Key words: Hollywood movies; New Wave movement; Godard; Alain Resnais; Varda
Hollywood movies use a rhythm created by the ups and downs of music, the length of the screen stay, etc. to completely "control" the audience's emotions and attention. Terrible power. At the same time, the coherent editing of time and space, which Hollywood films prefer to adopt, is likely to be broken by these "rebel" directors in the French New Wave movement.
Compared with Godard's "jump cut", which is still in a coherent narrative structure at least, Allen Resnais has entered the realm of the subconscious. The literary nature of the film has reached the extreme, time and space are completely separated, the lines are like a dream, and the pictures Also like a dream. After reading it, I can understand why the new wave directors after Griffith created the greatest film language, and after this, there is no new creation.
The admirable scene scheduling, mirroring, strong flashbacks, and the constant repetition of the script are amazing. I watched Varda's documentary yesterday, and she also likes to use the repetition of the picture in the film to express an extreme emotion, such as extreme sadness or surprise (used in "Uncle Yangke" and "Happiness"). The repetition of Alain Resnais is more about expressing a vagueness of memory, which is the charm of memory (perhaps also the abomination of memory).
In addition, the pleasure of the senses, the creation of atmosphere and emotions, the black and white tone and the slightly terrifying (?) Gothic music have created a kind of solemn and unique beauty. I seem to feel this kind of beauty in his "Hiroshima Love". Thus, a very advanced audio-visual enjoyment is brought to the audience.
Finally, I have to praise Alain Resnais's film as a model of stream-of-consciousness literary film. Also, the understanding of the film's main theme (although the director himself declared that the film has no meaning hh), because this film is deeply influenced by existentialism, it may be revisited a second time after making up a lesson.
(By the way, blur's "to the end" mv is also a tribute to this film qwq)
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