The film festival is really a very interesting experience. Every day from 4 pm to 7 pm, you can freely choose which works you want to watch, but rather choose which time and space door you enter to spy on the light in the hearts of the creators.
October 21st short film group A
Perhaps as the warm-up stage of the short film unit of the film festival, the conference selected three documentary short films of students' works as the first array. The first group of viewing shots of the film festival originated from Walking, with messy streets, shaking images and disorderly editing. The brain's reaction is that this work is too amateur and too academic, and the image impression is relatively low. As the characters enter the picture one by one, the heart slowly enters the context of this village in Xinqiao, Chongqing. Every day, for the daughter whose mother is seriously ill and anxious, she tries her best to find strangers who voluntarily donate special blood types. Young migrant workers who live alone in the corner of the factory are telling their helplessness and sadness in the narrow and boring living space; Unfortunately, Deng Fei, a young man suffering from uremia, suffered physical and mental destruction. His diary, which was teased by fate, made him have little chance to be seen, became the most unforgettable soul poem in my heart. They are all at the bottom, without the director's lens. Like the dust in the world, they will never be seen. The film just spreads a trace of the bitterness of life in the heart in a casual lens context. The monologue after the factory brother climbed to the top of the mountain, "I believe there must be another me in another parallel world", "I just can't find the direction, and I am used to it. Love is not what I imagined when I was young. I just feel that there is nothing wrong with living alone ","I don't want my life to be tight, and many students around me borrow money everywhere because of their children ",and the stubbornness in the discourse reveals a compromise on fate; Deng Fei, who has come back from the death gate twice, once loved dancing, and his friends around him also liked to watch him dance. Since uremia, like a broken-winged bird, the pain of dialysis is like the shackles of a prison. He can't sleep every night and can't hike every day. Facing the camera calmly, he seems to want to reach a settlement with fate, but fate has never promised. At the end of the film, the director excerpted the diary that he agreed to make public, and I realized that Deng Fei was already a poet. "I only hope that my family can be healthy and happy. If there must be pain, let me bear all for them." I am worried, why is there a poem when there is pain? Why is a poem that hurts the heart a good poem? The poet at the bottom turned out to be a fallen meteor that we didn't notice. It flashed in an instant and most people couldn't see it.
This work is like a cup of bitter buckwheat tea for a long time. The first sip is as plain as water. You need to gently shake the tea at the bottom of the cup to taste the bitter and fragrant life. May this fledgling female director Liu Xujin bring us more excellent works worth remembering.
On October 23rd, the short film unit of Group F also officially entered the stage of drama screening, and it was very lucky to choose Group F to watch the movie. The three articles of Dog Life, 142 and Three Feet presented a very high creative quality. "Dog Life" is a genre film similar to Cao Baoping style from the style of painting to the story, which tells a simple story of a bottom-level mother paying the price for her child's tuition. The script is complete, and the children's actors are slightly inferior, which still shows the potential of genre films with more powerful directors. "142", the photography is quite amazing. Being in Chongqing, the blurred, glamorous and punk of Chongqing displayed by the photographer in the first few minutes is quite successful, as if for the first time there was a feeling of being completely captured by photography. However, as the story unfolds, it seems that the construction of the story is relatively loose, and the plot is eclipsed by his photography. The director shared that the number of the film title is the house number of his university dormitory. The creation of this short film is also to express some feelings in college, which is more prose-like, so after a period of time, some content has been lost when I beat the word memory, and only scattered shots are floating in my mind.
"Three Feet", as the winning work of the final best short film award, has to be said to be the biggest gain of this movie. A very personal story is presented with an unprecedented attitude. The 5-minute performance of this film is restrained and agitated. It is clear that the water has been boiled, but it still looks calm. It is a wonderful movie-watching experience. The story is what happened at home after he commemorated his deceased grandfather. The clever way makes the audience substitute a subtle perspective. Let's try to use memories to carry out an immature structure for the story: In the first scene, the conversation between grandma and grandpa gradually makes it clear that grandpa's younger brother is coming to visit at home, and grandpa insists. At this time, the audience's understanding is an explanation of an ordinary family relationship; Act II: The mother appeared with her son (when the director was a child), and the rhythm accelerated. She dragged her grandmother to the room and asked her about her grandfather strangely. At this time, the audience realized from the dialogue that her grandfather had died. The grandfather who appeared in the picture just now was actually a soul, and the dialogue continued. It turned out that her grandmother had been keeping one thing from her grandfather, that is, her brothers had already passed away before him, and she could not bear to tell her wife. At the same time, her grandfather interacted closely with her grandson who came back. At this time, my feelings are very complicated. The spiritual shaping from this kind of family is mixed with complicated emotions. It is extremely fearful and tender, and a plate of calm water has quietly boiled. In the third act, my mother accepted the fact that my grandfather's soul was still at home, summoned up the courage to go out and face my grandfather's soul, and had another warm conversation, confessing my mother's negligence in taking care of the family elderly as a strong woman, as if in this conversation, my daughter revealed her true self to her father, and his father's soul chose to be considerate. In the fourth act, grandpa insisted on going out to pick up his brother in person, and the family finally decided to listen to grandpa and take the bus. The director's technique is too clever. It can be said that it is perfect to use the low-cost bus that is most in line with the tonality of the story as the final scene, and the climax and ending of the whole story are almost seamless. When getting on the bus, the passengers were crowded, grandma whispered to grandpa in the back row, grandpa nodded calmly, the bus arrived at the station, the passengers got off, and the space inside the car gradually became empty, and grandpa was gone. The car continued to drive away, and grandma, mother and grandson sat quietly in the bus, ending. Very clever and restrained techniques, coupled with the strength of female No.1 Dong Qing to join, and the best short film of this work deserves its name. The characters, space, details and script structure are novel and refined, which is really worth learning and pondering. I really look forward to a second brush.
October 24th
Akita, the only feature film in this movie, comes from Zhou Lidong's debut, which tells the inner waves of middle-aged men in their ordinary lives. I admire the director for abandoning business and directing and acting. The work itself is not amazing, but many details are intriguing. A seemingly insignificant little puzzle set at the beginning throws an answer at the end of the film calmly, but it shows the central theme of the whole film. This detail is that when he works overtime alone in the protagonist's office at night, he is suddenly hit by an unknown object outside the window. He thinks it is a big bird. He is engaged in mechanical engineering and has designed one. However, it was not until the last shot of the film that this detail was echoed. In fact, it was just the sound of an outdoor cleaner hanging outside the window to clean the window and touching the window. The director didn't give any extra shots, and that was the end. Yes, in middle age, people like to be at least a big bird, a big bird with a foothold, not a big bird that stumbles to where it is, but the reality is that such a big bird does not exist, but it is just a reality void of self-hypnosis. The creativity of this detail can really enhance the connotation of the film. But how many people can really Get it? I really hope Akita can meet the public on the big screen. But the niche of the subject matter may also be doomed that this debut is also the director's imaginary big bird.