Introduction: This blank form of treatment makes the film produce uncertain emotional power, but it promotes the expression of emotion.
Focusing on the family relationship between three generations, the drama feature film "Love and Affection" takes the incident of "moving the grave for the father" as the starting point, telling the emotional difficulties of the three generations of grandmothers, mothers and daughters, and finding their character slices in a variety of ways, climbing out various life roles from the relationship network. At the same time, with a calm, simple, and objective record of the brushstrokes to try to depict a series of trivialities outlined by this incident, and the warm look back of the reconstruction of communication under the kinship and blood, as director Zhang Aijia said" "love and affection", the three women seem to be learning to jump out of self-bondage in this story, turn to love, and then go on a blind date.
1. Meticulous character writing
Grandma, mother and daughter are the different bearers of this "grave removal for the father" incident, and the brilliance between the characters slowly opens after the story unfolds, the stubborn grandmother who guards the grave, the mother who is paranoid about control, and the impetuous and aggressive daughter who symbolizes the younger generation. Director Zhang Aijia in dealing with the three roles, poured into the three era signs, individual writing is always hidden in the history writing and the era writing, in the grandmother's body, we see is bitter, waiting, old society and other adjectives with ancient meaning, and the old man's persistence, it seems that the progress of the times, like the virginity arch that was disgraced by the daughter has become the old obsession and baggage that should be abandoned.
In terms of visual processing, we also look for the scene of the grandmother through the daughter on a rainy day, as well as the dialogue between the daughter and the grandmother inside and outside the bathtub window, peeping out the inner cold and internal heat, and when the daughter joked to the grandmother that she was going to elope with her boyfriend, the rare response of the grandmother also represented the importance of love for the old man, she may not be because of the so-called old chastity and choose to keep it, at this time, the old civilization represented by the image of the grandmother has been questioned, but then, the grandmother went west to guard the grave. The pre-jurisprudential pointless efforts still seem to point to ignorant endorsements. The character structure of the elderly is three-dimensional in the continuous overthrow and disproof, which also makes the final old man's sentence "I don't want you." "It seems reasonable, and it also has a thousand weights."
In terms of relationship structure, the film is not only stuck to the sword-rattling and divisive relationship between the three characters, but broadens the broader network of relationships on top of this, from the daughter line to the boyfriend singer line, and the mother's situation as a teacher in the working environment, the film also outlines the personal life environment at the same time, but also because of the self-shackles of each character itself, or the cause of the self-growth trajectory.
In one of the interesting dialogues, that is, in the small quarrel between the daughter and her boyfriend in the hotel, the daughter yelled out in disgust, "Don't compare my mother with me", which also showed the lack of communication between parents and children in contemporary families. It is also this lack of no, which triggers the constant dispute between mother and daughter, and also alludes to the fact that contemporary young people in the state of family aphasia may also be afraid of becoming a mother, and the fatalistic gradually resembles the mother, and in the continuous contact, understanding and cognition between people, we seem to be able to peek out the precious emotions between people from the most simple lines and words, the warmth and simplicity of the relationship, which is the formation of non-blood family bonds.
2. Simple emotional narrative means
In order to impact the emotional power, the film chooses the ordinary life of the lens language and expression, in order to accurately transmit the emotional language, the film does not dominate the image, but in a state of half-retracted and half-released, restrained to transmit emotions. For example, at the end of the film, when the mother and father sit on the new car, the camera is placed in the back seat of the two people, the expression of the two people is covered by the angle, as the mother is moved until crying, the visual signal received by the audience is always mutilated, which also forces the audience to expand the space of self-imagination, this blank processing form makes the film produce uncertain emotional power, but boosts the expression of emotion.
Under the simple audiovisual language, the emotional unfolding of the film is not a single straight line of close and coherent cause and effect, but with the theme of love between people, it is constantly expanding to various networks, whether it is the vague friendship between the daughter's boyfriend Ada and Fa Xiao, or the rebellious student's "righteous deed" for him under the teacher's forced interview, these seemingly deviated from the main line of trivialities, in fact, emotionally fit with "love each other" and jointly launched the proposition of "people".
3. Warnings based on the context of the times
A major driving force for the progress of the film, that is, the modern media represented by television stations, in the film, the modern media constantly intervene in the news to report the event, representing the so-called official discourse or public media in the context of the new era. And in the expectation of her grandmother, she has become the image of a "righteous Taoist" who presides over justice, which also constitutes another kind of irony under the reporter's unscrupulous reporting behavior. Among them, the radio station, which should be the authoritative discourse, is careful to promote the confrontation between "mother and daughter" in front of the stage to win the eye-catching rate, and the daughter in the film also picks up the camera countless times, points at the old man, and in the tone of conversation, uses the official visual question behind the camera to examine the behavior of the grandmother, and under such scrutiny.
We can see the symbolic fresh camera Masayo along the questioning from the city, comparing the countryside where grandma is located as a defined object of the other, becoming a sympathetic, distorted consumer itself, Zhang Aijia wrote a small warning in the story through ironic means, the cold medium of the media symbol is the machine that understands the cold and warm of human feelings, they wander between various emotional problems, but coldly take the entertainment stance, as the negative teaching material of "love and love".
epilogue
The story plot of the film "Love and Affection" is, in short, about a contest over where the father's grave will end, the dispute and conflict between the grandmother and the mother, the story of the big house and the daughter of the second room competing for the cemetery, and finally the two sides compromised, and in the meantime, in addition to the story, we see the characters portrayed in vivid detail.