About two or three years ago, by chance, I heard about this movie directed by Zhang Yimou called "One Second", when the entry was not yet perfect, and the film information was very small.
Until the release of the movie last Friday, I still feel that yesterday is still vivid.
Compared with the time the audience waits, the time spent preparing and producing the project, and the time of the film's main film, a second is too short, as if it were a drop in the ocean, but it is also this short second that may have extraordinary significance for some or some individuals.
Compared with "The Great Wall" and "Shadow", "One Second" is slow-paced, literary and calm, with no commercial elements, no war background, no character group portraits, and it can be said that it is a work worth a person's quiet taste.
The story of the film is simple, and the motivations of each character are clear and simple.
Zhang Jiusheng, played by Zhang Yi, is a runaway labor prisoner who struggles to see his daughter appear for a second on the 22nd "News Bulletin" screened before the movie.
Liu Haocun's daughter Liu haocun lost her parents at an early age and relied on her brother for her life, and Liu Haocun wanted to make a lampshade on film to compensate for the one her brother had broken, in order to prevent being bullied by other children.
Fan Wei, played by Fan Wei, is the projectionist of film No. 001 in the second division and wants to keep his job position.
In a small county village in the yellow sand, a cinema that gathers people's hopes, although the venue and equipment are simple, they have become sacred because of the charm of movies.
Movies should have a sense of ceremony
The film cleaning section in the film is believed to have left a deep impression on many viewers.
Film printed with a grid picture was lifted by people with cloth pads, and the contaminated and rolled film was lifted and lifted like a hero injured after the triumph.
Under the guidance of Fan Film, people began to "save" the work.
When the film is neatly stranded, the strips are hung, and the dust dissipates after the distilled water is poured down, becoming a clear reflection, at this moment, the feeling of emotion and joy involuntarily surges into the heart.
Let's talk about film, film is also called negatives, The English is Film, and there is a name called Film (Hong Kong people seem to prefer to say this).
The early photosensitive negatives were wet films, which meant that they had to be rinsed immediately after shooting, which brought great inconvenience to photography.
Kodak founder Eastman discovered this deficiency and used his kitchen as a laboratory, constantly experimenting, and developed gelatin dry plates in 1878.
In 1885, Eastman introduced the first volume of Eastman Film, making photography a form of popular art and entertainment.
Film imaging tends to have a heavier grainy feel than digital electronic imaging, the color will be softer, hazy, and have a cross-era texture.
Perhaps this is also the reason why in today's digital cameras and mobile phones, there are still many enthusiasts who choose film and film machines to create. Film has also been upgraded and used more intensively today, and the IMAX film camera contains film inside, and Nolan is also one of the directors who are most enthusiastic about this.
The common sizes of film are 16mm, 35mm and 65mm, etc., and the current mainstream widescreen films use 35mm 4-hole frame (that is, vertical shooting with 4-perforation spacing on 35mm-wide film).
So, for film and cinematography, film is never an expired product, it is a return, an innovation and a symbol – it reflects countless memorable moments.
Missing and compensating
The Liu girl in the film lacks the care of her father, Zhang Jiusheng lacks the opportunity to meet her daughter, and the roles missing in their respective family networks coincidentally complement each other in age and gender.
The hitchhiking scene in the first part of the movie uses this identity characteristic to create coincidences and misunderstandings: when the driver asks about the relationship between Liu's daughter and Zhang Jiusheng, Zhang Jiusheng says that Liu's daughter is his daughter, and the daughter disobeys and takes her own things and runs away from home.
Later, Liu's daughter also followed this routine, saying that her father was irresponsible and indebted to her family, but zhang Jiusheng, who had the identity of "father", appeared to be not a person inside and out.
As a result, Zhang Jiusheng's "fight for his father" failed, and he was also driven off the car by the driver, and Liu's daughter still walked away from the iron box containing the No. 22 "News Bulletin".
The misunderstanding between Liu Girl and Zhang Jiusheng is continuous, and the story process of the film is also the process of the two resolving the contradictions and finally trusting and helping each other.
In this way, it seems that if the relationship between the two is really described as "father and daughter", it may be a bit too far-fetched, from the beginning of the "opponent" and "wrongdoer" to the end of the year-old friendship, the relationship and emotional setting of the male and female protagonists seem to have similarities with the Xiaojiu and Taigong in the previous hit "Jiang Ziya": rebellious, some boys, but pure and kind, a little girl with a protective heart; a downcast, not good at words, soft and pursuing uncle.
Between her and him, it was a simple life, after experiencing joy and wrongdoing, half-belief, trust collapse and trust remodeling, this complex experience made the feelings of the two more invisible than friendship, more introverted than father-daughter love.
At the same time, this emotion also contains distance beauty, there is no lack of tranquility and poetry, in fact, the real dialogue between the two is not very much, in addition to arguing can feel a strong emotional outburst, the rest of the time Zhang Jiusheng is more inclined to use actions to highlight the heart, such as he directly started to help restore the volume, through the fight.
Liu's daughter is more inclined to show her thoughts with a demeanor, such as the tears she cries when she talks about unfortunate encounters, and the quiet and clean smile.
The fragmentary lines of "two years later" are even fewer, and every remaining sentence is necessary.
The character images of Liu Girl and Zhang Jiusheng are relatively unified individually, and the relationship is changing, and this change is skillfully integrated in the plot, lines and interpretation of the actors, making up for your and my mistakes and deficiencies, and increasing your and my affirmation and trust.
Fan's image as a father is complementary to Zhang Jiusheng's father image.
Because he was not in place, his young son mistakenly drank the film cleaning liquid as water, resulting in a high fever and intellectual damage, and now he can only be a driver.
Like Zhang Jiusheng, they all have guilt and indebtedness to their children, and these guilt and indebtedness are irreparable.
In fact, in the previous version of "One Second", there is also an important information that has been deleted in the public version: Zhang Jiusheng's daughter has actually died, because she rushed to work in the grain store, had a car accident, and died unexpectedly.
If this information is added, then the plot of Zhang Jiusheng in the film is even more excusable because she heard Liu Girl's daughter not understand things and said that his daughter was not crushed to death by the grain bag and kicked over the stool.
This deletion makes the film more subtle, and the life and death of Zhang Jiusheng's daughter and the future she has or does not have become a potential and unspeakable secret.
Drowned, learn to put down
According to netizens, the previous version of "One Second" did not have a plot "two years later".
That is to say, at the end of Zhang Jiusheng's escort, the sunlight reflected in the wind and sand, and the shining point is getting smaller and smaller--that is, the film printed with Zhang Jiusheng's daughter, and the yellow sand gradually covers it, which also implies that the protagonist's past is like a finished page, slowly being turned over.
Coupled with the plot two years later, it seems to make the whole film seem to be a little sunnier, although the film is still lost, but it is like an exam that is not very satisfactory but has been painstakingly passed, and the process itself is precious enough.
Zhang Jiusheng, who returned at the end of the film, seems to have learned to put it down, calm down, and be relieved a lot, Liu's daughter and Liu brother have also grown up, and the small county village has also developed well, and the overall look is a regrettable and beautiful ending.
Before watching "One Second", I thought it would be a Chinese version of "Paradise Cinema", and the desert wind reminded me of "Lawrence of Arabia".
After watching the movie, I had a different feeling - in fact, none of the protagonists in this movie really loved the movie.
But this does not affect the appeal of the art form of the film itself, just like when the film is about to be released, the villagers are excited and actively preparing, and they watch carefully during the film, the theme song is chorused, and even the audience sits on both sides of the film curtain, immersed in this world of light and shadow.
Movies are now more than a hundred years old, from 1964's "Heroes and Children" on the screen to today's 2020's "One Second", in the film, we seem to see another self or countless lives with different possibilities.
It brings together new and old dreams, condenses thoughts and expectations, retains the words of time, and paints the ideals of the future.
A second is too short; a moment in life is short; when this bit is given a unique meaning, it will not be submerged in the long river of our lives, exist and eternal.