How to define beauty?
In artistic modeling, the definition of beauty is mainly harmony;
In life, beauty is defined as beautiful;
In abstract ideology, beauty is defined as a resonance of physical and mental pleasure.
Under many definitions, there is a good-looking skin bag is the same, interesting soul of the saying, and I think the beauty comes from life, or from the public. This definition of contrast is somewhat unfair or biased, but there is a beauty that is thoroughly beautiful, and there is no need to argue or contrast in the face of this "beauty".
That's why I love this movie.
In Heaven's Day, Malik's screen space mainly recreates the texas farm in the first half of the 20th century. Since most of them are shot at dusk and sunrise, many scenes have a painting-like effect.
Despite its realistic tone, Heaven's Day is steeped in rich and indifferent lyrical colors. English Romantic poetry is the best combination of depictions of nature and personal lyricism.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > beautiful natural scenery</h1>
Innocence is used to reflect the cleanliness of the heart, the scenery of the outside world is used to set off the harmony, and the contrast with the real city is added, which is immediately highlighted, which is also the difference of the director's shooting method.
"Heaven's Day" recreates the oceanic undulating wheat fields of the Texas plains, the blooming buds, the laid-back herds of cattle, the girls walking among the lush deep grasses, and the crystal clear streams. The lyrical tones are a fusion of man and nature.
There's a close-up of Linda listening to the sound of dirt, and her childlike voiceover narrates her dream of becoming a dirt expert.
In addition, the Texas plains that Malik presents on the screen are unforgettable.
In the film, there are scarecrows in the open fields under the sunset, ears of wheat covered with dew, farmers working in the wheat fields in the morning light, geese flying south in the sky, and ripples on the surface of the lake blown by the wind, and the scenery of light and shadow intertwined is beautiful and overlooked.
By filming the Texas prairie in the morning light and sunset, Malik brings the audience an aesthetic experience and allows the audience to assimilate themselves emotionally with the characters in the film. Malik's screen presents mostly open spaces and visions: idyllic, subtle, objective and neutral, providing the audience with the freedom to imagine.
The abundance of people living in harmony with nature, "Heaven's Day", embodies the European Romantic value of placing the "countryside" above the "city": the countryside symbolizes nature and freedom is higher than the city that symbolizes corruption and loneliness. "Heaven's Day" embodies this set of binary opposing relationships shortly after the story begins.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="27" > urban poverty and poverty</h1>
The poor, repressive life of the city is first shown by a set of photographic pictures before the film officially begins.
Accompanying the subtitles is a group of portrait photographs of urban civilians. These emerging photographs, which depict pre-World War I American streetscapes and people, are about people living in that society, dilapidated.
Many of the characters shown in these pictures are not from the film. These photographic pictures with highly realistic colors, along with the subtitles, give the audience a kind of impact of reality and film intertwined.
There is a contradiction between reality and ideals, how to choose is not only the conflict point of the film, but also the contradiction of the current people, not so much that we live in this contradiction, but that we live in this contradiction.
The story That Malik is going to tell on the screen will be a realistic story. The next shot is of Abby picking up rags at the edge of the gutter. The camera then switches to a factory, roasted in a fiery red oven, filled with the roar of machines, and Bill is living in the refinement of the liquefied city of Chicago.
Soon after the film began, Bill began an escape from desperate and crippled city life. The endless wheat fields and beautiful idyllic scenery of the Texas plains gave him new hope, that is, it was only after returning to the countryside that Bill gave birth to a new dream: deciding to seek a better life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="42" > the "man and naturalism" behind the movie</h1>
In the same vein as European Romanticism, 19th-century American Transcendentalism also emphasized the relationship between man and nature, believing that nature can reflect the will and spirit of God. One of the transcendentalist credoes is: return to nature to find yourself, and nature can bring about spiritual healing.
The pastoral scene of Heaven's Day proves the influence of American surrealist philosophy on Malik. Yet Malik's view of nature is more complex than that of the Surrealists. Among the long-ranges that have photographed the farm scenery in large quantities, there are some close-up shots scattered throughout. These close-up shots of certain plants and animals in nature hint at some of the dangers that nature hides.
Shortly after Bill arrived at the farm, when life on the farm was just beginning to show hope, camera footage captured a close-up of grasshoppers. This most humble grasshopper will cause a disaster on this farm a year later.
While nature is friendly and kind, it also hides a dark and unpredictable face.
Bill and Abby, who has become the farmer's wife, meet at night, lying on their backs in the field in the early morning sky with a thin icy sun sneaking through the mist, and Malik's shot quickly switches to a wine glass sinking at the bottom of the river, lying quietly in the blue river. This is Malik's typical calm, indifferent film style.
Feelings are like an undercurrent, flowing silently in this film. Perhaps, the wine glass at the bottom of the river hints that Abby and Bill's love affair is about to enter a trough.
The background and landscape of "Heaven's Day" in the screen space often play a certain narrative function in the film. Nature seems to be God's spokesman for blessing people while also cursing and punishing people. The sudden arrival of insect plagues and fires symbolizes the wrath of God. The farmer confronts Bill and duels him, accidentally dying in self-defense, and bill dies at the hands of the police on the way to escape.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="47" >What is beauty? </h1>
The plot of Heaven's Day can be traced back to the story of the Bible.
The Bible's Book of Genesis records that before Abram went to Egypt with his wife, he feared that the Egyptians would leave her to kill him when they saw her beautiful appearance, so he persuaded her to claim to be his sister. In Egypt, Abram allowed Pharaoh to take his wife into the palace, and as his wife's "brother", he was not only able to save his life, but also received many possessions. As a result, the Lord was enraged and sent a plague to Pharaoh's entire family.
But the death of Bill and the farmer in Heaven's Day did not bring any salvation.
Although Bill has already repented, and although Bill has gained more knowledge about himself, the price he paid for his mistake was his own life. But "Heaven's Day" doesn't have any color. The characters simply merge with nature and interact. However, when the catastrophe of the day comes, nature is merciless and cruel.
When "Heaven's Day" recreates the scenery of nature for the audience, Malik allows the audience to fully enjoy the visual beauty. Some critics have pointed out that Malik's films worship nature and materialize it. It is this tension of pushing and pulling that drives the storyline forward.
Malik recreates the Texas Plains of the early 20th century in the United States in mysterious and lyrical colors, but the natural beauty on Malik's screen always serves the theme of the film, and there is never a situation of hustle and bustle. In Malik's screen space, man and nature are interdependent while competing with each other.
Presenting the beauty of the human heart with the beauty of nature, this movie is worth seeing.
Thank you for watching, paying attention to me, and learning more about it.