Film Review Film's Past

The first film directed by female directors Xiaojiang. Although it is the director's first film, it is obvious that everyone who has seen this film knows that Director Xiao Jiang did not disappoint the audience. The performance of the film The Past is simple and natural. Although there are many characters, all of them have distinct personalities, and several children have excellent performances, especially the performance of Wang Zhengjia, an actor who played Yu Xia's childhood, which left a deep impression on people. His vivid and natural nature and childlike innocence in his bones make his performance superior to many adult actors, which is a highlight of the film. This film is Wang Zhengjia's first work. He has not received any film and television performance training, and it is really impressive that he can perform so well. His slackness and shaping ability make him different from many adult children actors, and Wang Zhengjia's performance in this film left a deep impression on people.

In this movie market, where there is a New Year's Eve movie and a commercial movie fight every year, Movie Past leaves people with not only a box office achievement or a magnificent and beautiful picture, but an enduring cultural atmosphere. Yes, it captures the cultural atmosphere. Compared with those commercial films and literary films called "the cecum of movies", "Electricity" is higher in story, structure and overall treatment. Over the years, including the blockbuster Hero, which is regarded as the nouveau riche type in China, and some films of Xiaogang Feng, the most successful New Year film director in China, are mostly hard to ponder and memorable.

The film "The Past" is like a picture scroll, or a special film, which shows people its cultural charm bit by bit. The film The Past (also called Dream Shadow Childhood) is a warm and nostalgic film. The overall production is excellent, with high standards in photography, art, recording, music and performance. The director wrote the script for more than three years, during which it was revised repeatedly. The film reveals deep feelings for the open-air movie era from the heart, and it is sincere and touching. All this comes from the director's childhood experience and experience, and it blends many China people's warm memories of the old domestic movies.

1, the structure and space of the film.

The film Past leads to the stories told by women in the past from the male perspective of modern time and space. These two time and space are intertwined. Modern time and space creates suspense for past stories, draws the audience with suspense, lets them step by step enter the specific situation of the film and the inner world of the protagonist, leads the audience to slowly dig out the truth of the past, unlocks hidden secrets, and makes the film full of visibility.

The script structure of this film is reasonable. No matter how the plot develops and changes, the audience can undoubtedly follow the idea of the script. This is the success of the play. The film begins with the protagonist's first-person tone, which not only clearly explains the protagonist's life experience, but also plays a role in dealing with the protagonist's environment. It makes the opening natural and smooth, and the audience's ideas begin to follow the movie's ideas, or the audience's ideas begin to follow the movie. This is the success of the opening.

Then there was a scene where the hero was beaten inexplicably. As for why the hero was beaten, it has always been a mystery in the first half of the film. However, it is precisely because of this mystery and the girl Lingling's neurotic attitude that the audience will be attracted to continue and take the initiative to explore the reasons, which must be exactly what the director wants: she doesn't want to tell the story alone, but wants everyone to cooperate and present a vivid story to everyone.

Everything seems to be coincidence, but it is inevitable. Lingling's strange behavior gave Yu Xia a chance to enter her home, thus revealing the predictability of all stories. Although this is not a detective film, it is more enjoyable and attractive by arranging puzzles. The film adopts an interlude structure. Since Yu Xia began to read Lingling's notebook, she has become Lingling's first-person narrative story. This change is natural. The audience's mind won't turn at all, so they have to follow.

For the present life, the cool tone adopted by the director is in sharp contrast with the warm tone obtained when telling the past in the middle. Through this contrast, the director expressed his nostalgia for the old movies and his positive feelings about the romantic life of people in that era. Movies have always relied on the confessions of the protagonists to promote the development of the plot. The protagonist's calm and slightly emotional tone has become a major feature of this film.

In the space modeling of the past time and space, the director deliberately chose the natural environment and social environment in northwest Ningxia, which made the artistic conception of the film more open and broad. Space participates in the narrative and modeling of movies. The natural environment in the northwest has become the main basis for people's activities in the film. In the film, the yard covered with white sheets shows Lingling's mother's desire for romance, but she has contradictory feelings under the oppression of reality with a special spatial modeling and layering.

2. The characters in the movie.

Yu Xia plays the hero Mao in this film. From the beginning of the panorama and the middle scene, the director gave the audience an opportunity to fully understand the protagonist Mao from the beginning of the film. Mao's hearty and uninhibited smile made the audience have a good impression on the young man from the beginning. He has a cheerful, optimistic and positive attitude towards life. By describing Mao's introduction to China, we can clearly understand his social status. He is a simple and enthusiastic migrant worker, influenced by family environment since childhood, with little education, lively and active, playful but easy-going. He loves watching movies all his life and regards screen heroes as idols. In order to create the image of this young man with low education who came to work in the city to deliver water, Yu Xia deliberately changed his accent to a certain dialect, or, by changing his accent, Yu Xia created such a young man.

From the beginning, the film has the characteristics that the protagonist loves the film very much. Buy a movie ticket through the protagonist's salary for three or four days to deepen the embodiment. This is the key to the whole story. At the same time, the audience can easily accept a hero who is not tired of life, likes fantasy, but has no great ambition. There will be no doubt about his behavior.

Jiang (original name) plays the heroine. This role spans a long time, from girlhood to old age. Jiang Xuehua is a beautiful girl with strong vanity and desire to perform. She is favored by literary and art groups in the city and given priority to training. She thought she could embark on the road of Qingyun from now on. Unexpectedly, she was carried away by love, got pregnant before marriage and gave birth to a girl. Faced with heavy social pressure and psychological pressure, Jiang Xuehua wanted to leave an orphan girl to commit suicide. Then something happened that changed her attitude towards life and her fate. Jiang's performance is realistic and natural, which has shaped a personality woman who pursues a better life in a closed era. She fully grasped the character's personality development and mental journey, and drove a vain girl out of society because she was pregnant before marriage. Jiang's performance has changed from cowardice to bravery. What is commendable is that she has a strong explosive force at the critical moment.

Through the successful portrayal of Jiang Xuehua, it simply reflects the state of that society and the growth psychology of each character. Lingling is a person who loves movies, but she is hurt. Lingling, a young man, has no lines, only some actions, such as crying silently under Xia's questioning, holding a puppy in her arms, and her innocent and happy expression on the puppy, which successfully depicts this person's fragile psychology. At the same time, the memories of Lingling's beating and running away from home in the narrative are more real and convincing.

Through the shaping of different roles, let them perform on the same stage, so that the whole movie is full and full.

3. The color and light of the film.

First of all, talk about cool colors in real life. Through this tone, the director reconciled the lack of humanistic romanticism and compassion in today's life, which is the status quo of simpleness. The harmony of Lingling's cool colors is to highlight Lingling's personality and set off her experience and particularity.

As for the warm colors of the pictures in memories, one is to highlight romanticism, and the other is to express nostalgia, or memories. The light in the film is naturally soft. I didn't use strong light to set off anything, but gave the audience a knife in softer light or when they were comfortable.

4. The theme of the movie.

The film reviews many old movies in China, such as Street Angels in 1930s, Sparkling Red Star, Private Zhang Ga after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Flying Tigers in the early 1980s, Xiaohua, Side Street and so on. These representative old films almost cover the development of China films for decades. The director closely combined so many old films with the fate of an ordinary family and made them faithfully. From this point of view, The Movie Past is an affectionate commemoration of the centenary of China movies in 2005.

In addition, through the feelings of various characters, especially Jiang Xuehua's movie dream and Lingling's cinematic record of life, the film expresses that life is like a movie, which is a nature compared with the acting in A Dream of Red Mansions, and people's yearning for a better life in any era.

The film also uses many specific scenes, such as Mao breaking a train after watching Iron, which reminds readers of their childhood and resonates with them.