It's okay to look at the form

1 Seeing that there are many film critics talking about stories that are boring and painful, we must make it clear that movies are not designed to tell stories. Narrative movies are just a mode of movies, which are more inclined to Hollywood-style entertainment movies. It doesn't make us think about anything, just blindly repeating and accepting it is not conducive to the expansion of aesthetic tastes, nor to the positive changes of society, because it is constantly shackled and instilled in us some fixed ideologies (such as American democracy is really good). !). Therefore, it is very shallow to comment on a movie based on whether the story is interesting or not.
2 The story of "Melancholia" is very boring to Chinese audiences and there are cultural differences. Westerners may also think that the characters are mentally retarded and the plot is boring when watching our Lunar New Year films with strong stories. Therefore, our cultural context cannot be compared to the European cultural context.
3 Therefore, the important thing to watch this film is not the story, nor their way of life (compared to people in the third world, their material life is too rich, but they can't see anything positive, except for waste, petty bourgeoisie, self-pity , Gu Ying's self-pity is nothing, it really hurts!), but the image expression of the film itself, whether the picture, sound, etc. and emotional communication are in harmony or not, and it is a pure form of appreciation. In terms of form alone, whether it is Dougma or the exquisite high-speed photography of the prologue, there are places that are worth learning and thinking.
4 also talk about the content. This film is very similar to the reprint of Tarkovsky's "Sacrifice", similar scenes, similar despair. The film shows an emotional inductive relationship between people and the universe, which is very profound from a philosophical point of view, just like the Chinese "physical sense theory". In addition, this film is indeed a psychological disaster, science fiction is just a pretense, and the loss of people's psychological security has actually been clearly expressed in chapter 1: there is a problem with people getting along with each other, and there is no longer a deep trust, then when When human beings face death or even extinction, it is of course hopeless. Compared with chapter 2, the details of the first part and the subtle relationship between the characters are much more exquisite, so from a personal point of view, the second part seems cumbersome and purely formal.
5 Dougma does have a strong expressiveness in expressing realism.

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