Zhang Meng has a sense of being the peak of his debut. The first two works " Ears are Blessed " and " Steel's Piano " have elements of genre films, but they are very authoritative.
Both films use one main line to connect most of the plot. "The Great Ears" is to cure diseases, and "The Piano of Steel" is to make pianos.
The latter's plot progressed to the middle, and his wife Xiaoju was also arranged to sue Chen Guilin, adding a time limit to the main line, making the plot more compact.
Extended from the main line is a kind of gaze that is directed towards the times. The difference is that "Blessed Ears" is to watch back and "The Piano of Steel" is to watch forward.
Fan Wei Wang Kangmei tried to integrate into the new era after retirement, but there were many difficulties. Chen Guilin and the others had been rolling in the wave of laid-off for a long time. Even if they were not able to adapt, their bodies had already adapted.
Seeing that his second brother-in-law was laid off and couldn't let go and look for a job, Chen Guilin also advised him to liberate his mind. The other workers are living in their own form in the new era.
This piano was originally made by Chen Guilin's daughter. It seemed to be built for the future, but as the plan progressed, everyone regained their time working together in the steel mill, but in fact, the piano was made for the past.
But this is not going upstream, it is just relive an old dream while following the flow. The two negotiations between Chen Guilin and Xiaoju reflect the change in his mentality.
The first time is the first shot of the film. The two of them are standing in the foreground, with a shelf in the background. Chen Guilin is very broken, and there is also a tile underneath. Xiaoju is complete, with a neat house and a broad vision, which implies the situation of the two.
But even though Chen Guilin's living conditions did not keep up, he took the camera up and made him look arrogant. This scene appeared again in the later stage, and the same position was still there, but the camera position became a down shot.
Chen Guilin experienced various setbacks and decided to give up Xiaoyuan. He seemed to be unable to struggle and accepted reality. Xiaoyuan said that he would follow whoever buys her piano. The new generation has never grown up in the old soil, which is difficult to change. A large number of horizontally moving lenses are used in
films. Even if the character sits still, the lens is still moving. This can be compared with another movie that may not be a big deal, that is, is " Haijie Diary " by Yuko Koreedo.
This movie uses a lot of so-called tatami dispatching, and takes low camera positions indoors to shoot characters. However, on the basis of tradition, Hirokazu Koreedo added a little new thing, that is, horizontal movement. If you don't pay attention to the horizontal movement of
, it will be difficult to detect. But if you cut out the beginning and end of a scene, you will be surprised that the camera has moved so long.
This method of shooting produces a silent time for moistening things. It is like a growing child. It is difficult to feel that they are growing up when they come into contact with them every day. But when you see the height scale on the wall, you will sigh that time has passed in a flash.
The horizontal movement speed in "Piano of Steel" is faster than "Sea Street Diary", and the audience can clearly feel its existence. It is like the wave of the times. Whether you are still or moving, it will rush towards you.
Or you just follow it, and even if you can stick to it, everything around you will be looted. This involuntary person is dissatisfied with the environment they are in, and they have more or less the thought of being free from the trap.
This film continues the dance scene of "The Great Ears" and promotes it. The dance hall is the place to create dreams. In addition, background is often used to show the characters' spiritual pursuits.
For example, those blue walls under the gray sky, which is very similar to " Xiaowu ". Chen Guilin bragged in front of Xiaoju that he had made a piano and was transported from Germany, and the background was the autumn scenery of Jiuzhai.
His home is about Guilin landscapes, and Wang Gong has Russian landscapes at home. He sang in KTV about Xinjiang. He has fantasized about it from all over the country, but he may never be able to leave this small city in his life.
There is a row of long fish tanks in the window of Shuxian's house. They are trapped here like fish.But it may be because I haven't been out that those places have been in the fantasy world and have not changed.
The song "Zhang San's Song" sung by Shuxian is as follows:
We want to fly to that distant place to take a look
This world is not so desolate
We want to fly to a distant place to watch, but because of this, the land is so desolate.
"Piano of Steel" is about saying goodbye. Before and after the two big chimneys were blown up, there was a scene where Chen Guilin played accordion , like an elegy.
They relive factory life for the last time and pushed the piano poured by the past into the stove. The whole action was like pushing a body into the cremation furnace .
This is a funeral held for the times. The black humor of the film is like a song "Back to Step" at the funeral, which ends the funeral.
And they all sacrificed their lives in the wave, but the overall atmosphere was celebrating the economic "step-by-step" and their funeral was also handled.
The sparks sprayed during steelmaking became the fireworks in Chen Guilin's hands, burning himself in the outside world, adding a faint festive color to everything around him in a tragic way.
