Chapter 458 The world is so big, where can you stay?
A few days later, a group of people came to Hong Kong Island to officially shoot the film. Su Ze also met the legendary No. 1 photographer, Du Kefeng.
Although it is known as a B-level movie with many heavy tastes, Weng Ziguang has never thought of using these gimmicks to make movies like human-meat barbecued pork buns, selling all kinds of spectacles to attract attention.
It can be said that "In Search of Plum Blossoms" has the soul of an art film wrapped in a shell that seems to be a B-level movie with a bizarre gimmick.
From the beginning of the first scene, Su Ze saw Du Kefeng's unique aesthetics. In the scene of corpses being dismembered, the camera glowed with a dim green light, giving off a certain abnormal atmosphere.
In order to shoot this scene, Du Kefeng made many experiments. Later, he picked up a piece of glass from the ruins and shot with soft light through it. The dirty glass turned into a natural filter?
“Brother Ze’s look is so ugly this time!”
"Fortunately it won't be released in the mainland, otherwise..."
"The fans haven't scolded us to death yet!"
Listening to Xiaotong complaining in a low voice and looking at himself in the mirror who was thirty years older, Su Ze smiled.
The script is adapted from "The Tomb Raider" and contains enough commercial gimmicks, but the director tried his best to cut them down.
Tell you directly who the murderer is. Who would do this in a commercial film?
Just like what Xu Anhua did in "Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai", Weng Tse-guang is also constantly doing subtractions and anti-climax. Others have laid foreshadowing and set up suspense, but he did the opposite because that is not what he wanted.
Throughout the whole process, the audience is taken to explore the psychology of these characters behind this corpse case. What did they do before this? What were their social relationships like? What did they think?
Chapter 1 Looking for Plum;
Chapter 2 The Lonely Man;
Chapter 3: Trampling on blood;
Chapter 4 A room with a view.
However, each part does not adopt a relatively independent juxtaposition structure, but is mixed together. Reality and memories are intertwined, and the social relationships and psychological states of the characters are traced through unique film methods.
Very clever design!
Su Ze even thought of an acquaintance, Xing Yukun's Heart Maze.
Really being in Hong Kong Island and looking at the spring and summer in front of the camera, even Su Ze had to admit that this casting was a huge success.
He is innocent like a child, but lonely and desperate like a dying beast. He is innocent and stubborn, expecting and despairing at the same time.
The girl's big deer eyes and downturned mouth can only be highlighted on a big screen like a movie, and are more in line with the character's characteristics.
The perfect Wang Jiamei!
Another thing that surprised Su Ze was Weng Ziguang. As a director, he used cross-narrative techniques throughout the whole process, using a large number of flashbacks to intersperse the stories of each character in the current time and space, so that each character can have a different situation in the current time and space.
Reasonable causal relationship.
I have to say that such a narrative technique is not easy, especially for a newcomer, but Weng Ziguang perfectly grasps the independence and intersection of each character's main line, making the whole story well-organized and flexible.
Su Ze's eyes lit up.
Su Ze used to think that B-level movies, or a movie that adds eroticism and violence, would easily become unconventional, because these scenes can easily stimulate the audience's adrenaline, making it difficult for the audience to fully invest in the plot or even be in the same mood.
A state of renunciation.
But the most genius thing about Blood and Plum Blossoms is the use of erotic and violent scenes. Using such scenes to stimulate the audience's visual nerves makes the development of the entire story and the deep-seated thoughts expressed in the film more nakedly displayed in front of the audience.
and in the mind.
The character Zang Sir he created is the eyes of the audience, taking them step by step into the truth and exploring the unknown story behind the incident.
Under Du Kefeng's lens, there were men and women under the neon lights of this city, and there were also sentiments in the skirts of cheongsams. The loneliness in these shots was soaked in red wine and vinyl records.
But these are just beautiful impressions of this city. The scenes of walking in the snow in search of plum blossoms this time are true despair and alienation, and those erotic scenes did not even use a little red, yellow and green lights.
Close-ups of characters' faces, numbness, empty eyes, tears at the corners of the eyes, wooden houses without wallpaper, even the frozen lemon tea is gray...
In this city of seven million people, there is a sense of alienation due to crowding. Even my sister who sleeps in the lower bunk of Jiamei doesn't know where she goes every night.
In the small public housing, they are crowded together when going to the toilet. Four families are crowded into a small room, but they don't understand each other.
Even the intimate relationship in bed goes from irrelevant to irrelevant. This kind of alienation is like lovers who share the same bed and have different dreams. They cannot explain it, and it is slowly digested and slowly decayed.
In these real loneliness, personal struggle seemed too powerless. When she realized her powerlessness, Jiamei said, I want to die.
She doesn't have many lines. Although she has relatives, classmates, and "boyfriends" around her, Wang Jiamei in the camera always makes people feel lonely.
This loneliness reveals an identity crisis that exists in every corner of her life. Are the new immigrants Hong Kongers or mainlanders?
She seems to be trying hard to find an identity to rest her soul in. Failure after failure can only seal herself off and lead to true loneliness.
This actually reflects the common situation, identity, and even differences in work, study, and life of new immigrants, tearing apart the hearts of this group, penetrating from the material level to the spirit, forming a kind of anxiety, but loneliness is
its appearance.
The camera never conveys the grotesque beauty of the city; it focuses on the chambers, public housing units that look like prison cells.
The small and chaotic model agency, the streets surrounded by dilapidated houses, and the dark tones on the paving...
Su Ze finally knew that this was the real life scenario that these low-income young people faced every day.
After the return of China, the splendor of the oriental cities has gradually faded. The real estate hegemony can only allow them to live in a small room with an old woman. They lack vitality and hope and are either playing games or masturbating.
Weng Ziguang's ambitions are great, and "In Search of Plum Blossoms" is not a simple murder suspense film. In fact, it is more about describing a state of reality. Is the murderer just Ding Zicong?
wrong,
It is the loneliness and despair caused by society.
"We really found the right one this time!" Weng Ziguang looked at Su Ze in the camera and couldn't help but feel grateful for the wisdom of this cooperation.
Zang Sir wears glasses and has a gentle temperament, and he tries his best to treat his wife. Whether it is the victim's family or the suspect, he seems to be always forgiving, considerate and considerate.
Being so tired that you fall asleep in an extremely uncomfortable position at your desk makes people wonder if you are working so hard to support your family?
But it turned out that his only contact with his ex-wife was to pick up and drop off his daughter on her way to and from piano and painting lessons.
Judging from his indifferent and gentle face, which seemed to have compassion for all living beings, his beard and hair were all gray, and he was holding the cat left by the suspect to eat and sleep with him.
The densely packed clue photos under the dim light in the darkness seem to be the only life.
As a policeman, he seems too gentle, and he is so tolerant towards a murderer, but the most precise thing that hurts the audience's nerves is often hidden under the calmness.
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