Unlike the Venice Film Festival, where movies can be purchased two days in advance, movie tickets for the Berlin Film Festival can only be purchased two hours in advance. Tickets can also be purchased online, but moviegoers need to print their own movie tickets.
Of course, it does not mean that the Berlin Film Festival can only be watched at the Berlinale Palast [Berlin Film Palace]. This is a film feast that belongs to the entire Berlin. All German cinemas in Berlin can watch movies at the same time.
Just watching the movie at the Berlinale Palast main venue, in addition to the opportunity to meet celebrities from various countries, the atmosphere is also worth checking out.
As the main venue of the film festival, most of the screening halls in Berlinale Palast are not open to the public. You need to hold a "Film Festival Invitation" to purchase tickets. In order to prevent unnecessary trouble during this period, they are open to the public for sale.
There are not many screening rooms in the city. Being able to buy the screening room at Berlinale Palast’s main venue on the first day was not only about speed but also luck.
The colors of the movie tickets are also different. Red is for the main competition unit, gray is for the special screening, and yellow is for the panoramic unit. The movie ticket for "Jinling Festival" is gray;
The time has not reached nine o'clock, fifteen minutes earlier, and the second screening room of "Jinling Festival" as the opening ceremony film has been filled with people one after another - this is due to the influence of "Zhuang He", the legendary Chinese director, and more
As the opening ceremony video.
Xia Yu and his party of fourteen people occupied a large number of seats in the screening hall.
As for Screening Room 1, it was left to the jury.
Because Xia Yu and his team appeared as one of the finales, they still attracted quite a lot of attention, which caused many foreign, especially German, filmmakers in the theater to approach and say hello. If the movie hadn't started soon,
I also plan to take a photo together.
In addition, in addition to foreigners, several small teams also attracted the attention of the group——
They are one of the few teams in China to participate in the film festival.
Fu Yijun is among them.
I had just met this "old acquaintance" backstage on the red carpet. Perhaps he regretted the "frustrating" he felt in June last year, and even regarded that audition process as an "unforgettable" audition experience;
When several Chinese film teams met again, Fu Yijun was very cold towards Xia Yu;
Of course Xia Yu didn't care, but he still had a good idea to say hello to everyone.
Just when Xia Yu turned around and was about to wait for the movie to start, Meng Dong suddenly saw a familiar figure following the group of people:
"Yubao, it's Chen Lin!"
In fact, it's not just Chen Lin, there are also several people who are not particularly formally dressed, but have a similar temperament to Chen Lin.
Obviously, the film critics came to one of the internal screening rooms through several domestic film teams.
In fact, it's not just these. This time, there are also several film critics in the internal screening room who came to Zhuanghe to get the invitation letter. They are all authoritative film critics of the older generation who have supported Zhuanghe's films for decades. However, Tao Tang arranged for the screening on the 3rd.
hall.
Xia Yu also has an impression of Chen Lin. During the time when the "Xia Yu incident" broke out, there were very few film critics who were willing to resist the pressure and support Xia Yu; because of that incident, in the past two years, in China,
Among domestic professional film critics, the tide is also rising.
Major domestic movies are basically invited to premiere, and this time is no exception!
Xia Yu's gaze didn't stay long, and he withdrew his gaze before the other party felt it.
The movie starts.
"Deng~Deng-Deng-Deng——"
The first appearance is still the same Chinese dragon logo, which is a bit unfamiliar to most foreigners, but to Chinese filmmakers like Xia Yu, it is very familiar.
The film uses Chinese and English subtitles, and the English characters are larger, so you don’t have to worry about foreigners not being able to see clearly. It is spoken in Jinling dialect.
The movie opens with a heavy fog, amidst the sound of bombings and gunshots, and a narration:
[My aunt Meng Shujuan has been looking for someone]
【Accurately】
【Looking for a woman】
【Look for it】
[She is getting older]
[She has forgotten all the important things about the wedding]
[When I grow up to the age where I can be her partner]
[I found out that the woman I have been looking for all my life is a prostitute]
[When she met my aunt]
【She is the oiran in that profession】
[In the language of the new century]
[He is a wrist-level person]
As the narration ends.
A blurry, fog-filled close-up shot in slow motion.
Accompanied by the sound of bombing, a female student was running desperately. The girl was surrounded by smoke. Due to the fire caused by the war bombing, there were many carbon marks on her face.
He looked panicked and frightened, accompanied by rapid breathing.
The girl narrates the background and facts of the movie.
The sound is similar to the opening chapter.
But more immature.
"Bombing for more than 20 days"
"Jinling was finally conquered by the Japanese invaders"
"That was December 13, 1937."
"I remember"
"Everyone was running that day"
“It seems like I’ll never be able to escape that fog.”
After this ten-second shot, the girl led two other companions out of the thick fog. As they were running away, the camera switched to the other side; they were several soldiers jogging on the battlefield with their waists bent, and they couldn't see clearly.
Their faces, but from their blurry figures, one can feel the seriousness of the situation, and then a large number of "refugees" fled, and the photos were all of the refugees' backs and footsteps——
Finally, there was a white horse, dragging a hollow carriage at high speed. The road was very narrow. The female student heard the sound of horse hooves and hurried to the roadside - the carriage contained a car of women, dressed gorgeously, with a slight aura of travel dust.
;
And when the carriage happened to pass by three female students, the pipa hanging on the outermost part of the carriage collided with the iron plate of the iron gate abandoned due to the war on the roadside; the pipa string was the opponent of the iron plate, as if it was a foreshadowing.
Now, the ending of these promiscuous women.
"Tum, thum, thum!" The three strings of the piano opened up, like the prelude to this war.
Accompanied by the harsh sound of the strings, the female student subconsciously turned sideways, her short hair covering her right eye, but the sudden bewilderment of the war in her left eye clearly occupied the entire big screen!
The next second, the carriage crashed into the smoke, and a city was devastated. The battlefield was so naked, naked in front of everyone!
The background and situation of the movie were clearly expressed in this short minute by the girl's slightly confused and frightened dialect.
And just these few shots quickly brought the moviegoers closer to the movie.
Even foreigners who don't understand the Chinese Jinling dialect at all can't help but be infected by the girl's emotions through the letters and movie shots, and are attracted by the movie shots presented by the director.
"call!"
Chen Lin watched these scenes in one sitting. It wasn't until the carriage crashed into the heavy fog that he took a long breath. In just one minute, he only had two words to express his mood at the moment, "Enjoyable!"
As expected of Zhuang He, it’s so wonderful!
Everyone on No. 2 had different emotions. Most people were shocked by these shots. In addition to the "director's" ability to express the shots, there was also a war that was about to unfold; but there were still a few foreigners who frowned.
raised eyebrow——
This kind of shot is not worth scrutinizing for some of them who love literary and artistic films, but thinking about the word "Zhuang He", they still have the patience to calm down and continue watching.
The movie continues.
A dozen female students wearing navy blue cotton clothes and haircuts suddenly burst into the camera. The man in the lead counted them and was told by the female students in the team that they were missing three companions.
The camera turned again, and a clergyman with black and white hair wearing a church priest's attire was also rushing towards the ruins. As he came and went, bullets kept falling around him.
While fleeing, suddenly, a field full of corpses appeared in front of me!
shocking.
With the sound of guns and the Japanese invaders behind him, he could only step over the pile of corpses in front of him.
He rushed into the heavy fog, and what came out again were the three female students who had been separated from their companions.
This is an artistic expression of lens switching.
Accompanied by bombings and gunshots, the female students gasped and screamed in fear. When they opened the temporary shelter made of various discarded sacks and covers, they found that it was full of people. The female students begged them to take them in, but no one was willing.
Give them a corner, even a corner to live in!
The scene turned again, and the female students had already hid in the barrel of the broken armored vehicle. They thought they could escape, but unexpectedly, the sound of Japanese invaders came from nearby. In addition, the church priest who was in his sixties was also hurriedly fleeing.
When he was close to this place, just when he found the three female students hiding in the barrel, he was also discovered by the Japanese invaders!
…
The movie opens with a narration, and a dozen shots switch to reveal the background of the story and the contradictions in a straightforward manner. The plot suddenly becomes tense. While everyone feels heavy and depressed, they also feel unconsciously attracted to the story through the "director's" lens.
Excited!
The three female students and the priest unexpectedly survived, which made the sweating audience breathe a sigh of relief!
Immediately afterwards, fourteen or five women wearing Chinese cheongsam came from a distance and approached the church in sharp contrast to the ruins of the war. Under the devastated gray and earthy yellow composition and color, it was even more different.
In particular, although they were a little panicked and messy, they were still graceful and graceful. Before they appeared, no one had realized how cruel this ruin and this war was, but when they bumped into it like "outsiders"
This war, the tragedy of this war was suddenly highlighted vividly!
These women are not "good things". They are kiln sisters living in the gold-selling cave. Because a sweetheart "broke an appointment", they can't leave the city and can't enter the safe zone in the west. They can only change their minds.
Hit this church.
The appearance of these kiln sisters erased most of the previous tragedy of the war. The audience was able to break away from the tragedy of the war and watch with interest these dialogues and behaviors that were a bit "stupid without knowing it".
"Sister Feng Chenyao, even when she was about to die, she was still bickering and quarreling fiercely and found it interesting.
These kiln ladies are naturally beautiful, with a romantic air, and all the normal men present, whether they are Chinese or foreigners, are very interested in their graceful bodies and fierce personalities.
Until a woman who never made a sound and only had her back, and occasionally could be seen smoking a cigarette appeared - in fact, when her back was exposed, everyone already thought her back was very good-looking.
But when she threw her luggage into the church yard, at this moment, the bun on the back of her head suddenly fell apart and flowed down her shoulders. Her indifferent face with a bit of scholarly atmosphere became...
Then it hits everyone's eyes and hearts.
The cheongsam she was wearing was gaudy, and the makeup on her face was a little thick. She was smeared with the rough rouge of that era. The makeup and dress all over her body were a bit gaudy, but they contrasted with her temperament.
This vulgarity sets off the elegance!
The stills of "Jinling Festival" have been released, but the seat belonging to Xia Yu has always been empty. There have been many reports on the Internet before. It was not until the magazine "Dream Back to the Republic of China" was published some time ago that everyone knew why.
Zhuang He wanted to hide it.
Seeing this scene, Chen Lin knew that he had underestimated Zhuang He's aesthetics and Xia Yu's beauty. What surprised him most was that his acting skills were not hidden in this beauty!
Her every move, every frown, every smile, if it weren't for his deliberate comparison, it would be difficult to connect "Zhao Yumo" with the starry-eyed red carpet tonight, and the beautiful and unconventional Xia Yu who is also in the screening room.
piece.
In the war, this "calm" was an illusion after all. Just as these dozen kiln sisters crowded into the church, tragic massacres were still taking place in all directions of this ancient city.
Lens everything.
The time goes back to the evening of December 12th.
A war is about to break out.
Even though everyone present had watched a lot of war scenes through war-themed movies and documentaries over the years, when they saw the scene in front of them, they still shuddered from the bottom of their hearts, it was shocking to the eyes!
Following this officer named Dai Tao, he retreated and fled to the river.
What came into view was that almost every inch of the beach was crowded with desperate flesh and blood bodies.
Every boat was crowded with people, or rather, they were piled one on top of the other.
Their hands were on the edge of the bed.
No one knows whether they can get out of this ancient city alive, this night.
This scene was created to be extremely lifelike. Although we knew that this was a movie, many foreigners in the audience, not counting Chinese, also had some knowledge of this battle. They knew that this was a real battle, and that it might be another battle.
The epitome of “ordinary”!
The officer looked at this scene and finally chose to go back. He thought that he would rather die fighting in this city than escape.
Along with the officers, there were many soldiers who suddenly had lofty ideals and planned to die on the battlefield. There was such a scene on the way.
“A soldier took off a citizen’s gown and handed his military cotton-padded coat back to the citizen, but the citizen would rather wear a pile of patched gown, barefoot and shivering with cold than wear a military cotton-padded coat.”
The officer raised his pistol, hesitated, and then slowly put it down. He picked up the gun and found only five bullets left in it.
Seeing this scene, Chen Lin was filled with emotion. He wrote this comment in his notebook: "The little soldier thinks he will never come back again. What's the use of wearing this cotton suit? It's better to give it to someone."
The citizens wanted to escape from the battlefield; and the citizens felt the kindness of the soldiers, and he couldn't bear it for a soldier as old as his son to die generously!"
War can be so cruel sometimes.
After explaining the forward content, the film began to get on the right track. After all, this is not a war documentary. It only reveals the cruel war through side descriptions of the struggles and redemption of some "little people".
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The details of the movie will be covered in two or three short chapters in the next chapter without dragging it out.