The reflexivity of film

The reflexivity of film refers to the characteristics of film itself as a medium and language, by reflecting and subverting its own traditional time and space construction rules, the dual time and space order of reality and fiction, and the incoherence of narrative. , guiding the audience to get involved and think actively.

For example, in the movie "The Camera Don't Stop", the director drew on the self-referential method of metafiction and consciously used a flashback structure, placing a 37-minute zombie short film with one shot at the beginning. part, allowing the audience to see a film text in which the order has collapsed without any expectation: the narrative is chaotic, the performance is awkward, the props and costumes are rough, the camera fell to the ground without warning, and the photographer even wiped the lens with a tissue. The blood stains on the film and various meaningless behaviors disappointed the audience's expectations for watching the movie.

At this moment, the director of the movie actually shouted "Don't stop the camera" at the camera, as if he was shouting to the audience behind the camera "Don't leave, keep watching". Even so, this paragraph has completely shattered the audience's order of narrative meaning in the film. At this point, the passivity of the audience in watching movies has been forcibly broken, the traditional and stable "film-audience" relationship has also been broken, and the reflexivity of meta-films has begun to "guide the audience to participate in active thinking."

In the second half of the film, the director used a montage shot combination method that is opposite to the long shot. The narrative time goes back to a month ago, and from the perspective of the protagonist, he explains why he wanted to shoot a one-shot zombie short film. The cause and effect are presented to the audience. It turns out that the TV station producer is going to launch a live broadcast program in a month, and the content is to shoot a horror film in an uninterrupted way. Therefore, in the preparatory stage before the filming of the film, the audience saw all kinds of unsavory inside stories behind the filming of the film through the director's perspective, such as: the male star acted like a celebrity, the heroine used eye drops, the makeup artist and the executive director had a messy relationship, the director's status Low, alcoholic photographers, sound engineers who cannot drink hard water, various unreasonable demands from producers, investors who do not respect art, etc. These unstable factors directly led to various problems during the filming process, so the audience Understand the reasons behind the embarrassing questions seen in the previous clip.

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