“Many of years ago, French writer Christian Metz said his film
writing experience, propose a still bothers film student problem: we have to
understand the film, but how can we explain the film?”This is a question from
the book “Short Guide to Writing about Film” Of course this question also
always bothers me. As we all know an easy way to understanding film is pay
attention to the film and make understand it, how is the film become part of
our everyday life, we all have the movie of our cherished and resonated and
laugh together, cry together with the people in the movie, the plot of film and
the film star are habitually become a part of our daily life and conversation.
In short whether it is public or private our life and movie has been get alone
with each other, so that we seldom to think seriously about the film itself, not to mention to write review
about movie. Writing film’s review is a kind of intellectual activity. Why some
film’s review is superficial, because of they always use author’s insight to
analyze movie, so I think it is mainly based on several reasons: the first
reason is we know little about the movie vocabulary and movie culture; The
second is our feelings and thoughts on the film is not profound; The third is
our lack of understanding of the style of film’s writing. According to the
reading “A Short Guide to Writing about Film” the second chapter “Film
terminology and articles” this subject are succinct
list of list of some of the necessary
language of film, it can better understand the film, such as the “landscape,
angle, visual memory and reflection, narrative, characters, view,
comparison research, scene scheduling, realism, composition and image, the
picture space perspective, editing, sound, etc” in
my opinion master the language of the film not to apply to the critics
of pretending to be erudite” , the more important
purpose is make us enable to watch a movie and understand more
comprehensive and thorough for movie, meanwhile lay a good foundation for
writing film. In other chapter the author put forward three steps for write
film, it is “think, write, read” the author think when we see a movie, we best
bring the issue, and asking question in the process of watch movie（For example, what the
relationship between the film’s title and the plot? Why the film begins and end
use the different image? Whether the camera motions have a significant form? Which scenes is most important in the film?）At the same time when
we watch film we best develop the habit of making
notes, in order to cultivate ability to make problem oriented specific topics. For another I think the notes and
question can educe more problems and try to answer to these questions, it can
formation the idea of writing. After that the author provides skills of
language and style, and hint us how to write deep, concise, and coherent
article. Therefore in order to make a deep and insightful analysis for the plot and characters in the film, we must see the film as constructed in some form and
style, and the specific form and style are influenced by the specific historical period, so this is the essence of a review.
One the other the subject is not the film’s moral and inspiration, it
just can help people understand the plot of the movie, and the big or small
concept. The movies not only have one tropic but for some reason and in order
to produce a sense of a specific interpretation of the subject, such as the way of seeing, different ways of
seeing, they are also can make the subject has a specific meaning.
As
far as I’m concerned, I would focus on the Drama. Because the Drama from real life was exist but is
often not the most people pay attention to the event and the adaptation of the
story of the film, it is always lead people
wake up to reality and afford much food for thought. Said to approach I think I
use the approach of “Make note” when I watch the movie. The movie “Woman Demon Human” has its advantage;
it is keen to touch many questions about gender
consciousness, in the usual understand of this movie is a female artist
hard struggle, or is the awakening of female
consciousness and resistance, but with careful analysis we can found the
movie is to tell other themes, that is the ideal female to pursuit male. The noteworthy is by the end of the film, Qiuyun and Zhong Kui appear at
the same stage, I think it’s actually a soul
conversation with the external Qiuyun and internal Qiuyun. In the film
the ZhongKui repeatedly said "you are tied",
at the same time, Qiuyun kept denied. This picture
is demonstrate the pain of Qiuyun’s inner, Qiuyun although constantly hide her vulnerability, but the external Qiuyun is
unceasing give the internal Qiuyun more powerful
support. When the ZhongKui said: "I came to take you get married," the Qiuyun said. "I have
married me to the stage already”, actually
complete self salvation is Qiuyun herself, Qiuyun
married her to “ZhongKui” and stage, the most important is she married her to
herself, to this Qiuyun complete a change, that is by a girl need of
male protection to a "doughty woman".
In other word she becomes a “male” due to the force of life. The film
dialectically reveals self struggle expressed
the desire of human nature, showing strong opposition and fragile, Qiuyun eager
to become the woman, but eventually become a
"man", this is Qiuyun's lucky, or her grief? On the stage, the Qiuyun
architecture is not a gorgeous Utopia for herself, but in reality the dark pressure sky, she just can only using the
attitude of aspire looking forward with the eternal distance。 On the other
hand another movie name of “stage sisters” express the same subject that is “female”
and expression the beauty of female, In addition I think the movie “stage
sisters” have a same tropic with “Woman Demon Human” that is social oppression of women,
the women can not get the
respect they deserve, not only that these women are actually silent victims who
are denied desire and expression. But the different between the two films is the
“Woman Demon human” characterization of the more profound and cruel fact, and
the “stage sisters” Politics inevitably, also play
its part, maybe cause the film’s background is before Cultural revolution, for
all I know the director XieJin is a member
of Chinese Communist Party, so the movies of he directed
the majority is the “red hot topics” such as reflected the darkness,
corruption, and oppression of the people in
the old social. Therefore the movie “stage sisters” are
affected by it. But have to admit the two films is the classic film to reflect
women. Finally, I think the film is a
reflection of life; the good film depends on the description of life and reflection, which also is one of reason for why I’m
like drama, because it can give us inspiration and make us ponder the problem the social
reality!
