"In the Mood for Love", with its unique film language and narrative mode, as well as the unique style characteristics of Wong Kar-wai's unique mark, realizes the perfect combination of form and content. Through the unique film narrative mode, the film exudes a refined temperament and long-term connotation. Wong Kar-wai shot the simple story in the film to be euphemistic and moving. The story of the film is not redundant from beginning to end, and the pictures and editing of the film appear clean and tidy. In dealing with the narrative of the story, Wang Jiawei cut out the trivial details and transitional plots, and only explained the results of the plot to the audience through the emotional picture and the language of the characters, thus giving the audience more space for imagination and thinking. In terms of character processing, there are only ten characters in the whole movie. This simplified method of character processing can make up for the shortcomings of the actors’ performance, and at the same time it can highlight the protagonist’s performance and the focus of the character image, allowing the protagonist to get more attention from the audience. force.
In the film, the most colorful and expressive part is the cheongsam on the protagonist Su Lizhen. The ever-changing color of cheongsam on Su Lizhen not only reflects the subtle changes in the character's psychology, but also enhances the lyrical meaning of the film's theme. The ever-changing color of cheongsam forms a sharp contrast with the dim picture tones. The color changes of cheongsam against the background of gray and dark tones are more expressive and the metaphorical effect is more obvious. Through the change of color, the film metaphors the change of the character's psychology and emotion, thereby indirectly deepening the theme, making the theme of the film more subtle and obscure.
Through the movie "In the Mood for Love", Wong Kar-wai has created a melancholy and gentle nostalgic atmosphere. Through sad and obsessive music and colorful pictures, as well as the simplified dialogue and storyline of the characters, the viewers continue to question and think, a lot of The blank space also allows viewers to interpret and imagine the film from multiple angles and perspectives from their own perspectives and ways of understanding.
Wong Kar-wai shows the complexity and subtlety of human nature through an ordinary story, and through the meticulous pursuit of scenes, props and costumes, the whole movie fully expresses the style of that era. At the same time, in the expression of the film, Wong Kar-wai vividly and vividly expressed the national color, national characteristics and the color of the times through a unique expression technique, thus fusing into a unique nostalgic temperament, which has also become the film’s success
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