Author: Sheng Yilan
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When it comes to the Italian political film movement, everyone is familiar with "Confessions of the Police Chief", and this film is one of the classic representative works of Italian political film in my opinion. In the film, the relationship between justice, law, power, and crime is intuitively presented to the viewer, so that the film maximizes the artistic structure of these four wandering themes in the process of image presentation, which brings great dramatic tension to the film's play.
In addition, Confessions of the Police Chief combines the documentary approach of Italian neorealism with the flashbacks of the French New Wave movement, stream of consciousness, and the classic drama model of Hollywood cinema in terms of artistic means, while also adding the main feature of the Italian political film movement: the amplification of major social problems. This image processing method and theatrical structure make the realist function of the film perfectly integrated with the film's inner artistic aesthetic.
The emergence of "Confessions of a Police Chief" not only became a typical representative of the Italian political film movement and pushed the Italian political film movement to the eyes of the public, becoming one of the most important strategic films of the Italian political film movement.
The entire film inherits and expands on the imagery style of Italian neorealist cinema, which makes the director's camera like a magnifying glass for discovering the shortcomings of social loopholes. To expose the darkness of social classes with documentary lens language, to face up to social loopholes at the artistic level, and to use images to convey the public's yearning and sustenance for a better life.
In "Confessions of a Police Chief", the viewer can see the director's unique social concern and humanistic care through the video style of the Italian political film movement.
The whole film starts from shallow to deep, starting from the surface of the social reality class. As the storyline progresses, the director goes deeper and deeper like peeling an onion, revealing the dark and corrupt relationships lurking between gangsters, courts, and government agencies one by one. The subtle interlude gives the image a strong intricate class relationship between good and evil, which elevates the film to the artistic level.
Therefore, I will analyze the following aspects of audiovisual language, character modeling, drama structure, and image style, starting from the structural characteristics of the film's dramatic plays, parallelizing the characteristics of the entire film, and together with the viewer, I will perceive the director's unique social class concerns and special black and white intricate humanistic care behind the Italian political film movement.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > achieved a breakthrough in the artistic level of audiovisual language, and the "imitation documentary" audiovisual decoration plan showed the director's unique humanistic care</h1>
In "Confessions of a Police Chief", it is not difficult for the viewer to find that in the whole film, the documentary video style displayed by the director for the viewer is very strong and intuitive.
Among them, the director's pure audio-visual decoration plan is more natural to present a completely fictional drama story in front of the viewer in the language of documentary lenses, so that the viewer completely ignores the virtuality of the dramatic structure and the body. Among them, the director has perfectly integrated his unique understanding of the audiovisual language of the film into the film "Confessions of a Police Chief". Among them, the director uses "live shooting" and "detail-seeking modeling" in the film to make the film more documentary.
Among them, in "Confessions of a Police Chief", the director strictly pursues the audio-visual decoration plan of "live shooting" to make the image full of unique documentary color. Such audiovisual renovation schemes enabled the Italian political film movement to successfully combine the video style of Italian neorealist cinema.
It perfectly follows the film image principle of "carrying the camera to the street" advocated by Italian new reality films. Therefore, in my opinion, it is not difficult for the viewer to find that in the film, whether it is an insane asylum, a prison, a street or a slum, there are a large number of non-professional actors.
This treatment successfully continues the Italian neorealist image style, so that the fictional story will not feel false in the eyes of the viewer, on the contrary, because of the addition of these non-professional actors in the film, the image is more documentary style, which greatly strengthens the authenticity of the film.
In addition, the film also makes great efforts in the use of details. The perfect image detail modeling of a film can greatly enhance the authenticity of the entire film. For example, in the dramatic passage where Pontavia accompanies Quonni to the madhouse to talk to the crazy old man when the film reaches three-quarters of the way, the director designs a very clever line, and when the crazy old man sees Pontavia, he immediately asks: "Why didn't you stay and talk to me more that day?" I'm not crazy! "
In my opinion, as soon as this line comes out, it cleverly shows the director's play skills. With just one line, the viewer is enough to clearly see Quonni's suspicions about Pontavia, and pushing the boat along the water, the viewer can naturally deduce that this matter is related to Pontavia. Finally, when the whole incident came out, Selena's body was found in the cement component.
The whole film, whether it is the details of the lines or the details of the character modeling, highlights the director's meticulous director's thinking. This echoing story structure is invisibly showing the rampant evil of the mafia to the fullest. This is the director's accurate control of details that makes "Confessions of a Police Chief" subtly rise to the level of film art.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > rich and realistic character modeling, showing the multi-dimensionality and complexity of the human world</h1>
In "Confessions of a Police Chief", the director not only tells a complete story event for the viewer, but also shows the psychological world of the characters in an all-round way in front of the viewer, the whole film not only allows the viewer to see the darkness of the social class, but also makes the film have a level of the complex human world shown in the whole film, in this level of thinking, the viewer sees more of the diversity and complexity of thinking in the human world.
In addition, in "Confessions of a Police Chief", the director also adopted the expression method of French New Wave, but there was no overly deliberate stream of consciousness as the video style of the film, and the expression method of the whole film was carefully designed and naturally flowed from the emotions of the characters.
For example, at the beginning, the real daily life is shown to the viewer, and a set of cameras allows the viewer to see the busy medical staff and crazy mental patients in the madhouse.
In my opinion, it is precisely this natural life drama passage that constitutes the dramatic framework of the whole film, which naturally allows the viewer to perceive the underlying stream-of-consciousness elements in the film and makes the film full of strong metaphorical background colors from the beginning.
Secondly, in Confessions of a Police Chief, the director also uses many flashbacks to deal with dramatic segments of the entire film. In the film, for example, in the dramatic passage where Bonnevia introduces Rizzo to Quonni, the director uses a clear flashback technique. In my opinion, in this flashback treatment plan, not only does Rizzo's brave and strong worker image jump to life on the screen, but also clearly informs the viewer of Ponnavia's growth background. Invisibly, let the viewer perceive the darkness of the social class at that time
The viewer sees Pontavia, a social underclass figure who is indifferent under the protection of the law and has no background. For the first time, the viewer can strongly perceive the ruthlessness of the social class through the screen and at the same time reflect the corruption and darkness of the society at that time to a certain extent.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > director adopts a typical Hollywood classic drama structure, making the film's plot compact and unique drama, so that the viewer has a strong expectation of vision</h1>
Although the entire film "Confessions of a Police Chief" refers to and continues the image style of many Italian neorealist movements, in the overall film composition structure, "Confessions of a Police Chief" strictly follows the classic Hollywood drama mode, especially the characteristics of the plays in the Hollywood drama mode are vividly displayed, that is, the three main hollywood classic drama structure characteristics of "suspense setting, plot point setting, and classic character image setting".
In terms of suspense setting, the director design is very clever, in my opinion, the director sells the guanzi in front of the viewer at the beginning of the film, setting up a huge suspense, after watching the beginning, I believe that the viewer has the same viewing perception as me: why did the director let go of the madman, why did Lipma kill Lomono?
As the storyline progresses, the viewer has one after another questions about the viewing of the film, that is, the expectation of vision, which is also the most ingenious structural design of the play in the whole film. One seemingly ordinary "suspense hook" after another frames the entire film, making the film completely in line with the classic Hollywood narrative structure in terms of the structure of the play.
In addition, the director also completely follows the Hollywood drama mode in the setting of the plot points, and throughout the film, the viewer can perceive two obvious dramatic conflict points, namely the contradiction between Pontavia and Quonni and the conflict between the entire underworld group against Quonni.
The conflict in the whole story system goes from shallow to deep, from the superficial contradictions and conflicts of Ponnavia and Quonni gradually sneaking in, so that the contradictions of the film rise to the conflict between the dark group and the righteous individual, with the development of the overall story, the viewer can clearly perceive the thematic meaning contained in it, and also make the film invisibly rise to the artistic level. The classic character image set up in the final film is also very much in line with the structure of Hollywood's classic drama, so the deep inner complex character modeling makes the film have a strong appeal from the beginning.
In Confessions of a Police Chief, the director uses the unique documentary expression method of the Italian neorealist image style, the stream-of-consciousness film style in the French Sina movement and the classic Hollywood drama mode, but in the process of superimposing these video techniques, the director did not develop the forehead image mode of all film movements very extremely, but perfectly integrated these style characteristics into his own image style.
This makes the film naturally start from the plot, all techniques serve the theme, and this feature also makes Italian cinema a beautiful landscape.
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