The beauty of Cheng Er
I saw many people say before that they owe "The History of the Demise of Romance" a movie ticket. I also like Cheng Er's previous work "The History of the Demise of Romance". My friend said that after watching "The History of the Demise of Romance", I was a little confused, and if I didn't watch the analysis, I might miss this excellent film.
In fact, I think that watching Cheng Er's movies, you only need to experience the tone, grasp the beauty, and talk about something, don't care.
"Nameless" continues the beauty of "The History of the Demise of Romance", a cold, deliberately distanced beauty.
Whether it is Zhang Ziyi or Yuan Quan in "The History of the Demise of Romance", or Zhou Xun, Jiang Shuying, and Zhang Jingyi in "Nameless", they can always vividly reflect the charm of beautiful women in the Republic of China era. This is a tasteful perception of beauty.
Let's go back to the actor in the play. Before "The History of the Demise of Romance", have you ever seen such a calm and atmospheric Ge You?
This is where Cheng Er is powerful, he can make the actor perform the temperament he needs. Tony Leung's acting skills are undoubted, which are polished by decades of acting career, but "Nameless" as Wang Yibo's big-screen debut is very much beyond expectations, whether it is the blood splattered face with panic and can't hit the lighter, or the loss of control after hearing that the girl with a marriage contract was killed, and the teasing of Tony Leung at the prison gate at the end, all of them are remarkable.
Cheng Er loves to film food scenes too much. These popular characters in his play, if they don't have these eating scenes, they can't stand up, and these people tell us bluntly that these people in the play who are far away from us are all living people.
In Cheng Er's lens, there are not too many superfluous things, and all the pictures have a concise that can bring out the beauty and order of the theme characters.
The meaningful metaphors in Nameless
1. It is ironic that bomber pilots in the sky, two people and one dog, blue sea and sky, the scenery is beautiful, but they are the ones who destroy these scenery. Two people, one of whom also slept, laid the groundwork for their defeat. The dog named Roosevelt proved their contempt and insult to the United States, which foreshadowed the inevitability of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
2. The story told by Wang Chuanjun and Wang Yibo at the beginning is bloody and brutal. It got another manifestation when the Japanese army drank water. Well water is smelly. The four dirty things that can't be seen clearly are the four dead Japanese soldiers, and they are also victims of another time and space.
3. Among the ruins of Guangzhou City, there is a lame dog, but it was driven away by the soldiers of the national army while hiding from the rain. In fact, dogs are people, the Chinese people at that time, lame legs, injured. Cold rain is a cruel living environment. Everywhere the ruins are homeless. Had to take risks for the sake of stuttering. It is such a dog who lost his family in panic, but also had to be bullied by his own people (Wang Pseudo), and finally died tragically.
4. When the Japanese army buried people alive with cement, there was a young lamb bleating outside the window. The meaning is too obvious, Chinese it is the fish meat on the Japanese military board, but also the lamb waiting to be slaughtered.
5. The minister of the secret services (Dapeng) stands in the middle of the splicing of the Japanese flag and the Kuomintang flag, implying that he is a wall-riding faction, currying favor on both sides and profiting from it.
6. Wang Yibo ended up eating raw pickled live shrimp in Hong Kong. This is a very cruel practice, but Wang Yibo's eating method is even more cruel, he swallows the body of the shrimp alive with the shell. This is a metaphor for eating people without spitting out bones, and it also illustrates his living environment from the side, people are not ruthless and unstable, and they are not cold-blooded enough to survive in that living environment.
7. When Cheng Er told the story to Hong Kong, the first shot paid tribute to the Hong Kong photography master He Fan. The light and shadow of the underground sidewalk is the embodiment of his perception of the beauty of Hong Kong at that time.