Chapter 796

As one of the most eye-catching films of this year's Berlin Film Festival, the premiere of "detached" has come to an end. Nearly four minutes of standing ovation, 90 minutes of audience questions and media interviews, and the hustle and bustle of this year's Film Festival have undoubtedly pushed the atmosphere of this year's film Festival to the peak, It's really encouraging to see a warm current upsurge.

But does this mean that "detachment" has succeeded?

Obviously not. Applause means the audience's recognition of artistry; Noise means the affirmation of the topic of the reporter's dialogue. However, this does not mean that critics appreciate the film, nor does it mean that the audience will love the film. Controversy and excitement, praise and frenzy are all closely related.

James Bernard didn't like the movie.

This time, James came to the Berlin Film Festival as a representative of "Village Voice" film critics. Before the film festival, James's most anticipated work is undoubtedly "detachment". Not because of Tony Kaye, but because of Randy hall.

James has always been very appreciative of Langley, not only for his independent works, but also for "speed and passion 5". Among the new generation of actors, James has always looked at Langley with new eyes, not only because of his acting skills, but also because of his film selection vision.

But this time, Langley's choice made James question.

"There is no doubt that Tony Kaye is a special director. His lens is always aimed at a real problem. He analyzes it from a plain but sharp perspective, presenting the dark side and corruption of society to the audience with blood, leaving no place to escape. There is no tolerance.

This time, kayer points the knife at the education system. The film thinks that teachers are a bunch of profit-making, profit oriented and complaining flycatchers. This is a bold and resolute attempt, based on the essence of education, and puts forward a topic gradually ignored by contemporary society: what is the ultimate goal of education? Employment, degree, thought, wealth, even... Politics.

However, the perspective full of criticism and examination is too extreme and arbitrary.

After putting forward the question one sidedly, there was no in-depth discussion, no dialectical thinking, let alone a solution. What's worse is that in the second half of the story, the edge was completely lost, and all the weight fell on the hero's personal problems again, which directly led to the discussion of the problem deviated from the track, leaving limited room for reflection.

So sharp, so sharp, so bloody, so cruelly put forward a problem that can not be solved and lack of discussion. In my opinion, the aggressiveness is too strong. It is more like criticizing for the sake of criticism, but it lacks the real essence of humanistic care.

Kayer once showed the sharpness and gentleness in the "American X-Files", but only a group of vague concepts remained in the "detachment", which is not only disappointing, but also disgusting. "

James expressed his position in a sharp but clear way. According to the scoring standards of the three major European film festivals, James got a full score of four points, and only one point in the end. If calculated according to the 100 point system, this is 25 points. It can be said that it is a very low score. It is a complete hell.

James's disappointment and stranglehold can be seen between the lines. However, as soon as the conversation changed, James expressed the opposite position.

"In the whole movie, Kaye made a bold attempt: by narrowing the close-up lens and restoring the film particles, he presented the texture of a fake documentary, and magnified and re magnified the performance of the actors. The surge of emotion was publicized to the extreme, and then brought the response of the soul and the shock of the soul.

The advantages and disadvantages of such an experimental shooting technique are very obvious——

The shortcomings of the acting skills of the two new stars have been put under the microscope. The performances of Sammy Gail and Betty kayer are rare for the new stars. Most of the emotional expressions in the scenes are real and natural, simple and pure, but the defects of delicacy and lack of level are also revealed. Especially in the emotional expression of the key nodes, they all fail, It doesn't really show the heart of the character, and even exposes the awkward performance processing.

This can be said to be the goal of the fake documentary, but it can also be said to be the source of the defect of the film reflection resonance.

Corresponding to this is the excellent work of Langley hall. The leader of generation Y actors once again showed his outstanding performance to the audience. Even in the face of a group of well-known old actors, hall is still worthy of the best performance. The almost theatrical way of lens presentation gives hall enough space to give full play to his performance. His solid performance skills are in the eyes, corners of the mouth, facial expressions, movements, expressions, limbs and other details.

Just the last scene of the film, hall easily proved his absolute position as a leading actor again. After the amazing performances of "buried alive", "crazy love" and "anti cancer me", I can still say with confidence: This is the best performance of Hall's career.

Or so far.

Hall's performance gives the whole film deep weight and rich reflection, the relationship between individuals and society, between individuals and families, and then the influence of individuals and education. The delicate and full performance, with clear layers and eloquence, is amazing. If you list a reason to watch "detachment", then Langley hall is the answer

After writing the film review, a reporter asked James curiously: Why did the film only score one point when he gave such a high evaluation to Langley?

In response, James said, "as a whole, the film is undoubtedly a failure, or even an embarrassment. It missed the most important soul of a work of art. I'm willing to give four points just because of Lanley's performance. Give as many points as you have. But for the whole work, one point is the limit. "

In fact, James is not the only film critic who doesn't like detachment. At the end of the premiere, there were huge differences among film critics, but they agreed that this is a film by author, which can not be measured according to common sense.

The so-called author's film was first formed in France in the 1950s. The theory holds that the film has formed a special language and become a work of free expression of thoughts and feelings, just as a writer writes with a pen, and a director writes on the screen with a camera. Over time, this also formed a wave, and gradually developed into a "author" theory which highly affirmed the director's personality and belittled the vulgar creation phenomenon. Later, it directly promoted the birth of French New Wave films and began to affect the whole world.

The author's film can be simply understood as: the director gets rid of the interference of producers and producers, and complete the film with personal style characteristics according to his own ideas and ideas.

In terms of technique of expression, long lens, mobile photography, voice over, inner monologue and natural sound are widely used to express personal subjective feelings and competitive state, and even shake lens in violation of conventional rules to break the "jump editing" of space-time unity; In addition, some "documentary" techniques, such as follow-up, scramble shooting, telephoto, zoom, freeze frame, continuation and simultaneous recording, are used to combine "subjective realism" with "objective realism".

This kind of film can even be further understood as the work that the director made for himself, not for the public, but for the real professionals to study, discuss, criticize and research.

"Detached" is a typical author movie.

Because of this, the author of the film is often high cold and profound. Even professionals may cause strong resentment and even resistance, let alone ordinary audiences.

On top of the premiere, the audience's four minute applause, in a sense, is affirming Tony kayer's boldness and persistence, which is a pursuit of art. Of course, this is only limited to the Berlin Film Festival. If it is any other film festival, even the New York Film Festival, I'm afraid the audience will leave in anger.

In addition to James, another senior film critic also expressed his discomfort.

Amy Nicholson, from time magazine, said in the film review, "I like Tony kayer, I like Langley Hall - more precisely, I'm crazy about the latter, but I hate the film, I hate it."

Amy is also an unswerving supporter of lanli's previous works. She gave a high score of "speed and passion 5" without hesitation, and called on the audience to go into the cinema and watch "what is a commercial film performance", which is her original words; And in this year's awards season, she is also the biggest supporter of "love crazy", firmly believing that blue Lee is not just worthy of a nomination.

However, this time in Berlin, Amy gave a bad comment.

"The whole film is full of self talk and self justification. There is no spark between the roles. The plot of the three female characters around the male protagonist is not convincing. It cuts off the emotional connection of the story coldly and arrogantly, and then makes all the confessions and narrators become self talk.

Sadness? pain? Bitter? Tough? Lonely?

I don't believe in any of the emotions in the movie. In the whole process of watching the movie, I didn't feel anything but that I - I don't believe it was Tony kayer's intention - was detached. My soul is completely out of the atmosphere created by the film, and coldly refuses to accept any ideas Kaye is trying to force.

For me, it's a work that I don't have to watch. "

Of course, as one of Langley's supporters, Amy mentioned him in the comments.

"As for Langley hall, one of my favorite actors in the last two years, don't worry, you are still the best actor of generation Y in my mind, but I'm sorry, your performance didn't keep me in this movie. We have to wait for the next time.

Besides, it's a movie that Tony kayer made for Tony kayer, so there's no need for us to get involved. "