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BBC has an old-school British gentleman's taste in the production of film and television dramas: the subject matter is as deep and orthodox as the castle of the nobility, the camera and editing are as meticulous as the etiquette of the public school, and the production details are comparable to the elegance of the couture dress; even if there is a subversive work like "Sherlock", it is also the gentleman's dance at the dinner party - under the hippie smile, it is still tightly tied to the fluency and elegance of the original work.
So, when such an old-school gentleman opens his mouth to joke, it must be a sullen black humor with a strong British flavor. No, I'm not talking about Yes! minister! It is certainly a classic, but this film more strongly embodies the short and pithy British joke than the former, and the aftertaste is full of four or two thousand pounds of spicyness - it is the satirical short film "Heroine" that came online this year.
It is no exaggeration to say that although this short film is only seven minutes long, Cass is so luxurious that it can almost hold up a whole play by pulling one out: Dragon Mother Emilia in Game of Thrones, Akiaki Liang Peishi in Harry Potter, felicity in Star Wars and Spider-Man, Wunmi in Batman and Fantastic Beasts, stacy in "Female Addicts"...... And, of course, there's the much-loved jitteredom hiddleston.
But what are these people doing together? They are actually competing for the heroine of a play.... (You heard that right, Jitterson is one of them!) ）
The plot of the short film is simple, and the language of the shot is not complicated: the heroine's auditions describe their understanding of the role or interpret the monologue of the role in front of the stage, the three judges comment behind the stage, and the camera switches back and forth between the auditioner in front of the stage and the reviewer behind the stage, and almost all of them are close-ups. Under such a simple plot and camera, director Jessica Swale spent seven minutes weaving a completely absurd scene.
The superficial absurdity is about bad films.
Everything about the short film "Heroine" is about auditions. Several actresses compete for the role of a female doctor.
The beginning of the short film tells us the differences, and the "heroine" in the eyes of the actress is like this:
But the judges didn't think so.
So when the actors started auditioning, even stranger judging opinions came out.
"It's sad, but you have to be happy."
"The heating was broken and she was going to fix everything alone, but her clothes stopped her.... So take off your clothes. ”
And the reason for all this is just to make the heroine more "sexy and seductive".
Intellectuality and sensuality are not impossible to coexist, and we have never lacked such artistic masterpieces. However, in this audition, the balance between intellectuality and sensuality is bluntly broken: the judges do not like the style of the auditions, nor do they care about the characteristics of the character in the script - they just want to present a pompous vase on the screen with "intellectual" sexiness.
Worse, we must answer the question: In our real film and television ecology, is there such a crew? Yes. Much? Many, especially. Is the market buying it? Now it seems that quite bought.
The absurdity under the absurdity is about equal rights.
Of course, no one who knows anything about the modern affirmative action movement will think that this film is just a simple mockery of the film factory - its intention is so eye-catching that even the rejection of every auditioner hides the blood and tears of a real heroine.
In the film, the script of the "heroine" is only shown to the audience with half a sentence: "This has always been my dream...", and all the actors will be interrupted by the judges before they can finish speaking.
Each auditioner accumulates a huge emotional potential in this line, and then the judges use the shackles imposed on women by patriarchal society: personality, makeup, skin color, etc., and also accompanied by some idle mockery.
After more than six minutes of padding, an actor — himself played by the bearded Jitterson — stood in front of the judges' bench and competed for the lead actress. As a man, he did not read half a sentence of dialogue, and he got the position of this heroine. The emotions of the previous area exploded in an instant, and it was impossible for the audience not to wonder and reflect on the social reality behind these images.
"What is a heroine?" "The short film asks itself , ' happy and sad, smiling and crying , pure and lascivious, thin and plump.' And they must be brought together. "She seems to be glorious and never-to-be reached; yet power can overthrow her in a moment's time, and her successor is even a man.
"When you're not doing anything to please yourself, who are you really pleasing?"
The ultimate absurdity is about discipline.
In this short film, the auditions are the bright line, and the three judges are the dark line.
This jury, old and young, black and white, male and female, the composition of the personnel can be called diverse; however, its attitude and demeanor often contradict itself - middle-aged women ridicule age, people of color mock the color, women who are not in good shape love to make a fuss about whether it is sexy or not....
What is the director trying to express when he sets up the jury module in this way? A reasonable guess is, "The boy who slayed the dragon, bathed in dragon blood, turned into a dragon." "The judges may have been treated unfairly like all the auditions; they have dreamed and fought for them; they have even fought and resisted bravely. But in the end, they sat on the jury seat in the film, handling the work carelessly, arrogantly and bitterly facing the world.
The Bloody Dragon has never been a simple knight story, it reflects the hearts of all people: ambitious with enterprising, conservative wrapped in compassion, rebel dragging bombs; and all this points to an inevitable ending. When Siegfried bathed in dragon blood, all he wanted was to have the power to keep one side safe, but the power changed him in turn: if he wanted to gain power, he had to turn into a dragon. In the face of the dragon's power, mortals are weak after all. Therefore, those who receive this power have only one end: to be changed, to be tamed, to be assimilated.
What does the discipline sieg flying is dragon's blood, but what is the discipline reviewers?
Even more intriguing than the short film itself is the absurdity that is equally pervasive outside the film. People argue about "political correctness" and "involution" today, and in this context, "Heroine" is naturally quite widely debated. But interestingly, many tit-for-tat voices end up on the same path; many people with the same attitude do not necessarily have the same consensus. Whether blunt or deep, this is the essence of the absurdity of "Heroine". Undoubtedly, it has the highest sense of absurdity: is it the world that is crazy, or me?