(Spoilers available) The sixth episode of the third season of "Black Mirror" "Hated in the Nation" (Hated in the Nation) is really a thriller in this era of social media. Except for the brainstorming story itself, its narrative and lens are also high-powered, let's feel it. Narrative rhythm Robert McGee's scripture "Story" tells us that the ideal narrative rhythm is: "We start with tension as the starting point, and then use sequence to elevate the scene to the climax of the first act. When we enter the second act, We have conceived some scenes that weaken this tension, transformed into comedy and romance, and reduced the tension in the first act with a contrasting tone, so that the audience can breathe and accumulate more energy....in After slowing down, we will speed up the progress of the next act until we surpass the climax of the previous act in intensity and meaning." The climax of the first act is the death of a black singer, and the climax of the second act is that of a civilian female Clara. Death, the climax of the third act is also the climax of the whole play in Robot Bee Slaughter City. The climax of the three acts appeared in the 26th minute, 55th minute, and 77th minute respectively. The duration of the three acts is 17 minutes (the first act starts with the 9th minute motivational event-the death of columnist Jo), 29 minutes and 22 minutes. The way of death in each scene changes from a robot bee to a honeycomb to thousands of honeycombs. Therefore, as a whole, the climax of each act is more tense than the previous one. At the same time, the second act slowed down a bit due to the longest time. It is a perfect narrative rhythm. In fact, every scene basically grasped this rhythm. Let's look at the second act. After the black man died, the second act opened. In the first sequence, the police found the robot bee and went to the park to investigate. The second sequence discovered the death labeling mechanism and found that the target of the day was Clara. Clara died in the third sequence. The whole play is basically dark tones, but after the climax of the first act, the robot bee park is a bright and vivid color, which is a visual slowdown of the rhythm.
Sequence 3 uses Clara and the policewomen to flee to a smaller space and bring the police into the observation perspective of the audience to face the death (the death of the target in the previous two scenes was not personally experienced by the police), shaping a rapidly accelerating narrative rhythm. But before that, the scene of Clara's arrival in the villa was an obvious slowdown: the two policemen rarely had characterization scenes, but here we know that the Boss officer never planned to have children. Characterization brings the audience closer and relieves the tension. The other is that the disturbing music stopped here. The slowing down of the rhythm at this time is to amplify the effect of the curtain climax. The brief return to normal before the massacre also had a similar effect.
Value "Story" tells us that a good story must convey the confrontation of value. "Generally speaking, the process of progress runs from positive value to opposite value (the opposite value is between positive value and contradictory value, author's note) in the first act, and runs to contradictory value (and positive value) in subsequent acts. Directly opposite, the author's note), in the final scene, the negative that finally runs into the negative, either ends in tragedy, or returns to the positive value that is profoundly different from the original positive value." This drama does this perfectly. When black singers insult children, we feel that the malicious words and deeds of the public are hateful, which is a positive value. When he died, we felt that this kind of words and deeds was not so abhorrent compared to the online violence of the trolls. When Clara died, we felt that the squirting was abhorrent. "Internet violence is hateful" is a contradictory value that directly opposes positive values (that is, public malicious words and deeds are hateful, and because of this, trolls can be accepted). And when the sprayers were massacred. Cyber violence doesn't seem to be that hateful anymore. This reflects the negative value of the negative. In the third act, there is a plot of "the police tag the killer as death". This plot is very interesting. This play does not actually bring in any of the perspectives of the characters in the play. Although we learned about the progress through the two policewomen, we have not seen anything with the eyes of the characters (mentioned later), which means that the audience cannot empathize with the characters in the play. But this detail of the male policeman made the audience empathize, because what he did at the time was what we wanted to do. Secondly, the value of the second act is abominable, and the behavior of the police is tantamount to a badass, so he hesitated, and the value of the second act was shaken. So this plot carries the value conversion from the second act to the third act.
Then talk about visual performance. Lens: None of the shots in this film are visible from the perspective of the person. They are shots taken from behind the person or peeping shots taken through obstructions. Through this kind of lens, without including the characters in the play, the director may want to express that we are voyeuristic bystanders in the ubiquitous Internet age.
Pay attention to the last two scenes of the police talking. If it is from the perspective of a person, you should see the front of the face. There is no picture that can be seen from the eyes of the characters in the whole play. There are multiple shots in the space film with multiple characters on one side of the screen. For example, when a policewoman and an assistant are arguing whether the deceased’s husband is the murderer, when trying to understand the principle of the robot bee in the robot bee park, and when studying the death list.
The director seems to use this kind of lens to express the confusion of the characters. They still have a lot of unknown space (half-screen, the same space as their own). In addition, the author prefers to place close-ups of people's faces on one side of the picture or in a narrow line frame, because the intention is not clear here.
The image of bees about to slaughter the city creates an open space. The bee in the picture seems to fly out of the space of the picture and go everywhere.
There is obvious line contrast in the first act of lines. Generally speaking, the visual intensity is diagonal line>vertical line>horizontal line. The home of the policewoman boss has a calm horizontal line, and the home of the dying woman author is a slightly tense vertical line. The scene of her death is a diagonal line of visual impact.
Before the climax of the film, when everyone is about to infer the truth, the audience's viewpoint is guided to switch frequently to the left and right according to the position of the characters on the screen. The director creates tension by accelerating the rhythm of the viewpoint.
When Boss and the assistant first met, the two went from being unfamiliar to understanding. The viewpoint is also switched from left to right to one place.
Later, the two people had different views, and their viewpoints began to switch again.
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