Finnish director: Juho Kuosmanen
once won a 2016 Cannes attention award for " Oli's happiest day ".
"Carriage No. 6" is adapted from a novel of the same name that has won the highest literary award in Finland.
Director excerpted some of the content and adapted it into a movie with the screenwriter team.
also brought the story's time from the 1980s in the former Soviet Union to around the millennium that is closer to us.
video setting Before mobile phones were popular, we were still using public phones. When listening to the Walkman,
tells the story of two lost souls meeting on the journey.
The whole movie has no ups and downs, complex narrative methods,
, but the most ordinary shooting techniques, and the rhythm of narrative,
has become the most touching and impressing movie in 2021.
It is precisely because the story is simple, it is just a meeting between two people; the single scene is, most of the plot takes place in the train;
When the moment two strangers really start to communicate, it becomes a miracle moment in the film, and you will be deeply moved.
This time we will not interpret it, and we will not raise it. Let’s briefly analyze the lines, shots and details of the film,
to see how the director shapes the relationship between the characters and the narrative tension.
suggest that you finish watching the movie first and then take a look at the analysis.
If you want to follow my to pull the movie , it is OK to watch it first, but there will be spoilers!
—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The first shot of the
video is the heroine Laura coming out of the toilet, and there are still many people queuing outside, waiting to take turns in.
Reviewing the movie again, you will think the first shot is wonderful.
not only shows Laura's embarrassing situation, but also implies that after Laura leaves, someone will fill the position of Irina's lover at any time.
I immediately welcomed the first line of the film. Everyone said a famous saying at the party, so that everyone could guess where they were.
"If you want to escape, what you need to be clear is not where to escape, but where to escape." - Perewen "Xia Boyang and the Void "
The second shot of the video begins to clarify the theme, and then the heroine's secret lover, the heroine Irina, spoke.
She quoted Marilyn Monroe: "We have always been only partial, touching the parts of others."
"Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others."
——Marilyn Monroe
This minimalist story actually explores a profound theme.
That is, is it possible for people to truly communicate and contact each other? The follow-up of the
videos will be revealed one after another. The heroine Laura is a college student from Finland. She went to Moscow to learn languages and lived at Irina's house, becoming her secret lover.
Unfortunately Laura only has a place on Irina's bed,
But there is no place for her in Irina's life.
Originally, the two of them had an appointment for a romantic trip - to go to the Arctic to see the ancient rock paintings of Murmansk . Irina stopped going under the excuse of working, so Laura could only take the train from Moscow to the largest city in Arctic Circle : Murmansk. After walking almost 2,000 kilometers, I realized that she had been dumped.
Regarding the relationship between Laura and Irina, the director only used one Laura to close himself on the balcony at night, which reflected the relationship between the two in name only. Later, as the distance between the two people became farther and farther, the phone became more and more difficult to connect, revealing the breakdown of the relationship between the two people.
Part 2 Laura and Ljoha
on the train Laura was going to share the car with Irina, but she turned into the male protagonist Ljoha, a rough Russian miner.
From then on, the dream of Ljoha smoked and drank in the car, showing off: "Russia is a great country! They defeated the Nazis. They also went to the moon!", which gave the already long journey a more unbearable beginning.
We can guess that the biggest plot twist of the entire movie,
comes from the changes in the relationship between Laura and Ljoha.
But it will definitely not be so easy to break prejudice and barriers.
The key is, how will two people reach each other's hearts?
Here I especially like the director's lens design. Although the environment of the train car is cramped and limited, if used well, it can just express the closed and depressing mood of the characters.
After the train journey began, although the male and female protagonists lived in the same carriage, the camera mainly showed the relationship between the two of them fighting each other, including Ljoha's hands and voice, who always suddenly broke into the frame where Laura was located, conveying a sense of invasion to the audience.
As the plot develops, the two people began to appear in the same aisle, but the brief frames all have fronts and backs and changes, and the relationship between the two is still unstable at this time. There is a small episode in the middle of
. The two of them took advantage of the train stopping for one night and drove to visit the hero's relatives. Even though they were all in the same car, the director did not let them in the same frame.
After returning to the carriage, the heroine met a fellow villager - a guitar guy from Finland. At one point, Laura felt that she could finally have a partner to communicate with, but she was stolen from the most precious DV.
During this period, Ljoha did nothing, just sleeping depressedly. Instead, he won more favors - he was just rude but not a bad guy.
Laura finally put down all the defense and told her story with Ljoha.
At this moment, the director finally gave two people a shot that splits the picture. This is also the first time that the two people share the picture space. The forward and back shots after
all become overshoulder and related front and back shots.
All lens designs are changes in the relationship between the characters of the follower, which is natural and smooth, making people feel very comfortable to watch.
Part 3 Four times of music use
The entire film does not have the concept of original soundtrack, but uses several Roxy pop songs from the 1970s, appearing in four places in the film.
The first time is the party at the beginning of the movie, and the story begins with the cheerful music.
The heroine enters the party and looks very good on the surface,
But soon you will find that this is just a hypocritical gathering of intellectuals.
This is the first time Desireless Voyage Voyage
has not had music for a long time, only songs from Laura Walkman.
After 1 hour and 20 minutes, Voyage Voyage sounded again, and Laura decided to go find Ljoha, really start her own journey, and listen to her inner voice.
When Ljoha came to the hotel to pick Laura up, the two of them got in the car again, not only music, but also more scenes of the two in the same frame, and even fell asleep together.
Finally, on Laura's way back to the hotel alone, the driver played music.
The cheerful festival and the sad ending are intertwined, and the cold outside the car window contrasts with the sunshine inside the car.
The heroine's face started all the way from the beginning of the film and started to burst into tears and laugh. With the sound of music, the video ends.
won 10 minutes of applause after its premiere in Cannes.
Part 4 Export of life
In life, we spend most of our time in our own comfort zone,
This also leads to our solidified thinking and one-sided cognition.
The whole movie leads us to explore a possibility of breaking grudges between people.
The more similar people are, the more they hurt each other.
The different people are, the more likely they are to understand each other. The video of
sets regional discrimination, cultural differences among countries, and differences in social classes.
and then break one circle after another,
let the male and female protagonists come to the end of the world.
put aside all social attributes and simply embarked on a journey, reaching unprecedented happiness.
videos have been showing the differences between the two people, Laura explains archaeology and petroglyphs to Ljoha.
said something he didn't believe: "People can better understand the present by understanding the past."
And Ljoha was surprised that Laura ran so far just to take a look at the painting on the stone.
He is still far away from digging his first pot of gold, so he can only go to Murmansk, a place where birds do not shit.
The huge difference in life also hit Ljoha's self-esteem.
Until he asked what was in the DV that Laura threw away?
Laura says it's all the things she likes, the people she likes Irina and her apartment, old-fashioned hardwood floors and furniture, tall rooms, good-looking wallpapers, take a walk to the museum on weekends, friends come to party in the evening, drink and chat together.
Laura said that Irina's life is wonderful and her apartment is beautiful. Just like in the book, she wants to have that kind of life too much.
Laura is no longer aloof, but an ordinary person who yearns for a bright and beautiful life.
not only brought her and Ljoha closer, but also brought her closer to the audience.
Laura Finally listened to the old man. She said that every woman lives in her heart.
You must learn to get along with it and believe in it. Don’t listen to your parents, husbands and children, but listen to your inner voice.
Although the misalignment in reality will not change because of this, just like the notes and portraits left by Ljoha to Laura at the end of the film. Only Laura understands the true feelings revealed in this swear word.
also made everything that the two people had experienced more precious and an impossible possibility.
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