Douban 8.6 "One Finger City": A metaphor about the collapse of faith in the rapid development of society skillfully uses the lens language and music to cut, explain the environmental background, express the creator's emotional tendency truthfully in the silent color, inject people's different attitudes into the rapid development of the city, guide the audience to reflect on and grasp the classic imagery, and truly narrate the eternal contradictions about the pursuit and perseverance in the rapid development of society
Chasing is human nature.
As early as ancient times, in order to march towards a wider land, the forest apes landed on the ground, gradually began to walk upright in the process of constantly adapting to the environment, learned to build tools, formed a meaningful language civilization, and slowly multiplied to achieve thousands of years of advanced civilization of mankind.
From barbaric and backward to advanced civilization, it can be said that the inherent chasing nature of the race allows human beings to have the highest right to speak in this world, but it is undeniable that this chasing nature allows human beings to evolve, but it also inevitably creates imbalances in the process of evolution.
For us in real life, we may have become accustomed to the traffic of high-rise buildings, and may have become accustomed to exquisite meals and convenient lifestyles, but if we are willing to slow down, turn our eyes to the roaring working machines behind the buildings, and use our ears to capture the natural sounds of being chased and blocked by reinforced concrete, we will find that this seemingly solid modern society is already at the top of the crumbling pyramid.
One of the graduation works of the Animation Major of communication university of China in 2015, "One Finger City", adopts the form of animation performance, cleverly uses the language of the lens, cleverly selects the intention, and at the same time narrates the story with branches and branches of the contrast of different people's behaviors, exaggerated and reasonable depicts such a shaky state of reality, and leaves the audience off-screen with deep thinking about "when the foundation of faith is unsustainable, where should human beings go".
Douban 8.6 "One Finger City": A metaphor about the collapse of faith in the rapid development of society skillfully uses the lens language and music to cut, explain the environmental background, express the creator's emotional tendency truthfully in the silent color, inject people's different attitudes into the rapid development of the city, guide the audience to reflect on and grasp the classic imagery, and truly narrate the eternal contradictions about the pursuit and perseverance in the rapid development of society
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > skillfully uses lens language and music editing, explains the background of the environment, and expresses the emotional tendency of the creator in a silent way</h1>
At the beginning of the short film, a fade-in editing method is used to open the whole story. The music precedes the picture, the heavy piano notes fall first, and then the lens luminosity begins to rise gradually from zero, from a black screen to the audience can slowly see that the top of the tall building in front of them is already towering into the clouds, the stars and dots of lights are embellished during the period, the elevators and other operating machines continue to roar, and the long slings rise and fall, appearing extremely small in the large clouds around them.
Douban 8.6 "One Finger City": A metaphor about the collapse of faith in the rapid development of society skillfully uses the lens language and music to cut, explain the environmental background, express the creator's emotional tendency truthfully in the silent color, inject people's different attitudes into the rapid development of the city, guide the audience to reflect on and grasp the classic imagery, and truly narrate the eternal contradictions about the pursuit and perseverance in the rapid development of society
This is followed by a long, one-minute-long descent shot, where heavy and oppressive notes fall sonorously, as if sinking along with the shot, and also making the audience's heart feel depressed as it continues to extend downwards to the tall buildings under construction. When the long shot finally falls into the crowded building complex at the bottom of the tall building, the feeling of oppression becomes even deeper.
Douban 8.6 "One Finger City": A metaphor about the collapse of faith in the rapid development of society skillfully uses the lens language and music to cut, explain the environmental background, express the creator's emotional tendency truthfully in the silent color, inject people's different attitudes into the rapid development of the city, guide the audience to reflect on and grasp the classic imagery, and truly narrate the eternal contradictions about the pursuit and perseverance in the rapid development of society
The whole short film is only 9 minutes, and it takes up to a minute to explain the environmental background at the beginning, dull and forced is the audience's first intuitive feeling, coupled with the heavy and depressing music deliberately used in the film, it sets the tone of the short film: depressed, dark, and unsolicited emotional views.
Then the camera switches from the large panorama of the cramped buildings to the front of a dilapidated mansion. The light in the window "snapped" on, and then the Buddha statue in the courtyard covered with a dilapidated shed was illuminated by the light after the door was opened, and the birds that had originally jumped up flew up to the persimmon branches in the corner of the wall, and the faltering old lady took off her hard hat from the door and put it on, turned around and lifted the broom and stepped into the courtyard.
As the old lady steps in the freeze-motion shot, we find that the ground is full of rubble. Where do these stones come from? Soon, a stone falling from the sky slammed into the old lady's hard hat, and we were answered by the camera.
There are many techniques in the language of the short film, such as the depression and discomfort in the long shot, the implicit critical meaning in the large panorama freeze frame, and the dilapidated Buddha statues and falling stones in the illuminated courtyard, all of which quietly show the emotional tendencies of the creators and prompt the audience to explore the meaning behind the shots.
Douban 8.6 "One Finger City": A metaphor about the collapse of faith in the rapid development of society skillfully uses the lens language and music to cut, explain the environmental background, express the creator's emotional tendency truthfully in the silent color, inject people's different attitudes into the rapid development of the city, guide the audience to reflect on and grasp the classic imagery, and truly narrate the eternal contradictions about the pursuit and perseverance in the rapid development of society
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > truthfully stated, injecting different attitudes into the rapid development of the city and guiding the audience to reflect</h1>
Outside the narrow courtyard door, there are people coming and going, waking up with the dark night of the city, and life.
The horns of the vehicles continued to be heard, and people took to the streets one after another. Children are chasing with their school bags, elderly people are staggering with baskets, people are wandering in pairs, and others have set up breakfast stalls outside the courtyard walls, selling fragrant breakfasts.
The steaming life is full of vividness, but unfortunately, everyone wears a hard hat like an old lady. Even the breakfast stalls were propped up in sheds, lest they be hit by falling stones. In the yard where the floor had been cleaned, the old lady squatted in the corner with a hard hat to take care of the flowers, and when everything was cleaned up, the old lady lay down in a rocking chair under the eaves.
Douban 8.6 "One Finger City": A metaphor about the collapse of faith in the rapid development of society skillfully uses the lens language and music to cut, explain the environmental background, express the creator's emotional tendency truthfully in the silent color, inject people's different attitudes into the rapid development of the city, guide the audience to reflect on and grasp the classic imagery, and truly narrate the eternal contradictions about the pursuit and perseverance in the rapid development of society
Here's a very intriguing set of contrasting shots. The old lady lay in a rocking chair basking in the sun, and soon fell into a deep sleep, and the birds perched on the trees flew to the table and stole the water from the bowl, and the old lady was unaware and drowsily snoring. Above the courtyard, the towering building is as busy as ever. The two sets of shots are stitched together many times, and the rush and oppression of chasing modernity contrasts sharply with the peace and comfort of the yard.
As the camera rises again, the contrast between the first two sets of shots shifts to the people outside the yard and the old lady. The street outside is the same as in the yard, the stones are piled up more and more, the street has few people walking around, through the real estate advertisement that appeared in the previous picture, we can guess that people should have moved to the tall building, and the breakfast stall owner after the shed was almost smashed, and then set up a new shed, still doing his own business, and the old lady in the yard finally gave up after many sweeps, and paid tribute to the Buddha statue in the stone block of the courtyard with a plate of fresh persimmons.
In just a few shots, it explains the completely different choices and attitudes of people in the development of the times, and also gives the audience outside the camera a choice question: In the turbulent progress of the social environment, do you choose to be indifferent and then throw yourself into the torrent of the development of the times, do you choose to be the breakfast stall owner who guards her own breakfast stall to repair and mend the life of the shed, or choose to be the old lady who pays a Buddha statue in the courtyard to cover the stones?
Douban 8.6 "One Finger City": A metaphor about the collapse of faith in the rapid development of society skillfully uses the lens language and music to cut, explain the environmental background, express the creator's emotional tendency truthfully in the silent color, inject people's different attitudes into the rapid development of the city, guide the audience to reflect on and grasp the classic imagery, and truly narrate the eternal contradictions about the pursuit and perseverance in the rapid development of society
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > captures classic imagery and truly describes the eternal contradictions between pursuit and perseverance in the rapid development of society</h1>
As high-rise buildings have risen higher and higher, low-rise mansions have undoubtedly become the so-called "nail households". Driven by the continuous persuasion of the construction team, the old lady whose son's family has moved away has helplessly chosen to move away.
The family's bottles, cans, jars, and old objects were packed and neatly stacked outside the courtyard wall, and the old lady struggled to move out of the persimmon tree in the yard and refused to throw it away. Trivial and indissoluble objects, full of an old lady's lifelong concern and sense of value, and the "ultra-quiet 1500-story apartment" propaganda advertisement plastered on the courtyard wall, there is an indescribable irony.
Before leaving, the old lady reluctantly went into the courtyard to say goodbye to the Buddha statue. The wind and rain were blowing, and the old lady put on the hard hat for the Buddha statue, but suddenly she was fierce, swinging a shovel and shoveling it to the ground, trying to dig out the Buddha statue and take it away. The intense and sad background music gradually became high, and under the overhead shot, the buddha statue gradually appeared under the old lady's shovel, and the small Buddha statue in the original courtyard was only a small part, and the deeper part was still buried in the ground, which was already integrated with the foundation of the city, and it was difficult to move a bit.
Douban 8.6 "One Finger City": A metaphor about the collapse of faith in the rapid development of society skillfully uses the lens language and music to cut, explain the environmental background, express the creator's emotional tendency truthfully in the silent color, inject people's different attitudes into the rapid development of the city, guide the audience to reflect on and grasp the classic imagery, and truly narrate the eternal contradictions about the pursuit and perseverance in the rapid development of society
The old lady pounded her waist hard, and a gust of wind quickly blew away the umbrella in her hand, and quickly disappeared in the air against the background of the tall buildings, like a "home" that she could never take away, just as you and I could never catch up with the tide of the times.
In addition, the Buddha statue that runs through the present from the beginning to the present has become one of the most obvious images in the short film, symbolizing the faith that the old lady wants to protect with her meager strength, symbolizing the part that has been abandoned and shelved in the rapid development of the times and considered "ignorant and outdated", symbolizing the historical inheritance and inheritance that is deeply rooted in the ground, usually only in small parts, but it is too large and deep to be abandoned.
The famous French philosopher Albert Schweitzer once had such a statement, and was really quoted by the American popular science writer Rachel Carson in his popular science book "Silent Spring" advocating the creation of the environment and nature: human beings have lost the ability to foresee and self-control, and human beings themselves will destroy the earth and perish with it.
As Schweitzer asserted, the development and pursuit of self-control is originally an unbalanced delusion, and the humans who openEd Pandora's box no longer have the ability to close the lid, and what awaits them will eventually be a disaster that is not difficult to foresee. In One Finger City, the rapid stacking of tall buildings appears as towering fingers, just like the finger of a Buddha statue sitting on a huge base. The carrying vehicle drove farther and farther away, and the old lady looked in frustration at the yard that was gradually moving away, and lay wearily in her rocking chair. At this moment, the top floor, which was getting taller and thinner, collapsed violently, and in the blink of an eye, it smashed into the Buddha statue.
Douban 8.6 "One Finger City": A metaphor about the collapse of faith in the rapid development of society skillfully uses the lens language and music to cut, explain the environmental background, express the creator's emotional tendency truthfully in the silent color, inject people's different attitudes into the rapid development of the city, guide the audience to reflect on and grasp the classic imagery, and truly narrate the eternal contradictions about the pursuit and perseverance in the rapid development of society
The index finger of the Buddha statue broke in response, and the floor in mid-air quietly collapsed, casting a huge shadow on the huge building group. After the chaos, the car carrying the old lady came to a dangerous stop on the broken road, and the bird chirped and flew down, as if to wake the old lady. A snoring sound suddenly sounded, the old lady seemed to wake up, the bird flew away again, and the black curtain left the audience with half a minute of space to think.
As an animated short film of only nine minutes, "One Finger City" has something definitely worth affirming in terms of both intention and rhythm setting.
The most amazing part is that the short film uses a new and exquisite form to truthfully narrate the contradiction between chasing development and adhering to faith, and cleverly borrows the classic Image of Buddha statues in China, while narrating the main line, it also appropriately fills in the different choices of others in this process, silently expressing the creator's own views, eye-catching, moving, and thought-provoking.