Talent and skill, sometimes not as important as sincere

Earnestine 2022-01-23 08:08:06

Chongqing

Chongqing is a steep city. Chengdu is on the plain, rich, comfortable, and a comfortable land surrounded by circles. Chongqing is a place where you run to the docks to ask for life. The rivers and lakes are bloody, humble and brave. If the spatial relationship in Chengdu is parallel, then Chongqing is vertical. Like an endless ladder.

The movie takes a lot of vertical space: the school is like a huge well, the small open space enclosed in the middle is like a stage, like the Colosseum, and the students around are like spectators; Chen Nian’s home is a tube building with maze-like stairs. You can't finish walking, and you can't get out of the complex; Xiaobei's home is under the viaduct. Not to mention the long steps that Chen Nian had to climb up and down every day, every step she took was to walk up and out to the open ground in her heart.

When there is verticality, there will be a fall. Only the difficulty of climbing can show the cruelty of being kicked. Coincidentally, there is also a terrible ladder in "Parasite", and the director said it was thoughtful. To cross one class, to cross several classes, the people underneath need to change their lives. There is sociality here.

If "July and Ansheng" was filmed on a paradise, a paradise that will never be lost, and paradise shelters them all their lives, then "you as a teenager" has never had a paradise. Even the first few sentences of English seem to be lost in paradise. "Young You" is a jungle, a savage jungle where young people are desperate for survival.

What's great is that a city is photographed with a sense of jungle. The huge reinforced concrete, the denser railings in the foreground of the school, the air-conditioning of every household in the heat wave drips like rain, the dangerous dark night, the cramped day, occasionally the clouds are breaking through the sky, the clouds on the river surface are steaming, the kind of extremely fast and violent The changes, like the hormonal transpiration of a teenager, and the violent rainstorm, washed away everything and seemed to be back to the original form of the rainstorm. These cruel landscapes restore a city into a jungle.

Two college entrance examination

The college entrance examination makes everyone an island. The Japanese need to exile young people to an isolated island when they shoot the battle royale. The Chinese don't need it. One college entrance examination is enough.

Before the second exam, my sister told me, do you think there are many scenes after the college entrance examination? After reading it the second time, I said for sure, not much. The college entrance examination found a fulcrum for this movie. The pivot of time, the pivot of psychology, the pivot of events, the pivot of images. The college entrance examination provides the greatest realism for this movie.

Those valuable documentary-quality shots! The face that rushes, the anxiety that rushes to the face, this is the battle that everyone has gone through, the domineering lens, the calm details, drag everyone back, sink in, and feel it, it cruelly squeezes out your physiology Feel, fear and tremble.

It turned the college entrance examination into a war. Life and death matter, but the enemy is invisible. So the trapped beasts bite each other, treating the weak in sight as enemies.

It's still the noisy and informative documentary, the mobilization before the exam, the joy of taking photos, the beauty of flying sky lanterns, the vent of collective tearing books, the joy of walking out of the examination room...Every face in the lens is so young, innocent and innocent. However, only his innocence is extremely cruel.

In the movie, Hu Xiaodie asked: "They have been bullying me, why don't you do something?"

In the original book, Hu Xiaodie asked: "They have been bullying me, can't you see?"

I think this sentence in the original is better. It's not invisible, it's turning a blind eye. I even believe that after asking these innocent faces, they will sincerely forget and sincerely believe that nothing has happened. The college entrance examination is over, everyone is a survivor, and the joy of survivors overwhelmed everything.

The college entrance examination is a coming-of-age ceremony, I think the word "adult festival" is more appropriate. Everyone has to sacrifice something to become an adult.

Some people had to sacrifice themselves, and some took the initiative to sacrifice themselves.

Three images

I love the video of "You are a young man". I also like the images of "July and Ansheng", warm, intimate, private, like a paradise, like golden, like solidified amber. Even if puberty is gone and reality has come, it still supports the whole movie and the two people. There is still warmth. Even if the tears hurt, the remaining warmth is still there, the intimacy is still there, they have been in that golden amber all their lives, they are a paradise that will never lose each other.

If the images of "July and Ansheng" are female, the images of "You are a teenager" are neutral. It is "it", animal "it", there are fierce animals.

Fierce, rough, fierce. Those big close-ups, big close-ups, it is rare that there are so many close-ups in a movie, so many faces, such as the surging waves, come turbulently. Those huge faces staring at you, staring at you, staring at you, are invisible.

Why is this world like this?

Why can't you see me?

See me.

Look at me!

The close-up is no longer an invitation, but an offense, a provocation, anger and grievance, a strong beam of light, the first appearance of life, the brightness and passion that cannot be pretentious and unpretentious.

There are also those very close hand-held followers, who want a sense of presence like a war, rush in, get closer, get closer. Watching "You in the Young" gave me the feeling very much like "Dunkirk". I can think and judge a little further, and there will be some compassion and care. Don't all, I just want you to feel the same at this moment. . Broken breath, physical pain, suffocation, scratching the skin, blood and tears, trembling and tenderness.

I like it very much and respect Yu Jingping. The mirror image is the mind, I believe. I believe she has forgotten her own safety and stood at the center of the movie like a war reporter rushing into the gunfire. Sincere, deep, and gentle. I believe in the power of movies, so that she still has the strength and discipline to continue making movies when she is the most painful. I believe in the will of art, jumped out, dominated her, and protected her. I believe that the huge pain and sorrow that pervades the movie is almost death and suffocation. I also believe that in such suffocating images, there is still a weak and stubborn sense of breathing, mouthful breathing, mouthful breathing, As if a drowning person was going upstream, he breathed out his last breath, his chest was still painful, and water came out, and he still didn't dare to breathe wildly. Extremely depressed, extremely depressed, but extremely warm.

The sense of life finally defeated the sense of death.

After watching a movie, you will fall in love with someone. Love is not only the person in the lens, but also the person behind the lens, and the person who uses himself as the lens.

Four Lights

Most of the movie is dark night, it is darkness. Only pain can understand pain, and only your darkness can illuminate my darkness.

Their darkness, like a beam of light, illuminates each other.

Just like an excellent painter, he uses black as a color. This movie uses darkness as light.

Of course there is still light. In the interrogation room, the top light pouring down from the top of the head. This kind of interrogation light is a kind of violence and pressure. The ugly light in the movie is also called ghost light, which makes people look like ghosts.

However, it was this kind of top light that shot Chen Nian so cold, unsatisfactory, and aggressive, and shot Xiao Bei completely and completely rebellious. However, it is this kind of light that diffuses illusion, like a holy light, photographing these two young people like saints. They attacked and defended layer by layer, and adults could not figure out where their determination came from.

Light and shadow overflow, they are allies and accomplices. They are the relationship between light and shadow, the relationship between wolf and embarrassment. This is the only thing they can give to each other, and it is all.

During the visit, the light and shadow were glittering, overlapping, without saying a word, sorrow and joy.

And finally, in the two police cars, they seemed to have a conversation one by one, but it was clear that it was an illusory space and a supernatural friendship. In reality, it is a hazy sky with no light, and it is handled very well. I like it very much. Beams of light, rotating, at the same angle, and with the same intensity, are projected on their faces. A burst of light and a burst of darkness, the same light and darkness, tells us that this is not a real space, but a space where they live together.

Five actors

Chen Kexin once said that there are only two actresses. As long as she cries on the screen, the audience will cry with them. They are Maggie Cheung and Zhou Xun. Now I think he will add a name, Dongyu Zhou.

Zhou Dongyu is like a little beast, with a furry feeling, sharp teeth, and sharp and bright eyes. This girl doesn’t know what’s going on, and the direct response she gave is different from ordinary people. On the contrary, she smiled when she was sad, hid when she was moved, and carried it when she was uncomfortable, so she had to collapse. When she did not collapse, the audience collapsed first.

She and her role are not separated.

Rao is so talented, she also peeled off her skin when she played Chen Nian. Because acting Chen Nian can't hide, and can't act her instinctive reaction. The character of Chen Nian is really difficult: it is not resistance to resistance, it is not fragile and fragile, it is not strong and strong, it is not brave and brave. Chen Nian and Xiaobei are a set of reverse spectrums. Xiaobei is from shadow to light, she is from light to shadow, falling into the deepest part of human heart, from pure to hideous, and her hideousness cannot be Coldness and selfishness are her greatest understanding and commitment.

Some people say that "Youth in Youth" has the loyalty of the pre-Qin Spring and Autumn Period. The righteousness and fierceness of the Spring and Autumn Period often puzzled future generations, because in an age of interest, the vigor of the old man appeared to be too forceful and cruel. Spring and Autumn are our adolescence in China. The adolescent righteousness also puzzled adults.

Since ancient times, Enyi is the most difficult to bear. In contrast, giving the head to the deceased is easy to act, but receiving the head of the deceased is not easy to act. This is merciless, and the hard part is to act as it should be. Regardless of each other, there is no such thing as giving and receiving, grace and thanks. "July and Ansheng" is about two people who are one body. After all, it is discovered that they are two people. "You are a young man" is about how two distinctly different people merge into one.

Xiaobei's ferocity gradually appeared on her face.

My teacher said that the best performance: truthful, accurate, and subtle. Seeing Yi Yang Qianxi's performance, I want to replace the truth with the sincere. Strictly speaking, he is not acting as a real low-level gangster, the real southern gangster is like Zhang Yu's. Zhang Yu in "I'm Not the God of Medicine", his face is like frozen, stray cats, stray dogs often have that expression on their faces, they don’t need expressions, so when he smiles, he opens his mouth like a grin. The wound is so warm that it hurts.

The kind of literary spirit in Yi Yang Qianxi's bones, the gentleness of exhalation and sentence, the bad and scumbags in the performance, and the bad and scumbags that grow out of the mud like Zhang Yu, there is a distance. But he was sincere. His astringency and stupefaction at this moment coincides with the stupefaction and stupefaction of a little bastard when he first met love. At his age, the breath between boys and men is full of adult violence, intelligence and calmness, as well as childlike trust. Entrusted and intimacy, he restrained, and restrained the affectionate, did not look at it, and never stayed away for a moment. His fate stayed, and the movie stood still.

How many beautiful faces can stand close-ups and close-ups? Can withstand exposure to strong light, pores, scars, acne, slight tremors of facial muscles, withstand the dripping of sweat, withstand the violent moments, rush of blood, and withstand the fluke , The slightest touch of a smile?

It's not allowed to fake it at all, and it's not allowed to pass it a bit.

Clean, clear, and nervous.

Fortunately, there are films, and fortunately there are films, some of which are unforgettable but fleeting, can live forever and be sealed here.

Six sense of cinema

As a person who loves movies, I am obsessed with the sense of cinema. When I see a good movie, my highest evaluation is just: "This is a movie!" There are many others, in my opinion, it is a drama, a sketch, an internet joke...but not a movie.

What's the movie feeling? The cinematic sense cannot be translated into literature. However, the script is inexhaustible in the script. The cinematic sense is a chemical effect and a physiological reaction.

There are a lot of mixed cuts in the movie, and the information comes in a lot of information. It seems to be captured at random, but in fact it is carefully arranged. It does not give you a conclusion, but is presented quietly. Like a group of Chen Nian and Xiaobei's mixed cuts, Chen Nian swears by everyone in the day, hoarse, Xiaobei fights with everyone in the dark at night, in the mahjong hall, wantonly and fiercely. They are like the day and the night, seeming to live in the sky and the earth, one innocent and the other dirty, but the essence is the same, the weak and the strong, seeking to survive.

There is also a group of my favorite mixed cuts. After the college entrance examination, Chen Nian collapsed like a collapse. Xiaobei was calm and relieved in the detention center. The mixed cuts came in, and two of Xiaobei’s buddies were beaten, Wei Lai two. There are also Zheng Yi and Li Xiang in the lives of female staff. They are all teenagers. No one has retreated from this adult festival. In this mixed cut, there is a great understanding and peace of mind, which I like.

This kind of logic is not literal logic, but movie logic.

There are also very beautiful music, moving sounds, capturing the noise of the city of Chongqing, the water droplets, the sweat attached to the skin, and the genius editing, fierce and decisive, sweet and tender, in the air like a spring, dark flowers Lights up.

All these add up, and you have to experience it yourself, the so-called cinematic sense.

Seven shortcomings

When I saw it the first time, I felt a sense of fracture. I thought it was a sense of rupture caused by the omission and deletion of the plot. I didn't think it was the case during the second brush. The plot is unreasonable and does not cause much impact. Until I saw the deep focus film review, there was a sentence, "There is a significant spatial break between the formal facial close-up and the realistic scene explanation in this film, although this is a brave attempt." Finally said. Out of my feeling.

Dramatic close-ups, dramatic stories, documentary texture, documentary shots, in fact, these are two different things, two layers of skin, the film is rigidly pasted together. Simply put, it will feel that other people in the story, other people in the classroom, have not entered the story and become a background board. Large close-ups are at the cost of loss of background details. This method of shooting comes at the cost of loss of social authenticity.

There is a film that sticks these two layers of skin together, four hours, "Guling Street Juvenile Murder Incident".

"Young You" is not a particularly mature movie. In terms of completion, "July and Ansheng" is much better, the story is smooth and complete, the tone is calm and relaxed, and there is a feeling that the creator is at ease, while "You are a young man", there is a kind of impossible but desperate The feeling of fighting for life, the mud and the sand are all under, the mighty, all depends on the vigor and strength to pass hard, and enjoy the embarrassment. However, isn't this a sense of youth?

Maybe we will do better in the future, but we can’t wait any longer, we must do it now. I don't want a better future, I just want the real present.

Completeness and maturity are never the only criteria for commenting on a movie.

Talent is sometimes not as important as sincere.

Eight Chinese Movies

At the end of last year, I wrote a passage like this: "Ten years later, the era of the Great Chinese Film has arrived, but the era of the Great Chinese Film did not. The words "Great Chinese Film", these words mean more than just cross-strait movies. People working together also include in-depth communication of ideas, collisions and values, and they are finally presented in the movie. This is an era when the waves of the whole world are returning, and all are retreating and holding themselves tightly. But there is no The relationship, the wave will rise again, the island and the island will eventually have a monsoon report. Love and respect the people who are struggling to create their own movies in this era. Movies are movies, and blood is blood. People who love movies will always love, and one day, We will meet in the movie."

I want to end this text with this digression.

The current is like a surge, and a young man is like you.

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