1: The intersection signal light changed from yellow to red.
2: The railway under the bridge and the slow-moving train, the winding road beside the railway, and the cool street lights.
3: The blue-light billboard on the side of the road is a green-yellow perfume billboard. There are also white cars parked on the side of the road.
4: Dilapidated double-layer wooden houses, green and yellow vertical stripes of cloth curtains, and road signs prohibiting traffic.
5: Motorcycles, small cars, and racing cars parked at the intersection in a mess with a blue and white left turn sign.
6: There are 4 small cars neatly parked behind the big truck on the road by the river. The street lights on the road, one left and one right, one yellow and one basket, are reflected on the water.
7: In the alleys, all kinds of cars parked on both sides are shrouded in a blue damp space. The Chinese neon signs with alternating green, yellow, red and yellow borders show dim light from the house.
8: In the close view, it points to the street station clock at 4:07, and in the distant view, the blurry storefront covered with red, white and blue neon lights.
9: The exaggerated shape of beer bottles on the roof of the lower bar, the solemn floors and broken walls. The windows on one wall revealed blue light, and the windows on the other wall revealed yellow light.
10: A pale yellow wall like paper pasted, four windows hidden in the shadows.
The strong contrast of various colors is intended to be the theme pointed out at the beginning of the article: color.
Paris is a city of colors, and the unrestrained color matching reflects the director's strong impression of the city. Color is perceived by eye vision. We also perceive other things through our eyes. This kind of direct information stimulation makes us think that everything the eyes see is important and indispensable. The world around is divided into categories, but as the blind woman said, the carrot is blue or green, it doesn't matter to her. But we think it is very important, so we can easily make mistakes in color. With the development of human industrialization, chemical raw materials can produce more and more abundant colors. On the one hand, people are accustomed to the proliferation of colors, and on the other hand, they are still pursuing crazy and extreme. The prosperous neon lights in the city seem to be a symbol of modern civilization. We built high walls with stone bricks and steel bars, dividing ourselves with the land, destroying the land’s own color rhythm, and planting so-called green belts in the city like a sin, but we are afraid that this is still not enough to capture the achievements of mankind. And greatness, but also to hang colorful lights on the trees to fool me.
The director also seems to intend to express his different ways of perceiving the world through the mouth of a blind girl. When the world is so noisy and dazzling, and everyone is ecstatic at the overwhelming capacity in front of them, some people remember to close their eyes to explore the package. The world under color. I have never seen such a dazzling color in a movie by Jamusch, like a world in a kaleidoscope. It is completely different from the simple black and white style in "Outlaws", and also different from the clear and rigorous style in "The Limits of Control". Behind the colorfulness is still a rational discussion. Drivers and passengers, who are strangers to each other, have to have a relationship in the small and private space of a taxi. Between the words near or far, the most secret human nature is revealed in people's hearts. It is always easy for people to find a sense of self-existence from the misfortunes of others. In fact, the only equal thing in the world is suffering in pain. The so-called suffering in pain means that part of human suffering is fixed and cannot escape as Buddha said. Just like birth, old age, sickness, and death, whether rich or poor, old is memory decline and slow response; sickness will inevitably have physical pain and weakness, and death will worry about separation. In other words, God will close one window for you and open another door for you. Among the causes and consequences, if there is no gospel cause in the middle and lower levels, how can good results be produced.
Through the classification of colors, another topic of the film can also be derived-race. A young black driver from Côte d’Ivoire may be an immigrant or a descendant. Côte d’Ivoire is a French colony in history, and its official language is still French. Blacks with African backgrounds like this are not unusual in France. The noise and ridicule of the two officials who took the driver at the beginning made the driver feel assaulted. This sense of intrusion comes from this embarrassing identity. Remarkable African appearance, authentic French. When he took the blind girl, the blind girl could not see him with his eyes, making him feel confident in front of the blind girl, but still faintly worried. He wants the blind girl to say what color he is and guess where he comes from. He almost rejoiced that he could get rid of these two symbols of inferiority in front of the blind girl, but he didn't know that he had already exposed his ugly heart in front of the blind girl. If you even feel that you are humble, how can you make others feel that you are noble? And this kind of inferiority identity, the lack of identity of self is the most panicking part of his heart.
The two official figures also jokingly called "Côte d'Ivoire" as "invisible people." The "invisible person" has been mentioned at the beginning and the end since the first mention here. One is that the "invisible person" is driving a taxi; the other is the recklessness of the driver when driving a turn after leaving behind two official people. The scolding of street sweepers triggered: Don’t you have eyes? ! The third is that the next passenger the driver takes is indeed an "invisible person", that is, a blind white woman; the fourth is that compared to the blind woman who is truly invisible, the driver seems to have recovered from the frustration of being ridiculed just now. Coming over, and also developed a compassionate mentality; Fifth, when the blind girl got off the car, he also asked the driver to be careful, and then the sound of car accidents and quarrels. We only know from the blind girl’s expression that the instruction is meaningful, one The perception of a person who can't see anything is not less than that of a normal person, on the contrary, it is larger, and can more perceive what is going on in this world. The OK stretch on the driver's forehead also revealed his impulsive and reckless temperament. He is like an angry bull from start to finish, running rampant, easily irritated and disturbing others unknowingly, carelessly.
Jiamuxu's movies always have his own rhythm, sometimes like a very cold joke, people who don't understand are confused, and those who are in the middle of the smile are ecstatic. But we are all a group of people with weird smiles.
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