally evil, we are just not comfortable. Especially things like this that have happened and thus never change, we can't do anything about them and would rather believe that they are a different situation.
That's where faith comes in. Faith comes when we are powerless about facts, so facts are powerless about beliefs. This story is about faith, because the love for God, like the preference for the first story, is that we can only be saved from the torment of our souls if we believe them.
So I think "Youth pi" and "Contact in Time and Space" are really similar. There are two different versions of the story of the same event. It doesn't matter which one is true, it matters which one you like better. This choice decides your beliefs.
This is also the choice Morpheus gave Neo in "Matrix". The red pill can tell you everything in the real world, and the blue pill allows you to live your current life again. Should you choose to enter a real desert, or choose to stay in an imaginary oasis?
All so-called "open ending" stories leave us with two pills. Does "Inception" finally return to reality or stay in a dream? Are the thrilling adventures in Total Recall a transplanted memory or did it actually happen? Movies can have no answer, but you already have the answer in your heart. You said, I would rather believe the first story. Notice that you said "believe".
But Richard Parker isn't beautiful, and it can't go away. Even if a fictional story does not have a real logic, it must have its own in order to convince others to believe it. Richard Parker is that pivot point that can never be avoided, without Richard Parker everything would be impossible, but better without it. Because Richard Parker is a Bengal tiger. When the teenager is talking to Richard Parker, he is talking to his own bestiality; when the teenager is making friends with Richard Parker, he is making friends with his bestiality; when the teenager is waiting for Richard Parker, It is waiting for his own animal nature; when the teenager is reluctant to leave Richard Parker, he is reluctant to part with his own animal nature.
After landing, Richard Parker left the boy and plunged into the dense jungle without turning his head. Teenagers are sad because of this. We know that some things will eventually leave our lives, but we just feel that they are leaving too soon. It’s too late to say goodbye to them, and it’s too late to thank them for being with us for so long. Yet Richard Parker is the juvenile pi, and the juvenile pi is Richard Parker. When asking one why you are so eager to leave the other you, you must also ask, why are you so eager to let the other you leave?
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