"Bullet Train" with a cyberpunk style, why did you choose a train with a very small space when splicing the story?
The movie "Bullet Train" is mainly about a train that takes place on a train that is speeding from Tokyo to Morioka, and five groups of killers embark on this train to complete their own tasks, starting from the mission of each killer, and telling the whole story in a patchwork manner.
In the process of performing their own tasks, the five groups of killers discover the secret connection between each other's tasks, combined with comic-style action scenes to present the fierce life-and-death competition between the killers. The relationship between the characters gradually becomes clear in the unfolding layer by layer, and the setting of luck and fate breaks the usual plot setting and enhances the fun.
Inertial narrative is usually a conventional filmmaking method in the Hollywood film model, and the most representative ones are Marvel movies and some traditional trailer films, which innovate in the inherent film structure.
As a path of image expression and narrative mode, hyper-inertial narrative has appeared as early as in the format of composite texts and spoof films that some audiences are not optimistic about.
However, with the development of streaming media, the super-inertial narrative has entered the field of vision of mainstream images with a new attitude, deliberately avoiding the inertial narrative while maintaining its inheritance and innovation, showing a relatively pure nature of consumption, retaining the basic commercial narrative logic, which seems to break the usual narrative mode, but also follows the "rules of the game"
The film "Bullet Train" breaks the early film creation with the train as the main body, and gives the train narrative a special meaning beyond the sense of transition and installation—the confrontational expression of the identity and specificity of the film text, and the train as a narrative space can not only link and integrate the narrative as a whole, but also leave room for each individual to rebel against the main text.
From the breakthrough and metaphor of the film's narrative logic, image style and character building, the construction of super-inertial narrative mode and its deep philosophy are deeply analyzed.
The main scene of the story in "Bullet Train" is in the carriage, the characters walk between different carriages, unfolding the development of the relationship between the characters, when the characters get off the train briefly at the station and the characters break through the closed and relatively independent space of the carriage in the second half of the film, they encounter the threat of the "White Death" of their employer and the damage caused by the breaking of the space.
When the closed and independent space is broken, the narrative space becomes a field that combines the closed and the external open space, and this narrative field is also presented in "Snowpiercer". The closed and independent field space is very restrictive, but it also promotes the development of the film's storyline and makes the theme more concentrated.
The carriage is both closed and isolated, and it also makes certain restrictions on the audiovisual language, and the characters are relatively closed to the communication of external information in this space: in the film, the "ladybug" successfully shuttles through the train carriage with the help of communication and instructions on the telephone.
In Snowpiercer, the people in the end carriage begin to wonder what is going on inside the train. The progress of the plot of the film is also the process of the characters seeking survival and redemption, and people have the idea of breaking the restricted space where they are located, and it can be seen that the restricted space also has a certain limiting impact on the behavior of the characters.
The narrative carrier of limited time and space also undertakes the intensive setting of the plot in the film, and the confined space will bring danger to the story content, and it also plays the function of revealing the truth and metaphorizing the real society when ensuring the integrity of the narrative.
The danger of the "White Death" is not only promoted by the evolution of the plot of the film, but also strengthens the opposition and conflict between the characters, so as to highlight the personality of the characters, deepen the theme of the film, and make the narrative logic of the film more reasonable.
In "Bullet Train", special characters are set up. In the narrative, the film combines the children's animated story of Thomas the Train with the image of the train doll doll that appears many times in the film, and connects it in multiple scenes and narratives of the film.
"Bullet Train" is filled with a lot of Japanese cultural elements, and on the basis of Japanese culture, Japanese animation, manga, and Japanese-style scenery are reinforced.
In recent years, in the film industry and film culture, "neon aesthetics" has become a phenomenal trend, and neon aesthetics is characterized by highly saturated neon light and highly stimulating audio-visual style, which is a more common image style in cyberpunk works, and is integrated with gangster, suspense, science and other elements in the film to strengthen the expression of the theme.
The high-speed train in the film is full of science and technology, and the interior space of the car is basically a high-saturation cartoon-style powder blue toned carriage and a regular bright carriage, which adds a sense of mystery and haze to the film.
The scenes outside the train are also mostly used in neon colors, first of all, to build a very visually avant-garde modern city, in the highly stimulating visual lighting effect, the killers' criminal behavior presents a natural wildness.
The comic-style display of information such as the names of characters in the film reinforces the Japanese entertainment style of the film. The interspersed appearance of different lighting atmospheres and animation clips inside and outside the train not only adds a sense of Japanese manga to the movie scene, but also highlights the anime effect in the absurdity and fast pace of the narrative.
As an exemplary work under the evaluation criteria of super-inertial narrative, the film "Bullet Train" presents a high degree of sensitivity to the super-inertial narrative of the current mainstream text, breaks through the expression of film and television works that are usually dominated by trains, and gives the train narrative a breakthrough significance of the confrontational expression of the identity and specificity of the film text.
The film's overloaded expression of the nature of consumption makes the audience focus on the gap between the inertia of consumption and the image itself, and the traction curve of alienation and being pulled back to the carousel of consumption intention constitutes a classic expression mode of super-inertial narrative.
