Film Review The Mountain, The Man and the Dog

Mountains, people, dogs, roads, life.

Movies are often the product of considerable tension and elasticity. A slight deviation in the theme expressed by a movie will make the corresponding audience smaller. For example, when Sin City and Pulp Fiction are released, you will definitely not buy them. However, there is a kind of movie that absolutely attracts everyone's support-such as family movies like the mountain, the man and the dog.

A young man who failed in the college entrance examination reluctantly returned to his original small mountain village and reluctantly took over his father's job. Began to follow my father and started the first post road with reincarnation.

I originally said that this is equivalent to China's "road film" or "mountain film". The story continues as the father and son wade through mountains and rivers. The gap between father and son is melting away. You sit quietly in the cinema, in front of you are pictures that moisten the water and silent love between father and son. Touched, yes.

About photos. . . . . .

It is said that Jianqi Huo was born as an artist, so it is not difficult for you to understand why this film includes all the mountains and Shui Ying. On the night when Miss Dong appeared, the picture was exquisite and blooming to the extreme. If the green hills and bamboos in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Ang Lee can be regarded as a scholar's elegance and pride, and the background of waterside pavilion fighting in Hero by Zhang Yimou implies the free and easy life and contradiction, then I want to say that the background of this film by Jianqi Huo has the amorous feelings of a small family and the texture of life.

This is a quiet movie, there are no heroes to save hostages, no car chases on the highway or sci-fi tricks where you eat nano-me and get cloned. For no reason, you must be patient after listening to the movie. So the picture language also serves the film content in this way.

On contradiction and balance. . . . . .

There was a contradiction between father and son, but this contradiction was finally solved. The relationship between father and son has experienced four levels. When going out, the father saw his son and his wife say goodbye intimately, which was lovely and jealous. When they started on the road, the son and his father walked far away. The son walked carelessly all the way, singing along with the radio, while the father kept reminding his son to pay attention to the mountain road under his feet.

They went into a village and sent a letter to Wupo that was sent regularly but didn't exist. This is the sublimation of the first level.

After entering Dong Village, they met Dong girls and attended Dong wedding. Father and son implicitly talked about love here. So far, it is also the second level.

Finally, the son insisted on carrying his father across the river. The father found that his son didn't know when he had grown strong and tall, so he began to pinch his son. This is the third level.

Finally, when crossing the storm bridge, the letters took off and fell, and the father, son and dog collected them together. This is the last level.

In the contradiction between father and son, there is a third person involved, the son's beautiful mother. The son complained that his father always told his mother to wait at home. Father slowly showed his love for his mother. The constant appearance of the son's monologues and the avoidance of the father's memory in the film avoid the mother's tedious narration and make the morphemes condensed and simple.

Another pair of contradictions is the contradiction between the son and the lifestyle in the mountains. My son sought a kind of self-identity in the world beyond the mountain, but he didn't find it. The gap between the environment in the mountains and the sense of identity he sought has caused contradictions. Finally, I passed my father's journey of delivering letters with ceremony. Finally, this contradiction reached a balance.

I also want to talk about the contradiction between father and the outside world. This idea is the genius of this film. Father is the product of the depths of the mountains, pure, without any scheming. He is one-way insulated and opposed to the world outside the mountain. But interestingly, at the end of the film, the son blames his father for accepting the concept of the world outside the mountains and tells his father to pay attention to getting along with the villagers. Father complained: the mountain is still so complicated. The son gave an unexpected answer: "Life is complicated". The father found that his son had actually grown up. So my father kept silent. Accept it silently.

Here three pairs of contradictions are intertwined. All three pairs of contradictions finally reached a balance.

About the meaning of the journey. . . . . .

This is a lonely journey with no scenery to see. The film only captures the image of the father and son's three-day journey. But this journey definitely has a different meaning.

This journey is a ritual trek for the father to familiarize his son with the future postal work. After this long journey, my son will be the real heir. My father will also retire. My father trudged on the mountain road for decades, and his retirement was miserable, but he was not sad, but he just showed a little nostalgia at the end. The film doesn't talk about "sadness" here. After this long journey, the father will retire and the son will inherit the job. This kind of maintenance and inheritance is meaningful in the journey of this ceremony.

This journey is the son's copy of his father's life and the father's repetition and summary of his own life. It turns out that my son has never walked so far with his father. During this trip, he realized his father's hard work and his silent love for him and his mother. He will live like his father in the future. This is a copy of my father's life. When my father walked the mountain road for the last time, he kept recalling the past, and all the bits and pieces appeared vividly. However, such a life will no longer exist in the future. So this is a replay and summary.

This journey is still a cycle and continuation. I have to come back from home when I go out. The father has trudged on the road for decades, and the son will continue to trudge. My son has been to the world beyond the mountain, and now he has returned to his original place. As my father said in the film: Why do mountain people like to live in the mountains? It's like putting their feet in shoes. A son is the cycle and continuation of his father's life and work. The proposition of the film is emphasized again here, about the living state of human beings.

About some of my favorite scenes. . . . . . .

As I said at the beginning, the movie is Hamlet, and there are as many Hamlets as there are people watching it. Here are some clips that I find interesting.

When the son and father were about to start their journey, the son said goodbye to his mother affectionately, but ignored his father. His father said angrily and jealously, "mom, mom, I was so close!" " ".Father's simple and honest and lovely appearance stands out.

Secondly, when my father met a beautiful Dong girl in the Dong village, he said to his son, "Every time I go into the mountain, I think of you as long as I see her;" I said to myself, if one day my son sees you, he will definitely stop moving. "This is the first time that father and son discuss love. What my father said was implicit and frank. The son answered with examples of his mother and father, complaining a little. By this time, the father and son were getting closer and closer.

Miss Dong smiled innocently and told her son: Fasten the bowl on the radio. This is the stereo. My son is slow. The girl broke her son's sudden feeling in the mountains. Seeing this, I can't help laughing.

In the paragraph of delivering letters to Wupo, the son was crossed by his father, and the father and son were receiving letters. Almost every paragraph was a small climax. There are many such bright spots in the film, but it doesn't mean that it is a film that pays attention to small things to win. What really makes this movie successful is the smooth and natural tone.

In this movie, although the name is Na Shan, Man and Dog, the dog is only regarded as an anthropomorphic walk-on. There is much less to render.

I don't know if it's because I watched this movie for a long time, so I almost watched it purely objectively, so I lacked a lot of aesthetic feeling in the language.

The mountain, the man and the dog.

The rain is silent, so is the wind.

Lu is nurturing and you are resting.

Rough hands and tired feet.

Hair is messy and quiet.

The disturbing dreams outside are continuous.

I am attached, and you are waiting.

The song is still singing, and the world has changed.

I always want to stay away. You are still very quiet.

That mountain, that man, that dog, very literary name. I first heard it from Hu Kan, an irrelevant communication teacher. I don't want to see these two or three years suddenly pass. Popular sentence patterns that were fashionable in those days are rarely mentioned now. Running around the career often makes people tired, and there is no time to have leisure time for divergent reading like in college. Even the time to calm down and watch a movie is so precious. So I am afraid that I will encounter those bad words and images, which will ruin a good mood for the evening.

Fortunately, this film, praised by friends as a favorite, is good. After reading it, I can't help but regard Xiangxi, which was originally mystified in Mr. Shen Congwen's Border Town, as a kind of "exotic" amorous feelings. The whole movie is beautiful and poetic, full of green and warmth, and flows quietly with the swaying images. It's like painting a long scroll with ink freehand brushwork, chanting Tao and Xie's pastoral poems. After that, your body and mind are purified, and you can't help feeling refreshed, humiliated and forgotten.

This is almost a paradise that has survived under the iron hoof of modern industrial civilization, with lush green hills, bright eyes of springs, fog and smoke from kitchen chimneys. A postman who is about to retire, with his son, shuttles through the postal route he has traveled thousands of times, blending in with the environment. They were born and raised in Sri Lanka, and the handover ceremony began at dawn. There is no shocking revelation, no earth-shattering events, only walking, which is not only a basic fact, but also seems to be a clear clue, connecting their own memories, experiences and the lives of those recipients.

It is precisely because of the strong local flavor revealed in the film from beginning to end that those ordinary, simple and sincere stories touched us. The father's image is traditional. In our minds, my father is like this, running around for a living all the year round. Therefore, the father is strange and stern, used to look up and admire, and even scary. And the mother represents the traditional image of persistence and waiting. Mothers and children are naturally linked, so mothers are easy, kind and diligent. There are subtle differences in distinguishing children's feelings for their parents.

The image of a son is also traditional. At first, the son was alienated from his father, and the generation gap reached the point where he refused to call "dad". This time, the son inherited his father's career, but it gave him a chance to get to know his father as a postal worker. Liu Ye, who plays his son, is not as handsome as Chen Kun, but with a vicissitudes of life, tenacity, simplicity and loveliness.

Father and son waded through mountains and rivers step by step, and their hearts approached step by step. Countless touching details touched our sensitive hearts. When the son carried his father across the river, his father shed tears of emotion, but in the face of his son, he pretended to cover up the past calmly; The son stared at his father's lonely back at the top of the mountain and smiled knowingly; When the father was chasing the letter that was blown away by the wind, the son cried to him with concern; The son washed his feet with his father and put his legs on his father's legs like a sleeping child. His father gave a generous and loving smile. And the look on the father's face when he finally watched his son leave alone and pushed the dog in the direction of his son. The feelings expressed between men are undoubtedly more subtle and profound. The mutual understanding between two men finally meets in the understanding of the woman they also love deeply: mother. The last sentence "She is not easy" is full of affection and understanding.

I like the memories of my father interspersed in the middle of the story The love between my young father and mother is really lovely. Those beautiful pictures created by light and shadow are reminiscent of the image language of Iwai. The endless old topics and stories are irreplaceable classics and eternity. It even makes people feel that the film deliberately mixes the characters and stories that best reflect the cultural charm. A serene grandmother, a simple rural teenager and a beautiful Dong girl are all waiting quietly, a letter, a person or a new world. How full of energy is a life full of hope.

I am not surprised by those who criticize the closed small-scale peasant thought and patriarchal authority, and those who claim to hold feminist beliefs. They will jump out and take pains to emphasize those cliches. However, it is against our will to raise these objections to the mountain, the man and the dog. Every time we talk about life with people, our ideal life mode can't escape from Laozi, Zhuangzi and Zen, and we can't escape from returning to the fields and hiding in the mountains.

This film is full of philosophical questions about lifestyle itself. Isn't the son's doubt the same as the spectator's?

-Why do mountain people live in the mountains? Legend has it that people in the mountains are descendants of immortals, but my mother said that because people live in the mountains, it is as comfortable as putting their feet in shoes.

-father said: the human heart is more tired than the legs.

-Isn't it boring for rural postmen to walk so much all day? Father said that thinking is not boring. It is ideal to think bigger.

I really want to live poetically in this land with a calm heart. As Heidegger said, "live on the earth with labor", "live on the earth with skill", "live on the earth with freedom", and especially "live on the earth with aesthetic attitude". Here, my father's plain language has made everything clear.

An Interpretation of the Oriental Movie "The Mountain, the Man and the Dog"

Title: The mountain, the man and the dog.

Director: Jianqi Huo

Starring: Teng Ye Chen Hao

Screenwriter: four or five

Original: Peng Jianming

Producer: Li Chunhua

Photography: Zhao Lei

Artist: Song Jun

Music: Wang Xiaofeng

Awards: 1999 Golden Rooster Award for Best Drama and Best Actor Award.

Canada Montreal Film Festival's Most Popular Film Award

Peking University Student Film Festival Best Actor Award

Shanghai Film Critics Association Top Ten Best Film Awards of the Year

200 1 Japan Daily Film Award won the first place in the Best Foreign Language Film Award.

That mountain, that man and that dog is a movie full of artistic conception, which fully shows the oriental mood and cultural connotation, so I think that that is the man and that dog should be a representative oriental movie.

When watching the movie "That Mountain, That Man and That Dog", looking at the beautiful scenery of Xiangxi and the story in the movie will make people think of Shen Congwen's articles. Although the film "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog" shows Xiangxi in a way that is not as simple and moving as the words written by Shen Congwen, the performance of the film and the expression of the words are different after all, so in my opinion, the beauty of Xiangxi and the way of telling stories shown in the film "That Mountain, That Dog" are still aesthetic.

From the information I have found, it can be seen that the film "That Mountain, That Man and That Dog" did not cause much repercussions in the domestic market after shooting. Not even a film company is willing to release it, and only one copy has been sold in China. On the contrary, this film is very popular in Japan and has achieved good box office results. Some people say that this film is a flower inside the wall, but it smells good outside the wall, which may have a lot to do with the fact that China film distributors only pay attention to commercial blockbusters in recent years. Although the lack of attention of the distributor made the audience not know the film in time to some extent, I found that there are still many people in China who like the film when I looked up the materials. A few years ago, after the film was broadcast on CCTV, many people expressed their love for it. The first time I saw this movie was when it was broadcast on CCTV. After watching it for the first time, I was very moved and liked the style of the film. In the plain narrative, I showed a beautiful style. This time, because of writing a film review, I found this film and watched it carefully twice. I think this movie is different from many commercial blockbusters today. It is a very unforgettable movie.

Next, I will analyze the film from the narrative style and the use of lens language, and talk about my own views on this film.

First, the narrative style of the film

The Mountain Man and the Dog tells the story of a father and son. As a rural postman who is about to retire, my father has been delivering letters in the vast mountains all his life. Because of illness, his son had to take over the job of delivering letters. When my son sent a letter for the first time, my father was not at ease, so he embarked on the journey of sending letters with his son. In the process of delivering this letter, the gap between father and son for many years was eliminated. The young son finally understood the hardship and significance of his father's work as a postman for decades, and his father also understood his son's waiting and helplessness for so many years. As a result, the contradiction between father and son was resolved between green mountains and green waters.

The movie "That Mountain, That Man and That Dog" was launched with the resolution of the contradiction between father and son. At the beginning of the film, there was a contradiction between father and son that had been precipitated for more than 20 years. This contradiction is caused by the fact that my father has been sending letters outside for many years and has not communicated enough with his son. In the process of father accompanying his son to deliver letters, this contradiction has been solved, and the solution of this contradiction has a gradual process. At the beginning of the film, we can see that the son and father are far apart on the road, but at the end of the film, the son and father are very close. From my own analysis, the film mainly lets my son know his father better through the following things. The first time I just entered the village, I was at the village secretary's house. The village party secretary said: "All teachers, doctors, savers and public security personnel who come to us from outside can be model workers and cadres. Just you, just walking, for so many years ... "From the mouth of the village secretary, the son knew his father's hardships and efforts for so many years. After the village secretary left, the son asked his father why. In his father's answer, the son learned more about his father. When they leave, all the people in the village come out to see the new postman, which should also let the son know the respect he has gained as a postman and have a new understanding of his father's work as a postman. After that, my son's understanding of his father gradually deepened, and the estrangement between father and son for many years was also eliminated. For example, his father sent a letter to Wupo to comfort her, and the villagers specially set the wedding on the day when his father entered the mountain. The villagers threw ropes to prevent his father from rolling down the mountain again, and the nearby villagers spontaneously filled the postal road with water. Movies should be a good way to bridge the gap between father and son in a progressive way.

Narratively, the film The Mountain, The Man, The Dog is narrated in the first person. Traditionally, if there is a stream of consciousness flashback in the first-person narrative film, it can only show the narrator's subjective consciousness. But in the movie "The Mountain, the Man, the Dog", there have been flashbacks of the father's subjective consciousness under the guidance of his son's narrative more than once. Although this way is somewhat inconsistent with the first-person narrative film, it will not give people a messy feeling, and the audience will not feel that the cloth is smooth. This may be related to the theme of the film. What the film wants to express is the process of repairing the rigid feelings between father and son on the way to deliver letters, and the repair of this feeling requires the joint efforts of father and son. Therefore, it is more objective and reasonable to insert the lens of father's memory into the narrative mode of the first-person son, which makes the restoration of father-son relationship more objective and reasonable.

Second, the use of lens language in movies.

1, the color of the film

What makes people deeply influenced in the film is the natural beauty of Xiangxi. When showing the natural beauty of Xiangxi, natural colors are well used. What impressed people in the movie was endless green. The green fields and mountains and rivers give people a sense of tranquility and simplicity, and create a beautiful artistic conception. In addition to the extensive use of green, the use of golden light in the evening also fully shows the beauty of nature.

2 the use of lighting effects in movies

When shooting outdoors, the film uses more natural lighting effects, while when shooting indoors, it uses more dramatic lighting effects.

The use of natural lighting effects when staying in nature fully embodies the beauty of nature and the director's intention to conform to nature. For example, when father and son walk in the fields in the morning and evening, they use the natural light effect.

In the use of drama light effect, it is mostly used indoors. For example, when a father helps his son pack a package, he uses dramatic lighting. When the light hits the face of a character, it can depict the expression and psychology of the character in more detail. In addition to this paragraph, at the end of the film, when the son tells his father what to pay attention to when returning to the village, he uses orange lights. The use of this light effect not only depicts the expression and psychology of the characters, but also implies the elimination of the gap between father and son and the improvement of mutual understanding. At this time, the use of lighting effects has been integrated into the narrative of the film.

3. The spatial composition of movies

In the movie "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog", the director showed us two spatial forms with the lens, one is an open natural space, and the other is a closed indoor space.

When shooting nature, the director shows an open natural space. If you use a fixed lens, the first lens is that the father and son's hats appear from the foot of the mountain, then enter the lens and walk away. Another outstanding thing is that after meeting Miss Dong, three people crossed the field, and the camera zoomed farther and farther, and the last three people gradually disappeared into the vast field. The use of these lenses can make the audience better integrate into the artistic conception of the film and highlight the characteristics of the film.

Compared with the open natural space, the director's part in the shooting room presents a closed indoor space. For example, when the father is helping his son pack a parcel, and the son explains to his father what to pay attention to when returning to the village, they are all filmed indoors, showing a closed space.

4, the use of the lens in the movie

The use of many shots in the movie "That Mountain, That Man and That Dog" has a deep influence on me. For example, using depth-of-field lenses and slow-motion lenses.

In the use of depth-of-field lens, for example, at the beginning of the film, the father receives the package for his son at the front desk, the father and son talk, and the mother cooks outside the backstage. Using such a depth-of-field lens can not only make the main characters appear at the first time, but also clearly explain the relationship between several main characters. In addition, the depth of field lens in the film is mostly used for the changes between roads, close shots, distant shots and middle shots. In the lens, the characters are getting closer and closer from the top left of the picture. At this time, the lens has completed the conversion from the distant view to the close view, while the camera is still, and the lens rotates with the movement of the characters, and the characters go further and further, and the lens has completed the conversion from the close view to the distant view.

In the use of slow motion, the most obvious thing is when my father is chasing the letter that was blown away by the wind. The use of slow motion here profoundly shows my father's professionalism as an old postman, and this scene also deeply touched my son. In addition, the slow motion in the film is mostly used in unforgettable scenes, such as the scene where the mother and son are waiting for their father to return, and the scene where the father is carrying his young son shopping, all of which are expressed in slow motion. Using slow motion in a memorable scene can show a sense of history and play a good role in expressing the long-lasting feelings in the hearts of characters.

In addition to the above analysis, the film also has some shortcomings. First, the director may not be familiar with rural life, and when he shows some details, it is different from the real rural life. For example, when the father and son walk into the village, the villagers they meet will ask if there is any letter from their own family, but this is not shown in the film.

Secondly, in the use of music, although the film's light music is well used, there are problems in the use of some popular music. For example, "That's why you walked away" broadcast in the film, 1995 was released, but it appeared in the film of the 1980s, which has to be said to be a mistake.

From the above analysis, we can see that although there are some mistakes in details, the film "That Mountain, That Man and That Dog" has a strong oriental color in terms of artistic conception, style and expression, so I think this film should be one of the representatives of oriental films.