Let us first see how good the reputation of this movie is? The film "Rome" shot by Alfonso Cuarón won the Golden Lion Award in the main competition unit in Venice this year with a record-breaking score of 4.4 points. A strong contender for the best foreign language film and best film next year for the Oscars. This is a private film about family and love by Alfonso Cuarón recording his childhood growth and life and his mother-like nanny. It is entirely based on the director's childhood life. As a blueprint, Alfonso Cuarón’s parents divorced early and were brought up by a nanny. He had the dream of an astronaut since he was a child. He loved to paint airplanes and hunted in the forest. He was the only one who wore a self-made spacesuit to play and had a dream of a pilot. 'S youngest boy is the incarnation of the director himself.
So is this movie as good-looking as the critics said?
Not much to say, let’s analyze the deep meaning behind those shots a little bit
In the beginning, the reflection in the water, the airplane in the foam is left to the end, let's talk about the meaning of the lens used in the movie poster.
The maid lay with the youngest child on a stone slab in the sun. The child said I can't talk, I'm dead. The next shot shows the maid slowly lying next to the child, pretending to be dead, and saying that it feels good to die. This shot means that the maid and the children have a close relationship and represent them. The next destiny is life and death, and always accompany each other.
When the father came back in the car, the maid pulled the dog with all his strength. This scene expressed the fact that the father really didn't come back often. Even the dog in the family was very strange to him.
The father's car hardly squeezed into the corridor, and even the damage of the rear-view mirror indicated that the father's identity was incompatible with the family, and it was getting farther and farther, which also paved the way for the divorce of the parents.
When my father left for a business trip, my mother was very reluctant, even holding her father tightly from behind with a little gaffe. This scene indicates that the mother has noticed something and knows that her husband will probably not come back. So she was very distressed, very reluctant to bear him, and wanted to hold on to him again at the end, but it was futile after all.
After learning that the maid had a child, the scumbag used to go to the toilet in the cinema and never returned. After that, the camera immediately switched to hail. The maid stared out the window blankly. It was not just rain but hail. The purpose of the lens is to express the desperate and cold heart of the maid.
In the New Year, an old woman blessed the nanny's wine. The nanny refused to drink at first, saying that it was not good for the child. Later, he finally replaced it with tequila. Here is a close-up. This shot represents that the life of the babysitter will be as fragmented as this wine jar. Her fate will encounter a huge twists and turns, and it will also pave the way for the unfortunate fate of the babysitter eventually giving birth to a dead baby. .
In the scene of the fire, there is a man who looks like a monster and a wizard who is singing calmly while everyone else is fighting the fire? This scene means that the wizard is a prophet, and the sad songs he sings are heralding the destruction and rebirth of this land and the next earth-shaking regime change in this country.
When the maid was sorting out the housework, she accidentally discovered that in the wedding photo, the host's wedding ring was left at home. The business trip did not take it away. This expresses the fact that the host and the hostess’s husband and wife have no feelings and have separated.
The mother told the children that the father no longer wanted this home. When he came out on this trip to give his father time to retrieve his things, the children bowed their heads and wept in grief and pain. At this time, a group of people next to him was having a wedding. This shot was very interesting. The director uses joy to set off sorrow, and the ecstasy of marriage contrasts sharply with the painful family of losing his father. This is a very advanced way of expression.
The mother bought a new car, which means that she is trying to change to another life, and the size of the car is very suitable for the corridor, which shows that this kind of life is ideal and feasible.
The maid saving two drowning children on the beach is also redeeming herself. She cried and said to blame that I didn’t want this child at the time. This is her repentance, atoning, and self-blame crying after saving the two children. It was to express that I was finally detached from the guilt of losing the child.
The nanny, the children and the hostess hugging in the sunshine on the beach is the most touching scene of the film, showing that several people of different classes, different ages, different genders, and different identities will continue to support each other and each other. Love and embrace the rest of life.
The last shot is of the maid walking up the steps, which means that the life trajectory of her and the family is beginning to be positive and moving towards a good place.
What do the planes in the reflection of the bubbles in the water at the beginning and the real planes flying high at the end mean? Alfonso Cuarón has always had a pilot, an astronaut’s dream, a dreamlike airplane in a bubble phantom, which expresses the beginning of the film. The director must begin to remember his childhood. The airplane is the mark of the director’s childhood, and the director must begin. Dreaming. The real airplane flying across the sky at the end, and the thank-you words dedicated to the director’s nanny Lipo represent that the director has finally realized his childhood dreams. Image movie.
The whole movie, whether it is inside the house, shooting a babysitter turning off the lights at home late at night, or outdoor hunting in the forest, all show Alfonso’s amazing mirror movement and scheduling, and the smooth master-level lens language makes the audience fascinated. Drunk.
Fortunately, Alfonso Cuarón’s shots are not rigidly following the characters, but instead let the characters flow in a scene. The movement of the characters is a paintbrush, which sculpts a quiet and deep epic casually and accurately in the scene. Picture scroll.
The presentation of black and white images is also more historical, recording that era with a real and cold texture, and recording Alfonso Cuarón’s childhood life.
This is not a movie that is entertaining and relaxing while eating instant noodles. It is a sedimentary work worthy of calming down and admiring.
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