How to comment on film sound effects in film reviews
The title "Deep in the Flowers" is easily reminiscent of Bobby Chen's "A Night in Beijing": "Outside the Di 'an Gate ... flowers are in full bloom ... an old man with a serene face is waiting for him to return from the battlefield. Time "is also the common theme of the two works. The difference is that Chen Kaige's Deep Flowers, as always, transcends personal feelings and looks at the international proposition of the fatal conflict between modernization and tradition from a overlooking perspective.
Chen Kaige has always been my respected director. When Zhang Yimou, who is also a symbol of the "fifth generation", completed the struggle from rebellion and indifference to wooing; When a group of cutting-edge directors were obsessed with their personal experiences, Chen Kaige, who was over 500 years old, did not give up his sense of social responsibility and looked at this seemingly changeable era with reflective and critical eyes.
The film tells a story: Geng Le, a small leader of a moving company, just moved for a client. Mr. Feng found it and said that he would move, so he took a group to find Baihua Hutong. But when he struggled to find Baihua Lake, it was already in ruins, leaving only an old locust tree there alone. Geng Le, they shouted as they turned to leave. At this time, they received a phone call from the company, saying that a madman was looking for someone to move for him these days, and told Geng Le not to be taken in by him, and don't forget to ask for money when he was taken in.
In order to ask for money, people turned back and moved to Mr. Feng. So Mr. Feng told them: This is the wardrobe, this is the fish tank and that is the vase. So Geng Le and they moved to a house with no objects. When moving a previously cleaned porcelain bottle, because someone wanted to borrow a light for smoking, the porter let go and the porcelain bottle broke, and Mr. Feng cried.
After moving things, the car will move forward. Mr Feng told Geng Le that there was a ditch in front of the hutong and the car was really stuck. A bronze bell was dug up where the car was trapped. Mr. Feng picked it up and ran happily to the sunset. Geng Le and them suddenly looked back, and an ink quadrangle appeared in the afterglow of the sunset.
What consequences did modernization bring to the conquest of tradition? Deep in Flowers depicts such a scene: when the material home of traditional culture is destroyed, the spiritual home of human beings will also have no branches to live in. "Mr. Feng" went crazy in this extreme way, symbolically showing this serious consequence. And those moving workers, like most of us, are sadly indifferent and numb in the face of disaster.
Compared with the brilliant ideas, the photography of this film is mediocre or unremarkable. When the car drove into the ruins, the camera took this photo from a window with a broken wall, and the window frame took this photo in the foreground. This shot is only 3 seconds, but my feeling is too subjective, which affects the audience's immersion in the plot. Abbas's handling of this point in The Taste of Cherry is much more ingenious.
The sound effect of this film is quite excellent. The virtual moving sound is not only interesting, but also conforms to the subjective perspective of the madman. When the nonexistent "former Qing vase" was accidentally broken, the absurd drum beat turned into a long lament, and with the slowly moving lens, until a close-up of Mr. Feng's sad face appeared, the tone of the film changed from absurd to heavy. When Mr. Feng rang the bell and ran to his "new home", an animated quadrangle appeared, accompanied by wind chimes, hawking and traditional instrumental music. These sound effects brought the audience back to the "good old days", which effectively set off the theme of the film and pushed the film to a climax.
At this moment, the director, the god of this story, showed his incompetence.
It should be said that before the appearance of animation, the story telling was excellent and every detail was carefully designed. Although I think the phone number of the moving company is not reasonable-let them take money from the madman, this is the first plot point of the story. Without this plot point, the story cannot develop in the absurd direction. For a ten-minute movie, Kaige did her best. The second plot is much more natural. It was a coincidence to find that the clock was lost, but it was not abrupt. This plot successfully leads the story to a climax.
Generally speaking, the suspense of progressive layers can still attract people to watch. It is not without reason that Chen Kaige's name can be listed on the cover of this DVD together with the International movie master. But the next minute proved that it is an extremely difficult task to really fight side by side with the masters.
Borges likes short stories best because it is a perfect circle. But it is actually very difficult to complete. Long stories need the author's super stability and endurance, and short stories need the author's high control ability, both of which are extremely challenging to the creators.
Obviously, for such a short story, Chen Kaige knows very well that he must give the audience a complete and perfect experience in ten minutes. In order to create an exciting climax, after nearly ten minutes of stealth fighting, the "God" can't wait to come out and animate a quadrilateral in Mr. Feng's mind with the simple artistic conception of flowers-snowflakes, so as to make up for the imagination of the audience and artificially push the story and every audience to the climax. Unfortunately, this final sprint exposed the director's strangeness and timidity in dealing with this experience. The realistic quadrangle in my mind is undoubtedly redundant, and it is even more incredible to express it with modern computer animation. Imagine this change from the perspective of moving workers, revealing obvious preaching meaning and greatly diluting the original heavy theme. As a result, an art film instantly became a mediocre public service advertisement. Therefore, what we see is not the perfect creation of the master, but the panic of a young man when he first meets the personnel.
Artistic creation, like many wonderful life experiences, is never one-way, but is completed by the author and the audience. For artists, whether they have enough respect for the audience seriously affects the quality of their works. World-class masters give their audience considerable respect for their intelligence, but China artists, especially film creators, often lack this virtue.
Since 1980s, China films have won international awards. Perhaps the most pessimistic people will think that the highest level of China movies is just a window for international masters. But quadrangles tell us how tough paper is old enough, which makes people feel depressed and desperate. ...