She burns like fire, and ordinary people like you and I seem to be born with ashes. Occasionally, a gust of wind blows, and a few sparks light up, which is the climax of life, and it will never be seen again.
After watching it in one breath, the biggest feeling is beauty and smoothness. The shots, the sets, the soundtrack and the heroine are all in a mess. As far as the plot is concerned, the first three episodes are quite satisfactory. Beginning with the death of Beth's mother in the Mexico City hotel in the fourth episode, the shaping of several key supporting roles has made the whole drama full.
First for the lens. The camera is constantly moving throughout the show, rarely standing still, even if the same scene is constantly moving slowly. Reminds me of the shot in Alien, which is also constantly moving throughout the film. However, "Alien" is full of horror elements, plus the claustrophobic space, the moving camera makes people nervous, as if disaster is brewing all the time, and there is no moment to settle down. In "The Queen's Chess Game", the moving camera and the classical setting and soundtrack are smooth and soothing, making the audience feel as if they have really peeked into the inner world of a talented girl.
Next is light. Most of the scenes in Beth's life are dim and mildly backlit or sidelit, and the depression is also very quiet. Especially when there is a close-up of the face, the side light is used very frequently. There are countless shots, and the side light hits Beth's red hair like fire, making her already clear face look beautiful and beautiful, and the blurred side face in the shadow is very beautiful. Hidden unspeakable pain, mysterious and plump. Whether it is an orphanage or a chess hotel, when there is a chess game, it is mostly bright side light and vertical light in a dim environment ("The Godfather"). The two resolute knights faced each other and did not waver in the slightest. Each frame is sculpted by light to create a warm and clear outline.
Regarding Beth , because of her father's absence, her desperate mother committed suicide in front of her. I don't know whether young Beth can understand death, and how she views her mother's death. Sadness should be instinct. But there was no sadness on Beth's face, only numbness and indifference, like a dead leaf, and Ren Feng held her wherever she went without responding. She didn't even care when the teacher at the orphanage tried to burn her mother's dress with the name "Beth" embroidered on it. Instead, the memory of his mother flashed back when he grew up, causing pains countless times. The most touching scene in Beth's memory of her mother is: her mother took her young Beth to swim, Beth waited on the shore, watched her mother disappear for a long time after entering the water, became overwhelmed, panicked, and cried, looking at the lake and shouting at her mother , when the mother stood on the water board and waved to her, she burst into laughter again, until her mother came ashore and hugged her tightly. She was worried about her mother, but she was too young to be able to do anything, so she could only let it happen and suffer silently. The immature face has always been dignified, and when the mother said "close your eyes", she was as smart as she was afraid that she had already guessed the result, but what was the use? I can only watch my mother die. For the wise and sensitive, the pain comes sharper.
Until she met Shaibel in the basement, saw the chessboard, and the warrior stepped into the battlefield. She found a sense of control on the chessboard. On the chessboard with only 64 squares, she felt the dominance she had never had before, and she was no longer a little girl who was at the mercy of fate and was powerless to resist. The former sense of vulnerability and powerlessness has turned into a frenzied backlash. (Apart from talent, I think that's why she's so obsessed with chess.) When things started to look up and Beth played around with her foster mother, Alma, she had her first setback on the board, returning after a loss to Brogov in Mexico City. When I went to the room to tell my mother, I bumped into the sudden death of my mother, and another knife was stabbed in the old wound. After enjoying the short-lived mother's love, there was a deeper grief and loneliness. She wrapped herself in her mother's clothes like a cub and sniffed the remnants of the smell. Father's indifference, drugs, and alcohol almost destroy a genius, like a genius will go out of control and become a lunatic. Fortunately, she finally understood why she played chess, and learned that controlling the chessboard does not mean controlling life. The skill of chess is beautiful, and there are many beautiful things.
Came back to the orphanage for Shaibel's funeral and saw her newspaper clippings in the basement. She is not alone. She had a mother, two mothers who loved her, though equally mired in the same despair. She has a father, and Shaibel has been silent all his life, but the basement is covered with newspaper clippings about her. It is conceivable that from Beth's departure to his death, in that dim basement, Beth is the light, his distant relatives.
I believe that as viewers, we all envy her, sympathize with her, sympathize with her unfortunate life experience, her loneliness and grief, but in the final analysis, we still envy more. I envy the gift God gave her, she is beautiful and talented; I envy her achievements, she is the pinnacle in her field of expertise, I envy her burning like fire, and ordinary like you and me, I seem to be born with ashes, occasionally a gust of wind blows and lights up A few sparks, it is already the climax of life, never again.
Mother Alma . A life of hardship, an indifferent husband, a dead child, and a career that could not continue because of the stage of fear, all these small and medium sufferings weighed on her and she had to rely on drugs and alcohol to get by. Full of drama, in the last days, her life suddenly bloomed and decayed rapidly. When she arrived in Mexico City to meet her pen pal, she smiled so happily, but the happiness was always too short, and the pen pal left after just a few days. The next day she miraculously played the piano in the hotel lobby again, winning everyone's praise without stage fright. When the audience thought that life opened a new door to her, it turned out to be the end. The joy was only a moment of joy that made up for her miserable life. (When I saw Beth crying to her mother after losing the game, but no response, my heart tensed, and I was a little shocked when I watched the Game of Thrones Red wedding.)
Of course, the ones I empathize with the most are the girls that Harry and Beth defeated in their first victory, they are more representative of ordinary people. When Harry said that he didn't like that chess was no longer a must to win, I could imagine how much setbacks he had to go through before finally accepting his fate, it was only here, and it was only here that he tried his best. They have all paid the price for the cause they love, whether they give up or continue to pay the price. Benny didn't give up, but had to live in a humble basement. It is cruel to accept one's own ordinaryness, and don't sympathize with geniuses. They are full of scars and live wonderfully, and their lives are broken and full.
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