Review of Cassandra Bridge

Pushing the lens can slowly bring the audience into the story and let the audience gradually enter a "ecstasy realm". At the beginning of Cassandra Bridge, there are many examples of pushing the lens in a group of aerial photos. The lens passes through the green mountains and waters and enters Geneva, Switzerland. The camera keeps moving over the city of Geneva, through tall buildings, roads and squares, and finally advances to the building of the United Nations Medical Research Center. A continuous picture of a camera moving from far to near along the optical axis. This shot tells the audience that the story first happened here, but it spread to far, far places outside Geneva.

Among them, the overhead lens (also called overhead lens) is the camera shooting down from a height, giving people the feeling of overlooking. This kind of lens has a wide field of vision and shows a grand scene. "Cassandra Bridge" begins with a long shot, which makes the audience feel condescending and has a preliminary and comprehensive impression of the environment and place where the story takes place. As Marda, a French film theorist, said, "The overhead lens (shooting from top to bottom) can make people look smaller; Pushing people to the ground makes the audience feel that people are morally depressed, making people an object that is difficult to get rid of in number theory and a plaything of fate. " (film language). Shooting the tragic and embarrassing situation of the characters from this angle will sometimes get unexpected results.

The most common scenes in the film are high-speed trains, crossing foreign countries and mountains, leaving sections of tracks, tunnels, bridges, villages, towns, fields and Woods, heading for the unknown point of no return. Panic, anxiety, fear, anger, sadness, indifference and numbness are intertwined in people's flickering eyes and expressions. The mountain is the harsh and cold force of * *; Forest is a weak line of defense for justice; The earth is the force for the survival of civilians; Bridges are a way to communicate and solve contradictions. Towering peaks only look up to higher goals and ignore the cry of life on earth. Express train is a desire and a national interest, and it still goes its own way with a heavy burden. Finally, the bridge collapsed, and the road of life collapsed and blocked, leaving endless troubles. On both sides of the broken bridge are war and peace, life and death. How ironic? When there is a conflict of interest, unarmed people will always be sacrificed.