In 2014's 8th FIRST Youth Film Festival , a little-known young director took his debut and won two best director and best feature film in one fell swoop Heavyweight award.
followed by the 51st Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards for Best New Director, Best Original Screenplay Nomination and Piaget Annual Outstanding Screenplay Award.
Yes, this movie is " Heart Labyrinth ", and the young director is Xin Yukun _span _span.
Back then, this film received great attention once it was born.
A few years later, Xin Yukun made his first screenplay into the movie " burst silent " appeared in the 11th FIRST Youth Show. It was finally released on April 4, 2018.
This film, which was released three years ago, is still of the quality that can be selected as the best domestic film of the year.
The film market continues to be sluggish, and there is a lack of new excellent works to be released. Then follow the driftwood to review the excellent works of the past.
"Blast Silent"
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79 In the process of searching for his missing son, Zhang Baomin, a small figure at the bottom, was inadvertently involved in a dispute between the interests of the middle class and the upper class, and involved various criminal facts about them.
The film uses a lot of symbolic expressions and symbolic metaphors to show the powerlessness of the lower classes involved in interests and expose the cruelty of reality.
The following will analyze the deep meaning and cruel truth contained in the movie from three aspects.
1. Symbolic metaphors of physical images
, like any “language”, a movie is composed of symbols, which appear in the text of the movie. Way more or less involved in the ideology of the movie.
In the video,The element of sheep can be seen everywhere, and “sheep” as an object symbol runs through the entire film.
In literary works, sheep is the most docile of the "six animals", and it is , "slave" and "condominant". Sheep has obvious pronouns of and people. Symbolic relationship.
The film uses Zhang Lei to herd the sheep and loses his narrative, and the sheep becomes a narrative symbol.
Then Zhang Baomin came to Dinghai's lamb restaurant, where a set of parallel montage techniques were used.
In the beginning, the hanging mutton shots were juxtaposed with Zhang Baomin's shots in the car. The scene of Ding Hai chopping the sheep and Zhang Baomin’s actions were juxtaposed, implying that Zhang Baomin was just like these muttons to be slaughtered.
Then there is the scene of villagers eating mutton in the mutton restaurant, interspersed with the memory of Zhang Baomin being asked to sign.
From an ecological point of view, the sheep is at the end of the ecological chain and is also the destroyer of the grassland, and the villagers are the sheep of the capitalists.
The villagers also represent "sheep nature",Constantly tolerating the behavior of capitalists for temporary benefits.
From the subsequent plots, we can learn that due to the mining of the mine, the environment has deteriorated, and the final consequences are still borne by the villagers themselves. The breeding and spread of evil is the obedience and connivance of the "sheep nature".
In addition, there are two scenes of Chang Wannian eating mutton in the film, which is more "advanced" compared with the scene of villagers eating mutton.
As a capitalist, Chang Wannian does not produce mutton himself, but has a more advanced way to enjoy the mutton produced by the villagers.
When Mr. Li asked for a meal, the phrase "Sheep are also vegetarian" revealed this social rule that the weak eat the strong.
In addition to the sheep, which is a symbol throughout the article, there are other objects in the film that also have symbolic metaphors.
At the beginning of the film, Zhang Lei used rocks to build a hill when she was raising sheep, which implies the Lei in his name, and the subsequent collapse of the rocks also represents the death of Zhang Lei.
At the end, Zhang Baomin stood in front of the collapsed mine,Using a big vision, placing the characters in the lower right corner of the screen, the characters appear particularly small, creating a sense of despair and powerlessness.
The collapsed mine metaphors the disintegration of social order and human morality, and the collapse of Zhang Baomin's own inner hopes and beliefs. The collapse of the mine is a silent cry.
The black hole that exists under the mine has also appeared many times. The director gave a push camera and the angle of view inside the black hole suggested that Zhang Lei was hidden in it.
At the end of Xu Wenjie's trial, there was another shot of the cave entrance, representing the darkness and unfathomable human nature. The black hole here hides all the sins and greed.
and Ultraman is a symbol of justice. Ultraman's shots appear many times in the film, but the result of justice has not been obtained. The symbol of justice is also powerless to the evil of human nature. There is a tragic irony.
Second, the physical trauma of the characters
1span In contemporary movies, physical trauma is often expressed from a variety of levels.
The characters in the movie have different degrees of physical trauma or defects.
For example, Zhang Baomin cannot speak , Cuixia has sick legs and loses mobility , Dinghai is missing an eye, and span1’s intelligence is missing span3span.
The body is constructed by society , and all these characters with physical defects or trauma in the film are in the lower social class.
The dominance of society is in the hands of the upper strata, the lower strata are squeezed by the upper strata, the interests are exploited, and the wounds and defects are shown on the body.
"In any society, the human body is controlled by extremely severe powers. Those powers impose various pressures, restrictions or obligations on it."
People at the bottom are deprived of their right to speak, and Zhang Baomin is abandoned. The poverty at the bottom has kept Cuixia with the disease, while Ding Hai sacrificed an eye because of the conflict between the interests of the upper class and Zhang Baomin.
The defect of the body can often show the importance of the defect and the greater desire for this defect in the image.
Zhang Baomin’s inability to speak makes the right to speak extremely important in the entire film.
The performance of the character's physical trauma in the film is also ecologically critical.
Although not an ecologically critical movie, it still reveals ecological concerns.
In the part where Zhang Baomin was looking for a child, Zhang Lei put the sheep to drink water. The ground was a piece of yellow sand, a small ditch and polluted water. Then the director gave a shot of a dead bird next to the ditch. The events of this time were transferred smoothly and showed a polluted environment.
At the same time, the pollution of mining also affects the villagers who want to make a profit. The most direct manifestation is that the water taste in the village is getting bigger and bigger.
Under the dual effects of technology and capital, humans have become giants in front of nature, putting nature in a disadvantaged and silent position. However, silence can sometimes make people feel deaf.
When the natural endurance reaches its limit, it will return to humans.
In this world constructed with the image symbol system, the director shows the conflict of human nature while also expressing his concern for the ecology.
Third, the sad irony of class aphasia
In a film and television work, many directors have a high degree of material selectivity. Effective omissions and hints.
In the video, three levels are shown, but there is no intuitive performance level. The director has portrayed three different characters, presenting three different class levels through character image symbols.
In the film, Chang Wannian, Xu Wenjie, and Zhang Baomin represent three different social classes.
Chang Wannian, a capitalist, belongs to the top of the social class.
ate tomatoes in the first appearance, showing a greedy appearance. Tomato juice splashed on his clothes, and he changed into the principal's clothes to disguise himself, which can also be seen as a cover up of his sins.
The scene of him eating is shown many times in the film.
When he is eating lamb hot pot, elegant classical music is played in the background. The greedy eating style and the elegant music match are extremely inconsistent. Chang Wannian has always used his appearance to disguise himself, but he can't change the ugly facts in his heart.
Similarly, when he beat his subordinates, it was accompanied by classical music. The director used this pure art to set off Chang Wannian's evil deeds.
Xu Wenjie belongs to the middle class of society, unable to rely on the upper class or squeeze the lower class.
As a lawyer, he always wears a pair of glasses and looks like a scholar.
The status of a lawyer requires him to stand on the side of justice, as the protector of the weak, but his various behaviors are in great contrast to this image.
fake certificates, bribery and other behaviors made him gradually away from his persistence.
The irony in the film is the human nature between classes in the face of interests.
For Xu Wenjie, who was helped by Zhang Baomin,In the film, he is the only one who can reveal the truth, but in order to protect himself, he can only gradually become 's evil accomplice .
His phrase "it's gone" in front of the interests of people, quietly collapsed.
On the other hand, Ding Hai, who was once injured, can still help Zhang Baomin in an emergency, which reflects the sympathy of the lower classes.
The village heads who belong to the same class have benefited from the upper class. Under the drive of interests, they collude with the upper class and become the doglegs of the upper class capitalists, which satirizes human nature.
Zhang Baomin lost his ability to speak due to a physical defect. There is no line in the play. Represented by Zhang Baomin are the “span3span ” “aphasia” at the bottom of the society.
Because he lost the right to speak, so violence became his only way to solve things, _strong7 span_strong It is one of the reasons why Zhang Baomin is in a fight all the time and he is extremely able to fight in the film.
In the film, Chang Wannian has the greatest voice, but there are not many lines in the film. is always an image of emotion and anger .
Because he has the greatest power, he doesn't need too much speech at all, which makes him a ubiquitous evil.
Xu Wenjie has his own right to speak, but in the face of the truth, he turns himself into a "dumb", and he gives up his right to speak. In a sense, they are all "aphasia".
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built a world without sound through many brutal cracked video symbols.
There are many animal images in the film, which represents the under the law of the jungle. The weak eats .
Especially the symbol of "sheep" runs through the whole film, has multiple metaphorical functions.
In the film, the director uses symbolic metaphors to express the deprived benefits of the bottom aphasia and the complexity of human nature in front of benefits.
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