The first new film after the theater resumes work is warm and poetic
Presenting the epic of life from a child's perspective
The resumption of work in theaters on July 20 has a symbolic significance for the industry. After work is resumed, it is right for the film market to return to the movie content itself. As the first new film released after the orderly resumption of work in theaters, "The First Parting" bears More attention.
Qilu Evening News, Qilu One Point Reporter Ni Zifang
Engraving time in the image
"The First Parting", which has been favored at many international film festivals, does not have a famous creator blessing. The story takes place in Xinjiang, a vast land with abundant resources and magnificent scenery. Aisa is a native Xinjiang boy who has lived here since childhood. Aisa was born in a not-so-rich family. Her mother’s illness made her family’s financial conditions worse. Her mother’s illness not only made her lose her language function, but she also often ran away from home without a trace. Therefore, Aisa must go to school. Besides, he takes extra care to take care of his mother, who is in trouble at any time. Aisha loves his mother deeply, so he never cares about this bitterness.
Kelly is Aisa's best friend. What annoyance Aisa encountered was to talk to her first. The two also raised a lamb together. Every step of life is sea and ocean, and two people support each other to walk through, leaving the best memories along the way.
In terms of the type of film, "The First Parting" is marked as a plot/children's film. The film is indeed filmed as a normal feature film, and the origin of the film is a documentary. The film's director Wang Lina has lived in Xinjiang since she was a child, and she returned again, where everything quickly and practically grabbed her heart. Before filming "The First Parting", director Wang Lina spent a year tracking and shooting the characters. She gave her the most intuitive feeling that film art can organize the material provided by reality in time, and carve real time in In the video, she made a documentary before "The First Parting".
"The First Parting" is not a documentary. The director presents the details of the documentary in the form of a plot film. The emotions and logic of people in reality recorded in the documentary become the material for the filming of "The First Parting". The filmed feature films follow the documentary thinking.
But "The First Parting" is infinitely close to a documentary, and the details and logic of life are deeply close to reality. Perhaps this is the reason why the film moves people calmly.
Life is like a flowing river
In the previous critics of the great director Zhang Yimou, most of them said that Zhang Yimou's films did not tell the story. Zhang Yimou put forward in an interview, "Why do movies have to tell stories?" In fact, a good movie is sometimes a kind of heart-to-heart communication, a kind of emotional permeation, and this kind of communication does not require elaborate design. story.
"The First Parting" is not the kind of elaborately designed story. As mentioned above, the film calmly approaches the reality of life, presenting the epic of life from a child's perspective. The film’s director of photography, Li Yong, said, “Life is like a flowing river, and images flow slowly like a river, and people naturally appear in the river of time. The taste of growth, the faint sadness, parting, and friendship are all wrapped in In the film."
In terms of the structure of the picture, the film shows two playing against the background of backlighting, and one walking of a child in a distant view. The two play under the background of backlighting appeared at the beginning and the end of the film respectively. Kelly, Isa and Kelly’s younger brother, in the gleaming light of the setting sun, talked about life’s little troubles. This is real life and may not require any logic.
When a child walks in a distant view, the child is first placed below the middle of the lens, and then the child walks to the right of the screen. The big scene moves slowly, and the image of the children is getting smaller and smaller, and they gradually walk out of the screen. In the vast world, the worries of children seem insignificant at this time, but the faint sadness still permeates.
The reality is painful but not sad
This epic and video style of life sometimes makes the audience feel like a generational immersion. Most of the time, "The First Parting" uses a quiet image to show children walking in the field. There are quite a few shots that can take screenshots as wallpaper. Such shots observe the world so quietly. Yes, this is the world in the eyes of children, this world is big, but very peaceful.
Such a child’s world has the pain of life, but it is not a world of sadness. In the film, the young boy Aisa’s mother fell ill. Aisa experienced the parting from his brother, the dilemma of losing his mother, and the parting from his good friend Kelly. In reality, the little actor who plays Aisa, his real name is Aisa. He and Aisa in the film have a similar family status. His mother is also sick. The director found Aisa because he saw one of his compositions. , He wrote to his mother, he wrote: "My mother can't talk to me, but we can communicate with our eyes. I was brought by my mother from the outer sky. My mother's love nourishes me like a spring."
In the film, Isa has a lamb that he feeds. In reality, when the director went to Aisa’s house, Aisa was feeding a lamb without a mother. He said to the lamb: "You are the same as me. Mom can't give us much love, but we have to love mom. "This kind of plot has no taste of tragicism. In the film, Kelly’s brother was asked: "Are you nervous for the exam tomorrow?" He replied: "I don't care, the exam is based on luck." This line also comes from a real conversation in real life. Perhaps there will be difficulties and pains in children’s lives, but tragicism can be rejected.