Because of cultural differences, in the eyes of some Western film critics, Chinese films are not very popular.
Especially those awkward literary movies.
For example, Wang Shuai's film "The Gift of Seventeen" was nominated for an award at Cannes.
This movie is regarded as a classic in the Chinese literary and art circles. Many directors praised it after watching it. They felt that the historical background in it was very rich and made people cry.
However, the reputation abroad is very mediocre, and many film critics even gave this movie a bad score of 1 star on Rotten Tomatoes.
They cannot understand the thoughts and behaviors of the characters, let alone what the directors want to show or express from the characters and the story. Even the tear-jerking part of the plot has been watched several times but they still can't understand it.
They only think that the actor is very noisy, suddenly angry, suddenly crying, and then suddenly reconciled...
After all the fuss, the movie ended inexplicably.
They looked puzzled.
It was a sense of cultural fragmentation.
"The Gift of Seventeen" was nominated at Cannes but did not win, and ultimately lost to an anti-war film called "Golvia".
Because of the general environment, after all, in 2003, a senior leader from the United States took a bag of washing powder and a group of gum-chewing soldiers into a country in search of contraband in full view of everyone. The soldiers found forty
After many days, I finally found a lot of cans that could hold discarded chewing gum, and I happily announced that the "special mission" was over.
Many filmmakers dared not express their anger at the time. Half a year after the incident, they finally used the form of a movie to criticize this "Special Action on Laundry Detergent".
Filmmakers in Cannes raved about "Golvia" and felt that it was a kind of spirit, but "The Gift of Seventeen" was too far behind.
As a film review reporter for "Screen", Glenn was assigned by the company to the screening room of "Mineral Bottom".
After the little girl heard the news yesterday, she felt very wronged. She had been to Cannes a few years ago and happened to watch the movie "The Gift of Seventeen", which left her in a fog.
One thing to say!
She really couldn't stand those messy Chinese art movies.
She applied to the company to come to Berlin for the film "Particle Technology" by German director Basil.
No matter how bad it is, I hope I can go to Screening Room 12 and watch the French romantic movie "The Thief", right?
result!
I was assigned to "Warring States" a few days ago!
After watching the movie stupidly, I came out feeling dizzy and felt like I had watched a piece of shit with extremely gorgeous packaging.
What's even more speechless is that the company leaders ask you to find a way to brag about this piece of shit. Even if it doesn't work, you can't criticize the movie during the screening. You have to hold on to the script and wait until the movie is finished.
FUCK!
Probably, the Chinese director gave the company money again.
In fact, this situation is normal. In addition to winning awards, everyone comes to Berlin to try every means to sell their films. Naturally, many media have to take care of things in advance. At least they cannot criticize your film at the key point of selling it. Moreover, Zhou Yilin is
Berlin also has the status of a special invited guest, so Berlin has to give some face.
This feeling made her feel very uncomfortable. She had a feeling of being oppressed by capitalism. This feeling has not subsided. Today, the company assigned her to the movie "Under the Mine" again.
All right!
It was another movie produced by the same company, and the little girl instantly felt that she was hopeless.
When he arrived at the door of Screening Room 6, Glenn felt weak holding the microphone, as if he was carrying a hundred kilograms of burden.
This state continued until she saw the "welcome bear" at the door.
The bear that welcomes guests is so cute!
He stood there stupidly holding a sign, looking at everyone with a blank look in his eyes. With his sincere and handsome face with bear ears, he was so cute that people wanted to touch him!
When he was about to enter the screening room, Grein realized that the "welcome bear" was actually the director of the movie.
All right!
No matter how bad your movie shooting is today, for the sake of taking a group photo, I will scold you lightly.
Glenn bit his pen cutely, made this decision silently, and then walked into the screening room.
The moment you walk into the screening room...
She was shocked!
The empty scene she imagined did not appear, and she even realized that she might not have anywhere to sit...
Then he looked at the people in the back row, and when he saw the figure of Charlotte Celie, Glenn suddenly realized that this movie might be completely different from the Chinese movies he had watched in the past!
There were no premiere speeches or the bells and whistles that precede other movie premieres. The premiere of "The Bottom of the Mine" began as soon as the little girl sat down.
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"The lens is too bad."
"Lighten up the mess."
"The picture stability is terrible."
"..."
The movie premiere has begun.
When the camera slowly landed on a mining site, Zhou Yilin looked very ugly.
His first impression of the film was poor.
Zhou Yilin, who has extremely high requirements for lens aesthetics, simply cannot accept that the opening of a movie was shot in such a bad way, and what is even more unacceptable is that such a bad work was shortlisted for Berlin nomination.
Very ridiculous.
The beginning of the movie made Zhou Yilin feel that the movie was shot very blandly, as if it was shot on a DV machine, and it was not a normal shot, but rather like a movie that was sneaked into a private coal mine to secretly shoot.
"The picture is so artless!"
Zhou Yilin's face turned ugly again, as if there was something stuck in his throat, and he couldn't spit it out no matter how hard he vomited.
He saw the construction vehicles coming and going raising waves of dust. The workers didn't even wear masks and were walking around in the dust. There were low and dilapidated coal houses, and even swill buckets were full of messy vegetable leaves.
I felt sick to my stomach through the screen. Under the lens, you could even see dust on the DV player. No matter how you wiped it, you couldn't wipe it clean. Oh no, it was on the camera.
After finally clearing up the camera a bit, Zhou Yilin saw a few more migrant workers smoking each other in the camera. They spoke a dialect, their eyes were dull, and they were full of the simple temperament of old farmers in the northwest.
Zhou Yilin can only use two words to describe it, that is old-fashioned!
Dirty character backgrounds, so-called original performances, natural sound effects with noise, rural dialects that are too obscure to understand...
Before 2000, there were some literary film lovers overseas who liked this type of film. However, with the emergence of a large number of such pictures, these types of films gradually became third-rate works overseas. After participating in several exhibitions but not being selected,
After 2003, there were very few directors in China who did this.
Zhou Yilin wanted to stand up and leave.
But thinking about his identity, he still had patience, sat down little by little, and watched carefully.
The shaky camera gradually zoomed into the "cage" where the three people went down the well. Deep in the long, narrow and claustrophobic wellhead, a long shot technique was used that made Zhou Yilin even more scornful...
"I wanted to use a long lens to show off my skills to prove that this is a movie and not a DV film, but the way I used it to show off my skills was really unprofessional..."
It's like a video taken by a kid with a junk camera.
Zhou Yilin became more and more speechless as he watched.
Watching the long shot gradually deepen, what is this trying to convey?
Almost thirty seconds of normal shooting time were wasted. How many stories can be inserted in these thirty seconds!
"The second time I saw this long shot, I was still amazed!"
"This is a hint that these three people have begun to gradually go deeper into hell. Every shake of the camera and the ambiguity of the light represent unwillingness..."
"At the same time, it also implies that in the dark and profound world, the light represented by the law has gradually disappeared, and human nature has been shrouded in darkness and has begun to be gradually annihilated!"
"This is a rare art of photography!"
"..."
Zhou Yilin heard a burst of emotion.
He turned his head subconsciously.
I saw Chairman Charlotte Celie staring at the screen and mumbling to herself in English...
After muttering to herself, she looked at the bald film dealer next to her.
"Mr. Zhuo Fulin, this movie is actually very suitable for watching a second time. Every time you watch the movie, you can see a different flavor from the movie. However, I hope you can have a certain understanding of what happens next.