How to understand the lens performance in Clouds Made of Rain in the Wind?

Why does the shaking lens appear in the clouds made of rain in the wind? Its term in the film is called "hand-held photography", which refers to a way for photographers to shoot movies with their hands/shoulders without installing their cameras on tripods or other stabilizers. This method purposefully abandons the pursuit of picture stability, achieves special effects or forms a certain style.

At the beginning, there was a lot of fog, ambiguity and lust. When a couple finds a body during sexual intercourse, the suspense tone of the film is set. Then cut to the open aerial photography of the city, and the lens passes through the layers of viaducts to narrow the village in the city, directly pushing into a real and chaotic scene of violence in the village in the city. Ruined cities and angry citizens, hypocritical officials and naive policemen, the high-speed moving lens brings out a lot of information, and the smooth movement of the lens attracts attention. The street fighting scenes that followed did not lose the brilliance of commercial blockbusters, especially the fighting scene in the car between Yang Jiadong and Jiang Zicheng, which gave people a sense of "weightlessness in space" similar to "200 1 A Space Odyssey".

In addition, the clever use of contrast montage also greatly improves the narrative efficiency of the film. For example, when introducing and discussing Tang's family history, the fast-paced editing staggered three character lines, which made you have no time to think, just like a gorgeous parallelism sentence. In the meantime, several groups of people were interspersed, and the perfect combination of motion and static produced a sense of rhythm, which made the audience feel dizzy while being shocked by the momentum.

When a photographer shoots by hand, he can use the camera to imitate the subjective viewpoint of the characters and increase the audience's sense of presence. When the camera follows behind the character or above the shoulder, its effect is equivalent to simulating the subjective lens because it is consistent with the direction of the character's line of sight. Therefore, it is generally believed that there is an important premise to strengthen the creative intention through hand-held photography, that is, its viewpoint should come from the living beings existing in the narrative space. In other words, this swaying image should be a subjective shot of some "living thing" in the plot, and inanimate matter will make the film lack the power of "swaying".