Chapter 0407 - Filming Tragedy with Comedy
The screen in the main screening hall of the Festival Palace is larger than that of most theaters, but the picture quality has not been affected by this, but it is better, both brightness and color can bring audiences a better viewing experience than commercial theaters.
The entire screening hall is also much larger than the cinema screening room, which can accommodate 2,000 people watching the movie at the same time. In fact, the seats inside are basically full, and it looks black. In addition to the people invited by the organizers in the front row, there are more fans who try their best to grab tickets to come in.
After all, being able to stand out from the thousands of films signed up for at the same time around the world is enough to prove their quality and popularity.
There are a lot of people, but the quality of the audience is better than most theaters, no one will make a loud noise, even if they see their favorite stars, they just wave their hands and say hello, and they don't come up to ask for autographs.
If you see half of it and find that it is not as interesting as you imagined, you will either leave quietly or fall asleep silently, and no one will play with your phone. The light on the screen of the mobile phone will destroy the viewing atmosphere of the people around you, which is a very impolite behavior. When everyone around you is well-behaved, most people instinctively follow suit.
The main thing is that the tickets here are really hard to grab! Most of the people who can grab tickets really like movies, or like a certain star, and will cherish this rare movie-watching experience even more.
"Angel Angela" was filmed in a mountain town, which has some magical colors, coupled with the color grading in the later stages of the movie, which made many crooked nuts on the scene shine from the beginning. Even many Chinese movie fans were stunned when they saw the overhead shots and various city street shots in the opening paragraph. I never thought that the mountain city could be so beautiful! Compared to other cities, it looks significantly more three-dimensional, making it difficult to tell which horizon you are standing on.
Of course, these landscape shots are very short, and soon a fast-paced, serious narration begins, accompanied by brisk background music and various seemingly unrelated shots, shaking off some small baggage, making the audience smile.
There is something strange about the tone of the film, or rather a contradiction. It's a warm and warm color, but it's accompanied by an unsettling dimness. Especially after the name of the movie appears, Angela's various images of self-amusement in childhood give people a strange but inexplicable complex feeling of pity.
From here, the film is already hinting at Angela's childhood loneliness.
The subsequent introduction to her family also confirmed this, there is an autistic father, a neurotic mother, because she was misdiagnosed by the doctor father with heart disease since she was a child, she can't go out to play like other children, and other children also laugh at her for having a strange pair of parents and are unwilling to associate with her, and in the end she can only hide in her own fantasy world.
It's very distressing to watch, but soon all kinds of childhood shots about Angela make people laugh again-
Little Angela dressed up as her father in a white coat, and looked at her imaginary Pixiu with a grim face, and then shook her head solemnly, as if people had the same heart disease as her;
The little goldfish raised at home also suffered from neurasthenia and wanted to commit suicide because he couldn't stand this strange family atmosphere, so he jumped out of the bathtub, which scared Angela to scream at high decibels, and also scared his parents to save the goldfish that fell under the cabinet;
As a result, the goldfish committed suicide three times and twice, forcing the already neurotic mother to be under great pressure, and finally released the goldfish back into nature;
In order to comfort Angela, who was depressed after losing her goldfish, her father gave her a Polaroid to regain her smile and start taking pictures of her fantasy creatures and friends, in fact, they were ordinary landscape photos;
But when she pressed the shutter once, two cars collided, and the naughty neighbor saw it and came to scare her, using her innocence and ignorance to coax her The camera has a fatal flaw, and the shutter will cause all kinds of disasters when she presses it, Angela returned home and saw all kinds of disaster clips on TV, mistakenly thinking that it was caused by taking pictures of herself, and blamed herself for a long time;
But a few days later, she learned from her father that she had been deceived, so little Angela began to take revenge on her neighbors, and when he rubbed his home to watch the football game on the wireless, she unplugged the network cable every time she scored a goal, so repeatedly anxious that the neighbors jumped to their feet and howled again and again;
Then, in this comic atmosphere, tragedy struck suddenly, Angela's mother was hit by a passer-by who committed suicide by jumping off the building, which was fleeting, making the already abnormal family even worse.
After her mother's death, her father, who had been estranged from her, became more autistic, and Angela became more and more trapped in her own fantasy world......
This kind of comedy to shoot tragedy is indeed very novel, although the childhood Angela played by Chu Moyunshang in the movie often imitates her father and does not smile, but it looks inexplicably cute.
and Ankeco, who plays the adult Angela, gives the audience a kind of amazing change of the female college student, but what remains unchanged is the innocence, kindness and loneliness.
The movie got to this point and more characters began to appear, but everyone seemed to be weird. Or rather, the strange world of the protagonist Angela.
The film only began to enter the main plot when it was fifteen minutes into the story, telling the story of Angela who accidentally found that there was an iron box left by a little boy forty years ago in the wall of the apartment she rented, and the iron box contained various toys of the little boy and his photos......
Basically, seeing this, the fans in the screening hall and the jury basically determined the style of the film.
Telling a tragic story in a comedic way seems to be warm and romantic, but in fact it shows a lonely person who is difficult to communicate with others in ordinary times.
All kinds of imagination will smile from time to time, even for the jury with discerning tastes.
There are differences between Eastern and Western jokes, and being able to make the humor feel by both audiences at the same time is a success in itself.
Of course, as an international film festival that advertises art, familiarity with art must be indispensable.
Originated from life, but also beyond life.
The mountain city in the movie is an idealized city, and the various characters in it are actually idealized and stylized characters, and they are the idealized images of all kinds of people in the movie in reality.
This kind of romantic realism is obviously very much in line with the aesthetics of Western film critics, and the slight poetry in it is even more in line with the romantic pursuit of the Gauls.
After all, the prototype of this movie was a Gallic movie that Han Lan had seen in his previous life, and he just let his team replace the Chinese background and make various magic changes to the movie.