Self-reflection (self-reflction) is a term popular in the American film industry, generally used in documentaries. It means that the filming of the film has a direct connection or record with the filmmaker, and the content of the film is the producer's own activities.
Caveh Zahedi graduated from the Los Angeles Film School. His young age is a period of major changes in Western society (which is directly reflected in the film), and his techniques and films are also relatively new. In this feature film, the director puts together animations, home videos, documentaries, and filmed material, and constantly explains himself to the camera. A particularly interesting film with a documentary style mixed into one Autobiographical.
First of all, the film is digitally shot, most of which are real scenes, which are simple and easy to understand, and the production cost is not high. It belongs to an independent producer, and the director is also the producer.
A major feature of auto-reflection films is that the film does not evade the artificiality of the film. Zahedi raised the question of the filming from time to time in the film, "This is not Paris, but you can think of it as Paris." Especially the actors, every The actors who play the director's lover have all made real introductions, and even have interview-style dialogues, and at the end of a paragraph, the real life videos and introductions of the film's characters are also added. Convince the audience of the authenticity of the director's story. At the same time, it tells us that the film is artificial and staged.
The structure of the film is that the director tells his own life, stitched together with home videos, document photos and film clips, especially the director's own commentary, you can see all the film techniques in use, the time and space are extremely open, and from time to time The past, the present, and the future pulsate at will, this is the film's most brilliant point, the way to success.
The popularity of movies in Europe and America can be seen in the movie. Those home videos are movies. Movies are just a means. It became a movie of its own life. This kind of concept is not found in the mainland.
Caveh can be said to be a movie madman. He never forgets to pick up the camera to shoot at any moment (the quarrel with his wife is still holding the camera, and the wife cried while playing the movie: "He is still shooting me."), and even recording. So this film spanning 17 years can be credibly completed. Who of us has the courage to record our own life without covering it up and make it into a movie?
The film is closely related to sex, mainly about Caveh Zahedi's hobby - how prostitutes and oral sex affected his life, while looking back at his personal life and partners over the years, even a documentary (the director is a The teacher of the documentary) Caveh Zahedi is an intellectual. In the film, he also constantly does some self-analysis in the style of a cultural man, and the influence of various cultural trends on him is even more obvious.
All in all, the film is very interesting and playful, dewy but not too erotic, full of humor, and the end of the film is simply that he was filmed at the scene of the wedding (is it true?) In the end, Caveh Zahedi overcame his hobby and found new partner. A pretty Hollywood ending.
Want to know what an autoreflection film is? Then watch this film, such a film can even be a completely designed and completely fake film, which is also a new form of documentary that questioned the documentary after the 1980s (whether this type of film should be classified as a documentary is still controversial).
We can see that, regardless of the level of production, technology and the concept of the film itself, there are directors in mainland China and Europe and the United States (Japan also have directors who make similar reflexive films. Hara Kazuo's "Eros, Record" records the director's search for himself The process of loving) how far is that. This may also be related to our cultural concept of life. Who would admit to being a fetishist? Even in the past. Who would like to show their whole life unreservedly in front of the world?
Digression, the director is ugly enough, his figure is not good, his ex-sexual fetish is amazing, so self-violent, his spirit is commendable!
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