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Whether it is the avant-garde movies in the mid-1920s, the new wave in the 1950s, or the antonioni and Godard schools in the 1960s, this kind of movies have a common feature-the denial of traditional plots.

Traditional feature films contain a plot in structure. And this plot is a series of events related to each other according to possible and inevitable laws (or causality). Sometimes these events often express certain social practical significance. Generally speaking, it is based on human rational activities.

However, western realistic genre films advocate that the creator's "self" thought should be embodied through irrational intuition, instinct and subconscious. So they didn't take the plot as the basic structure of the film, but wanted to get rid of any connection with the plot and cut off the connection between people and society. Influenced by this trend of thought, so-called "stream" movies appeared in the western film industry in the late 1960s, namely "stream of consciousness" movies and "stream of life" movies.

Stream of consciousness film advocates irrational stream of consciousness to form the content of the film. Even time and space are subjective. Therefore, what is reflected in front of the audience is a world subjectively recognized by social heroes. It has the following structural characteristics: 1. Abandon the traditional narrative order and replace the traditional narrative logic order with irrational psychological continuity; 2. Break the traditional time-space structure order. Flashback and reverse order are widely used in the film to interweave the past, the present and the future, and to integrate memories and fantasies, truth and illusion. If we sum up the above characteristics, we can get the plot formula of "stream of consciousness" movies; Memories (including associations, hallucinations and dreams)+reality. But this is not the combination of reality and ordinary people's memory, but the dramatic plot of the film formed by the uninterrupted intrusion of crazy psychological activities on the current life of movie characters. In our view, because this kind of art pursues a subconscious activity, the network gives people the feeling of fragmentation and obscurity, and the plot is also disharmonious and inconsistent. The representative works of "stream of consciousness" movies

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The movie "The Stream of Life"

Life flow advocates "let life speak for itself" and makes a "pure" objective record of life according to "the natural flow of life itself". In other words, this kind of film requires "truthfully" recording life, without any thinking and generalization, and without any evaluation and analysis of the description object; I believe the audience should draw their own conclusions. This kind of film that insists on "self-digestion" objectively will inevitably lead to the artist's creative activities only recording the daily "life flow" fairly and objectively, regardless of the plot of the work. So in the film Stream of Life, the connection of time is interrupted, and everything in the world seems to be falling apart. The aesthetic view of this kind of movies is that life is not necessary.

The representative work of the film "Stream of Life"

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Directed by Fran? ois Truffaut

It can be seen that "life stream" and "stream of consciousness" are not the same thing, but completely opposite things: one advertises "objectivity" and the other emphasizes "subjectivity". However, they all achieved the same goal. The former reflects trivial and accidental things that have no objective regularity of life, while the latter reflects the chaotic visual image produced by the subconscious mind. Since the life reflected is chaotic, people's thoughts are illogical, and of course there is no structure at all, so both of them reject the plot, which is puzzling.

This type of film reached its peak in the mid-1960s, and then gradually declined. One of the reasons is the lack of real artistic vitality.