Life and death are but a game

Bernadette 2022-04-24 07:01:15

The film uses the main lines of several characters as branches, most of which are walking backs, narrating ordinary campus life in 60 minutes, killing 20 minutes, and ending quickly in 1 minute.

The figure walking and the back is in the center of the screen, just like the player screen when ERIC plays the shooting game in the play, which becomes a hint of "life game".

Everything unfolds under the director's calm camera, describing everything in life with a slow rhythm, and the contrast with the tight instant shooting reveals the rapidity of death. They look at everything with the attitude of the game, until ERIC is killed by ALEX, that's just fine. It's part of the game, and it's bound to pop into your heart with this shot. Please don't say "I wonder if they are really killing people" because in their eyes life and death are just a moment, and life bursts at the moment when the trigger is pulled...

All the students in front of the camera are as usual Study, live, chat, eat, even jealous and quarrel. Pull the distance between the film and you, and put the sudden death directly in front of you. Look! Death is so close to us...a wonderful match.

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Extended Reading
  • Bernard 2022-04-23 07:02:46

    In 4.5, Gus Van Sant explained the appearance of the characters in a form similar to a silent film. The background blur and follow-up shots create POV-like simple but extremely disturbing violent impulses without using POV shots. And it forces the audience to pay attention to the narrative subject subjectively and to reduce the "vision" to the greatest extent and resort to "feeling" to perceive movement and surrounding existence, so that the narrative subject can "freely" replace and return.

  • Hilma 2022-04-22 07:01:38

    A lot of long lenses, the overall feeling is not bad

Elephant quotes

  • Acadia: Hello.

    John McFarland: [startled] Hi.

    Acadia: What's wrong?

    John McFarland: Nothing.

    Acadia: You were crying.

    John McFarland: [shrugs] Yeah.

    Acadia: Is it something bad?

    John McFarland: ...I don't know.

    [Acadia kisses John on the cheek]

  • Alex: [after Eric gets into the shower with him] Well this is it. We're gonna die today. I've never even kissed anyone before, have you?

    [Alex and Eric start kissing each other]