Steve Mcquenn has long been a well-known modeling artist in Europe. Is there a butterfly or moth in the French trailer? The paragraph flying towards the light makes people impressed by the beautiful low-key use of the film, and the Cannes Golden Camera Award is certainly enough to make people look forward to.
However, the styling of the film is more than just flat composition and lighting. During the climax, it shows the confrontation between the prisoner and the jailer, with the help of voice. Fully essay on the strength, rhythm, and sense of direction of the hit. The tension from the prohibition to the final will be vented and echoed. The pleasure of overwhelmingly contrasts with the silent and low-key atmosphere of the whole film. It is a good way to bring the audience into the event itself from the initial stage of quietly understanding and sorting out the clues of this fragmented event in history, triggering a strong sense of participation. As proved by David Lynch’s experiments. The inciting power of the sound here far exceeds the visual attraction, and he fulfilled the director's intention more directly.
What the media and many film critics are inconsistent with is the end of the film. Contrary to the previous use of short shots, the climax paragraphs make the sound and the picture tightly bite like gears, and the audience's perception and participation are strongly guided by the editing rhythm like a broken bamboo. The director deliberately arranged a seven-to-eight-minute long dialogue paragraph near the end, a slow trough that formed a perfect balance with the previous climax paragraph in the modeling structure. The director's favor for this passage is even directly displayed on the film poster.
Obviously, Steve Mcqueen, as a Plastic artist, believes in the contrast and symmetry of the shape, even if it is emotionally a test and provocation for the viewer, but if you overcome the anxiety and anxiety caused by this sudden long shot in the first few minutes , Calm down, the individual and human aspects of the film in the film may be better understood. The depression and intensity of the previous resistance will be relieved by this lens and give a more humane and universal meaning. And at the end of the film, isn't the wonderful shot that pupas up and flies, isn't it a touch of gold?
European reviews are more cautious. They are used to considering the reason for a particular lens. tout n'est pas gratuit. Nothing is free and cheap. If this long shot is just an adventure in the pursuit of perfection in styling, then the unthinking applaud may disrupt the long shot grammar that has been born for a long time.
Of course I understand my friend's calm and cautious attitude towards this film. In many cases, these European filmmakers who are deeply educated by the academy think twice and then conclude that they are pertinent, not conservative, or deliberately radical for the sake of avant-garde. However, from my point of view, the creativity of the film's styling and even the long lens itself gave me a full shock. As an art, film has a lot of potential waiting to be explored, waiting to be called up.
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