The film "Old Man of Mountains and Rivers" adheres to Jia Zhangke's consistent realistic creative approach. By telling three stories and three stories about three people in a county in Hunan, it shows the psychological changes of Chinese young people from 1994 to 2004, rather than focusing on them. Or show the story of a certain person, the purpose is to let the audience know through the story: why is this era changing? Why change in this era? rather than focusing on one person.
If the focus is on one person and the rest can be ignored, then this era has lost some of its excitement. So why is the narrative method of the old people of the mountains and rivers so moving? In terms of the narrative technique of "The Old Man of the Mountains and Rivers", it can use a "lively" way to give you a real chance to see the old people of the mountains and rivers in the form of stories. How to describe it? One is to promote the narrative of the plot through performances and dialogues, and the other is to construct the space through the lens and sound, giving the audience a feeling of the "author" watching the movie on the spot. When you really see the "lively" part of the picture, you will actually intuitively feel the natural expressiveness of those characters, and many of the detailed feelings come from your intuition.
"The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers" builds a scene without dead ends. The sense of space and depth of the film is very good. You feel very real through the lens, and you can really feel the space you see. What I feel through the lens (especially the long lens) is that the focus of the times is changing, just like how people are near and far, which is very touching. It feels so real to you, so real that you can feel the inner workings of the characters with your intuition. There is no protagonist in the film. The protagonists are the three main characters. What you need to do is to constantly touch the hearts of the audience to experience the characters. During the presentation process, you can feel the expression changes and choices of each character when the story changes. .
Throughout the film, you will be immersed in the "story" that takes place in each character, immersed in the protagonist's breathing and breathing. At first, you were anxious because of which village and where the story happened, and now we see What happens to everyone changes because the "story" itself changes.
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