Which expert can analyze the clip of Guliguo singing Nanhai Girl in Swallowtail Butterfly? From pictures, music, people and so on

swallowtail butterfly is an ordinary butterfly with the English name "Swallowtail Butterfly" and the Japanese name "Ageha". Swallowtail butterflies are pupae and larvae when they are young, and when they grow up, they transform into fluttering wings. The flight of swallowtail butterfly follows some erratic curves, which are beautiful and fragile. The film Swallowtail Butterfly tells the story of a young girl's growth and unrequited love, the story of a pair of lovers eager to fly but eventually led to tragedy due to illusory flight, and the story of many people dying in the illusion of flight. It is a carefully constructed modern myth, and the environment in which the myth takes place is "Yentown" with surreal meaning, and swallowtail butterfly is the core metaphor representing life and desire. Surging in a turbulent and fragmented image stream, we can clearly feel a feeling of longing for flying and mourning for flying. But this kind of flight is actually something alienated by reality. It is a "MY WAY" that hangs high in front of everyone's eyes but cannot be fulfilled. It is guided by countless currencies called "circle". Sober people "killers" and people who are content with the status quo "all Japanese" survived. They didn't live in their dreams, let alone try to turn their dreams into life. But those guys who are full of vitality, developed imagination and eager to fly are often miserable, because the world has long since stopped promising happiness beyond the horizon. In that tight encirclement that captures any real flight, you either follow the rules or get your wings crushed like a swallowtail butterfly. These people make us rejoice, feel ashamed and pity. They are full of human nature and rich in emotions, and their desires are fresh and painful. For example, Huo Feihong, who died at the end of the film, was honest and kind, seemingly old but childlike, poetic at some moments "talking about the soul or flying", and fond of money at some moments, infatuated with one another and dreaming well, without losing the blood of men in times of crisis. He died poetically.

Shunji Iwai's film The Swallow-tailed Butterfly tells the story of these "round thieves". Narratively, it mainly has three lines. One is about the growth story of the unknown girl "Papilio". After the death of a prostitute's mother, she was taken in by the prostitute "Guliguo", got the name "Butterflies", and was introduced into the "Blue Sky", met Feihong and Lang Lang, and lived a gypsy-style life of picking up rubbish, selling cars and opening open-air bars with them. Later, Feihong made a fortune by accidentally getting a tape to make counterfeit money. She followed him and Guliguo into the city and opened a "live house", which witnessed the disillusionment of Feihong and Guliguo's flying dreams. After a series of events, such as secretly loving Feihong, taking drugs, tattooing, being unable to save her happiness with money, "unable to buy back the club", the collapse of Guliguo's star bubble, "her status as a prostitute was exposed" and Feihong's death, her emotions and hearts have been baptized and grown. She confirmed her identity, "by tattooing", changed from a caterpillar to a swallowtail butterfly "a grown-up woman with a firm heart", and finally chose a pure and simple life (when Liu Liangkui finally asked her what to open a shop for sale, her answer was silence, indicating her final rejection of the "sell" rule in real society). In addition, Papilio also undertakes the function of narrator in the whole story. The story of Feihong, Guliguo and the whole "Yentown" is observed and told from her point of view, but the whole film is not kept in her point of view.

The second clue of the story, that is, the main story of the whole film, is the tragic experience of the "round thief" lover Huo Feihong and Gu Liguo. Gu Liguo and Huo Feihong had lived a humble but lyrical life as thieves. For example, in the film, Gu Liguo sang Teresa Teng's "Cheating Man" at the thieves' open-air party, such as the MTV "blue sky" life clips, hanging clothes, practicing boxing, picking up rubbish and returning home with the piano, which are all praises to their bohemian "thieves" life. But a tape "My Way" found in the body of the murdered John and triad member Sudo has changed all this. The magnetic sensor with counterfeit money hidden in the magnetic tape seems to promise an easy chance to realize your dream. Accompanied by Hollywood-style transition music, they left the paradise-like "blue sky" and entered the city center symbolizing their dreams and desires. Feihong set up an alternative band that embodies the spirit of "round thief" according to his own ideal, and opened a live singing room to let Guliguo show his singing talent and start making money. However, the indifferent city "Japanese mainstream society" has its own dehumanizing operation logic, which crushes the naive dreams of the thieves little by little. The record company intervened. In order to "sell well", it first tampered with the identity of Guliguo as a thief, packaged her into a lifeless Japanese doll, and then slowly alienated the lovers. Feihong was also caught by the immigration bureau because of the informer of the record company. When he "inexplicably" regained his freedom and galloped in the street, he finally saw the realization of his dream-the swallowtail butterfly stabbed on the chest of Guliguo was hung over the city as an advertisement for Yentown Band. The swallowtail butterfly seems to fly, but what kind of artificial dead flight it is, it is a Wan Li away from the happiness in the dream, which makes Feihong look at a loss. Then everything took a turn for the worse, the band broke up, the club closed, and Guliguo and Feihong were hunted down by the underworld. Feihong was caught by the police when he exchanged counterfeit money on the way to escape and died of torture.

The third story clue revolves around the magical tape "My Way", which is another core metaphor about the road to life in this film. Liu Liangkui, the rogue king of Yentown and the leader of the underworld who started as a forger, hid his forged magnetic sensor of 1, yen in this "My Way", which was later stolen by Xu Teng of the Geshi Gang. Su Teng violently attacked Papilio and Guliguo when he was whoring with prostitutes, and was killed by a former black boxer Aaron who heard the news. When burying the body secretly, Lang Lang found the tape from Sutten and cracked the secret. Feihong made a fortune on tape, and went to the city to find a dream with Guliguo and Papilio. At the same time, Liu Liangkui and his gang are also pursuing the whereabouts of the tape. Later, after the closing of the club, in order to save her old life, Papilio asked for tapes from Lang Lang and conducted a large-scale counterfeit money exchange activity. But the money she got didn't save anything. Liu Liangkui's men caught up with Feihong and Guliguo respectively. Guliguo was saved by Lang Lang, but Feihong died at the hands of the police [counterfeit money abandoned him at the most critical moment]. Finally, Butterfly returned "May Way" to Liu Liangkui, but Liu Liangkui, who finally got the tape, was only one minute away from death. This magical "May Way" that can enlarge the banknotes ten times has brought illusory bubbles and real disasters to the owner. Only those who despise it can be saved, such as butterflies and wolves. [Wolf lang engaged in assassination activities is also a dark line related to the plot, but it is very weak.

In the film, three story lines are intricately and organically intertwined to form a seamless story, and it is difficult to really separate any of them. Almost all the details are suggestive or causal, the characters are interrelated, and the plot is interlocking, which fully shows the superb skills of director Shunji Iwai in grasping complex narrative. In fact, the theme of this film is nothing special. It is nothing more than showing the money-oriented society and the harm of money greed to life and emotion. The contempt for money is vividly shown in the details of teenagers tearing money and butterflies throwing money into the fire. Shunji Iwai tells this mythical "story of a thief" with the intention of criticizing the Japanese society which is money-oriented, indifferent and dead. Compared with the dynamic and emotional thieves, almost all the Japanese in the film are inhuman, humble and cold. For example, Asakawa, who was overwhelmed by debt and sold his life, a record company that only knows "selling well", a female agent who secretly informs on others, a female reporter who digs people's privacy, and a Japanese policeman who abuses violence, even the Japanese underworld is ugly in front of Liu Liangkui, the handsome and elegant thief rogue king. In fact, the dead Japanese society is not worthy of being used as a place for thieves to "dream". Indeed, thieves are eager to make money, get rich, and even show greed, but unlike the Japanese, they don't take making money as their ultimate goal. They have dreams and hope to use money to create a "real life" (of course, this is illusory), such as Fei Hong's opening of a live singing room, solid fruit singing, Liu Liangkui's desire to return to Shanghai, and Butterfly's desire to buy back the club. They also brought a touching human luster. It is in contrast with them that Japanese society shows its dehumanizing and morbid side.

However, the reason why The Swallowtail Butterfly becomes a good film lies not in its theme, but in Shunji Iwai's ability to weave a fairy tale with a smooth narrative and express its theme with such a highly stylized and poetic audio-visual language. This is a very complicated film, which mixes many elements of youth films, gangster gunfights and even musical films, and fully integrates reality and surreal situations, dreams and memories, actions and psychology. The whole film is full of dazzling events and actions, but it maintains an overall lyrical atmosphere from beginning to end. The two emotional lines symbolized by swallowtail butterfly and "My Way" make the whole film consistently shrouded with a strong sense of sadness, which has become the emotional tone that plays a stabilizing role in the film. Shunji Iwai is not only a "handsome image", but also an out-and-out "lyrical handsome image". If The Swallowtail Butterfly does not have this strong lyricism, then these overly complicated characters, stories and action details, including Shunji Iwai's turbulent and fragmented photography and editing style, will be reduced to pieces, and this film is likely to be invisible.

The four main characters in the film all have their own lyric passages, such as the passage in which Fei Hong gallops down the street after his release and finally looks back blankly in the middle of the road; The paragraphs of visiting the prison by butterflies and tattooed paragraphs; A passage in which Guliguo sings several times; Liu Liangkui recalled how to name his lost sister "Guliguo". In order to create an overall lyrical atmosphere, Shunji Iwai showed amazing skills in controlling the rhythm of the film and struck a balance between narration and lyricism. This is manifested in the arrangement of action paragraphs and lyric paragraphs, which is often a turbulent and dazzling action paragraph, and then a more stable lyric paragraph will be followed. In terms of image style, Swallowtail Butterfly also has a rich variety, including shaking, subjective and fast shooting and editing, as well as a very stable and stable long shot [for example, the butterfly went to the police station to claim the body of Fei Hong, and the butterfly and the solid fruit made a wreath to commemorate Fei Hong, and the fixed shot lasted for 3 seconds], as well as MTV passages accompanied by music, and the arrangement of color, light and sound also changed accordingly. Sometimes in the same paragraph, the image style is also changing, such as the paragraph where the butterfly is tattooed. The tattooed scene is a calm and warm picture and color, full of peaceful atmosphere of inquiry and explanation; Memories are a dark and turbulent fast-paced flashback, which begins with a subjective shot of flying swallowtail butterflies, accompanied by accelerating anxiety (the acceleration of editing and the shaking of the camera), conveying a traumatic experience of being claustrophobic and eager to escape. Finally, when the swallowtail butterfly's wings were squeezed off by the window, the rhythm suddenly slowed down, and the broken wings slowly fell to the little girl's chest, as if an unforgettable pain, a lingering complex, and a tragic sense of life were branded. In this paragraph where reality and memory intersect, the image style and editing rhythm fluctuate like music, which makes the whole paragraph full of sad poetry, which can be described as one of the two classic paragraphs of this film that suggest the theme and basic emotions (the other is Fei Hong's looking back on the road). In a word, the pursuit of image style of Swallowtail Butterfly adapts to the story content and emotion, and is not limited to a single routine.

Besides, we can't notice the music in the film. Music plays a vital role in creating the overall lyrical atmosphere of this film. The film is full of subjective and objective music, complicated pop songs, including Chinese, English and Japanese, and even many paragraphs appear directly in the form of MTV. The style of music is also rich in variety, including string music as the theme music [violin as the main melody], clear and soothing piano music "Visiting the Prison Paragraph" that shows the secret love of butterflies, and Hollywood-style vigorous transition music that shows the change of life. The main melody of the harmonica (Feihong left the blue sky with solid fruit butterflies and butterflies to buy back money from the club) was changed the second time, and the momentum and speed slowed down, and the volume of the harmonica increased. There are also various popular songs selected in the film, such as Teresa Teng, the old English song My Way, modern Japanese rock music and a folk-flavored female voice accompanied by a guitar. Of course, the most unforgettable song is My Way, which can be regarded as the theme song of this film. This old English song tells a man's attitude towards life in a confessional tone. There are many roads in life, and it is difficult to make a choice. Although he has experienced difficulties, hesitation, tears and laughter, he is still very persistent in acting "my way". It is a compliment to the thieves and a lament to them. This song mainly appeared four times in the film, which not only changed the form of each appearance, but also expressed different emotions and atmosphere. When "My Way" first appeared, Fei Hong and his gang came back to play the tape they had just found on the tape recorder in the car. They gradually sang along, and their songs were tired and mixed. At this time, it is a kind of melancholy mood that is vacant and uncertain about the future; When Fei Hong appeared for the second time, he had just opened the "Live House" and the band was formed. They were at the peak of their dreams, so with the accompaniment of the rock band, Guliguo gave a complete performance of "My Way" (accompanied by a hearty intermission and ending of percussion instruments), which was a happy, confident and hopeful mood [perhaps only Guliguo's depressed voice showed ominous signs]; The third time was in the form of subjective music. Feihong was beaten by the police and was dying. At this time, in the vigorous male voice of the original song "My Way", I flashed back to the fragment of Feihong running in the street and looking back blankly, expressing a strong feeling of sadness and sigh. The last time they appeared, Guliguo and Butterflies were weaving a wreath to pay homage to Feihong, while humming "My Way" gently, just like the lingering sound after the end of the song, which was a sad calm after vicissitudes and blows. The four appearances convey the theme and emotion contained in My Way incisively and vividly, forming a complete lyric line. From it, we can also learn some ways to use theme songs skillfully and artistically.

The swallowtail butterfly's flight has fallen, and the world has lost some vitality and poetry. But after all, the film left us a hopeful figure, a girl who finally found herself. In the dirty and sinister world, her image is not only strangely unspoiled, but also constantly strengthened, which can't be said to be a miracle or another fragment of a dream

: I still love Shunji Iwai's warmth in the ruthless world, which can't be concealed in all his films, especially when his lens is aimed at the crowd.