Actors start from the college entrance examination

Chapter 457 The world is so big, where can I stay?
A few days later, a group of people came to Hong Kong Island to start filming. Su Ze also met the legendary first photographer Du Kefeng.

Although it is known as a B-grade film with a lot of heavy flavors, Weng Ziguang never thought of using these gimmicks to make a movie like human pork pork buns, selling all kinds of spectacle and attracting attention.

It can be said that "Treading Blood and Seeking Plum Blossoms" is the soul of an art film wrapped under the shell of a B-grade film that seems to be a gimmick with a strange case as a gimmick.

From the beginning of the first scene, Su Ze saw Du Kefeng's unique aesthetics. In the scene of dismemberment, the camera glowed with a dark green light, showing a certain abnormal atmosphere.

In order to shoot this scene, Du Kefeng made many experiments. Later, he picked up a piece of glass from the ruins and used it to shoot with soft light. The dirty glass turned into a natural filter?

"Brother Ze's look is so ugly this time!"

"Fortunately, it won't be shown in the Mainland, otherwise..."

"The fans still scold us to death!"

Listening to Xiaotong complaining in a low voice, looking at her 30-year-old self in the mirror, Su Ze smiled.

The script is adapted from the case of dismemberment, which contains enough commercial gimmicks, but the director tried his best to reduce these things.

Tell you directly who the murderer is, who would do this in an ordinary commercial film?

As Xu Anhua did in "Day and Night in Tianshuiwei", Weng Ziguang is also constantly doing subtraction and anti-climax.Others planted the foreshadowing and set up suspense, but he did the opposite, because that was not what he wanted.

The whole process takes the audience to explore the psychology of these characters behind this corpse case. What did they do before this?What are the social relations like?What do you think about the incident?

Chapter 1 Plum Hunting;
Chapter 2 The Lonely Man;
Chapter 3 tread blood;

Chapter 4 A room with a view.

However, each part does not adopt a relatively independent juxtaposition structure, but is mixed together.Reality and memory are intertwined, and the social relationship and psychological state of the characters are traced back through unique film methods.

Very clever design!

Su Ze even thought of an acquaintance, Xin Yukun's heart labyrinth.

Really on Hong Kong Island, looking at the spring and summer in front of the camera, even Su Ze had to admit the great success of this casting.

Innocent like a child, but lonely and desperate like a dying beast, childlike and stubborn, hopeful and desperate at the same time.

The girl's big deer eyes and downturned mouth can only be highlighted on a big screen like a movie, which is more in line with the character's characteristics.

Wang Jiamei is alive and well!
Another thing that surprised Su Ze was Weng Ziguang. As a director, he used cross-narrative techniques throughout the whole process, using a lot of flashbacks, interspersing the stories of each character in the current time and space, so that each character can have a unique experience in the current time and space. reasonable causality.

It has to be said that such a narrative technique is not easy, especially for a newcomer, but Weng Ziguang very well grasps the independence and intersection of the main lines of each character, making the structure of the whole story orderly and not lacking in agility.

Let Su Ze's eyes light up.

Su Ze used to think that a B-grade movie, or adding eroticism and violence to a movie, would easily become vulgar, because these scenes can easily stimulate the adrenaline of the audience, so that it is difficult for the audience to fully devote themselves to the plot or even be in a certain position. A state of renunciation.

But the most genius part of Treading Blood and Seeking Plums is the application of erotic and violent scenes. Using such scenes to stimulate the audience's visual nerves makes the development of the whole story and the deep thoughts expressed by the movie more nakedly displayed in front of the audience. with mind.

The Zang sir I created is the eyes of the audience, leading them into the truth bit by bit, and exploring the unknown stories behind the case.

Under the lens of Du Kefeng, there have been red men and women under the neon lights of this city, and there have also been cheongsam skirts with small poses. The loneliness under these lenses is soaked in red wine and vinyl records.

But these are just the beautiful freehand brushwork of the city.The scene of stepping on the snow and looking for plums this time is truly desperate and alienated. Those erotic scenes are useless even a little bit of red, yellow and green lights.

Close-up of the character's face, numbness, empty eyes, tears at the corners of the eyes, a board room without wallpaper, even the frozen lemon tea is dusty...

In this city of 700 million people, there is alienation under the overcrowding. Even the sister who sleeps in Jiamei's lower bunk doesn't know where she goes every night.

In the small public housing, the toilets are crowded together, and the four of them are crowded in a small room, but they don't know each other.

Even the intimate relationship on the bed is from irrelevant to irrelevant.This kind of estrangement, like lovers who share the same bed and different dreams, can't explain it, slowly digest it, and slowly rot along with it.

Under these real loneliness, personal struggles are too powerless. When she realized her own powerlessness, Jiamei said, I want to die.

She doesn't have many lines, although she has relatives, classmates, and "boyfriends" around her.But Wang Jiamei in the camera always makes people feel a lonely feeling.

This loneliness reveals an identity crisis that exists in every corner of her life.Are the new immigrants from Hong Kong or mainland China?
She seems to be struggling to find an identity in which to rest her soul.Failure again and again can only block oneself in the end, true loneliness.

This actually reflects the general situation of new immigrants, identity, and even differences in work, study, and life tore the hearts of this group, penetrating from the material level to the spirit, forming a kind of anxiety, while loneliness is its appearance.

The camera never expresses the grotesque beauty of the city, it's aimed at the chambers, the prison-like public housing.

The small and chaotic model agency, the street surrounded by dilapidated houses, and the gray tone on the pavement...

Su Ze finally knew that this was the real life scene these low-level youths faced every day.

After the reunification, the oriental city gradually faded its splendor. The hegemony of real estate can only allow them to live in the chambers and live with the old woman.

Weng Ziguang's ambitions are very big, and it's not a simple murder suspense film, in fact, it's more about describing a reality. Is the murderer just a Ding Zicong?

wrong,

It is the loneliness and despair caused by society.

"This time I found the right one!" Weng Ziguang looked at Su Ze in the camera, and couldn't help but rejoice that this cooperation was wise.

Zang sir wears glasses and has a very gentle demeanor, and he almost does his best to deal with the case. Whether it is for the victim's family or the suspect, he seems to be always forgiving and considerate.

Tired enough to fall asleep in an uncomfortable position on the desk, people can't help but wonder if working so hard is to support a family?
But it turns out that the only contact he has with his ex-wife is to pick up and drop off his daughter on the way to and from piano and painting lessons.

Looking at his calm and gentle face that seems to be sympathetic to all beings, his beard and hair are all gray, and he eats and sleeps with the cat left by the suspect.

The densely packed clue photos under the faint light in the dark seem to be the only life.

He seems too gentle as a policeman, so tolerant of a murderer, but the most precise stab at the audience's nerves is often buried under the calm.

(End of this chapter)