On a normal late autumn evening, a father and daughter rode a bicycle, and the father and daughter crossed the flat road and steep slopes to the calm seashore.
The father squatted down to say goodbye to his daughter, turned and walked toward the sea, the father looked at the rough sea, turned and took a big step to pick up his daughter, and after hugging for a while, the father put down his daughter and boarded the boat.
The daughter stood on the beach and watched the boat slowly disappear, and her father disappeared from sight. Since then, her daughter has ridden her bicycle to the beach every day, standing on the shore and looking out over the sea, waiting for her father's return.
In the blink of an eye, the girl has grown into an adult, a wife and a mother, and she takes her husband and children to the seashore and continues to look into the distance. In the day after day of anticipation, anticipation, and so on to grow old.
Old and old, she came to the sea as usual, by this time the sea had dried up and turned into grass, and she walked down the sea and crossed the grass to find her father.
In the middle of the grass she found the boat that her father had been riding in, she lay in the boat to feel her father's breath, and suddenly she seemed to hear her father's voice, she stood up and ran to the source of the sound, running and running, her life seemed to flow backwards, from old age to youth to infancy, into the young appearance when she was separated from her father, and reunited with her father.
This is the story of the animated short film "Father and Daughter", the film is only 8 minutes in total, the whole film does not have a line, but it has touched the hearts of countless audiences, the director uses a simple linear narrative to outline a strong father-daughter relationship, and uses the daughter's waiting to play a deep family song.
The film was released in 2001, won the 73rd Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film, 70,000 people on Douban for the film scored a high score of 9.2, this article will be from the lens language, background music, theme presentation to analyze the charm of this high-scoring short film for everyone.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >, lens language: use minimalist lenses to speak bluntly, and restore the simplicity of scenery and objects</h1>
In addition to a small number of close-up shots, most of the film uses panoramic shots and long-range shots, using wide-angle lenses to truly record the daughter's thoughts about her father, placing people in a natural environment, creating a quiet atmosphere, expressing the daughter's lonely growth process and her longing for her father.
1. Close-up: Borrow things to convey people, through wheels, leaves, and grass to express the hardships and loneliness of her daughter's growth.
The spinning wheel is a witness of time and a carrier of emotion
The bicycle is the only keepsake between the daughter and the father, and in the film, the director has repeatedly close-up the bicycle wheel, and the rotating wheel not only represents the passage of time, but also witnesses the growth and change of the daughter.
For girls, the bicycle is not just a tool, it also represents companionship and witness. Accompanying her through the lonely years, witnessing all her loneliness and sadness, but also carrying her thoughts of her father.
The swaying leaves are the polishing of wind and rain, and also the sustenance of family affection
The first time the girl rode alone to the beach without waiting for her father, when she left, the director gave a close-up of the swaying leaves in the wind, rendering the difficult situation of the little girl, in order to express the hardship and difficulty of the girl's growth.
Leaves often have the meaning of sustenance, when the wind rises and moves, it reveals the girl's inner grandeur, pins the girl's mourning for her father, and also conveys the father's concern for the child.
Tough grass is the life of life and a symbol of growth
On the way to the seashore, there was a group of tough grasses, standing proudly on the side of the road, blowing messily by the wind, swaying left and right in the wind, but no matter how strong the wind and rain, its roots still stood still in place.
The swaying grass in the wind alludes to the girl's growth path, and also implies the girl's thoughts about her father, who become more determined and brave after experiencing the wind and rain.
2. Panoramic lens: Through the explanation of the characters and the environment, it is a metaphor for the girl's life situation at different stages.
10 rides, 10 panoramas, sending love to the scenery and borrowing lyricism
Riding with his father, riding alone 3 times, riding with friends, being ridden by her husband, riding with her children and husbands, and 3 rides after starting a family.
The director used panoramic lenses to record 10 rides at different stages of the girl's life to express her daughter's expectations and waiting for her father, and to express her daughter's thoughts and deep love for her father.
The back of the 10 times overlooking the sea is the depth of the father-daughter affection
The director recorded 10 times that the girl came to the beach to look at her father's back with panoramic lenses, placing the girl's lonely back in a quiet and peaceful natural environment, creating an elegant and mysterious atmosphere.
What the back shadow leaves us is infinite imagination, the loneliness of a person's growth, the waiting and expectation for the father, the confiding in the father, and the eternity and persistence of the father-daughter affection.
Father and daughter embracing each other in the natural scenery is the sublimation of emotions
At the end of the film, the girl has grown old, this time she no longer just stays on the shore to look out, but chooses to go down to the sea to find her father, at this time the sea has long dried up into a meadow after passing through the vicissitudes of the sea, and the girl reunites with her father in the middle of the grass and throws herself into her father's solid embrace.
This shot echoes the scene at the beginning of the film when the girl and her father are separated, and the director uses artistic techniques to sublimate the intention of the film and the open-ended ending, allowing the audience to play their own imagination and feel the thickness of family affection.
3. Long-range lens: Open and long-distance natural environment, creating a quiet artistic mood
The long-range shot of the father in the sea creates a sad and mysterious atmosphere
The father's boat sailed into the sea and became small until it disappeared, and the girl's father disappeared into the vast sea with the boat, and the vast sea swallowed up the father of the great shore.
The father who disappeared into the sea left the girl with infinite thoughts, and also added a mysterious atmosphere to the plot, laying the groundwork for the final miracle to appear.
In the spring, summer, autumn and winter, the director records the four seasons with a long-range lens, and the changes of the four seasons witness the deep father-daughter relationship
Whether it is windy or rainy, whether it is young or twilight, girls will ride their bicycles to the seaside, and the scenery of the seaside changes from year to year, while the girl has always insisted on riding to the beach to see her father.
The director uses long-range lenses to record the changes in the scenery of the four seasons, to reflect the eternal theme of family affection, to show the great family affection beyond nature and time.
The vast and boundless road, leaving people with unlimited reverie and emotion, is the daughter's emotional sustenance.
Wide roads, boundless seas, tall woods, daughter riding a bicycle slowly on the road, while feeling the vast beauty of nature, the small girl in the picture is particularly dazzling.
The director places the girl in the natural vista, creates a silent mood, expresses the girl's emotions, and allows the audience to better empathize, visit it, and have a deeper thinking about family affection.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > second, background music: to convey affection with sound, allegorize to sound, and give the story a more real emotion</h1>
"I didn't mean to avoid the dialogue or the voiceover, I just liked that there was no real-world sound in the work," director Michael Dudwitt explained that there was not a single line in the whole film, and the background music of "Danube Wave" was accompanied by natural sound, restoring the most realistic scenes of the story and making the audience more resonant.
1. Classical music and natural sound complement each other, increasing the vividness and realism of the picture.
The background music for Father and Daughter is based on the late 19th-century Romanian composer Jan Ivanovich's Waves of the Danube, a song in the form of a viana round dance, with a hint of melancholy in a cheerful and stretched atmosphere.
The film uses different parts of the tune in different natural environments to cater to the natural sound, creating a melodious, quiet and sad atmosphere, making the picture more vibrant and vivid.
2. The beginning and end of the music expresses the emotional changes of the characters and the performance of the girl's mental journey
The relaxed and cheerful prelude, the bleak swirling, the melodious climax, the tone of the music changes with the girl's change, from elation to loneliness to soothing pleasure, the girl's mental journey is unobstructed.
The tune of the music, the girl's figure, and the natural environment have been constantly changing, but the thoughts in the girl's heart have never changed, and the strong love for her father has only increased.
3. Create an environmental atmosphere so that the audience can be immersed in it and feel empathy
The charm of the film is that different people will have different feelings when they watch the same work, and the director tries to keep the most authentic people and things in the film as much as possible, just to give the audience the most intuitive and real feelings.
The background music and natural sound together create a quiet and quiet environment atmosphere, use music to render a strong family affection, portray the character's inner loneliness and loneliness, so that the audience can better perceive the character's thoughts and emotions.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, the theme is presented: father-daughter affection is an eternity beyond life and death</h1>
There are many films about father-daughter affection, but there are only a few films that can get high scores, and the brilliance of "Father and Daughter" is that it uses realistic recording techniques to show the profound perception of family affection, through the girl's watch and wait for father's love, to show the eternal beauty of father-daughter affection.
At the end of the film, the story is completed in a surreal way, sublimating the emotions of the film, prompting the audience to think and explore, and to face their inner emotions and desires.
1. The warm relationship between father and girl highlights the "deep and vast" father's love
The father and the child rode forward together, the father crouched down to say goodbye to the daughter, the father turned and took a big step to pick up the daughter, and the father greeted the daughter with open arms.
There are four scenes of father-daughter relationships in the film, these four shots are simple and common, but they contain a thousand words of emotion, reflecting the deep feelings between father and daughter, and showing the father's deep love for his daughter.
The director deliberately chooses a wide-angle lens to show the time between father and daughter, which is the director's good intentions, so that the audience can more intuitively see the simple happiness in ordinary life, and can immerse themselves in the scene to feel the deep and magnificent love of the father.
2. Every look of the girl is the affection that flows in warmth and sorrow
A person, a group of people, a couple, a family, the girl's life is constantly growing, every new stage of life, she still has not forgotten the thought of her father, the same riding road, the same shore waiting, although every time did not wait for her father, but she never gave up.
The girl's look again and again is the step by step of the father-daughter affection, from infancy to middle age to youth to old age, as the girl grows older, the father-daughter affection has become more and more thick, and every look is the deepening of emotions.
Some feelings will disappear with the passage of time, but family affection will only be eternal in the long river of time, in the girl's persistent watch, we see not only the girl's expectations for her father, but also the father's love for the girl.
3. The ending of father-daughter embrace sublimates the theme and makes fatherly love eternal in thoughts
At the end of the story, the girl is too old to ride the bicycle, she pushes the bicycle with a slight trembling step, step by step to push the bicycle to the seaside, to the beach the bicycle falls, no matter how the girl can help it can no longer stand as usual.
The girl dropped her bicycle and walked down to the sea, the sea surface has become grass, the girl went to the middle of the grass to find her father's boat, she lay in the bed like a child lying in her father's arms, curled up in the middle of the boat, at this time she seemed to hear her father's voice, she immediately got up and ran to her father, in the process of running, she changed from old age to childhood, and finally hugged her father tightly.
The scene of father and daughter embracing the audience looked forward to 8 minutes, but the girl spent a lifetime, and the end of the story fixed the picture in the scene of father and daughter hugging, implying that the family relationship has never changed, has been frozen, and the father's love has become eternal in the thought.
In my opinion, "Father and Daughter" is not only a movie, but also a warm and moving family song, a treasure book of father-daughter family affection. This story is ostensibly about the girl's watching and waiting for her father, but in fact, it also implies that her father's love is always quiet, invisible and deep.