"Living Together in Time" has been very hot recently, and we will talk about it from this issue.
The film is set up in the same room as the 1999 man and the woman in 2018, triggering a love story.
Its setting is reminiscent of the South Korean film The Untouchable Lover (시월애, 2000), in which a man in 1997 and a woman in 1999 communicate through a mailbox across time and space in the same beach hut. "Living Together in Time" is equivalent to turning this setting into a "touching lover", including the previous split-screen treatment of two space-time men and women. The film was later released in the United States, starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock.
"Untouchable Lovers"
Similar to "Untouchable Lovers", there is another Korean movie "Love Fan Walkie-Talkie" (동감, 2000), which is a woman in 1979 and a man in 2000, through a walkie-talkie, across time and space, and also uses "split screen" to show the scene of two people talking.
The film was later remade in China, that is, Teng Huatao's "Love Leads a Line" (2003), also called "Love, Broken Line", starring Liang Yongqi and Zhu Xiaotian.
"Love Walkie-talkie"
The "split screen" technique has been popularized in the silent film era, and is more common in love movies, especially when shooting couples on the phone, from the early "Pillow Talk" (1959), "Indiscreet" (1958) to the more recent "500 days of summer" (2009) and other films.
Whispers by the Pillow
There's a great "split-screen" short film, Smile (2013), which should be introduced, about a man and a woman living a boring life until the end of the film breaks the "split screen" encounter, and they smile.
There is a section of this slice in which bread is put into the oven on the left, and the bread comes out of the toaster on the right (although it is actually a different bread), but visually, it forms a chain reaction between the left and right screens.
"Smile"
"Cohabitation in Time" also has a causal reaction about the two sets of space-time when the disorder first occurs, and the interaction between the two sets of space-time between bathing and washing dishes, shampoo and hair dryer, shower gel and shower head is still very comedic.
"Living Together in Time"
The artistic treatment is a plus, which "Smile" and "Living Together in Time" do very well. In the scene where men and women open their doors separately in "Smile", the color is distinguished by white and wood.
The protagonists in "Smile" meet at the end of the film, from a split screen to a full screen, but the art still uses the background color to distinguish. In the final farewell paragraph of "Living Together in Time", we can also see a similar way of handling it.
This scene is reminiscent of "Your Name" (君の名は. In the final farewell paragraph, the film uses a beam of light to space and space between the two people forever, and also achieves a "split screen" effect, where the two occupy the left and right screens in different time and space, while the other screen is empty.
"Your Name"
The "split screen" of romance films that impressed me the most was the movie "The Rules of Attraction" (2002), which played the most prominently. The screen is left and right at the same time to explain the male and female protagonists of different scenes, until the two meet, and the split screen in the same scene is perfectly integrated into a full screen through angle transformation.
The Law of Seduction
The above is about the "split screen" effect in the movie, and then briefly talk about the concept of "time travel":
The logic of "time travel" can be studied in detail, after all, this is a love sketch. However, some of the basic characteristics of "crossing" are still used. For example, every change in history will directly change the real world many years later, which is mainly reflected in Lu Ming. The disappearance of someone in future space-time because of a fortuitous decision of the crosser in the past is covered in crossover films such as Back to the Future (1985) and Frequency (2000).
Back to the Future
In Back to the Future, with the "butterfly effect" taking place, there is a growing possibility that Marty doesn't exist, and his body is gradually disappearing. In "Living Together in Time", in addition to the disappearance of a character in a certain time and space, there is also a change in memory.
The traverser's inability to meet his past self is the setting of many movies and novels, but it is often the traverser who can see the uninformed party, but the uninformed party usually cannot see the traversing party.
Buying lottery tickets is also popular with many protagonists of cross-over movies, such as PayCheck (2003), The Time Traveler's wife (2009) and About time (2013), and it depends on how to make up whether it can be claimed.
The Time Traveler's Wife
Inception (2010) is not a time travel film, but the gyroscope used to distinguish dreams from reality has become a classic symbol. In Cohabitation in Timeless Space, the concept of gyroscope is used twice - "when the gyroscope is rotated, all the good will be retained." ”
The "gyroscope" is used to represent the operation of "space-time travel", when the gyroscope stops rotating, the two sets of space-time no longer overlap.
Inception
Time travel is the catalyst, and love is the core of the story.
Chen Kexin's film "Sweet Honey" has become a tribute to various love sketches in chinese films at present. "Living Together in Time" is no exception, cycling, Teresa Teng's song, and the reunion paragraph can find a correspondence.
"Sweet Honey"
When time and space just overlap, the male and female faces use a classic "Blueberry Night" style top camera position and composition.
Blueberry Night
On the first night that Gu Xiaojiao and Lu Ming met, there was a curtain between them when they slept. This is a scene from the old Hollywood film "It happened one night" (1934), Gable and Cobai did not cross the "wall" twice, but fell in love with each other across the wall.
The male and female enemy setting at the beginning of "Timeless Rescue" is also a character model inherited from Hollywood neurorecords.
"One Night Wind"
Love cues are linked according to "neuro-comedy", but the character design alone is not a model for "neuro-comedy".
The heroine is written according to the "chick movie", and her contrast is the change of women's subjective cognition, through the choice of money or love to get rid of the reality dilemma and achieve the meaning of "rebirth"; the male protagonist's writing method is to stand at the crossroads of morality behind money and examine whether people will become "their most hated people". These two points are grasped very precisely, and the characters become three-dimensional.
Other references or tributes include:
In many time-travel movies, the protagonist likes to know what year and month it is through a newspaper or a tv news. But this film is not, it is directly "straight to the point".
When Gu Xiaojiao and Lu Ming first opened the door of 1999, the film made a quick clip that highlighted the atmosphere of the era, so that the audience could quickly integrate into the situation, from which you can see the shots of "The Man of the Ancient Puzzle Boy in the Jianghu" (1996) and "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" (1998). However, the art of this set of shots is a bit overdone, more like the early 90s than the late 90s.
These are two signs of the times, the poster of "The Ancient Trickster in the Jianghu" also appeared in "Charlotte Troubles", and "Huan Zhu Ge ge" almost became the standard for films that took place in the late 90s (not limited to cross-over movies).
Similarly, when Charlotte travels back in time to 1997, he runs to the main road, and there are also skewers with a prominent sense of age accompanying the song "1997 AD".
Charlotte Troubles – Titanic is also a classic label
Charlotte Troubles
There is also nostalgia for tape, which is described in "Living Together in Time" and "Charlotte Troubles".
When the two experienced VR in 2018, a string of "situational parodies" of Hollywood films appeared, including Titanic (1997), Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001), The Reader (2008), and Brokeback Mountain (2005).
In "Living Together in Time", Lu Ming wears VR glasses
Titanic
As a person in 1999, Lu Ming has only seen this film
Battlefield Lover
Many people think that this passage is "Pearl Harbor", not and not also
The Reader
Brokeback Mountain
It can be seen that the choreographer is still quite fan-inspired, and he plays with these elements happily. As a genre film, "Living Together in Time" still has many highlights. The elements listed in this article are only a personal opinion and association, and there is no malice, such as "Lei Tong", which is pure providence.