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".
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".