Just want to make the middle stick
Pass on the spirit
——Analysis of the ideological and political micro-film "Xiangxun"
"In order to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, find a faith. On December 21, the ideological and political micro-film "Xiangxun" filmed and produced by the Propaganda Department of the Liling Municipal Party Committee and the Liling Rong Media Center was officially launched. How to continue the red gene across historical time and space? "Xiangxun" seems to have entered a "new track".
The story of the film starts with a party class in the middle and young class of the Party School of the Liling Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China: a group of young cadres decide to pick up the heirloom of investigation and research by revisiting Mao Zedong's investigation of the peasant movement in Hunan. This film adopts the interpretation of time and space where history and reality intersect, and specifically presents the research and exploration of two generations. Among them, the male protagonist plays two people, who are not only Lin Xi in real time and space, but also Mao Zedong, a great man in historical time and space. This arrangement allows the audience to better substitute the perspective of the first-person "I" and follow the protagonist to re-walk Mao Zedong's investigation of the Hunan peasant movement.
Godard says that cinema has two hands, one Eisenstein (dramatic) and one Vertov (documentary), which are independent and contradictory, but together. The film crew of "Xiang Xun" obviously did not rush to make an either/or choice, they found the "cinematic" that happened when Mao Zedong visited the Hunan peasant movement in 1927 in the most "life" place, and re-carved "life" and "reshaped" "history" through "film".
Lin Xi's inner monologue is also the punchline of the whole film, although these narrations are not entirely related to the content of the picture, but this form of direct dialogue expands the object of speech, making it a kind of dialogue between the characters and the world, with the environment, and even with historical beliefs. Under this treatment, the great man's views and thoughts when he inspected the line of the peasant movement in Hunan were put to a greater extent, and the "sense of ritual" of study and investigation was established when he continued to study and investigate one stop at a time, which also opened a new channel and connected reality with history.
"Xiang Xun" makes people feel that it is superficial, can be repeatedly searched, and can best reveal the director's intention, perhaps it is its use of music! "Measure the sky with footsteps, let the youth shine and the life ......shines" The use of music at the end of the micro-film "Xiangxun" is similar to the music ending practice commonly used in films directed by Makoto Shinkai. The ending music and the silhouette of the story that happened when the comrades of the middle and young class re-walked the road made the whole picture of the film always maintain a unique temperature, and pushed it to another lyrical climax, and the music and the picture complement each other. In a short period of time, the retrospection of the story, the sublimation of the emotion and intention at the end, have always been in the music.
As the audience, if we want to reach the depth of history shown in the film "Xiangxun", there seems to be no other way than to watch it over and over again. Throughout the film, the carrier of the micro-film "Xiangxun" is actually more often like a baton, in order to pass on the spiritual power of investigation and research, and to make the wind of investigation and research more solid and firm like a great man......