Unaccompanied Hua Chapter

Marion 2022-01-03 08:01:48

Text/Five Clouds (old media manuscript)
The narration that comes from me, like a time machine that takes you through that weird little village. The common people perform their duties and live and work in peace and contentment, and their small lives are ordinary and not high. The stone bungalows are beautiful, the cock crows and the dogs bark, the river trickles, and the countryside and fields are full of scenery. It is really a good picture of a harmonious society. Time seems to stay quietly, but there is another 180-degree turn, and the next story will surely surprise you, and one and another full of bizarre mutilation cases kicked off.
It is such a black and white film without a soundtrack. The protagonist did not even reveal the mystery behind the story until the end of the film, but it shined at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in 2009 and won the Palme d'Or for best film. We all know that the Oscar film awards are Hollywood commercial decisive battles, while the Cannes Film Festival films lack the fame and fortune of gunpowder. The latter pay more attention to the viewing, artistic and cultural connotation of the film itself. In this view, the award of "White Ribbon" (German name "Das weiße Band", English name "The White Ribbon") directed by German director Michael Haneke is well deserved. At the end of the 22nd European Film Awards, it swept the three power awards for best film, best director, and best screenwriter, which once again proved that the film is a shocking work. Of course, nominations for the best foreign language film at the 82nd Oscars in 2010 are no exception.
Going back to this film, a group of savage children killed countless villagers silently, but they seemed so peaceful and calm. This theme was enough to thunder all audiences, but "White Ribbon" did not let you Fearing your ass peeing will only make you feel lingering. This is like an old man sitting in front of you telling a story, restoring the life of a hundred years ago to yours. The audience who has not seen the information about the film may even think that this is an old film from the last century before World War II. Those exciting detective films, horror films or suspense films can ignite the anxiety of the audience with the ups and downs of the soundtrack. "White Ribbon" does not attract the attention of the audience with the form of ingenuity, but allows the audience to be in the quiet life. As a wall view, the real horror is not guided by the director and soundtrack, but should come from the audience's own thinking and identity participation. In our real life, there is indeed no soundtrack. No matter how urgent things happen, no musicians will come to you and accompany you to add fuel to the fire, or make you relax and sigh with emotion. A richer form of artistic expression, using stories as the carrier, stage and music as the assistance, pulling every heartstring of the audience, enough strength is another matter.
However, Haneke, the old man with white beard, does not play the cards according to the routine. In this movie, he no longer plays other directors to play the rest. He tries to challenge the traditional mode of regular movies and eliminates the background music, but he can also Let you fall into the story. As early as 2005's "Mini Camera" and 2001's "Piano Teacher", we have already experienced his unique themes and grotesque techniques, but none of this "White Ribbon" is extreme and thorough.
It is not accurate to say that "White Ribbon" has no music at all. At the beginning of the film, the doctor in the village rode home and was injured by a filament in the front of the yard. His housekeeper was the midwife Mrs. Wagner in the village (the film later showed that she was the doctor’s mistress) and went to school to pick up his mentally retarded son. At the end of school, the mentally retarded child hummed a lame hymn. And then in the home of the earl with local authority, the elegant piano sound was also played, but the countess was out of tune over and over again. She also asked her child, the little baron, "If you like to listen, come over and help turn the sheet music. ". Obviously, children hate this music, verbally "thinking" but act helplessly, this can only make the lady ruin Bach's "Ninth Major" again.
The pastor with very strict tutoring will be punished because the two children go home late, and tie the children with a white ribbon symbolizing holiness on their arms to remind them of their "quality cultivation". Let the audience only hear the sound but not see the person. After watching this movie, you can guess that these two children are the "big brothers" in these violent incidents. More and more bizarre events followed. The peasant woman who fell to her death while working, although the house flies are full of Tingfang, you can't see their tiny figures, just like behind the scenes of these events, only the buzzing sound keeps ringing, this kind of atmosphere makes people shudder. Abandoning the bells and whistles, the director simply has something to say, not only takes you back to the old movie era of the last century, but also allows you to truly blend into the story. In addition, the film also allows a large number of natural sounds to be added to the background. The birds and flowers in the village, the crowing and the barking of the chickens in the country house, they are also invisible and colorless.
At the harvest celebration party at the earl’s house, the sound of the violin was extremely joyful, but it was also interrupted by the destruction of the vegetable garden. Mensao’s country teachers also play the piano, and the tunes are also formed. It's a pity that the shy love between him and the babysitter was also disturbed by the messy incidents of cruelty. The village teacher tried to find out the truth, but in the end he had some eyebrows. The director tried to convey to us: the music is not good.
The narration at the beginning and the end of the film came from this village teacher. Many years later, he recalled the story that happened in a small German village on the eve of World War I, but he still didn't figure out what the answer was. The narration was full of doubts, and the tone seemed to be thinking. At the end of the story, World War I broke out. The villagers gathered in the church. The children in the village formed a choir to sing hymns. The paradox is that this is the most beautiful and complete movement in the whole movie. The village teacher narrated Li also confessed that he was deaf in the war. It cannot be said that the director’s arrangement of the soundtrack is well thought out. The silence at the beginning and end of the film only allows the subtitles to slide on the black screen, which is also a silent place to hear thunder.
This is an irony to the German Nazis. While adults commit adultery, deception, betrayal, and rigidity, these children just happened to catch up with the "best and worst times" when they grew up. Some of them Perhaps he grew up to be the leader and backbone of the Nazis in the future. The director uses a quiet narrative method to try to analyze some historical roots. What a remote village contains is the spiritual factor of a crazy era.
On the other hand, the director’s classical technique, in fact, films like "White Ribbon" that simplify the elements of the film, some of the modern directors have also let go, such as the film by the American director Lars Von Trier. "Dogville" (Dogville) is to simplify the movie scenes and props to make the movie like a stage play, but it deeply exposes the good and evil, sin and punishment of human nature. In addition, "The Good Man in Three Gorges" by the sixth-generation director of China, Jia Zhangke, the background music in the film is mostly original ecological movies, without artificial craftsmanship. The farm children sing "Dear, you fly slowly, fly through the jungle to see the stream. , My dear, come and dance..." The hero and heroine danced clumsy ballroom dancing in the square, accompanied by music on the radio. In addition, the Romanian film "April Three Weeks and Two Days" is also a masterpiece without instrumental accompaniment. Today's directors should really reflect on it, making a good movie does not necessarily require gorgeous soundtracks and spectacular special effects. A blockbuster with special effects can only bring a momentary pleasure to the audience. A good film that can really leave a deep impression still requires an inner spiritual shock, just like this "White Ribbon" has brought many feelings to the author over the past year.
The simplification of the original sound of all these movies and the reduction of the artificial soundtrack are precisely the original ecological "music" of social life. Excellent Huazhang is often the simplest, simplest, and superficial voice of Wan Lai. We should really listen to the screaming of insects and frogs in nature, the noise of the city, the laughter of children, the gasping of migrant workers, the sound of flowers blooming... the sound of this world is rich and colorful, as long as you have ears. Intentional.

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The White Ribbon quotes

  • Martin: I gave God a chance to kill me. He didn't do it, so he's pleased with me.

  • The Doctor: My God, why don't you just die?