At this year's Berlin Film Festival, an experimental film called "Lev Landau: Natasha" was a groundbreaking film.
Simply put, it is the beginning of the "DAU" series of movies.
The crew built a former Soviet town in 1:1 and recruited "resident actors" from all over the world.
The selected people need to live in this virtual society in their own names and receive 7X24 hours of tracking and shooting by cameras.
With no scripts and no rehearsals, the director provided only general directions and two years later cut all the footage into 14 feature films and 3 TELEVISION series.
Such a fierce subversive operation, in addition to being considered a milestone in changing the history of film, of course, has also caused a lot of controversy.
For example, non-professional "actors" have more or less suffered some mental trauma after being controlled by the centralized control of the crew;
Although it claims to be a true record, the plot is still designed by the director, so where is the boundary between art and morality?
What kind of results can be achieved in this huge production, which resembles the "Stanford Prison Experiment", must wait for all the works to surface before making a decision.
However, there is nothing new under the sun, and the "art" idea of the whole process with the shooters has long been put on the big screen -
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The story begins with a TV station that is eager to increase ratings.
The producer of the famous talk show host Alan DeGeneres came up with an extremely bold reality TV idea -
Pick an ordinary but interesting person and follow his private life 24 hours a day, 7X24.
As soon as the news came out, it naturally attracted various "cows, ghosts, and snake gods" to compete in the audition.
Among them are the male protagonist Ed and his brother Ray.
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrison, two movie emperors, in "True Detective" composed of "Cool Uncle CP" can be described as countless fans.
In this play, the young "silly brothers" changed the usual cold and harsh route, gags, no margins, and the chemical reaction was interesting.
Stills from True Detective
Originally eager to be on TV, his brother, who was quite "business-minded", looked forward to taking the opportunity to get investment and open his own health club.
His idle, casual younger brother was unexpectedly appreciated by the producers, and the reality show was immediately named "EDTV" (Ed's private channel).
At the instigation of his brother Ray, Ed and the rest of his family accepted the lengthy filming terms proposed by the program team.
The play officially began.
The next morning, when the confused Ed was still "passionately touching himself", the long guns and short guns of the program team had already spread his indecent behavior to thousands of households.
Then, as usual, he went to work at the videotape shop where he had worked for many years.
Knowing that they were being photographed, both the clerk and the customer were extremely embarrassed.
In the evening, the bachelor Ed stayed at home again, chatting at the camera about childish and outrageous personal hobbies.
On the first day of the reality show, how to watch it was quite boring...
However, the producer firmly believes that there is a little story hidden behind everyone, and often the more ordinary the story, the more it can resonate with the audience.
At her insistence, "EDTV" was able to live for at least a week.
Ed did not disappoint and soon brought the first explosive point to the reality show.
On this day, as usual, he broke into Ray's room and watched a basketball game with his brother.
I didn't expect that there was a strange woman in the room.
To know that Ray's legitimate girlfriend Sally (Jenna Eifman) also stays in front of the TV to watch the show, this brother's secret affair is well known.
However, the unscrupulous Ray did not have the slightest timidity, he was in front of the national audience, and he insisted that his brother's program had led to his "passive derailment".
Say anything and ask Ed to go to Sally and apologize to her instead of himself.
Embarrassed, Ed was deadlocked, and had to harden his scalp and lead a large number of videographers to visit his future sister-in-law late at night.
Happily, Sally has long had enough of her brother who has no score, but she has gradually developed feelings for her dumb brother.
So she simply used the strength of the wine, publicly mocked Ray's life, and kissed Ed on the mouth...
In fact, the younger brother has also been obsessed with Sally for a long time, and he has a little trick to lock the camera outside the door, and then he plunges into the arms of the beauty.
But Ed did not expect that there was a telephoto camera waiting outside the window, and this scene was also broadcast live on TV...
Seeing this scene, the audience instantly fried the pan, and the producers cheered and cheered.
"EDTV" is finally on fire.
The love triangle between brothers should have been a very serious thing.
Fortunately, Ray had no seriousness in his bones, and the next day he killed Ed with great momentum, not to tear B.
Instead, let another ex-girlfriend clarify to the audience that his "kung fu" is actually quite powerful~
This stubble is considered to be over...
Ed made a mistake and embarked on the peak of his life.
As the ratings of the show grew, there were fans watching passionately everywhere he went, and the program team had to equip him with professional bodyguards.
Ed's ability to carry goods is not covered, no matter what he drinks, eats, uses, and can always become a popular hit in an instant.
The producer extended the contract to 1 month, and a large bonus was at his fingertips.
However, as Ed became more and more comfortable with the thrill of success, trouble followed.
As the saying goes, people are afraid of being famous pigs are afraid of being strong, and after Ed became angry, he began to have people he knew who didn't know him to help.
Among them was his biological father, whom he had not met for more than two decades.
Pulling a father who is at a low point in life is originally a normal human feeling.
But I didn't expect that the small talk between father and son broke out a shocking secret -
For many years, the mother has taught her children that it was her father who cheated on her and divorced and found her current stepfather.
In fact, the mother is the one who cheats, and the object of the cheating is the stepfather Buddha-figure...
Devastated, Ed tries to get away from the chicken feathers and enjoy the world of two with Sally.
Unfortunately, under the scrutiny of the audience, the emotional life of "Love Bean" is not so simple.
Ever since the two established a relationship, fans and commentators have begun to criticize the woman.
The good-looking media even launched a vote to determine which actress is worthy of the "popular fried chicken" Ed.
In such an environment, the "ordinary woman" Sally is of course miserable.
In order to make his girlfriend happy, Ed had to do everything he could to avoid the cameraman and hide in the car to secretly meet.
However, this scene was still filmed by the alert crew...
Sally finally couldn't bear it anymore, cut off all contact with Ed, and fled alone to live in another city.
Before Ed could be sad, the crew began to secretly work for higher ratings.
They "went along with public opinion" and brought the top female star (Elizabeth Hurley) into his life "unexpectedly".
Ed, who had been unknown all his life, had seen such a battle, refused to move, and finally followed the path of beauty...
The popularity of the show has also risen under the shine of the magnesium lamp.
But when the hustle and bustle dissipated and the night was quiet, Ed inevitably fell into contemplation.
For the sake of false illusions, is it really worth it to have a gap with relatives and lose hard-won love?
Unfortunately, he has no way back, because the family has signed a contract with the TV station, they cannot quit, can not react passively, can only continue to dissect their privacy bloody, for greedy viewers to suck the bone.
The encounter of the male protagonist is easily reminiscent of "Truman's World".
The difference is that Truman has lived in an illusion from birth and has not been able to control his own destiny at all.
But Ed is to change the living situation, take the initiative to sell his privacy, after the awakening of what kind of end he will usher in?
Interestingly, the male protagonist's name "ED" is actually an abbreviation of "erectile dysfunction".
Obviously, he is satirizing the spectators who live a messy life but love to be obscene and carnival in the gossip of others.
This is also the dilemma faced by the "DAU" mentioned at the beginning of the article -
Isn't it a bigger irony if what you do yourself is not much different from the object of your satire?
Perhaps, the dragon slayer warrior will finally become the new dragon.