Color is the most bizarre and abundant language in the world. As an ancient language symbol, color is always closely related to human civilization. In the process of moving forward with human culture, color culture integrates with other cultures, gradually connecting the process of human culture development, so that colors become brilliant and rich semantic symbols.
Initially, it is through painting to understand the world of color, through the combination of different colors, showing different temperatures, and then feeling different emotions. Later, I began to understand the world of color through film, in the world of light and shadow, color has a magic power, it is no longer an illusory existence, but a physical presentation, and the specific environment, material, light, tone, composition, etc. are closely combined.
Watching Jean-Pierre Genet's films, this "magic" is even more magical, starting from "Angel Amelie", director René combines the various real worlds and the poetic expression of the color world, making the film a brilliant imaginary world.
Among French directors, René is a director with a very pronounced style. He does not reject commercial elements, but is also able to display a unique individualistic style in his work. René's films always bring a strong visual impact to the audience, and in these non-realistic expressions rooted in realism, René's films are like a delicate and rich French cuisine.
Recently, revisiting the 2013 movie "The Strange Journey of Young Spyway", it is still a familiar style, a familiar René. "The Strange Journey of Young Spyway" continues the stylistic characteristics of Hot's inner character shaping, and at the same time, it also adds more entertainment attributes to the film, making its works more diverse in form and content.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > surreal expression in color:</h1>
Because of human attention and appreciation, color has aesthetic characteristics. In "The Strange Journey of Young Spyway", we can see the director Rene's preference for color, the exquisite details have a temperature because they are covered with warm colors, the delicate and warm expression is comfortable because it is infiltrated by warm colors, and in the whole film, Rene constructs a fairytale-like world with color, in which there is no melancholy tragedy and no fatalism, and there is only one child and an idealized world in "The Strange Journey of Young Spyway".
The Bizarre Journey of Young Spyvi is a story about a boy, or rather a road movie that belongs to a child. Unlike René's previous films, this film is more simple and pure, and its core is only one word - love. Although it is a growth movie, there are no complicated transitions and excessive conflicts, although it is a road movie, there is no magnificent scenery. The whole movie brings warmth and comfort, and even the sensational part of it is just right.
In Genese's films, the expression of surrealism is very critical, and in this "The Strange Journey of Young Spevi", the expression of surrealism is directly related to color. Rene uses warm colors to construct a world that belongs only to children, in this world, rich colors and children's lonely childhood form a strong contrast, color diminishes the tragedy of growing up, but also gives childhood more colors.
In contrast, the use of color in The Bizarre Journey of Young Spyvi and The Red Desert is somewhat similar, and although the tones of the two films are completely different, both films make perfect use of the ideographic function of color in surrealism and make this function part of the film's narrative.
The cinematic world of Genese is a world with "filters", and we do not need to discuss whether this world is real or not, because only in this world constructed with color can we experience the artistic fantasies that belong only to Genet, and it is precisely because of this that color becomes a way of surreal expression here, and it is also the way we understand Genet.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > use color to create grotesque and exaggerated characters:</h1>
Any film is inseparable from the shaping of characters, and many times, the director's creative intention and emotional expression need to be expressed with the help of character encounters and behaviors. In René's films, we can hardly see normal characters, and all the characters have undergone "special treatment".
For example, the hideous butcher in "Rhapsody in the Black Shop", the strange dwarf in "The Night of the Lost Souls", the gifted child in "The Strange Journey of Young Spyway", the paranoid mother, the cowboy father who fantasizes about living in the eighteenth century, and the sister who dreams of participating in the beauty pageant, these grotesque characters form a world that is very different from reality, in which Genes is the king. All the characters and stories were constructed through his hands.
The family of "The Strange Journey of Young Spyway" is not a traditional family, nor is it a normal family, all family members have distinct personality characteristics, such a family does not see the tone of the whole film, but also provides a basis for the surreal expression of color. As mentioned earlier, the core of the whole movie is love, and in the composition of the characters, it is still around the word love.
After the death of the teenager's brother, the whole family was dead, which was also the reason for this "strange trip". In the process of traveling, the teenager meets truck drivers, old sailors and other people, and these unreal characters are still a reasonable existence in the movie. Because "The Strange Journey of Young Spyvi" has constructed a surreal world with color, in which all absurd existence is possible.
In the shaping of the character, René still chose the element of color, and the costumes and living environment of the characters in the movie are warm colors. Leaving aside this coat of warm colors, we can learn from it the tragedy of a family that is difficult to bridge. It is true that a full life is always unattainable, and René is well aware of the tragedy of life, so he deliberately chooses to use rich colors to create these exaggerated and grotesque characters, and use warmth and absurdity to weaken the sadness and helplessness of life.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > use color to create a fairytale-like growing world:</h1>
In the use of color, Rene is absolutely typical, and the combination of each color is just right. In Angel Amelie, René forms a fantasy world with a lot of red and green, in Rhapsody of the Black Shop, Rene constructs an absurd world out of dark yellow, and in Night of the Lost Soul in a Child's Dream, Rene forms a strange world with a lot of green.
In The Strange Journey of Young Spyvi, René chooses a rich range of warm colors and forms an oil-like world in a juxtaposition of multiple complementary colors. Unlike previous films, in this film, René seems to pay great attention to the contrast between colors, such as colorful trains, green farms, and insects with a wonderful luster. Although Rene uses color to create a fairytale-like coming-of-age world, there are still many sad details in the film, but this sadness is reduced by the warm color.
In this world of warm colors, director René blends the natural beauty of the Montana Valley with the modernity of Chicago, realizing the construction of a fairytale world. In these warm colors, the little teenager with a heavy heart has completed a journey of searching and growing. He is looking for his own love and affirmation, and he is also using his own strength to help the whole family get rid of the haze of the past.
Growing up is like peeling an onion, always accompanied by tears. But if the movie is just a tragedy, it will inevitably be a cheesy narrative routine. The cleverness of René is that he uses color to construct the image world, which cannot render the tragedy of the film, but can make the audience feel this tragedy.
It's hard to label "The Strange Journey of Young Spyway" in a certain genre because it is not a coming-of-age movie in the traditional sense, nor is it a decent road movie, and its focus is on the two traditional words of family and love. Of course, There is a wealth of things That Genet wants to express in this film, and in addition to these emotional elements, René is like a child, adding a lot of fantastic ideas to the film, such as the perpetual motion machine that is always full of power. In addition, René also satirized education, media, etc. in the film.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > about the heat:</h1>
Like many directors with strong personalities, the film is like a game to René. Perhaps, from the time he first got the camera at the age of nine, he developed a curiosity and love for movies. This pure love from childhood allows his works to transcend the limitations of the world and produce a different kind of beauty and emotion.
Born in 1953 in Rouen, in the French department of Loire, René is a city in the northwest of France, located on the lower Seine River, an ancient city with a thousand-year history. The amorous Seine runs through the city, with the old city full of historical legends on one side and the new city full of hope and stories on the other.
The city of Rouen itself is a city full of legends and stories, born in such a city, so that Genes was born immersed in a thick historical story. At the age of seventeen, René used the income from his work to buy himself an eight-millimeter camera, and by teaching himself animation techniques in a film studio, René quickly mastered the shooting skills of short films and began to direct the shooting of short films.
By chance, René met Mark. Carlo, the two then began a long-term collaboration and produced one work after another with a very personal style. In 1981, Genes and Carlo worked together for the first time, and three years later, the two won the César Prize. In 1990, the two collaborated on their first feature film, Rhapsody of the Black Shop.
This work, known as "outliers", has opened the eyes of many people, and it turns out that movies can still be made like this. The story takes place in a fictional city where there is no food and everyone who lives in the city has the potential to become a delicacy on someone else's table. In this seemingly cruel city, because of the birth of love, it began to become different. What makes this film unique is that instead of following a traditional narrative or pursuing subversion and innovation in the language of the lens like an art film, it begins an absurd and comical story around the travelers of a hotel.
The "Strange Journey of Young Spyway" that is discussed here today, René uses more pure technology and color collocation to make the whole film have a strong appeal under the wrapping of oil painting colors. The insightful capture of details, the exquisite moments of life and the moments of true feelings that make people cry involuntarily immerse themselves in this colorful art world.
René cured color in tragedy and loneliness, reawakening people's lost capacity for love through escape and search. Reality is a terrible thing, which is why realism is heavy. René's successful expression of reality itself in a positive and healthy surreal way proves once again that surrealism is the best expression of realism.