Ash and Snow Movie Review

Chapter 1: The Review of Ash and Snow The documentary "Ash and Snow" presents an unreal, detached, quiet and soul-like "victory scene".

Elephants, and the son who reads the Bible.

Eagle, the shoulder of fish novice monk.

Whales and dancers in the sea.

Leopards and naked teenagers.

This kind of picture appears in the sand yellow like Haicheng, achieving quiet and ethereal. Everything is an illusion except you. I don't know whether it's natural spirituality or Buddhist swearing, and whether life is eternal or disillusioned. There is no trace of time here, all are just eternal colors and illusions, and you don't need to think, and you can't think, because those are static flows through the soul of life.

Laurence fishburne is chanting.

"At this moment, if you come to me, it will become a day, and your day will become a lifetime." "Tears become flames, flames become fires, fires become blood, blood becomes bones, bones become marrow, marrow becomes ashes, and ashes become snow." "Learn to turn a blind eye and dream."

Chapter 2: Ash and Snow Film Review I had a strange feeling when I saw the whole set of photos taken by him reprinted by my circle of friends. Next, I watched this documentary under the recommendation of my friend, and my strangeness began to grow stronger and stronger.

This film is neither animal nor human. It has nothing to do with your life or anyone's life. Its existence comes out of thin air and ends out of thin air.

All postures, positions and light are beautiful, but beauty is particularly fragmented. From a distance, you think it is not bad. then what and then

It does not reflect the silhouette of your life now, nor does it reflect the refraction of people and animals far away. What is this?

This is a fragile fantasy in the air built by the director himself.

Are they aborigines? The actor's perfect lines in professional dance.

Is it a stage? There is no doubt that you invited the most expensive animal actor, like a marionette, to come down or get up.

Is it true to get along? Is it the director's design? Is it a utopia that urbanites yearn for? Is it true that time has stopped?

Obviously, they are nothing, nothing, and the whole film is a nondescript gesture.

The whole movie has children, men, women, old people and beasts. However, from beginning to end, I didn't feel any vitality. Not at all! There's nothing.

No energy, no desire, no emotion, no life, no death, nothing.

No cause and effect, no order, no conflict, no waves and comments, nothing.

Is this natural? Is this a tribe? Is this the world?

I don't know what this is.

Is it beautiful?

Maybe it's beautiful.

Beauty is empty, just like the screen saver desktop of Microsoft computer.

Chapter 3: Ash and Snow Film Review 1992. Photographer Gregory Colbert opened his first private photography exhibition-Wave of Time in Switzerland.

Before that, he was angry at the sponsor's request to delete the scene of two men kissing in his documentary On the Edge-A Chronicle of AIDS, and vowed not to accept any commercial sponsorship.

However, this solo exhibition, he had to break his word because of the shortage of funds. At the exhibition, several big collectors loved his works very much and ordered more follow-up works from him at a price of more than 60 thousand dollars each.

The exhibition ended, and after the transaction, Gregory disappeared from people's sight.

No one knew where he went until one day a year later, the desperate wife finally received her husband's first letter.

Gregory is a "madman". The whole world was frantically looking for him, but he took his camera and went on an adventure in a foreign country without saying a word.

10 years later, he brought back 130 original photos and synthesized this controversial work-ashes and snow.

"Feathers turn into fire, fire into blood, blood into bones, bones into meat, meat into ash, and ash into snow"-ashes and snow

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130 photos, 27 long-distance trips, Gregory traveled all over the world, and was caught by the camera: an Indian girl was playing and sleeping with an elephant, a Burmese monk was under the wings of an eagle, and two grandparents hugged a cheetah, directing himself to dance with whale water. ...

Its controversy also comes from this.

People who have stepped on it think it's a boring video poetry collection recorded in crazy poses. Those who praise it seem to understand the dream of the creator: human nature and wildness can coexist and balance forever, without killing and opposition, cruelty and slavery.

To tell the truth, I lost my mind the first time I saw it, and I didn't really sink in until the second time.

There is no cruelty and harm to human beings, and there is no revenge for "elephants attacking human beings." At the beginning of Ash and Snow, people and images are interdependent and live in harmony, which makes people respect each other.

Gregory mentioned in the interview that once, he stood waist-deep in the river to get materials. A group of elephants are running from the forest to the river, with a total number of 6 1. Running river, flying elephants, "If they come at me, I will be taken away by the river". Fortunately, the escaped elephant didn't attack him either, although it remained in the camera, so aggressive.

There is no imaginary danger, but there is no absolute safety.

After a long time, Gregory was unfortunately thrown into the lake by a Burmese elephant with ivory tips.

This "killer elephant" had brutally killed two people before attacking Gregory.

The danger of shooting did not shake Gregory's courage, but inspired his deep longing.

"I want to explore the relationship between people and animals from the inside out. By finding out the common language and poetic sensibility among all animals, we try to rebuild the common ground that once existed when humans and animals lived in harmony. "

People around us say that elephants are guilty, but they often ignore the bigger crimes committed by human target groups.

In reality, it seems that people and elephants, people and animals can only get along with each other across the safety fence. People often use iron cangue and rope whip to cover up the panic and opposition under peaceful coexistence, but there should be no fear and threat between human nature and wildness, but love and trust.

Like a madman who is not afraid of death, he walked into the territory of elephants, hyenas, eagles and whales. ...

If being attacked by elephants is an unexpected crisis, dancing with whales is a premeditated "suicide"!

During the lost 10 years, Gregory spent two and a half years with whales in the ocean.

In the Pacific, he tried the most thrilling "performance art".

Gregory went dancing on the sea with 55 tons of sperm whales and humpback whales without oxygen tanks.

This scene was filmed by Gregory's assistant underwater. People and whales in slow motion twist and bend with the rhythm.

The story behind this is an elegant sperm whale, trying to open its jaws and bite its head. No one knows how he escaped from danger when the door of hell approached and it was a close call, only that he returned to the sea indifferently after he survived.

"If the accident takes my life, it is not a tragedy, because I am doing what I love." Maybe he is a madman who has gone crazy.

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"Ash and Snow" is only 63 minutes long and took 130 photos, but it was Gregory's only career achievement in 13.

He traveled all over the world and met Egyptians, Mayans, American Indians and Bedouins ... His footsteps and camera touch have already surpassed the imprisonment of man and beast.

Some people question the authenticity of the picture and the scheduling relationship between people and animals when shooting. He just smiled and responded: "The world has existed for billions of years, and human beings are just newcomers."

Ash and Snow is his 13 exploration and his individualism.

He chose to let humans close their eyes and be alone with animals with bright eyes. Humans are unguarded and animals don't panic, which is a paradox in reality, but it is an ideal country we are eager to reach.

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Chapter Four: The film critic of Ash and Snow is Gregory Colbert, a talented Canadian nature photographer.

It took 13 years and took 27 long-distance trips.

It is said that this "wayward boy" suddenly disappeared when the photography career was booming. It was not until 13 years later that I brought this film back into people's eyes.

Photographed the subtle relationship between human beings, wildlife and nature, forming ashes and snow.

At first, Payer was very skeptical.

Looking through Douban, Time Network, Baidu and Zhihu, Paiye found almost no information about this film, even no plot outline!

All short comments are either "poetic prose style" or "beautiful pictures"

All the long comments are either long excerpts from their lines or loaded with countless movie pictures!

Oh, my God! Payer's taking those bitches to the movies!

Movies tell stories!

Just say you are a movie because the picture is good!

However, when Paiye quietly watched the film for 60 minutes on this silent night.

I think it's time to soar.

Bitches, I'll fly you together-I'm not lying to you about short comments and long comments!

This is really an exciting movie.

It is no exaggeration to say that each frame taken out alone can become a masterpiece of photography that people stop to watch.

Two pictures are not enough, and I want to post a pile of pies!

Purify public utilities and explode all kinds of purifiers!

You don't have to be struck by lightning, you can soar-who knows!

However, what Paiye wants to say is-it's not that the movie didn't tell a story, but that he didn't tell a specific story.

Traditional movies always convey emotions through stories, thus expressing what the director wants to express; But this film conveys the story through emotion, and therefore expresses what the director wants to express.

The director induces thinking through strong visual impact and slow rhythm.

Even if you see the same picture, it's because different people watch movies.

In the end, no one will understand the same story!

The film begins with two Nepalese monks sitting on a boat and moving slowly-the camera moves slowly with the boat.

In yellow, the film is shrouded in a sense of ceremony from the beginning.

The director used "high-speed photography" to get extremely slow movements.

With the director's whispering narration, if you are with me at this moment, it will become hours, hours will become days, and these days will eventually become a lifetime.

The audience is easily brought into the audio-visual connection of language and pictures.

Let the whole movie go through the spiritual world created by "audio-visual contact" from beginning to end.

And this is also the biggest feature of this film.

In the slow lens rhythm, the use of high and low changing perspectives and unique composition design makes the picture get a strong visual shock and spiritual metaphor.

Movies are always closely connected between seemingly freely changing pictures.

As you said, there is no transition, but there is an unspeakable logic.

Death.

Cross over.

Forget that.

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Forgive the old artist Paiye for not being able to express it clearly in specific language at the moment.

In other words, Paiye is afraid of talking too much and breaking the stream of consciousness painstakingly created by the director.

Disconnected transitions, coupled with slow rhythm, can only be filled by the viewer himself.

Slow down time and observe the rhythm of life of everything.

Paiye seems to have participated in a wider life in the long corridor for a period of time.

The world has existed for billions of years, and human beings are only newcomers.

Like time and life, flying clothes lines and water spray slowly and quietly flow into Paiye's heart.

Yes, that's the tone of sending me to the fairy.

For life and time, our existence is too small.

It seems that only by slowing down time can we think.

Who says the world is big? At the moment, there is only "I" in the world.

Chapter 5: Ash and Snow Film Review Perhaps you have read many photographers' stories and seen many landscape photography works, but like Gregory, you have traveled around the world and photographed classic works about the subtle relationship between people, wildlife and nature, among which there are probably not many photographers full of poetry and aura.

Look at the moments captured by his camera-Indian girls playing with elephants, Burmese monks under the wings of eagles, grandparents and grandchildren hugging cheetahs ... These images are pure and flawless and have existed in the world for tens of millions of years. Gregory Cowper, a nature photographer, has successfully found the long-lost love and trust between man and wildlife, but we can't find fear and danger in the picture. The film is divided into several parts, including elephants, whales, leopards, eagles, bobcats and so on.

This movie is very good. Each chapter, accompanied by music, is like a poem. Humans and animals can't talk, but body language speaks for itself. After watching the movie, I quietly enjoyed the elegant interaction between animals and humans, and those hypothetical thoughts in my mind were put aside for the time being.