What do you think of Xiaogang Feng's shooting "I am not Pan Jinlian" with a circular composition?

First of all, this movie is not just a trailer, and the feature film "I am not Pan Jinlian" will adopt a circular format-is Xiaogang Feng crazy?

Xiaogang Feng gave a detailed answer in the master class of Toronto International Film Festival:

"Because this circle is not just a circle I cut in my usual images, all the compositions have changed, which is not suitable for close-up and translation, and the visual system has changed." Xiaogang Feng is well aware of the great challenges that circular picture frames bring to creation and appreciation. "With this' circle', I was besieged by the whole creative partner, and no one agreed except the photographer who stood on my side. When we were discussing together, why did I go out and slam the door in such a big fire? I just don't want to explain. There is no other reason. I just want to shoot this circle ... "

"Why do you want to take a round one? Because it has the feeling that a bystander and a third eye are observing, and secondly, the story is realistic, but somewhat absurd. This circle will also make you feel that there are some specious things between it and reality, and there are some absurd feelings. " The smaller the picture, the less the content, and the audience will unconsciously pay more attention and focus on the story that happened between the squares.

However, this treatment does give the film more allegorical characteristics, and the circles and squares just conform to the format of traditional Chinese painting.