(There are some spoilers here.) I've never seen anyone use a camera like this. It's almost impossible to describe in words. Only the picture above shows that this person actually took the original 5 scenes. Shots of different scenes were put into one shot, and it was actually successful! The five lines of a picture were parallel and did not intersect with each other.After the admiration, watch the composition of the story. The Essence of Day is just a chicken soup-style story about an ordinary person, Bill, who suffers from mental illness and regains his understanding of life.
But it is unique in that he divides the story into three paragraphs (thinking of Kill Bill), from how he found out that he was sick, to the effect of the disease on him (the pain of mental hysteria, and also a hundred years of loneliness), At the end of his treatment of himself, these three paragraphs tell the story of his illness while looking at the world from a different perspective. So this is a composite story structure? And although the narration seems to follow the development of time, there is not much description of time in the film, and the time of the film is blurred. We are just like the protagonist, Bill, living in a chaotic, endless world, not knowing what to do and what to do, and even falling into a state of chaos after repeated self-questioning."A Day" is a tragedy with a comic shell.
No matter what, Bill couldn't overcome the disease. Suddenly, he was in a hospital bed, and he saw the sun shining through the window. It was like golden quicksand, and there were scattered white flowers hanging on it. They had been away from him for so long, just at the tip of his nose. He tried to get up, but couldn't. He watched them leave in a daze. The little brother on the next bed pressed the caller again and again, "I'm in pain."Life is miserable, and accidents always come suddenly. Tang's only two films have set up an impossible disaster for the protagonist (Today and He Xi, a meteor that destroys the earth).
This gives me the feeling that this director wants to express his special view on life. He does not force us to answer the question: what is the final solution? Let us bypass him and enjoy life and enjoy the moment. I feel that it is similar to Anno Hideaki's proposition in "Evangelion"; it's okay to escape; if you can't do it, it's fine to escape. Of course, this is not advocating people to let themselves go, but in the face of invincible pressure, you have to force yourself.Bill accomplished a lot at the end of his life and met a lot of people he won't see again. In the end, Bill drove his car, driving non-stop on the highway, filling up the gas, driving again, running out, filling up, driving. He let a lot of things slip; he didn't even remember why he wanted to drive.There was no direction to guide him, but he was still driving.
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