About lens and color

Reed 2022-01-16 08:01:10

The first shot shocked me, the soft tone, the well-designed composition, there was nothing superfluous, it was too clean. I can only report it with "Fuck!". The second shot is still the same, and when I waited for the third shot, I couldn't help but pause the screenshot. But then I didn’t think it was necessary anymore, because every shot and every moment is like this, as accurate as a ruler, it’s too "picturesque".
Hanzhi Quejing

I realized this only after a few shots: every shot is a fixed shot. Compared with the one shot of "Russian Ark" that I watched two days ago, the film consists of 39 fixed shots, which goes to the other extreme. If the uninterrupted sports lens expresses the duration of time, then the long lens with fixed camera position expresses the sense of stage, and the screen|screen is the fourth wall. Emphasizing the dramatic requirements provides a reasonable explanation for the characters' precise positioning and walking.
There is no linear time logic between the 39 acts, only the repeated appearance of the characters. The most important thing is obviously the two salesmen, they basically string together most of the fragmented narrative. Fragmented, decentralized narrative is a major feature.
The tone of the film is also very distinctive, which is as impressive as the tone of the picture in "She".
The tone of "She" is mostly presented as a bright and soft pink color, which fits the warm and romantic tone of the film. The tone of the film is colder, but still soft. Because it is a fixed scene and fixed lens, the tonal control of the limited elements in the picture is as precise as the composition, silky smooth, and pleasing to the eye. The gloomy tone suggests the depression and boring in daily life.
Whether it is color or composition, it seems too "perfect", and it is far from our daily experience, so it seems a bit unreal, which is also a dramatic response to the emphasis on the language of the lens. This drama pushes those seemingly boring trivial narratives into metaphors and symbols.

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Extended Reading
  • Verda 2022-04-23 07:03:50

    5.0 Two brushes four to five, top ten candidates 71 Golden Lions, Roy's masterpiece. It is by no means a mystical, groundless truth. But the reset of the system, the contempt of the times, the peak of formalism, the history of Europe, absurd, ridiculous, and ironic. A mirror and a painting, like a series of exquisite early paintings, also seem to echo existence itself. The precise presentation of the fixed camera position, the dog is in the male and female, the cold branch is quiet, the alienation and trivial are all in the mirror image.

  • Ewald 2022-04-21 09:03:03

    The black humor is very heavy. While shooting a sense of ordinary life, the staged pictures and character movements seem to be deconstructing the beautification of life by other literary and artistic works, haha. Cold, but emotional. I like the comparison of the types of death at the beginning. The bar fights a scene together, and the feeling of embarrassment and loneliness coexisting is also quite wonderful. Good movie no doubt.