It's a story about animals that takes place in a place where birds don't lay eggs.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > order</h1>
What if one day you suddenly came to a place with no laws?
In a place where there are no rules, no constraints, even the role of money becomes insignificant.
Can you imagine what would happen if a man from a "civilized" world suddenly broke into this barbaric world?
The movie "No Man's Land" tells the story of a lawyer who defends an Allaite falcon dealer who steals national rare birds after being forced into the "no man's land" of the Great Northwest for five hundred kilometers.
In the desolate "no man's land", there are no rules, no laws, no constraints, and only the simplest and most direct "animal instinct" is left between people.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > director Ning Hao's "crazy" artistic pursuit to the extreme</h1>
I never deliberately created absurdity, all in order to awaken the truth of human nature.
As China's "sixth generation" young director, Ning Hao has always been criticized for plagiarism and imitation. In Ning Hao's films, we can indeed see the tribute and reference to the master directors such as Gehrig, Quentin and the Coen brothers, but Ning Hao did create a "crazy" film series with his own unique film language.
After the movies "Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Racing", "No Man's Land", which has more black humor, is more like the movie that Ning Hao really wants to express. In "No Man's Land", Ning Hao takes the crazy art of his crazy series of works to the extreme.
Falcon dealer
Compared with the obscenity of human nature in the first two works of "Madness", "No Man's Land" tears apart the gorgeous outer skin of urban civilization, so that everyone can face the most authentic flesh and blood of human nature under the whitewashed Taiping.
In the "no man's land" where the police force cannot be extended, crazy crime has artistic rationality. However, in the view of the Film Review Committee of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, blindly pursuing art violates the truth of life and loses the responsibility of artists.
Therefore, the release of "No Man's Land" has been delayed again and again, and it has been changed again and again. Despite this, "No Man's Land", which has been postponed for four years and has been deleted and modified several times, still maintains a score of more than eight points on Douban after its release.
The final film released in theaters has been cut and changed beyond recognition, but it does not affect the fact that this film has become another masterpiece after the "Crazy" series. Although there is no complete no-man's land and a peeping leopard in the tube, this deleted "No Man's Land" still reveals to the audience the absurdity of human nature and life.
In the movies related to Ning Hao, there are no heroes, no great people, only small people who work hard for life, and absurdities that can be seen everywhere.
Ning Hao said, I think that human nature itself is absurd. He is almost paranoid about finding laughs in the absurd world and presenting them to everyone.
Pain, as long as it survives, is painful.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the processing and narrative techniques of light and shadow shots in movies</h1>
Handling of large vistas and long shots
At the beginning of the film, it is the desolate scene of the west under the big vision. The feeling of dryness and heat seems to be transmitted to the audience through the screen, and this brutal and grumpy painting style corresponds well to the title of the film - "No Man's Land".
A long road in the desolate desert under the big vision, the long-shift camera shows Pan Xiao's red car running side by side on the road with the villagers' tattered tractors, symbolizing the stark contrast between modern human industry and the industry of the old era.
Pan Xiao thinks he killed the killer played by Huang Bo, and the big vision shows Pan Xiao driving off the road and pouring gasoline on Huang Bo to burn the evidence. It shows that in the "no man's land" without legal constraints, desire and greed become the root causes of everything.
Lawyers who uphold the concept of modern civilization want to take out their mobile phones to call the police after being beaten and solve problems through civilized means, but the mobile phone without a signal just shows that the reason has no effect in the desert. The back-shot shots give the audience a strong sense of substitution, profoundly showing the panic and helplessness of lawyer Pan Xiao.
Through the lens of the boss lady's turn, the face of the boss lady is slowly revealed, while the close-up shot under the positive side light suggests the cunning and greed of the black-hearted businessman in the dark. And the high price of the lighter for a hundred yuan and the sophisticated action gestures that followed showed the lady boss's desire for money and possessiveness.
When meeting the Falcon Dealer for the first time in prison, the close-up of the front side of the Falcon Dealer's face vividly expresses the sinister character image and the dark inner world.
In the tavern, light passes through the fence to form a cage-like light and shadow on the face of the falcon dealer, indicating that the beast is about to break through the cage and start hunting.
The film is generally violent, showing the audience the collision and friction between modern human civilization and primitive violence.
2. Unhurried one-line narrative
Among the expressions of many films, narrative techniques are particularly critical to the plot and logic of films. For a film whose plot and logic are not connected, an exaggerated and bizarre multi-line narrative method can confuse the audience and achieve an unclear effect.
For the same film and television drama plot and structure, different ways of telling often have different effects. Different from the inverted storytelling style in other films, "No Man's Land" uses a one-line narrative technique very bluntly.
Without deliberately "whitewashing" the villain's memories, the villain in No Man's Land is a complete villain. The villain has no tragic past, no abused childhood, as the film begins with the narration: it's a story about animals.
The multi-line narrative is equivalent to a magnificent labyrinth, in which the audience is lost in it and painstakingly looking for the direction to go out, exhausted when it reaches the exit, but no one cares about the meaning of the film itself.
And Ning Hao's slow and calm single-line narrative method in "No Man's Land" is very rare. Ning Hao's well-behaved storytelling about thieves and bandits is fascinating, and his grasp of the rhythm of the film is also just right, except for the slightly abrupt ending, the narration of the whole movie is natural.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the true rules of existence in extralegal lands</h1>
Now, like a monkey, I am in this ancient era of beasts.
Lack of real emotional drive under constraints
Pan Xiao, a lawyer driving a luxury car on the Western Parkway, is happy, and he is satisfied with the phone and is busy preparing for tomorrow's press conference. But first it was blocked by a large, tattered truck, and then a spit sprayed on the windshield by the truck brothers.
At this time, Pan Xiao had just entered this barbaric western world, and he had not yet defined the rules of this world, which was the first collision of civilization and barbarism.
Lawyers who want to be reasonable find that there is no reason to talk about it. Truck brothers, no matter what your identity is, looking at you is not pleasing to you is not giving way to you, in their view, luxury cars are no different from trucks.
Later, the killer Huang Bo shot and killed the brother of the truck brothers, and the lawyer Pan Xiao's first reaction was to call the police, but the younger brother's first reaction was to drive the truck to avenge his brother.
This is the animal instinct without restraint, love is love, hate is hate. In the Great West, which lacks legal effect, everyone shows their truest emotions, no hiding, no hypocrisy.
2. The law of the jungle under the lack of resources
Pan Xiao, a lawyer, wanted to refuel at a gas station and had to buy oil at a high price. The black-hearted boss is straight-forward, we are bundling consumption! Another reason for the boss's vindication: the next gas station was four hundred and twenty-one kilometers away.
The lady boss of the commissary sells a hundred lighters, and when she is finished, she can say unashamedly: You still have fifty for me, I will keep it a secret for you.
The reason why barristers who are successful in the civilized world outside have run into walls everywhere in the town and have no choice but to compromise is that in the resource-poor western world, the black-hearted bosses have absolute resources, and the lawyers with poor force value can only swallow their anger.
In the face of the hawk and falcon dealers that followed, the lady who kept the secret for fifty dollars could naturally give up the secret for one hundred dollars. And the falcon dealer who said "You're a smart guy" turned around and drove his car and knocked over the commissary.
Big fish eat little fish. This is nature's cruelest law of the jungle.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > tail</h1>
Man becomes man not because he abandons selfishness, but because he uses fire.
When people are in a desperate situation, they can do everything, which is the so-called animal instinct.
Director Ning Hao created a "no man's land" with no class, no order, and no rules in the two-hour-long film. Here, everyone loses all labels and talks to each other as equals, which is also the beginning of darkness.
There is no such thing as a good person.
This is also one of the reasons why radio and television, which has always advocated the promotion of positive energy, once banned the release of "No Man's Land".
The killer played by Huang Bo said to the police: You are a good person, but a good person does not necessarily have a good reward. The policeman who had just heard this sentence was immediately killed by the falcon dealer's car, so when the lawyer later advised the truck brother to call the police, the younger brother would say: Is it not because of you that he will be released?
The significance of this movie is that tearing off the colored clothes of human civilization, human nature is not all pure black or white. Human nature is extremely complex, just like the lawyer who tried to defend the bad guys in the past, and eventually gave up the self and died with the bad guys.
Beyond the blind spots of civilization, gray is the true background of survival.
Through the director's crazy artistic imagination, the audience within civilization has a new thinking about human nature.
This is the practical significance of "No Man's Land".