The "Holy Water" in the Clear Water Pool ——A Commentary on the Audio-Visual Language of the Movie "Bath"

Lysanne 2022-02-27 08:01:44

The origin of human beings comes from and depends on water. And water is not only a weapon in the animal kingdom, but also holy water for human purification of the soul. And Zhang Yang directed, Jiang Wu, Pu Cunxin starring "bath" is a unique Chinese bathhouse bathing culture. The film shows us a world where the old Beijing city is particularly vivid and noisy in the clear water pool, and the bathhouse is a good place for people to relax. Bathing is a solemn ceremony. Just like the bride on the Loess Plateau in Shaanxi, it is necessary to take a bath. Under such severe drought conditions, people had to exchange a bowl of grain for a bowl of water, and only after changing a bag of rice could they reluctantly give the bride a bath. If people on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau want to take a bath, they also have to cross the mountains to reach the holy lake on the other side of the mountain to take a bath. The belief in life has not been given up because of the long distance. These processes have elevated bathing to a love for water, and it is precisely because of bathing that people understand the importance of water. The mechanical bathing at the beginning of the film is compared with the old Beijing bathhouse-style bathing in the story. I think that the mechanical speed of bathing is no longer our mind, but the commercialization of the only relaxation that can be enjoyed in the bath. But the clear water pool in the bathhouse cleanses the minds of generations. He Bing, who has nothing to do all day, has to go to the bathhouse to seek shelter when something happens, and the couple who are going to divorce is not in the clear water pool. The matter is resolved. Even Lao Liu's eldest son understood the reason why his father was stubborn to keep the bathhouse because of the bathhouse, and had a good relationship with his father in the clear water pool. The clear water pool can purify the mind and wash the soul. The film is on the verge of the end of the old era in Beijing, and the director expresses his regret for the crumbling excellent traditional culture through symbolic artistic techniques in the film. In the movie, Miao Zhuang was so nervous that he couldn't sing when he was on stage due to lack of water. Under the irrigation of Erming water, Miao Zhuang finally sang aloud. "My Sun" sung by Miao Zhuang is typical of Western culture, and the water in the holy pool represents the excellent traditional culture of our country. sing. After his father died, Erming sang "My Sun" at the end of the film, sublimating the theme again. The ending is still that the bathhouse was demolished, and the changes of the times brought about the renewal of social concepts. At the same time, it remembered the bathhouse culture that was about to disappear, and completed a reflection on the current collision of different cultures in the slow development of the plot. In the clear water pool, it depicts the living beings living together in the changing times of China in the 1990s. .

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