Freehand brushwork, concealment and ambiguous blank space

Therese 2022-04-21 09:02:06

1. Break reality, fantasy, and dreams at will. The world from the perspective of a nurse and the world from the perspective of an actress can also be scrambled and shuttled freely. It seems to be broken but in fact coherent, very Fellini, or even Fellini on top of Fellini. 2. On the camera lens: I really like to use close-up and close-up; the camera has a strong sense of existence, strong selectivity, distinct subjectivity and authorship; a lot of "masking" - nurses and actresses sometimes completely cover the latter. Dialogue, sometimes the other way around; close-ups and shadows are often very oppressive. 3. There are no lines in many scenes, and the meaning is not clear, but the tension has erupted in silence; 4. Among the nurses and actresses, who is the more determined and subjective subject? Quite swaying and ambiguous. Halfway through the movie I leaned towards the actress-nurse split. But at the end, I felt that the nurse might also be the projection of the actress. A definitive answer may not be needed. I like the ambiguity and ambiguity of the subject and the time, space, narrative and even emotion (including between the nurse and the actress, and between the subject and the other, and the environment) that follow the subject. There is a lot of white space in almost every aspect. 5. Geometric and thorough black and white create a freehand space; my favorite audio-visual style. 6. The editing at the end of the film is also very interesting.

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  • Ismael 2021-12-07 08:01:40

    The first Bergman of the Shanghai Film Festival, there was even a guided tour of Bergman himself at the beginning, which was shocked. . The master said two key points: 1. The first four minutes are difficult to understand and should be understood as music; 2. An important reason for making this film is because when I was the director of the Royal Theatre, I had to say something insincere. Too much anger. In other words, the so-called mask and the true self. With these two sentences, it is relatively easy to understand a lot.

  • Amely 2022-03-28 09:01:03

    How can there still be directors who are inspired by it? They should just give up their artistic career directly (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

Persona quotes

  • Sister Alma: You can't know how I feel. I always thought great artists felt this great compassion for other people, that they created art out of great compassion and a need to help. That was silly of me.

  • Sister Alma: Does it have to be like this? Is it really so important not to lie, to tell the truth, to speak in a genuine tone of voice? Can a person really live without babbling away, without lying and making up excuses and evading things? Isn't it better to just let yourself be silly and sloppy and dishonest? Maybe a person gets better by just letting herself be who she is.