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I live not far from Sairen. When my old friends gather, they often act as a driver for him.
Along the way, listening to him talk about film stories and seasonal gossip, it is indeed my personal little happiness moment.
has also taken the opportunity to make an appointment for manuscripts many times in the past six months, but he has always been repeatedly shirked by him (the most unfortunate thing is the review of the drama about "The Ming Dynasty 1566").
finally had this rare time, and he took the initiative to write those movies that were filming the epidemic.
So there is the following long article worth pondering.
—— Editor-in-chief of Gun Man
Love in the Plague Man Delay: In the movie, go to see those who don’t wear masks
Text/Sairen
Author introduction: Started to go to the theater at the age of 5. In China's 5,000-year history, there are no more than 10 people watching movies than him. Moreover, he remembers every movie he has watched clearly, just like yesterday.
In fact, every era, whether sad or happy, has parts to remember. Any paragraph is a decisive moment, and it is impossible to make a decision. The first time I felt this way, from the sensational comedy "Escape from the Tiger's Mouth". The pair of live treasures in
, namely, the conductor and painter, were interviewed by Nazi officers, and they had their unique imposing power and turned this battle of attack into a loving threesome. The Nazi sighed: How cruel it was to fight in one battle with - the implication is that it seems that the in the current world, , was much gentler. shows how vast the feeling of an unprecedented disaster is due to different positions.
The famous comedy that caused a sensation in the world, "Escape from the Tiger's Mouth" (1966) made a large number of Chinese people face World War II for the first time, but it completed
. Regarding the unfinished new crown epidemic, it is not yet time to conclude. In other words, at this moment, we cannot explain this global-scale viral war with complete rationality and summarize the inevitable gains and losses in the collective sense. Specifically for individuals, they can only respond with their discomfort and anxiety, or their various drifts in the face of the overall situation, or recognize the inevitability and necessity of sacrifice.
Not to mention anything else, the global film industry has been in a downturn over the past three years. In comparison, we are still in a unique setting, at least in terms of numbers, it can make many people happy. Although there are fewer people watching movies and fewer people making movies, there are still people who cannot do without movies - this is what I want to say the most.
Movies are not used to summarize the times. Movies are the mark of the soul, the water and air surrounded by memories, imaginations, and dreams. They exchange the frequency of breathing with us, allowing us to float in huge confusion and become part of the air, as if we can leave the ground at any time, and it seems that the wind can stop. It belongs to those who love to think randomly, to those who love to be dazed, to those who are easily satisfied but have no choice.
So, in the past three years, many countries and regions have been shooting movies related to this virus. As for how we should continue to get along with movies during these extraordinary years, the most affectionate work is the " God of Movie " by Japanese national treasure director Yamada Yoji .
When I watched this video, I burst into tears several times. Movies make people live, die, and even live a life even though they die, giving life a beautiful transition.
What is amazing about Yamada Jun is that he does not deliberately drive movies into the palace of religions, and naturally he will not regard movies as a compulsory course in life. But the movie is there, how much comfort can it be, and how much can it be enriched? Yoji Yamada was extremely honest and did not say these words to death.You will leave the movie with a little setback, you will fall asleep in the cinema, but the movie is still your soul mate, it will not wake you up, but it will take you back to the legend. You will forget its existence, but it will not forget you.
On the surface, Yamada Yoji was missing two seniors of the Matsutake Company he belonged to, namely Yasujiro Ozu and Hiroshiro . But with the arrival of the epidemic, cinemas are gone. People seem to no longer need movies to comfort, awaken, or relieve their various depressions.
"The God of Movies" is a commemorative work created by Yamada Yoji, who is over 90 years old, for the 100th anniversary of the Songzhu Film Studio
With a mask, we cannot see people's faces. It can also be said that we all have the same face . There is another extremely important function of the movie, which is to allow us to see their eyebrows and then look at themselves. Now, we can only use legitimate indifference, not even the opportunity to see each other is to lose sight of each other, and make life a day by day.
But there are still people who are willing to stay in the movie, sleep and die. Because only on the big screen can we see a group of people who don’t wear masks, and how their expressions and micro-expressions become proof of their inner externalization.
The reason why I like this movie so much is not because it connects the reality of the movie with the reality of the movie, which is very beautiful and deeply seamlessly. But the more you love movies, the less you want to talk about it. It is just a part of human blood, soul and dream, not everyone's. Even if it is so glorious in the lives of people who love movies, it is like a miracle. It is still everyday and easy. Our reality is just ordinary and overturned, and if our dreams are interrelated with our reality, it will also make our easily forgotten reality more memorable.
(Photo note: The male protagonist dedicated his passion for life to the movie, but in reality he is a husband who is ashamed of his family. Yamada Yoji uses the line "The guys who want to make movies are all rogues" to express this imbalanced attitude towards life)
2021, the most important movie in the world is " Driving My Car " directed by Japanese film upstart Hamaguchi Ryusuke . Just like Ryusuke Hamaguchi's previous work "Day and Night", its spare tire complex comes from Dostoevsky's "White Night". "Driving My Car" directly obtains intertextual methods from "Uncle Vanya".
I first amazement at the fact that he asked a mute girl to play Soria. The most worthy thing about this psychological drama is Soria's last monologue. This monologue is a comfort for the hard journey of life, and it also has the desolation after cutting flesh to replenish the sores. Ryusuke Hamaguchi puts him in a aphasia state, making people's communication with others seem particularly serious, like a performance.
ending, moving closer to the epidemic, moving from Japan to South Korea, the barriers brought by masks have also come into play. I thought it was the Korean mute girl who was wearing a mask, who was disguising herself as a disabled person. Unexpectedly, the face under the mask was the Japanese driver. This is what I said, the peony is removed, and the dew drops on the cement floor that does not need to be moisturized.
Judging from the title of the film, "Driving My Car" is about the relationship between a man and his driver, and the harmony of their relationship is about the female driver driving back to the origin of her life. This scene directly learns from Mikio Narase's silent film "Farewell to You", but it reveals the tension caused by the displacement of the environment and interpersonal alienation. This has made this pre-epidemic film not carry out the island effect brought about by the epidemic to the end. You can say that the epidemic has found a legitimate reason for our alienation, or it can be said that it is another stroke of extravagance.
"Driving My Car" swept through European and American film festivals. The most important thing is that it won the Oscar for Best International Film and the Best Screenwriter Award at Cannes Film Festival
No matter what, Ryusuke Hamaguchi has become one of the most popular directors in Japanese films around the world.And I am more concerned about another director, Matsuyu Dago, who is younger than him. Here, I won’t lift one and step on the other. Both of them love to play structure, both prefer stage plays, and understand that everyone is a performer, but who to show it has become a question worth thinking about.
Matsuyu Dago 's new work "Remember a little" also tells the story of "Driving My Car". The whole film keeps fiddling with the timeline, but the director also kindly reminds the audience of the timeline and changes in the hairstyle of , Chi Song Zhuangliang, . In fact, this movie, which is basically done by flashbacks, emphasizes not the abrasion of time, but the sense of time formed by the different depths of memory. Sometimes, life is like years, and sometimes, time passes by.
, who is passionate about dancing, was injured in his footsteps. Because he could not control his body freely, he closed his mind and gave up his wonderful love with Ito Sali . The time is frozen in late July 2021, which means the background is set at the time of the Tokyo Olympics.
Ito Sali is a taxi driver. Her car has the Olympic logo. She travels back and forth between Narita International Airport and the sparsely populated Tokyo city. We can see pedestrians in groups of three or three and lazy beggars. Her passengers, if they are businessmen, will complain that they are difficult to make money, if they are artists, they will complain that the concert has been cancelled, and by the way, they will joke about why the Olympics can still be held. Before the epidemic, the guests were drunk and joking in the car, yelling to smoke, expressing their warmth and coldness. The comparison of makes the feeling of being a different world a collective spiritual orientation.
(Photo Note: Songju Dawu once admitted that "Remember a little" was inspired by the movie "Handle " by Jiamuxu. Many drivers talk to passengers. They also make people see the shadow of "Handle 3 Earth Night " in a trance)
In fact, Chi Song Zhuangliang cannot stretch his body to the fullest, which is itself a metaphor for the epidemic. Ito Sali's profession does not completely give all living beings a stage to appear, but rather shows that the car of Time, no one knows where it will drive. When it comes to her choice of driver career, Sali Ito said, "I don't know where I am going, and the passengers will tell me where I am going. This feeling is very good." This self-comfortable rhetoric is the inner monologue of most people during the epidemic. The title of
"Remember a little", its subtext is: We will be destined to forget each other. In this film, which is not sad, but after all, the deeper expression is the suspension of expression. And when we have the greatest sense of time, we will waste those most precious time in this epidemic.
When chatting with the male protagonist (Chi Song Zhuangliang), "Dance can transcend the barriers of language and communicate with the whole world." The director used this to express that communication was blocked again
In the highlight film "Her in the World ", the part directed by Chen Chong also has this meaning. She filmed the sexual relationship between men and women and shouted from a distance. And the fantasy of Jia Ling against Zhu Yilong in "Hug Through the Cold Winter", can also be understood as her fantasy of death. The works of two female directors in China have their own gentleness, but we can only comfort us with limited space. The most tiny moment of abnormal movement in a person's heart is still given to the rightful ups and downs, far less light and distant than Songju Dazu, and he can capture the unknown future so that it is within reach and unbearable to touch.
Recently, Hong Changxiu, the most important director in Asia and the world, has maintained his amazing high quality and high volume, and has frequently won awards at the Berlin International Film Festival . His new work " Novelist's Movie " unexpectedly won the Silver Bear Award .
"The Novelist's Movie" is a movie about gaze. Kim Min-hee is a person without a story. She was the object of being stared at, and it was Li Huiying who stared at her.At the same time, Li Huiying is also a narrator who is unwilling to be lonely, and she has to take control of the dominance of her discourse. The words couldn't be explained anymore, so she tried to use movies to tell them. What did she say?
Hong Changxiu said at a press conference in Berlin that the movie was inspired by a video he took while walking a few years ago
Hong Changxiu lets us see only the transition from black and white to color, while himself, with his back to the audience. From the perspective of character creation, Lee Hye-young is obviously much more plump than Kim Min-hee. She is willing to talk, but not satisfied with listening. She often stands on the commanding heights of the general morality and makes her fingers. Everyone says she is charming, but everyone seems to be tired of this charm. She is not an observer, but she may not think so herself.
I like the situation when she entered the bookstore for the second time. She knew that the owner was only polite to her. Her hard-working force threw all her embarrassment and other people's discomfort aside. There, her story was told by her old lover, whom she rudely interrupted. The girl who was learning sign language wanted to hear this story. The old lover may no longer have the passion to tell, or he may feel that there is no need to continue to tell such a story without a party like Li Huiying.
This unfinished story is a deliberate ignorance. Similar situations include the sudden quarrels in the bookstore at the opening credits, who is arguing with whom? The most noticeable thing was the little girl outside the window. She was staring at Kim Min-hee. Kim Min-hee ran out to meet the little girl. This is the rich comments from Kai Yin, so I won’t say more - a little more understanding, Kim Min-hee is a person who knows how to be grateful and has a positive response to gaze. In other words, she is a person who desires communication, but the end of the video tells us that communication does not exist. The task of movies is not entirely for communication.
After the ending picture of "The Novelist's Movie" becomes color, the camera does not talk about composition, and the whole process is overexposed, presenting a more lifelike style
"The Novelist's Movie" and "The God of Movie" have an empty viewing environment. This is not the first time Hong Changxiu has done this. "This is right, then wrong", "Honey Woman Escaped " and this one all have paragraphs where Kim Min-hee watches the movie alone. The first two parts say that the audience is not important. What "The Novelist's Movie" is that when you are both an actor and an audience, all the narrative and being told disappear.
movies should be able to deal with themselves in such a blurred era, and how should we adjust our expressions and moods while taking off the masks.
We refuse to communicate and cannot be proud of loneliness.
(Photo Note: In the three years of the epidemic, Hong Changxiu handed over five movies, "The Escaped Woman", " Introduction to ", "Novelist's Movie", " in front of you " and " on the Tower ", the first three movies are nominated at the Berlin Film Festival)
Let's talk about Zhong Menghong's "Waterfall". This is the most blandest of his works, and it is suspected of being in line with the situation. Clumsy current affairs metaphors, trivial daily accumulation. It all depends on the last waterfall that goes down to fill the entire drama.
Snakes, rain and waterfalls are all references to desire, not desire itself. I saw the two actors of Washe, Feng Yigang and Song Shaoqing , and it was quite friendly. The Taiwanese translated Degas, the great painter of Impressionism, into Dou Jia, which also made me feel sad. And the mental loss of Alyssa Chia is like Zhong Menghong's previous work " Lost in the Soul ". If you really lose it, you can't find it. At this point, the latter did better. When I looked at it, I vaguely felt that the tenderness of those Taiwanese styles was an illusion.
Overall, this is the first truly attitude film for Chinese people to face the epidemic. When Taiwanese people are quarantined at home, they can still run around without being punished, which also makes me feel very new.In this movie, the epidemic will only deepen our increasingly wrong understanding of the world. It makes us unable to recognize ourselves and by the way. The video is still cold and cold in the hearts and coldness between people. But for Zhong Menghong, he just handed in some licensed goods.
Maybe it is limited by my horizon, maybe it is the case itself. East Asian filmmakers responded quickly to the epidemic.
In "Fallfall", the epidemic is the worst, and when the barriers between the protagonist's family members are the greatest, the whole house is shrouded in a melancholy blue, as if the Romanian film "Unlucky Sex, Crazy Yellow Film" that won the Golden Bear award in a huge mask is the most important voice of European filmmakers about this global panic. It is not difficult to see that the title of the film is full of gimmicks, and the scene with this title is straightforward enough, but it doesn't last long and is not beautiful. That passionate scene looked like a pornographic film, especially serious and performative, not as familiar and calm as a family video.
You can imagine that the couple in the film must have a very harmonious relationship. But this is obviously not a family drama, but a political manifesto, and it is the type of machine gun sweeping. The film also involves the most familiar online violence and the undifferentiated moral judgments among Chinese people. This is a typical film with a form that is greater than the content and events that are higher than personality. In the whole film, the poor heroine basically wears a mask, and so do others. The intensification of social contradictions in Romania involved in the film should also belong to the entire Europe. The epidemic has exacerbated people's differentiation and they work on their own, but they don't know why they should fight. What is more important is the loss of personal private life, the people who cannot be cautious in their own self-righteousness and interests, and the ruthless crushing of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the joyfulness of the You do not have public morality as a weapon, and you will be thrown unarmed in a wide Colosseum.
"Unfortunate Sex, Crazy Yellow Films" director Dura Jude mentioned in an interview with a domestic media, "Sometimes, China and our Romania are quite similar."
If the previous wars made us worried about why people were like this, World War II made us realize more painfully that people are like this. Then the epidemic has allowed us to obtain management convenience in the post-information era, and has made our knowledge better than one view, and has a more comprehensive, more legitimate and more natural outlet.
Before the epidemic, we can use virtual social networking to keep our chickens and dogs from hearing each other and never go to each other until we die. Then the epidemic is by no means simply helping the evil, but making it a fable and an uncontrollable extension of the touch screen era. Of course, I mean people who are mostly fond of self-enclosure, and not to mention another group of people who are good at Leshan and good waters.
These films shot during the epidemic echo this unexpected disaster with their respective emotions, moods and feelings. One thing that is common in is that they do not think that this epidemic will have a decisive impact on the established direction. It is just a awakening of the various "symptoms" that have not yet occurred while you are calming down. History is a hateful and cute cycle. When you are in it, try to let it go, but you will inevitably have some more stupid moves you have never seen before.
, several of which have won important awards. Looking back on these movies several years later, it is not only because of the epidemic, but also because of more lasting worry about gains and losses, which is more memorable.
It seems to be more moist and silent than other natural disasters and man-made disasters, making people unconsciously addicted. In the so-called safe distance, in communication without facial muscles, find the other person and find yourself.
editing/Xu Yuan
typesetting/Lily
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