Watching the master's film twice in a row requires some records.
"If you understand the seasons, change is just a cycle of repetition. This spring is the same as usual."
At the beginning of the film, Li Lizhong's colleague mentioned the death of leader Gao and the writing of Zhou Yufen's novel. It has been revealed to the audience that the story of the protagonist couple is the same as that of many people, "His life is too monotonous, once something happens, he can't react. There will definitely be problems." The protagonist Li Lizhong is a standard honest person, cautious and cautious, eager for the approval of his superiors, forbearing and submissive to his wife, and he will never take the initiative to find an old friend if there is nothing. Living in his habit of resignation, he silently expects that life will gradually and naturally get better. When my wife disappears, I can find an excuse for myself to write a novel, so I feel more relieved. If the novel is successful, she will go home, and when Team Leader Gao dies, it is me who will be promoted. Li Lizhong escaped from the deep and sharp contradictions and pains of life, and everything seemed to be okay when he was blindfolded. However, a spoof phone call burst his bubble, and his wife's derailment and promotion hopeless crushed the honest man's last fantasy. He even vented his anger silently, and shot life in Zhou Yufen's dream, but it was himself in the bloody who was hit.
When Zhou Yufen appeared in Xiao Shen and Li Lizhong, the contrast was stark, one was always bright and lush, and the other was anxious and reddish, quite like a prisoner. The relationship between the characters is also presented by color. Xiao Shen saw in Zhou Yufen’s story that they could not be changed by time, and carefully read the story based on him; while Li Lizhong has been married for many years and has not read the novel written by his wife,” How could writing a novel become such a dreadful thing?" He never understood his wife's choice, and he never tried to. Zhou Yufen, an "idealist", writes poetic sentences to escape the days of repetition, trying to seek a new beginning by getting married, writing novels, having children, looking for a job, and cheating. When she proposed to move out, with the scream of the kettle, the conversation between the couple back to back across the wall, but staring directly at the camera pointed to the sore spot. They accuse each other in their own space, and perhaps the accusation is more about themselves cowardly escaping in front of life. The audience watching this scene was also subconsciously tortured their souls.
A very favorite scene is the scene of the couple meeting in the restaurant after Zhou Yufen's novel was awarded. The two were sitting next to each other, and they were separated by a fence from the window. They were very interesting. They were still in a prison, and the distance between the two was unknown.
The multi-line narrative and scene switching like Yang Daoshen connect the whole film by gradually opening the stories of Xiaoqiang and Shu'an. Xiaoqiang is a bit like the young male version of Zhou Yufen, who likes to live in a fantasy world, repeating the story of leaving and searching. Xiaoqiang fell in love with the fantasy girl Shuan after accidentally filming her. The fierce quarrel with his girlfriend is like a dream under the gentle smoke gets in your eyes background music, the gauze curtain fluttering in the wind vaguely leaves the back of Xiaoqiang's girlfriend heartbroken on the balcony, and the distant view of striding forward without looking back cockroach. Xiaoqiang's girlfriend took off the breakup note and got into the ambulance. The narration "I don't want to live anymore" perfectly quoted Shu'an's harassing calls. Absurd and wonderful, Shu An successfully carried out a series of terrorist attacks on the lives of others. Xiaoqiang discovered the gap between his infatuation and reality after his reunion with Shu'an, and chose to leave his fantasy space. This time, what was left in the clutter in the wind was a piece of Xiaoqiang's beautiful photos of Shu'an.
The shots and colors of the film are cold and delicate, the light, shadow and composition are exquisitely reflecting the environment and the emotions of the characters. The people in the city, through the accumulation of images of anxiety and restlessness, forbearance of compromise, indifference and cowardice, iterate to a climax in the final protagonist's obscenity murder and suicide gunshots, which are thrilling. Accompanied by Cai Qin's slow whisper, "Please pretend that you will not bear me", Director Yang's cold rush hit the audience's heart. The most straightforward terrorist among the terrorists is Shu'an who makes random phone calls. The other characters are also each other's terrorists, or maybe their real terrorists are life, and they choose to escape repeatedly in reincarnation.
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