"Poetic documentary of simple narrative" "Poetic documentary of simple narrative" "From the perspective of today's people, we use highly mediated cognitive concepts, and feel that the rehearsal is used in such a way that Vlahadi is endowed with He created an image that was both talented and natural, but also because of the cold utilitarian and daunting image behind this talent, ignoring another possibility, that is, under the conditions of that era, such as the legitimacy of colonial discourse at the time and the background of specific media and technical methods. , Such as the cumbersomeness of machinery, the length of film and the strict restrictions on storage, etc., these conditions have formed the concept of "visible" and different from later generations, so that "playing" is not so much a means to achieve an end, as it is instinctively. Replicating the reality that people can recognize with the help of machines at the time-a film event." "Vlahadi is hailed as a pioneer in giving romantic records to the humanistic spirit and value of romanticism, and Vertov declared in "Cinema Eyes" Li Li advocates overthrowing performances and presuppositions, and praises the self-generating power of mechanical replication, but what appears to posterity is more of a strong subjective position of constructivism. The former seems to be the manifestation of the superiority of human power in front of the machine—struggle to survive The story of overcoming nature, and the close, natural and simple emotional body are actually surrendered to the production logic of the media machine, which combines the so-called human creativity and the machine's ability to replicate into the machine's production materials; and the latter combines After copying seems to be fully handed over to the machine, whether it is active or passive, it reversely promotes the complex survival anxiety of humans in front of the machine, and thus cannot fully enter this production logic."
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