If someone asks you which team is the most optimistic about in the European Cup, Belgium will be the answer that distinguishes between a football player and a pseudo-fan. Then if someone asks you which Korean movie you are most looking forward to this year, "The Cry" is undoubtedly the dividing line between veteran movie fans and Korean drama fans. This was my standard answer before the Euros and before The Cry came out. But who could have guessed? The Belgian young masters screwed up, and "The Cry", I didn't even understand it. This has done 10,000 points of damage to me, a histrionic personality disorder patient who has given up on therapy. We must think of a way to not be absent from this high-level film discussion, not to show timidity, and to not understand the movie "The Cry"? I have three kits.
The first tip, summarizing the theme of the movie, remember to be unpredictable.
Teacher Liu Yu once said casually at the dinner table: "In fact, Foucault's understanding of knowledge has a symbiotic relationship with Plato's cave metaphor, and Roland Barthes's interpretation of desire and love in his later years constitutes a symbiotic relationship. The best response to this relationship..." This inspired me, and we can do the same, if you don't understand what I'm saying, why not talk to me?
So what is the central idea of the film "The Cry"? I'm sure I didn't understand it, but some experts understand it. I have a friend, this movie hits a wall for me, but it's a stumbling block for others. After a few simple exchanges on WeChat, I was convinced. First of all, "The Cry" hides the core of a religious film under the appearance of a horror film. A friend summed it up this way: "The images of oriental ghosts and ghosts in the film are all presented on the surface, and the final result and deep image are the Christian gods and demons. Simply put, they live in the witchcraft thinking of oriental ghosts and ghosts. The gods and ghosts they know are actually the same thing, they can be manipulated and bought, in this case, can they distinguish between the real and profound good and evil?" I asked him how to understand the devil's hand The "stigmata" on it? He told me, "It's ironic. If you don't recognize the devil, you naturally don't recognize God, and vice versa. The opening line of the film and the devil's line refer to the Bible, indicating that the whole theme of the film is 'recognition.'" Enough , memorize these few central ideas, and inadvertently say it out, you can get a look of awe.
The second tip, in terms of left and right, he can pull as far as he can.
For example, we can talk about the director Luo Hongzhen. To put it bluntly, I watched Director Luo grow up step by step. At that time, he was still called Luo Hongzhen. As a movie fan who has seen all his works, I feel that I have a say in his artistic pursuit. Director Luo is a perfectionist, and his films pursue a balance between artistry and viewing, and keep improving. How perverted is his request for his work? This can be learned from his interviews. It is said that when the film "The Yellow Sea" was filmed, Director Luo took 11 months to shoot, but the post-production took only 1 month and 10 days. After the movie was released, he couldn't get over this hurdle in his heart, so he did the later part again, and did it for about 3 months. This is another version of "The Yellow Sea". For the next 3 years, he was in a state of regret and couldn't get out, and he couldn't sleep well in the past 3 years (I'm really worried that he couldn't think about it for a while). He couldn't sleep soundly until he entered the filming schedule of "The Crying", so this time he made up his mind that the schedule was not fixed until the film was finished, and the day counted, but even so he was still dissatisfied.
And there are some things, I don't know if I don't compare, I have seen screenwriter Lu Wei talk about the creative process of "Farewell My Concubine" before. That process was indeed dedicated. After the film was completed, Reed and Chen Kaige discussed that after the film was released, a review should be done to review the gains and losses in the film creation process, and Chen Kaige readily agreed. Then, when the film won a gold medal at Cannes, Director Chen was completely immersed in the joy of victory, throwing the agreement with Reed aside. Then we know that this movie is the pinnacle of Director Chen, and it is also the pinnacle of Chinese movies, and the next thing is to plummet and plummet. Looking back on "Farewell My Concubine", Lu Wei sighed: "I felt that the real creation of Chinese films started with "Farewell My Concubine", I never expected it to become the end."
"Creativity is like a fish. If you want to catch small Fish, stay in shallow water. But to catch big fish, you have to dive into the abyss. The fish in the abyss is stronger and purer. It is huge and abstract, and it has a very beautiful.” This sentence comes from American director David Lin Qi's book "Catch the Big Fish". It seems that Chinese directors prefer to stay in shallow waters to catch small fish and try it out. Even if they do get a big fish occasionally, it feels like the big fish strayed into shallow water and ran aground before being caught because they wouldn't be able to get a second big fish anyway. Can they capture the real depth of good and evil in this situation?
It can also go further. For example, is it very inconsistent for Koreans to shoot Christian-themed movies? not at all. South Korea is the most developed Asian country for Christianity, and almost every small mountain village has a church. In addition, Korean believers are very keen on missionaries, and they dare to go to any dangerous place, and their footprints are all over Asia, Africa and Latin America. Therefore, themes related to Christianity are particularly common in Korean film and television works. For example, the theme of vampires is enduring. The TV series has the famous "Vampire Prosecutor", and the movie is Park Chan-wook's "The Bat". By the way, in "Bat", Song Kanghao played a missionary and later became a vampire. By the way, Park Chan-wook's new work "Miss" is also very exciting. By the way, Kim Min-hee, the heroine of the young lady, had an extramarital affair with the famous director Hong Sang-soo, and it seems that they eloped... Does anyone still care about what happened to "The Cry"?
The third tip, if you don't understand it, you don't understand it.
I once thought deeply about what to do if I couldn't understand Tarkovsky, and finally came to the conclusion that it was a salad. In fact, the so-called art films are often open-ended. The director himself has not made a conclusion, and there is no certain standard for understanding or not understanding. It is impossible for the audience’s ideas to completely match the director’s. They are thinking on the same level.
The obscurity of The Waste Land is well known. The author Eliot even said: "When I wrote The Waste Land, I didn't even care if I understood what I was talking about." When the poem was first published, almost no one understood it, and people asked Eliot to parse it. Eliot added more than fifty annotations to the poem, but the readers found that these annotations were not easy to understand, so he hoped that the poet could re-annotate his annotations. Eliot was angry and rejected this unreasonable request. In Eliot's view, meaning in poetry is nothing but a deception, and when people do not understand this deception, they understand poetry in some unconscious way. Conversely, when people think they have grasped the meaning of poetry, they fall into the trap without knowing it.
Well, I don't understand what Elliott said.
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