The Greatest Showman (Big Play Bone)
Chapter 795: Author movie
As one of the most highly anticipated films at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, the premiere of "Beyond" came to an end, with nearly four minutes of standing applause, 90 minutes of audience questions and media interviews, bustling, lively, and enthusiastic. , Undoubtedly pushed the atmosphere of this year's film festival to its peak. In the icy and snowy February, a rare warm wave was ushered in, which was really encouraging.
But does this mean that "detachment" has succeeded?
Obviously not. Applause means the audience's recognition of the artistry; the noise means the reporter's affirmation of the topic. However, this does not mean that critics appreciate the film, nor does it mean that the audience will love the film. Controversy and excitement, praise and frenzy, these responses are closely linked.
James Bernard doesn't like this movie.
This time, James is represented by the film critic of "Voice of the Village" to participate in the Berlin Film Festival. Before the film festival, James' most anticipated work is undoubtedly "detachment." Not because of Tony Kaye, but because of Renly Hall.
James has always admired Lan Li not only for his independent works, but also for "Speed and Excitement/Love 5". Among the new generation of actors, James has always admired Lan Li, not only because of his acting skills. , But also because of his vision of film selection.
But this time, Renly's choice made James begin to question.
"There is no doubt that Tony Kaye is a special director. His lens is always aimed at a certain real problem, analyzing it from a plain but sharp perspective, and presenting the dark side and corruption of society with blood. The audience makes people have nowhere to escape. There is no tolerance.
This time, Kaye aimed the blade at the education system. The film believes that teachers are just a pile of fly-catchers that are profit-oriented, profit-oriented, and blame others. This is a bold and courageous attempt, based on the essence of education, and raised a topic that contemporary society has gradually neglected: What is the ultimate goal of education? Employment, degrees, ideas, wealth, and even...politics/governance.
However, the perspective is full of criticism and scrutiny, but it is too extreme and too arbitrary.
After raising the problem one-sidedly, there was no in-depth discussion, no dialectical thinking, let alone a solution. What's worse, the second half of the story was lost, and all the weight fell on the actor's personal problems. It directly caused the discussion of the problem to deviate from the track, leaving really limited room for reflection.
So sharp, so sharp, so bloody, so cruel, to raise a problem that cannot be solved and lacks discussion. In my opinion, the offensive is too strong, more like criticizing for the sake of criticism, but lacks the true essence of humanity. care.
The sharpness and gentleness that Kaye once showed in the "American X File", but only a vague concept in the "Transcendence" is not only disappointing, but also disgusting. "
James spoke sharply but clearly expressed his position. According to the scoring standards of the three major European film festivals, the full score was four points, and James only gave one point in the end. If calculated according to the hundred-point system, this is 25 points, which can be said to be an ultra-low score, and it is completely hell.
Between the lines, you can see James' disappointment and frustration, but after a turn of the conversation, James expressed a diametrically opposite position.
"In the whole film, Kaye made a bold attempt: by zooming in close-up shots and restoring the film grain, showing the texture of a pseudo-documentary, and magnifying and re-enlarging the performance of the actors, the emotional turbulence was The publicity reached the extreme, and then brought the response of the soul and the shock of the soul.
The advantages and disadvantages of such an almost experimental shooting method are very obvious——
The shortcomings of the acting skills of the two newcomers are put under the microscope. The performances of Sammy Gale and Betty Kaye are really rare for the newcomers. The emotional expressions in most scenes are real, natural, simple and pure. However, the faults of delicacy and lack of hierarchy are also fully revealed, especially in the emotional expression of key nodes. They all failed, failing to truly show the character's heart, and even exposed the jerky to embarrassing performance processing.
This can be said to be what the pseudo-documentary hopes to achieve, but it can also be said to be a source of regret for the film's reflection and resonance.
Corresponding to it is the excellence of Lanly Hall. The leader of this generation Y actor, once again demonstrated his excellence to the audience. Even in the face of many familiar old drama bones, Hall still dedicated the best performance well-deserved. The almost stage-style lens presentation method gave Hall enough space to give full play to his heart and soul. The solid performance skills exploded in all details such as eyes, mouth corners, expressions, movements, expressions, and limbs.
Only in the last scene of the movie, Hall easily proved his absolute status as a leader in acting. After experiencing the stunning performances of "Buried Alive", "Crazy Love", and "Anti-Cancer Me", I can still confidently say: This is the best performance of Hall's career.
Or in other words, as of now.
Hall’s performance gave the entire film a deep weight and rich reflections, personal and social connections, personal and family relationships, and the influence of individuals and education. The delicate and full performances are clearly organized and eloquent. Come, it's amazing. If we can enumerate a reason for watching'detachment', then Renly Hall is the answer. "
After writing this film review, a reporter curiously asked James what he thought: Why did the film only get one point after giving Lan Li such a high evaluation?
In this regard, James said, “As a whole, the film is undoubtedly a failure, even embarrassing. It misses the most important soul of an art work. I am willing to give four points just because of Lan Li’s performance. How many points are there? , As many points as you want. But for the whole work, one point is the limit."
In fact, James is not the only film critic who does not like "detachment." After the premiere, the film critics also had huge differences, but they also agreed that this is an author's film and cannot be measured by common sense.
The so-called author’s film was first formed in France in the 1950s. The theory holds that film forms a special language and becomes a work of free expression of thoughts and emotions, just as a writer writes with a pen, and a director uses a camera. Do screen writing. Over time, this also formed a wave, which gradually developed into a "author" theory that highly affirmed the director's personality and devalued the phenomenon of vulgar creation. Later, it directly promoted the birth of French New Wave films and began to influence the world.
The author's film can be simply understood as: the director has got rid of the interference of the producer and the producer, and has completed the film with personal style characteristics completely according to his own ideas and concepts.
In terms of expression methods, extensive use of long shots that express personal subjective feelings and competitive conditions, mobile photography, voice-overs, inner monologues, natural sound, and even shaking shots that violate the conventions, "jumping editing" that breaks the unity of time and space, etc.; Some "documentary" techniques such as follow-up, snap shots, telephoto, zoom, freeze, continuation, and simultaneous recording, combine "subjective realism" with "objective realism".
This kind of film can even be further understood as the work that the director himself shoots for himself to see, not for the public, but for truly professional people to study, discuss, criticize, and research.
"Delicate" is a typical author's film.
It is precisely because of this that the author's films are often cold and profound. Even professionals can arouse strong resentment and even resistance, let alone ordinary audiences.
At the premiere, the audience's four-minute applause was in a sense affirming Tony Kaye's boldness and perseverance, which is a kind of pursuit of art. Of course, this is only limited to the Berlin Film Festival. If it is changed to any other film festival, even the New York Film Festival, the audience will leave in anger.
In addition to James, another senior film critic also expressed his discomfort.
Amy Nicholson from Time Magazine said in the film review~lightnovelpub.net~ I like Tony Kaye, I like Renly Hall-more precisely, I am the queen It’s crazy, but I hate this movie and I hate it. "
In Lanly’s previous works, Amy is also an unwavering supporter. She did not hesitate to give a high score for "Speed and Excitement/Love 5" and urged the audience to walk into the cinema and watch "What It’s called the performance of a commercial film.” This is what she said; and during this year’s awards season, she is also the biggest supporter of “Crazy Love”, convinced that Lan Li is not only worthy of a nomination.
However, this time in Berlin, Amy still gave a sad review.
"The whole movie is full of self-talking and self-justification. There is no spark between the characters and the characters. The three female characters surrounding the male protagonist have no convincing plot. They are cold and arrogant and cut off the emotional connection of the story. Then all confessions and narrations are reduced to self-talking.
sad? Pain? Bitter? difficult? lonely?
I don't believe in any kind of emotion in the movie. During the process of watching the whole movie, I didn't feel anything. I just felt that I-I believe this was not Tony Kaye's original intention-detachment. My soul completely left the atmosphere created by the movie, and indifferently refused to accept any views Kaye tried to indoctrinate.
For me, this is a work that is not necessary to watch. "
Of course, as one of Lanly's supporters, Amy still mentioned him in the comments.
"As for Lanly-Hall-in the past two years, I personally admire the actor most, rest assured, you are still the best actor of Generation Y in my mind, but, sorry, this movie In the meantime, your performance has not been able to keep me in the movie. I can only wait for the next time.)!!