Parallel narratives of ideological infiltration

Because "The Birth of a Nation" is so influential and the film is not good at the box office, the film has long been submerged in history except for the attention of researchers, but today, it can be seen that Griffith's editing and Montage, it can be said that he is commercial, but his creativity and ideas are not inferior to those of the researchers in the former Soviet Union and Paris. The film still adheres to Griffith's concept of seamless editing. The difference is that the narrative of the film is not linear. Instead, it is composed of multiple parallel paragraphs of four parallel stories. Thinking about the "Cloud Atlas", which was previously called a book from heaven, it is conceivable that people's media literacy is still difficult to read the text of the film. How boring, because of the limitations of silent films, the switching of subtitles to complete the narrative, during which the mother and the cradle are used to run through the entire film... In fact, the first half of the film is obscure, because the audience needs to understand four stories at the same time, and more It adapts to the director's writing habits, and the early stage of the plot is also boring, but as the plot develops, the story becomes more and more fascinating and interesting... Of course, the film also has a distinct ideology, and the film tells the story over and over again. The evolution of human beings, and mother and child symbolize this continuous reproduction, and also indicate that love can redeem everything. Of course, this theme is of great universal value. Of the four stories in the film, only the ending of the first story is Okay, the first story also happened in the present, so it seems that the evolution of civilization indicates that the present is better than the past, and it is love that saves everything, indicating that the present and the past have become binary oppositions, people watch movies, Recognition of the present can be strengthened...

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