The representative work of Yang Dechang, the representative of the new wave of Taiwanese films. The film tells the story of Li Lizhong, a hospital inspector who is bent on promotion, slandering his good friend Xiao Jin about to be promoted to the team leader. His wife Zhou Yufen is a novelist. She can't get Li Lizhong's understanding. She is struggling in a boring life, so she walks with her former college lover Shen Weibin. She accidentally receives a phone call from a problem girl, Shu An. Panic claimed that she was Li Lizhong's lover, which inspired her writing inspiration and her determination to cheat. Zhou Yufen won the award for her newly written novel. Li Lizhong accepted the photographer's suggestion to save his wife, but he still couldn't understand his wife. In the end, Li Lizhong was distraught and took his friend Lao Gu's gun to commit suicide in the toilet.
The film's use of narrative structure, character design, and empty shots is very prominent.
1. Multi-line narrative and multi-character arrangement to build a complete picture of urban life
The film not only focuses on the lives of Li Lizhong and Zhou Yufen, but also uses a lot of brush and ink to present the story of the problem girl Shu An and the rich second-generation photographer and his girlfriend. Therefore, there are many main characters in the film, including Li Lizhong, Zhou Yufen, the photographer, and Shu An. Among them, Li Lizhong is a typical "straight man" in the city. He cannot understand the delicate hearts of literary and artistic youths. He believes that a career can achieve a person, and only simply understands the relationship between husband and wife as "After I am promoted, my wife will come back to me. ”, so he is not pathetic, his tragedy is to a certain extent inevitable. Zhou Yufen is a typical highly educated young woman in literature and art in the city. She has a delicate mind, hates repetitive life, and yearns for a love that comforts each other. She can give up responsibility, morality, etc. for her own emotions, so when she picks up the phone. , she has a trace of joy in the contradiction. The photographer is one of the young people in the city who has not yet perfected the three views and has an unclear understanding of love. He is always curious about the hazy love, but when he realizes its nihilistic nature, he will regret it. Shu An is a young man who lacks love in the city. She can't get the attention of people around her in her family and society, so she can't stand the temptation to go astray. She is only one person away from the right path. Through the design of multiple characters and the construction of multiple narrative lines, the director radiates the life scenes of the urban middle-aged and young people, and the two fields of literature, art and science, and constructs a complete picture of urban life. typical.
2. The use of empty lenses to create an urban atmosphere
Taiwanese film directors are generally influenced by oriental aesthetic traditions in their creations, and are good at inserting elements of relevant scenes into their films to create a mood. Yang Dechang is also well versed in this. The city night scenes illuminated by neon lights, the winding city roads, and the city buildings of different heights in the film all have a strong urban flavor. Under the dialectical thinking, the bustling and lively city contains the emptiness of everyone's heart and the ubiquitous hidden danger, which represents the author's calm examination of urban life.
In general, the film's presentation of urban life represents Yang Dechang's calm examination of the city, fully reflects his creative style, enriches the content expression of Taiwanese films, and lays the foundation for the development of new Taiwanese films in the future.
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