In this film, which made a big splash at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, we can see that there are private collectors willing to pay 100,000 pounds (a huge sum of money at the time, and inheriting thousands of pounds a year in the UK was a huge inheritance at that time) Acquire a famous painting by Turner. Therefore, Turner was already very beautiful when he was alive. If compared with Van Gogh's many dejected and unsatisfactory life experiences when he was alive, and his paintings after death were of astonishing value, Turner, who was sensitive and surly, was undoubtedly protected by the times and had blue eyes. A very lucky man.
Mike Lee is a famous director who has directed "Another Year" and "Secrets and Lies", and "Mr. Turner" obviously has Mike Lee's consistent film expression: that is to use trivial and ordinary details of life to outline the powerful. A sense of drama and destiny, complete the character building and establishment in a calm and soothing narrative, and detonate the passion and pathos of the characters in restraint and repression. This way of returning to the basics is clearly reflected in "Another Year". In "Another Year", everyone is the first-hand creator of their own destiny, and they are ultimately to blame. Mike Lee successfully depicts the unwillingness and ambition, longing and timidity, longing and avoidance, truth and lies, self-deception and self-digging in ordinary life, the strength and weakness of human beings, not only the heroine in the film, but also the universal destiny. Experiences come to everyone. In "Mr. Turner", Mike Lee did not use too much space to describe Mr. Turner's world-famous rude creation method and legendary sensitivity and expression of light and shadow, but mainly focused on his simple Even in the lonely personal life, behind the figure of Turner who is constantly running around the clock and creating works, we can see the figures of his two mistresses, Turner's suppressed and distorted emotional expression, his indifferent and slightly deformed family life, his father's important influence on him; Turner's eccentricity and sincerity, roughness and sensitivity in personality, tenacity and concentration in artistic creation, and also in some small brushstrokes, depict the ambition under the general image of the character, Showy, vanity, and meanness.
express him with his brush
Turner is a master of depicting light and shadow, and is also known in the art circle for his diligent creation and explosive painting style. Mike Lee's lens deliberately simulates a considerable number of landscapes and compositions in Turner's paintings, making the whole film present a Victorian period, a watercolor-like impression and a dreamy style. The grasp of light and style is accurate and vividly reproduced. The charm of Turner's works is the ambiguous, lofty and vast moments created by the trance of light and shadow, as well as the quiet and peaceful spiritual temperament unexpectedly presented under the raging wind and clouds. Turner advocates the use of natural light and color to express subjective emotions, and believes that the best carrier for carrying emotions is the light and dust in nature. Later Turner's works have become more lively and warm - and we can find similar expressions in the lens of Mike Lee's exquisite, almost art. When Turner is standing in the studio painting, his father and maid Hannah are working outdoors, a quiet and harmonious family picture is formed. This is Mike Lee's use of digital lenses to capture the drifting warm light swimming, vividly used Turner's own brushstrokes and style of painting reproduced his daily life, and from these delicate and sensitive lens images, he accurately and delicately expressed Turner's happiness and physical touch at that time, which also helped Turner lose his father later. , life imbalance laid the groundwork. Using the painter's strokes to reproduce the painter's life and heart is a bold and successful attempt by Mike Lee. Practice has proved that these exquisite scenes are like famous paintings, in which subtle and deep emotions flow. It outlines Turner's lonely but smooth life from far and near. He is indeed a legend and everyone who never stops writing, but on the other hand, he is undoubtedly a baby who is blessed and cared for by many people. Sincere and steady love surrounds him, which is a great comfort and luck to the sensitive and surly Turner, and it also firmly protects the creation that he has been moving forward.
After Turner's father passed away, Mike Lee only used a brief telescopic lens to express Turner's sadness and loneliness. He was boating alone in the mountains and forests. There was faint fog on the lake in the forest. , his eyes were sad and empty. This short shot is completed using the concept of "using pictures and light and shadow to express intense emotions and tragedy" that Turner has always advocated. Sadness is a classic. Turner captured the ethereal light and shadow in front of the canvas, as well as certain spiritual perceptions and pursuits that can only be comprehended; while Mike Lee used digital photography to reproduce this divine expression, and made precise adjustments to some specific images in the post-production stage. It can be said that Mike Lee is a master of successfully using the advantages of digital lenses to carry out Turner-style paintings.
It is said that he did not dare to look directly at others.
Turner's mother was a mental patient and was absent from Turner's life too early, which made Turner very nervous and alienated from his own family. He almost never cared about his daughters. (If they hadn't come, he might not have recognized them). Father understands Turner and dotes on him. From the beginning of the film, we can see that his father took great care of the artist, and in the late stage of his illness, his father also prepared paints for him; Turner's personality was shy, sensitive, and rich, and he did not dare to look directly at others. The alienation and tension in the relationship with women is also why Turner always fails in portraiture. He cannot face others calmly at all. Only in the natural scenery can he stretch and relax his feelings and eyes. In one clip, he was invited by the nobles to the manor to paint and sang a song together with a piano teacher. This moment is very captivating. Turner's voice in this clip is full of affection and telling, showing extraordinary understanding and artistic sense. In a short period of time, they established a close tacit understanding and mutual understanding, and Turner was elegant and delicate, full of gentlemanly demeanor.
The ugly and sensitive Turner was turned into a beast, a monster. He behaved rudely and painted with slobber; because his father was a hairdresser, and Turner came from the bottom, and at best he could only be regarded as a pet appreciated by the nobles, but his artistic life was amazing and lasting. With this awkward status and overly sensitive character, it was difficult for Turner to find a lover commensurate with his talent and inner experience.
The ugly maid Hannah became the object of his lust. The sex position he had with the maid was a beastly conquest. The maid loved Turner, but Turner avoided her all the time, and even hated her. He grabbed her chest rudely, then touched her lower body and let go. This action vividly shows the difference in their mutual needs: the maid loves him, has emotional dependence and demands; Turner only sees her as an occasional sexual object; it also reproduces Turner Ambiguity and avoidance of one's own unusual sexual outlet.
The unexpected
favor maid Hannah is one of my favorite characters in this movie. Hannah suffers from fresh cow leather, is slightly disabled, and behaves vulgarly and lowly, and is responsible for taking care of Turner's diet. She didn't understand Turner's paintings but held them dear, and when she walked through Turner's priceless paintings, she just routinely cleaned and nursed. While Turner was working, she slowly opened the door through a slit, cautiously leaned over to the side of the canvas to watch, and quietly disappeared in the shadows after announcing a visitor. When she heard that someone had paid huge sums of money to buy Turner's paintings, she was still standing in the corner dully, squinting at the guests and Turner. Mike Lee took a lot of design and consideration for this character. Hannah is a mediocre maid, but her figure is closest to Turner's paintings, and she also appears throughout the film. When she later learned that Turner had a mistress outside, she took her own daughter (a illegitimate daughter? Turner herself categorically never admitted it) and stumbled there, covering her ugly face with a face towel, but walking to the In front of the door, she was hesitant, timid, and with tears in her eyes, she helped her daughter turn and leave.
A humble person once tried to maintain her emotions in a humble and heroic way, but she has experienced how violently disillusioned and disappointed herself, and the pain and tearing of love and hate in her heart. Hannah didn't say a word, but expressed it with her whole heart, reappearing the distance and distance of love, the misunderstanding and betrayal of love, the insurmountable gap of destiny, and also reappearing the delicate but ordinary face of love, her face Tolerance and greatness. We tend to overlook and despise those who make us who are the most important to us. Mike Lee focused on his thoughts and expressions on feelings and life on Hannah. Although some partners are bland, they are the foundation of legends - in fact, legends are shaped on the mediocre and even troubled lives. True love, no matter how it appears, is a treasure. For Turner, who was withdrawn and sensitive all his life, he had no relationship with the noble ladies of the upper class all his life, but the rural women he made friends with were pure and simple, honest and simple, and lived a quiet and simple life. This is actually a huge fortune. Unexpected rewards are undoubtedly the most suitable for Turner.
Turner's creations were steady and progressive throughout his life. He observed, observed and created at any time and anywhere. In the later period, he further abandoned the traditional school of painting and boldly tried the shocking abstract style at that time, pushing the landscape painting that he had always been good at to a higher level. Blurred, confused and abstract directions. Some critics say that Turner's later works are closer to the Chinese-style freehand brushwork of landscapes, and are a vivid embodiment of freehand brushwork. In the movie, we can also see that with a few decisive and capable strokes, Turner can outline the confusing light and shadow, and solidify the change of light in an instant. Sensitive painters all know that in nature, the light at this moment must be different from the previous moment. Light and shadow are the growth rings of a day, the wrinkles that gradually increase and the time that slowly diminishes. In Turner's age, this avant-garde and abstract expression was questionable. Turner was criticized for his changing and radical painting style, which was a big blow to him, who was always very sensitive. Time has proved that he chose the right direction. His later paintings are also highly respected by later generations. They not only reproduce the magical moments of nature, but also keenly capture the fleeting mood and life, the subtle and indescribable deep universal. Emotions of the human heart are unparalleled.
However, for such a film depicting Mr. Turner, the calm narrative that Mike Lee has always insisted on is somewhat flat and straightforward, lacking climax and explosive force, and cannot form some touching texture and strength. Turner's majestic and turbulent paintings did not form a strong connection and resonance with his own ups and downs, and did not dig deeper into the surly artist's strong charisma and his amazing, profound understanding of the natural world and even human nature. His ability to capture and comprehend, does not specifically show the source of his power and penetrating power. The shots are so excellent, but the narrative structure lacks polish and care, and the image of the protagonist is always shallow, which is a pity.
For Turner's time, his later pace was too fast, when one was too fast, he could see the light and see time stop. He can draw a moment, describe a moment, and sum up eternal feelings from these moments. The painter knows this feeling, the writer knows it. When it is too fast, the surrounding scenery can be seen to slow down, and the blurred scenery becomes a stable representation. They can look carefully at a moment, look at it, and understand the meaning of a moment. This is the pleasure and magic that can only be experienced by artists. But how do the people around them understand their moment? People are busy in a long life, paving the way for a long future. How can we understand these people who only live in that moment, but hold eternity in their hands? Turner's isolation and sensitivity is the source of his life's sadness, but it prompted him to seize the footsteps of light, realize the beauty of a moment, and the moment of time freezes, freezes, and stays in front of his eyes. With a lifetime of struggle and study, Turner firmly grasped a beam of light and shadow, captured the heart that is extremely difficult to describe, and expressed the divinity of nature. In Turner's paintings, their figures became more and more blurred and erratic. , generalized, but the ideas expressed are more clear and firm, more shocking and direct to the heart. He was prolific throughout his life, but never had a sloppy, sloppy work. "If someone were to ask me the secret of my creation, it would be diligence and diligence." In the early years, Turner's paintings were meagerly paid, but he still used simple painting tools and tried his best to complete each order. Buyers spoke highly of him. . In this film, we can not only appreciate Turner's major masterpieces, but also witness his tenacious pursuit throughout his life, his sensitivity and sensibility as an artist; and his diligence and hard work, perseverance and self-improvement as an artist. Success is not accidental, it is inevitable, it is a step by step, a drop of sweat and tears.
"What I'm after is every light, every light on a wall or bark, every smell, every pain, every blemish, every deceit, they are united in silence, the four rays of light Shoot, point to eternity - Alice Munro (2013 Nobel Laureate in Literature)".
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