Sensen Dajun Film Critic Lecturer Screenwriter
balance
Answer the following questions from fans
1 Why is the background of this film so depressing? Character modeling analysis: what does the number behind each person mean? Why five people?
2 What philosophy does the director want to interpret? What does the music box symbolize?
3 How to interpret the ending?
[Oscar-winning short film] Balance (1989) _bilibili (゜-゜)つロ Cheers~-bilibili www.bilibili.com
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Female: After watching this short film, I am really grateful. It is indeed the work of a German master...
Why does Germany produce master works?
Woman: There are so many philosophers in Germany! You see, this short film is very philosophical, too profound, and perfectly analyzes human nature... and the online film reviews are also of similar views, indicating that everyone understands it and has a heart...
Why can't I talk to you guys, it seems like I'm arrogant, but to be honest, you all watch movies in the wrong way!
Woman: How is that possible? We also saw the essence in these few minutes of short films... Some people see communism, West Germany, East Germany, many political metaphors, didn't you say you want to see what's behind the movie...?
Hi, sometimes I think, artistically, are we really unable to communicate with international masters? Which point of view do I still have, film criticism is to answer questions, interpret pictures and shots...
For each film, there is only one authoritative film review that is closest to the director's creative ideas , while the rest are all nonsense, e-waste...
Woman: Answer the question? Well, let me excerpt a film review, you can tell me what is wrong with what they said, and how do you answer the questions...
The following is excerpted from an online review :
A seven-minute animation, the 1989 Oscar-winning short film "Balance", produced in Germany.
Five people stood on the board suspended in the air, each found a suitable position to keep the board balanced, but a music box broke this balance. Curiosity and possessiveness about the music box divide the five, and the fight results in four being kicked off the plate. The final picture is frozen: the last person and the music box are placed on both ends of the tablet, everything returns to a balanced state, but this person can't move around.
When the established balance is broken, people will lose their freedom, right?
I specially remembered the numbers behind these five people, and I don’t know what special meaning they have: 23, 35, 51, 75, 77.
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So let me talk about this movie review
First of all, have you noticed that this movie is mainly black and white , and the background sound is like a workshop, creaking , and even the fishing rod makes a harsh noise, which is depressing and renders a terrifying atmosphere...
Woman: Yes, it seems that there are only these five people in a certain dimension of the universe. Then tell me what the five numbers, 23, 35, 51, 75, 77...represent each?
That's why I said that when you watch movies, your minds go wrong. You see numbers like these, where might they appear? Let me remind you, five people...
Woman: ... basketball court ? ...
Yes! The director asked the audience to think of this place as a basketball court, but note that the emphasis here is on everyone's position . Forward, center...
You see, athletes on the field have their own specific positions and identities, so they have their own functions , understand?
Woman: Oh, that's what it meant!
You just said that this square seems to be a certain space in the universe, so we must first imagine it as a multi-dimensional space.
Female: Multidimensional space...? I think it's three-dimensional !
So the director added a few more dimensions to it. Music boxes, with light and color, aren't they more attractive than black and white scenes?
Woman: Yes! Also, music is also a new dimension, right?
Of course, sound is also dimension.
Great music, brilliant colors... add more dimension to this tedious, suffocating three-dimensional space!
So you see, in this suffocating environment, this music box, colorful box, and wonderful music that suddenly appeared, of course, will arouse the interest of these people, so there will be disputes...
Woman: Makes sense! Where is the philosophical point of the film? You only talk about multidimensional space, isn't there any philosophical meaning in this film?
You listen to me continue to analyze!
As you can see later in the plot, for a music box, two people began to fight with each other and play chicken thieves... The point is, the positions of the other three people are completely different from the beginning, and everyone is dislocated, just to stabilize the balance of this steel plate ...
Woman: Yes, I don't think those three people have any intentions. The forward, center, and left wing you mentioned before have all become stabilizers, completely breaking the original balance, and as the two struggled, they became more and more strong,
Yes, look at them, running back and forth, in a mess, no position at all, and forgetting their inherent roles and functions ...
At the end of the film, start to zoom in and call out the theme ideas
Female: At the end, there is only one big bad guy left, everyone else fell, only he stood at one end, and the music box was at the other end, keeping his balance...
Note, how many dimensional space is the picture at this time?
Woman: Ha, one left and one right, it becomes a two-dimensional space.
OK, so here comes the theme!
This film is to express this idea:
Only the multi-dimensional world is wonderful and full of temptation! But if people destroy him, everyone loses his place and his intelligence, does not speak up and take responsibility. In the end, human beings will surely live in a hellish two-dimensional world...
What the so-called two-dimensional world looks like is like the end of the film. Black and white, right and wrong , right or wrong, no one else stands in their own position to express their views and attitudes , which actually disrupts the balance in a multi-dimensional space...
Woman: Oh I see, when an absolute two-dimensional balance finally emerges, human society will be no different from hell...
Yes, you watched the three people in the film, just running around and not advocating their own attitude, and they were eventually ignored. The end is to be pushed down by the strongest, the most ambitious and the most insidious...
When you really understand it, then let's talk about it, one person represents the dictator, the other represents the people... It doesn't really matter! In other words, these are not called art, too shallow. The real art looks at the means of presentation, the most intelligent thing!
Female: No wonder you always put forward artistic aesthetics and appreciation ability. Indeed, the things you summed up are really different!
Let's say, the music box thing is also very creative, because:
Music symbolizes eternity, and the universe represents the ultimate thought!
At this time, the director wants to explain: this film is the survival law of human society, the ultimate truth that is universally applicable!
Woman: Haha, this is the truth of the universe!
You see, from the setting to the costumes, modeling, music, pictures, and other effects of this film, which one is not intentional, carefully arranged by the artist?
Female: No wonder I won the award. I finally understood it today. I was thinking about it. I should design a big boat, with a few people fishing, with the bow and stern. The picture is so beautiful. Now that I think about it, it is really naive...!
Yeah! This is what I often say, if you really understand Oscar, you won't be too obsessed with pictures and stories, just look at creativity, this is the highlight!
Woman: In addition, I found that no matter how esoteric philosophies appear in the movies, they are actually common sense and can be understood by others. All the themes mentioned in all your movie reviews are familiar principles in life!
Originally, if you don't understand it, you won't get the award. The Oscar is not a Nobel, people play with art !
Something that the master can understand at a glance. why? The eyes are different!
The audience is pondering those numbers, 77, 35... pondering the relationship inside, you say it's ridiculous, what else can there be rules...?
Woman: Indeed, the judges can see what's going on at a glance, we're still thinking about it here!
Finally, the old cliché, the four-dimensional integrated analysis method, the climax of the plot theme characters, the four major elements, and the comprehensive picture, lens language, structure, actors, etc.... I have all the six sides of the Rubik's cube right, and I have all the questions. Answered, is it difficult to analyze this kind of short film?
Female: Well, using this method, the theme of the summary is the most accurate, and can it best represent the director's creative ideas!
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