The Destruction of Personal Love by War——A Brief Analysis of the Audio-Visual Language of "Love of Hiroshima"

Emory 2022-04-23 07:04:32

"Hiroshima Love" is a new wave film directed by Alain Resnais. The 90-minute film expresses that a French woman couldn't be with Germany for the first time because of the war. Later, she fell in love with a Japanese man in Hiroshima, but because she couldn't recover from the war The story of walking out of the destroyed love, being discouraged by this love, hesitating, and finally leaving. At the beginning of the film, a close-up shot is used to show the passionate love between a French woman and a Japanese man, filled with an ambiguous atmosphere, highlighting the hearts of the two who love each other. Afterwards, using the conversion of montage images, they constantly switched between the lingering of the two and the memories of the French woman, showing the exhibition halls in the Hiroshima Museum that are full of replicas, all photos, but also women's hair loss, and documentaries at that time, victims. The tragic situation of the masses, all of which shocked us, and also hinted at the tragic situation of the heroine who was locked in the cellar for that relationship 14 years ago. The refugees during the war were miserable, covered with scars, and separated from their families, so people stood up to protest. People were afraid of the damage to nature and the people by nuclear bombs and hydrogen bombs, and opposed the use of nuclear weapons. Occupied, she falls in love with a German soldier during the war, runs secretly on a date, and meets with him to escape from France to marry. However, in the morning before her departure, her German lover was shot, and she cried bitterly while hugging her lover's body. The woman's hometown was liberated, but she was devastated by the loss of her lover. This plot uses the cutting and transformation of montage images to express the deep-rooted memory and pain of French women. After that, I used the camera to shoot the streets of the city, reflecting the environment of Hiroshima, explaining the location of the story and the environment of the protagonist, and paving the way for the subsequent story. The film connects war and love, breaks the three time and space boundaries of past, present and future in editing, and fully uses symbolic techniques to interlace past and present, present and memory, reality and fantasy, dream and reality. , mixed together, making the storyline blurred, giving the audience unlimited imagination space, and using sound and picture to counterpoint, the picture is Nevers, but the sound comes from Hiroshima, suggesting that this will be a stifled game. Love is like a French woman who fell in love with a German man during the war. They didn't care about their family, the war, their relatives, and everything together. The end result was that the man was killed by the Chinese, and he was shaved and locked in the cellar. Among them, the pain is unbearable, and it more profoundly shows the devastation of war on people.

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  • Ona 2022-03-29 09:01:08

    The technique and form are breathtaking, constantly switching between past memory and reality retelling, and the flashbacks of the memory fragment are jumped and cut, all of which are narrated by the dialogue between men and women in the present tense, and the narration is like a poetic literary line. The two now meet only three times in one day, and the rest are trapped in the memory of the shadow of World War II. The editing is very fast-paced, and the shots are often in smooth motion. In the second half, Japanese and French street scenes frequently match montages, and memory gradually invades reality. The content involves double political inaccuracy, unilaterally expressing the tragic situation after the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, the French girl suffered because of falling in love with the German aggressor soldiers, and the search for humanitarian care from an individual point of view went a little too far. From the point of view of the movie, it is to accept that France and Japan should co-produce the propositional works on the theme of the atomic bombing commemoration, which has exceeded expectations.

  • Arturo 2022-03-28 09:01:12

    You are not cowardly, you are brave in a hundred places, and there is only one cowardly, that is love.

Hiroshima Mon Amour quotes

  • Lui: Some years from now, when I have forgotten you and other romances like this one have recurred through sheer habit, I will remember you as a symbol of love's forgetfulness. This affair will remind me how horrible forgetting is.

  • Elle: Sometimes it's important to ignore the difficulties this world presents. Otherwise, it would become unbearable.