How to analyze the film structure

Writing a film review is divided into three parts. First, write about the director, actors, main plot and ideological theme of the film you want to write.

Second,

analyze the advantages of the film from the perspective of the film.

You can use the lens, describe the film screen, color and characters, etc.

Finally, summarize the film.

I suggest. A film involves a wide range of aspects and needs a lot of comments. This requires thinking about the film repeatedly, feeling it again with your heart, grasping the most touching place in the film, and making it sublimate rationally in your own pen. If you watch Titanic, you can't simply tell this love story, but you should feel the light of human nature from the test of the protagonist's life and death.

be creative and dig deeper. Writing film reviews should be original, have original opinions, grasp the main points and be spontaneous. To be innovative, first, we should grasp the content of the film and buy it now in combination with Taiwan society; Second, we should accurately grasp the spiritual essence of the film and tap the profound connotation contained in the film itself. For example, the analysis of Zhang Yimou's films should be based on the background of the times, but it is not necessary to analyze them from the perspective of ideological significance. For example, the image-building of Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's films and the male image in Zhang Yimou's films are all areas that can be explored.

Analyze and evaluate according to the facts. Movies express their themes, shape characters and express their feelings through artistic means, so film critics should pay attention to the analysis of film art. This analysis should be specific and detailed, from the outside to the inside, with substance in words; The evaluation should be clear-cut and realistic. In the art evaluation, the film consciousness permeates between the lines, and it is necessary to have a deep feeling and rational grasp of the film art to use the terminology of the film art as properly as possible. This can be solved by reading books on film theory and appreciating excellent films. Every year, the American Academy Awards and film festivals all over the world provide us with such an opportunity. Although we can't visit the country in person, we can understand the dynamics through various media and capture the latest information on the development of world movies.

Film criticism writing can be long or short, focusing on a shot of a film or a film phenomenon.

The language should be simple and personalized. When writing film reviews, you must tell the truth, speak your own words, and don't copy other people's comments. Only one's own feelings and simple language can make one's comments full of individuality and originality, and also bring fresh feelings to readers.

the narrative should be combined and the comments should be highlighted. The most intuitive and sensible thing about movies is that film criticism cannot be separated from narration. But don't tell too many stories, and focus on analyzing, writing and commenting on

film seeking for guns

film evaluation

Searching for guns has twists and turns, which combines many performance elements such as suspense films, thrillers and psychological horror films, and interprets the living dilemma and psychological world of ordinary people from a brand-new perspective. It is the first film written and directed by Lu Chuan, and it took three years to be finally completed. As a director born in the 197s, his understanding of the film makes the overall style of the film give people the feeling of a Hollywood film, and the film is quite innovative in visual language, showing the audience a border town with ancient customs, which is empty, clean and surreal. The participation of the famous actor Jiang Wen is a highlight of the film, and his thoughts on the inner world of the characters in this film are widely recognized and praised.

The remarkable thing about "Looking for a Gun" is that it may be a watershed, representing a group of young people who have been influenced by the DVD and started knocking on the door of mainstream movies outside the strict production system.

Fan Yiping's Looking for a Gun was completed in the spring of 1998 and published in the fourth issue of October in 1999. Later, it was adapted into a script and directed by young director Lu Chuan. The film tells the story of Mashan, a small town policeman, who suddenly found the gun missing, and he had to report it to the director. The incident of losing the gun shocked the public security bureau and the town. At this time, Annabel Lee, Mashan's ex-girlfriend who married in Guangzhou, came back and lived with Zhou Xiaogang, a local rich man who made fake wine. In the process of searching for a gun in Mashan, Annabel Lee was killed by it. So Mashan understood that someone was going to shoot Zhou Xiaogang with this gun, and dressed as Zhou, he attracted the gun thief, Liu stammer, who sold mutton powder. He stole the gun to avenge Zhou Xiaogang for poisoning his family with fake wine. The gun was found, and Mashan finally died with it.

Director Lu Chuan has repeatedly stressed that the theme of this film is about searching: Mashan, a policeman, looks for the lost gun; Mashan's wife looks for the lost passion; Mashan's son looks for the enlightenment of male and female sexuality; Liu stutters for the justice in his mind, and so on. However, I believe that every audience will try to find the potential motivation for the film to make them excited and confused. According to Gadamer's hermeneutics theory, the meaning of a text can only be expressed when it is "integrated with the horizon" of the interpreter's "preconceptions", so different people may experience different meanings when reading the same text because they have different "preconceptions".

Mr. wangyi believes that the "gun" in the film is a symbol of police identity for Mashan, and it is also an important proof of the existence of social system and legal order in a mountainous town. The gun in the desolate border town in the film actually has no practical use and has nothing to do with the local society. The biggest trouble caused by the loss of guns in Mashan is confined to Mashan and the Public Security Bureau, because the loss of guns means the loss of the symbolic existence of the social system. The process of looking for guns is the process of restoring social authority in a remote town. Therefore, in a sense, what is lost is important, and the outcome or even the process of finding it is not important. The story of looking for a gun on the surface and the story of stealing a gun in secret have become a subversion and maintenance of the symbolic power of "gun"

Mr. wangyi's interpretation is very original, and his focus is on the loss and search process of national authority represented by "gun" and its legitimacy problems. Because for a small town in Guizhou, the power of modern state system is a force imposed from the outside, a top-down transplanted order, which is incompatible with local resources because it is separated from the local, and its legitimacy is not built on the soil of local society. This is exactly what Su Li pointed out in his analysis of the films story of qiu ju and The Defendant Mountain Gangye.

Although the whole filming technology makes it easier for the audience to stay out of it and watch it coldly, and the film language is humorous, the author is more concerned about the tragic plot of the whole film-the tragedy of Mashan's split role and the tragedy caused by Liu stuttering's search for justice.

Let's start with the split role of Mashan. In the film, Mashan appears in at least three identities: one is a member of the family-husband and father; Second, members of the local acquaintance society-Zhou Xiaogang's "Mashan Brothers" and "Laoshujing" comrades-in-arms; The third is the legal owner of the "gun"-the "symbol" of state power and the agent. It can be said that none of Mashan's three roles is successful.

First of all, Mashan is not a qualified husband and father. His police work is in deep contradiction with his life. Busy with work, you neglect your family. If another reason is that I am obsessed with my old lover and dissatisfied with my wife, burying my head in work has become an excuse to escape from my family. At the beginning of the film, his wife's complaint about his "ignoring children" and the conflict with children and his wife in Mashan's gun search all started this contradiction. When the couple had sex, he was impotent because he was worried about the gun, which represented the intensification of contradictions. In the whole film, Mashan is very cold to his family and his wife, so there is his wife's classic sentence that makes people feel very funny: "... I know in my heart that you have long lost love for me!" He seldom asks about his son's education; Occasionally, the education method is also very simple, which doesn't match the quality that a people's policeman should have. That's why his wife complained and his son taught Lao Tzu: "I remind you, it will be helpful for you to study this book well in the future ... Don't hit me after you come out, never! Did you hear that? " Mashan confessed to his wife, "I know … I work too much … I may not be a good husband or a good father, but I have never done anything wrong to you." However, does a son and wife only ask for "not to do anything sorry"? Finally, before pretending to be Zhou Xiaogang, Mashan returned the glass ball to his son and sent flowers to his wife, which seemed to be a return to family ties. In fact, this does not mean that the contradiction has eased. On the contrary, the contradiction has intensified to the climax: impersonating Zhou Xiaogang and risking his life to lure the gun thief, which, of course, is the duty of doing his job, but it has also completely left his family behind. Therefore, the gift for children and wives is not so much a gesture of reconciliation as an appropriate last words. He went from an incompetent husband and father to a complete dereliction of duty, leaving his wife a widow and his son without his father.

Secondly, Mashan is not a qualified member of the local acquaintance society. The local acquaintance society is a community with close interpersonal relationships and less turnover. People bow their heads but don't look up, and they need to rely on each other to help them overcome some unpredictable events. Therefore, individuals have a strong sense of attachment to family and social relations. The so-called "relying on parents at home and friends when going out". The moral elements of pushing friends are loyalty and friendship. What is the so-called "being unfaithful for others"? Make friends without believing? " "The Lord is faithful, and he who has no friends is not as good as himself." After the gun was lost, Mashan cast suspicious eyes on friends and even relatives: brother-in-law Liang Qingshan, rescuer Lao Shujing, comrade-in-arms Chen Jun, and comrade-in-arms brother Zhou Xiaogang ... This is obviously contrary to the moral elements of acquaintance society. In his eyes, everyone has the possibility of stealing guns, and they are trying to hide or escape something. It seems that everyone has the desire to steal. Mashan, in the confusing, tortuous and blind collision, destroyed the relational norms of acquaintance society and became a lonely walker in a nightmare. Therefore, the rescuer "Old Tree Essence" roared angrily: "You actually doubt me! Lao Tzu saved your life on the battlefield! " In the film, Zhou Xiaogang treats Mashan, a brother's comrade-in-arms, as a "buddy" (although there may be elements of curry favor with "power"), buys bulletproof vests for Mashan, and treats him as "one of his own" when searching fake wineries at the police station. When the public security personnel warned Zhou Xiaogang of personal danger and asked him to provide evidence of fake wineries, Zhou turned to Mashan: "Brother Mashan, if this matter is told, will it be more troublesome?" I didn't regard Mashan as a policeman in the police station that was in opposition to myself at that time, but Mashan was no different from other policemen in attitude and didn't regard Zhou as a "buddy" at all.

Thirdly, Mashan is also unqualified in the state power system. Mashan is a policeman, although in the process of "losing the gun-looking for the gun-getting the gun", he experienced a self-redemption process of "dereliction of duty-hard work-dereliction of duty", that is, the successful redemption of the legitimacy of his "power symbol". However, the dereliction of duty itself, the irreparable loss and the possible loss have caused the inevitable bad influence. Even if self-salvation is realized, Mashan can no longer prove itself to be a qualified "power symbol". The police chief's description of possible losses was impressive, and he said some of the most interesting lines in the whole film. He was shocked when he learned that it had been 2 hours since he lost his gun: "Twenty hours! By car, I have arrived at the provincial capital! I arrived in Beijing by train! I flew to America! I don't care about things in the United States. If the gun flows to Beijing, how much harm will you do to the party and the country! " When I learned that there were still three bullets in the gun, I exclaimed: "There are three bullets in the gun, which means three lives; If you encounter a professional killer, one shot and two are six lives, six lives! " This exaggeration greatly infected and shocked Mashan. When he repeated this sentence to Chen Jun, he played a self-expression: "If you beat three people with one shot, it will be nine lives!" In the eyes of state power, the possible harm of losing a gun is immeasurable! Although the gun didn't actually go to the provincial capital, Beijing or a professional killer, it only caused the death of Annabel Lee in the small town, which is enough to show that Mashan is not qualified as a "symbol" of state power.

Let's look at the tragedy of Liu stuttering for justice. The main line of the whole film is Mashan's "seeking", which is just a bright line, and another hidden line is Liu stuttering's "seeking", looking for justice in his heart, from "stealing a gun" to accidentally injuring innocent people twice. If the gun is a symbol of state power, Mashan's "seeking" is to prove his legitimacy as a symbol of state power and to safeguard state power; Then Liu stuttering's "stealing" is a question of state power and an attempt to subvert the legitimacy of state power, which is also the tragedy of Liu stuttering.

Mashan's maintenance of state power is a consistent behavior, which has influenced his thoughts and daily behavior, and is not limited to the process of looking for a gun after it is lost. For example, when he and his comrade-in-arms Chen Jun recalled the details of his sister's wedding that night when they lost their guns, several people (adults, not children) lay on the fence of the yard and watched. When he found out, he shouted, "Go down! Get out! " This rude attitude can't be said to be a natural expression of the sense of "privilege" formed by acting as a "symbol of power" in state institutions for a long time. Then there are sufficient reasons to regard the frustration of losing a gun as the frustration after the loss of a "symbol of privilege" and the fear of the possible adverse consequences of losing a gun as the fear of losing privilege. Another scene can also prove this point. When Mashan's wife learned that the gun was lost, her immediate reaction was: "Something happened … will you be punished?" Can you still keep your job? " It can be seen from this that not only Mashan but also his wife yearns for and pursues state power and tries to be a "symbol" in it. Although this process has led to Mashan's neglect of the family, it seems acceptable for Mashan's wife. )

Another angle is that Liu stuttered "stealing guns" and accidentally hurt innocent people in an attempt to subvert state power. At the end of the film, this clue is hidden. In the end, when the gun thief came out, I believe every audience was surprised, because Liu stuttered was an honest worker and sold mutton powder. Until finally, when people finally realized that he was "misguided" by looking for justice in his mind, they all regretted it. "Drink fake wine xiao don't know? ... Zhou Xiaogang makes fake wine, you don't know, people who eat our family to death ... drink a lot of people to death, you want evidence, I don't want it, Zhou-Xiao-Gang-"When Liu stammered angrily, he also expressed his contempt for state power.

It is a tragedy that Mashan's role split due to the pursuit and maintenance of power, and it is another tragedy that Liu Jieba despises state power and tries to subvert it in order to seek justice. And all tragedies revolve around power. To continue to analyze this problem, we must combine the specific background of this power.

Although the exact time of the story is not stated in the film, we can easily see that the time is in recent years from the broadcast background of the title, the costumes of the characters in the play, the language style and the location. After the reform and opening up, in the process of state power infiltrating into the rural society, the villagers hope that through their own service to the country's construction (such as Mashan), state power can bring real improvement to their lives (such as Liu stuttering), thus maintaining a smooth and mutually beneficial relationship between the state and the villagers. But when the idea of state power operation and the life of villagers