Introduction: "This is a mindless and unhappy life diary." ”
The film Seto Inland Sea is based on the manga of the same name by Motowazuya and tells the story of two high school students, Seto and Inland Sea, who spend their years idly by the river after school. The film does not have too much plot laying, mainly to show the daily life, on the steps they talk and watch the daily life, simple scenes let people see the real image and psychological state of two ordinary high school students, and the film is also through this simple expression to evoke the audience's inner resonance, most of the youth may not be vigorous, those sitting quietly by the river to waste time and small talk is the quietest portrayal of our youth.
1. Alternative types
China's unique campus life, further education system, family relations, gender relations, etc. is the cornerstone of Chinese youth love has become the cornerstone of the genre style, in such a cultural context the market has given birth to many types of paradigm similar youth films, they often span time from youth to enter the society, the use of many symbols representing the era of the mark on the audience to remember the inspiration, this type of film in the initial access to huge market profits over time paradigm creation but finally caused the audience's aesthetic fatigue.
The film "Seto Inland Sea" is also a youth film but unusual, jumping out of the campus environment, but also abandoning the romantic portrayal of the campus complex, with a sketch-like tone of the narrative, although this narrative is flat but the depiction of adolescent boys has a deep penetration, this youth film provides a certain inspiration for the creation of anti-genre.
The main scene of the film is the stone steps by the river, and the steps and down constitute a relationship between the "audience seat" and the "stage", and in the process of watching and talking between the two people, the film subtly reveals the bitterness, boredom and warmth of ordinary people in ordinary life. On the steps, two high school students sit idly together and perform large paragraphs of seemingly meaningless dialogue, and in fact, the warmth of the film flows out of this meaningless fun.
For example, when the two met, Inland Sea sat on the stone steps after school to read a book to kill time, waiting for the time of the cram school class, when he met Seto who came and shouted at Inland Sea, who was concentrating on reading, "Who are you?" Inland Sea slowly looked up and replied, "This should be what I have to say." After a brief moment of embarrassment, Seto went over to Inkai and said, "I hate bugs, but there have been a lot of small flies in my room lately, and I can't sleep every day." Inland Sea told him: Don't you just go and buy pesticides? Seto replied: No, I have a cat at home, so I can't use that stuff. Neihai said: Then raise a pot of carnivorous plants. At this time, Seto's eyes widened and said, "You are a genius, I will go and buy it."
Dialogues like this fill more than ninety percent of the film's passages, where conversations between the two men are about love, about campus relationships, about distressing family relationships, and confusion and confusion are expressed in a weight-weighting dialogue as something that is always expressed and discussed in youth films.
The film uses minimalist but interesting language to represent the daily lives of the two people. Musically, the director chose a witty and elegant symphony to raise the tone of the film's comedy, the symphony from the opening with the lens through the river bridge bank, and finally fell on the two characters, and the characters of the slight "mourning" temperament to form a psychological contrast, in the later conversation many involved in the bitterness of life when the symphony will also do a natural articulation, mobilize the audience's emotions to produce a comforting audiovisual expression.
At other times, the film places the hearing more in the environment where the characters are located, and the natural ambient sound makes people feel every ordinary time we have ever spent, focusing on the communication between the two people, as if we are also sitting on the stone steps of passers-by will experience the small fun that may burst out at any time in the boredom. In the processing of the shots, the film uses empty shots showing the landscape, upgraded shots of character movements, and superimposed means to create the slowness of time and the wandering thoughts of the characters' hearts, which make a clear distinction from those youth films with fresh style and abundant sensual elements.
Second, the hundred states under the stage
In addition to showing the small talk of life of the two high school students on the steps, some other small people who are full of sadness and difficulty in life below the steps also walk into it. On the steps, the two seemed to be staring at the "stage" in front of them, representing life, and saw that the sentient beings who were related to themselves and had nothing to do with themselves left a tired imprint on their lives, and these people also had more or less thinking about themselves.
For example, the unknown family situation of the school bully, the sad "clown", the seto parents facing the breakdown of marriage, etc., in the picture, the position of these people is not far from the two people, but the reflection between the focal length and the characters creates a sense of alienation on and off the stage, which is particularly prominent in Seto when he sees his parents quarreling, this sense of alienation reflects the bystanderism of life, and the film also uses this bystander to carry out a gentle indoctrination of the audience - everyone in life is not easy. Ordinary days are always a little troublesome, and most of us are just carrying a load.
The film seems to be a literary and artistic film under the name of "mourning" youth, and the fact is arranged in the process of dense laughter, which is not the sensory stimulation brought by comedy skills, but more like a joke between friends.
The film uses more than an hour to show most of the time of most people's youth, it does not have a senseless flattery or embeds some kind of magnificent emotion, but simply tries to find the true state of adolescent youth, and the audience can't help but taste and miss their own similar and beautiful youth.