The first program of "Director Please Advise" was completed, after four directors and four works were staged in turn, Bao Bell finally successfully advanced, and Xiang Guoqiang, Liang Long, and Bi Zhifei entered the pending area.
Among the ratings of the four works, Bao Bell's "Nezha" won the first place, Bi Zhifei's "Spring in the New Small Town" won the second place, Xiang Guoqiang's "Nezha Noisy Sea" won the third place, and Liang Long's "Crazy Alien" won the fourth place.
However, for Liang Long's work, because it was not finished, he did not expound his directing ideas, but on Weibo, he finally disclosed his creative ideas, which is obviously underestimated.
Through the explanation given by Liang Long, let's revisit and interpret this short film together to see what this short film really wants to express.
(i)
The short film starts from a scattered single page, and the black and white color of the picture makes the film have a special meaning, and it is difficult to make an objective and fair evaluation if you do not see the end.
The importance of color to the film is self-evident, in the early films, or the era of black and white films, color is not so important, but in the process of continuous development later, the function of color has been expanded, from the function of realism to the function of modeling, ideography and so on.
In this short film, you can find the contrast between before and after, from black and white to color, which has the function of structureing the entire short film.
From a single point of view, it is the role of setting off the environment, creating an atmosphere and style.
In the black and white part, the difference in the inner world of each character is highlighted, with struggle, confusion, sadness, loneliness, and of course, humor.
When it comes to color, it is first reconciliation, then true realism.
This has the function of a structural film, which is the contrast between fantasy and reality, black and white is fantasy, and color is reality.
The alien is another self, and the real self is still in trouble, but is already seeking a path to reconciliation. Of course, it is also to truly present the state of each person in reality, to cause reflection on how people should get along with the world.
Looking at the world from different angles is obviously the structural function of color.
(ii)
The falling single page is disorganized, and the complexity of the world and the chaos of the human heart are expressed here.
Then the camera switches to the tape recorder, the music sounds, the alien played by Pan Binlong appears, he holds up the bench, and then begins to tidy up the seat in front of the simple theater, next to an aunt riding a tricycle is quietly watching him, only to see that he is quite serious, even with his eyes to aim at whether the bench is neat, and then the alien also looks at the aunt, and then the alien began to perform, but did not expect the aunt to leave quickly.
Immediately after that, aunts rode past in front of them.
Contrasting with the last colored part, this is Auntie's self-struggle and confusion.
The camera then switches to the aunt's solo dance, which is confronted by a group of aunts watching.
01. A person in the face of a social conflict between collective and individual interests.
In front of a group of aunts and when aliens appear, the change in the aunt's dancing posture is actually a confrontation between the individual and the collective.
As the aunts began to join in dancing with the aliens, they were excited at first, but soon they watched each other and then stopped, obviously not allowed by the group.
The individual is swallowed up by the collective.
But they will find that the aunt's car is left behind, and the aliens are also watching around, falling into contemplation and confusion, and then driving away, starting a search journey, looking for companions.
So in addition to the contrast between fantasy and reality, there is also a contrast between subjectivity and objectivity, because the film is presented from the subjective perspective of an alien, and then in the end it is presented from the perspective of four different people, which can be both subjective and objective.
Look at the world and the self in the world from a different perspective.
02. Between the erosion of nature by industry and the innocence of growth and demise.
It begins with an abandoned amusement park where aliens ride past on tricycles.
Then a group of students sketched the scene, the camera swept past the students, the background sound is the sound of the factory, and the students painted all natural real scenes, although they are facing the same scenery, but the first three students are different, and the male student on the far side does not paint anything.
The first three paintings are naturally eroded by industry, the first two classmates have not yet appeared in the paintings of industrial objects, the first painting has the sun, windmills, trees, the second painting is mainly trees, the third painting in the signal tower appears.
As the frame continues to expand, a gradual process means erosion, which is naturally eroded by industry.
From abandoned amusement parks to children's paintings, modern industry has swallowed up not only nature, but also innocence and fun, and has become a uniform landscape, which is imposed on children to practice sketching.
But someone wasn't swallowed up.
It was the last little boy who didn't paint anything, but looked around until the aliens appeared, and he began to paint aliens, but what he painted was not aliens, but their true faces.
The shell was removed and the innocence was returned.
The little boy is not bound by the outside, but maintains innocence, of course, when he is separated from the group, he is doing the self, which is against the collective, compared to the first part of the aunt did not break away, and this part has a clear progression, this is the progressive relationship between the part and the part.
In addition, the little boy at this time is the happiest moment, because he has found himself, made himself back, and is no longer trapped by others, collective.
03. In helpless love where there is no right or wrong.
Playgrounds, bumper cars, alien subjective perspectives driving cars all the time bumping into a girl.
In the disorderly bumper car, this girl is obviously a little lost, when everyone leaves, only she stays, makeup has been spent, obviously she has gone through a sad process, and in the playground aimless driving collision, there is no way for her, when everyone leaves, leaving her helpless, continue to be sad, at this time she may be the loneliest and helpless, crying and laughing, because the past love is too helpless.
The alien handed him a pair of glasses, and the girl put them on and saw a different world, obviously in a much better mood.
Maybe you just need to look at the world from another angle and you will find the beauty of this world.
04. When you meet the one who is more like yourself than yourself.
The middle-aged man recited poetry on the factory stage, only to see him get more and more excited. Absurd and funny.
Pick up a basin of snow from an Antarctic glacier Soak your unclean feet Create a pot that speaks Let us eat enough Borrow a pair of eyeballs from a sleepless fish You can also fall asleep in the deep sea Driving a beast that was just about to reach adulthood Walk through the boundless wild grasses of Mount Kilimanjaro There's a pot of urine there Allow me to see that I am still fermenting - Li Ziqiang (second-hand rose bassist)
Then he walked off the stage to continue to do his cleaning work, you can see his identity, not suitable for performing on this stage, but this does not prevent him from performing on this stage, when he performs, he is the happiest, there is no distinction between elegance and vulgarity, just the free bloom of the self.
Until the appearance of aliens, they looked at each other, and the middle-aged man covered his mouth and smiled, and so did the aliens.
Because I met another self.
Finally, the aliens rode four different people to the starting theater and danced together in a group.
You can see that they have found themselves, they have found their kind, and they can also see that they have reconciled with the world.
From panoramas to push shots to aliens, colors change from black and white to color, returning to reality.
This alien is the other person who exists in reality, who is both illusory and real.
(iii)
We may avoid, we may laugh, we may admit our fate, we may be desperate for madness. Because everyone has an alien world that does not belong to any carrier, as long as you are willing to dance with him, you will see different landscapes and colors. People are lonely, and the grass and trees are unparalleled.
This is what Liang Long wants to express.
Aliens are both another self and guiding themselves, as long as they are willing to accept, they will discover another world.
Loneliness is obviously not terrible, what is terrible is not to dare to face it.
The reproduction of the last four alternative color pictures, which is the structural film mentioned at the beginning.
It is not only a contrast between fantasy and reality, but also a contrast between subjectivity and objectivity.
Aliens are gathering to guide the other, and the other is also looking for a breakthrough in themselves, which is actually the two sides of human beings!
In the eyes of the aliens, the other is another self, his own kind, and in the eyes of the other, the alien is another self, and he is also his own kind.
Abstract expression, using the lens language to show the inner world of the characters, each part seems to be unrelated, but the interior is constantly progressing, emotions, psychology are more advanced, and the whole is a complete structure with a logical level.
So this short film is underestimated, watch it several times, empathy is very natural, because there is always a place for you to see yourself, in this world, maybe at a certain moment, maybe a certain stage, maybe always so, but obviously everyone is lonely and different, but not lonely and social, in the development of the times, in personal growth, inner fluctuations are normal, but should learn to get along with the world, find the most appropriate and appropriate way, everything will be solved.
Without a certain life experience and experience, there would be no expression of such breadth and depth, and Liang Long obviously had and did it. He was still that Liang Long.
Although the reality is cruel, it does not hinder Liang Long's expression, and this film will eventually find its kind, and its kind will eventually see it.