When evaluating Fellini, if you put aside the avant-garde technique of the films he directed and only immerse yourself in certain shots, you must be thinking about one or the other. As a New Wave director of European cinema, Fellini not only represents an innovation in a certain film technique, but also represents the focus on film content. Fellini combines the avant-garde of a New Wave director with universal humanistic care. He focuses his attention on the little people, and constantly discovers the sadness and joy of the little people and the basis of this emotion (the background of the big time). Being able to show this emotion well to the audience is the complete image of Fellini.
And the film recommended to you today, it is a work that cannot be avoided when evaluating Fellini, the importance of this work is not limited to the work itself, but more from the way the work is presented, that is, we often say storytelling, how to tell stories. Driven by this curiosity, this film presents us mostly fellini who knows how to tell a story, and how to take the audience into their own world. This is another shining point of this film in addition to the content display, and it is precisely because of this flash point that the movie recommended to you today can be regarded as a classic by more people.
The meaning of "The Ship Continues to Move Forward" is that the ship continues to drive, and under the expression we can understand, there must be something that stops the ship from moving forward, and when this matter is over, the ship will continue to move forward. This is actually the main theme of this film. In the early days of World War I, a group of European nobles began sailing on a cruise ship in order to escort the ashes of a female singer back home. A reporter, disguised as a white, took the audience to visit the cruise ship together, and showed the cruise ship for the audience in all directions.
However, there was a small episode during the cruise ship sailing to the sea and encountering a group of refugees, who had to face a confrontation with the warships pursuing them after everyone rescued them. In a critical moment, the two ships reached an agreement and the refugees were rescued, but in the end, the ship sank due to a new round of clashes between the refugees and the warship. The story also ended in due course.
Fellini's film is still about the hypocrisy of the upper class, which is always a high-minded appearance and a superficial sympathy in the face of a lower class than himself. But when the real danger comes, that compassion will cease to exist. All Fellini has to do is pierce this hypocrisy and show it to everyone.
Another significant feature of "The Ship Continues" is the way it tells the story, in the past, when we watched the movie, we mostly used the third person, which can also be called the god perspective, under this perspective, the story in the movie seems to be a sandbox that can be fully controlled by itself. And because our own perspective is all-encompassing, more often than not, there is no sense of participation.
A better filmmaker can narrow the distance between the film and the audience through audiovisual language, that is, to return the power of this sense of participation to the audience to a certain extent, so that the audience can put themselves in the shoes of the general environment in the film, and at the same time better understand the psychological activities of people in the film or the theme of the film. And fellini's approach in this film breaks this law to a certain extent.
Fellini uses a narration and first-person perspective to enhance the distance between the audience and the film, we can see the protagonist of the film, the perspective of the reporter to see the various races on the ship, and through this viewing, in a certain sense, can quickly close the distance between the audience and the film, and Fellini's perspective adjustment is not just the first person, he uses the reporter's perspective to slowly project all this first-person on the role of the reporter, and then follow the development of the plot. Let this fusion gradually deepen, and finally, at the end of the film, it is successful to slowly restore this fusion to its previous form.
Fellini's approach summed up as fusion, experience, separation. Through this method of integration, experience, and separation, he successfully brings the audience into all the scenes of the film, and then follows the parties to fully experience the theme of the film, and when the film ends, he successfully separates the audience from the film itself. In this way, the audience can fully feel the charm of the film itself, but it can be completely withdrawn at the end of the movie. This is the core of the classic of this film.
Today, when we treat a movie, we increasingly focus on the eternal theme of the story, telling a good story seems to be the first element of the movie, but for a movie, it is not just a collection of stories, telling a good story is important, but it is also very important for the audience to better understand the way you tell the story, or the story you tell. Fellini's way of integrating, the sense of distance between the audience and the film can disappear as much as possible, and after the end of the film, this sense of distance will come back, such a way to bring the audience to appreciate a movie is undoubtedly innovative. Fellini is Fellini because he did something that no one had done before and gave the right path. Come to think of it, this groundbreaking is really hard to impress.
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