The big blue

This movie takes the blue as the main key.

Blue, sea and dreams are profound and broad.

Lu gram Benison is a French director who I like very much.

This movie has gathered many elements. The dear ones, love, the friendship, dreams, as well as other are unable with the language performance humanity’s complex mood.

In this movie, Lu gram Benison unifies the color, the scene, the character, the story perfectly ingeniously together.

 

This movie’s lens, fine arts, music is very splendid. The Master of Dubs Eric Sierra used the muse very fitting sea subject.

The sea is broad, beautiful, profound, vital, is similar each corner to have the life. Sea, frightening, also lets the human yearn.

Lead Jack is summoned deeply by the sea. When he was a child, he deeply loves the sea. Although his father got killed in the sea, but Jack could not resist the sea the enticement. Even, he thought that the sea is own final ownership. Jack inborn has the ultra strong diving ability, whenever he dives submarine, he wants to keep in the deep sea, found the feeling which in there him one kind went home.

 

The direction will use the tone to serve as contrast character’s mood, in piece initial childhood fragment, has been the black and white tone, perhaps, Jack will be an escape life child since childhood, will be different with other arrogant children. And, he has lost the mother since childhood, childhood life not joyful color.

 

Afterward, Jack has run into Joanna, he has obtained love. This causes him to be contradictories, in love with own dream, how he should choose. Perhaps love and the dream do not conflict, says regarding many people, different may through diligently and pays obtains. But, Jack love in after death, his dream in front of him, after death ownership finally does not have enemy him born that way to the sea attachment.

 

Finally, Jack gave up own life, gave up love, gave up the child who has not been born. He rigid goes into the sea.

 

At the end of the movie, the director arranges Jack and the porpoise plays in the sea, the audience knew Jack is living or death, whether he will continue to keep the sea, will return to own life. Perhaps this is director leaves our own imagination space.

 

 

Jake calls the woman who loves to him. That woman is widely separated by the great distance, wants him to treat the long-distance electricity microphone to tell the story to her. Jake said that you knew how will meet the mermaid? Must tour the seabed, in there water are more blue. The sky turned the recollection. Lies down in the silence, you decided that keeps there. Will hold the determination which must die, the mermaid will be only then appearing. They send regards you, tests your love. If your love suffices sincerely, suffices chastely, they will accept you. Then forever the region you walk…….

 

He finally left the woman who has loved him deeply and the baby which is not yet born. And he submerged alone to the deep seabed. Why does nobody know? Ending time, the man is suitable is controlling the rope, silent slides, until dark seabed. He alone pauses in the oxygen deficit cold place, bunch of light project in his face. The beautiful porpoise is screaming in a soft voice, stares in his side. He puts out a hand, goes along with it. Is the dark screen. Music resounds, in the piece curtain splits out line of characters, gives to my daughter. He gives the entire lonely sea to his daughter.

 

Black fairy tale – Little Otik

Director: Jan Svankmajer

Cast: Veronika Zilkova　Jan　Hartl

Footage: 125min

Year: 2000
 
Based on an old Czech folk tale.

Karel and Bozena are a married couple, and they desperately want a child. But it have been unable to conceive. One day, Karel is digging up an old tree stump when it occurs to him that the roots look a bit like a baby; He brings the stump home and carves it into the image of a child. They name their new child Otik. Bozena’s maternal longings transform the stump into a living creature with a monstrous appetite that can’t be met with baby formula. Otik begins eating stray animals and even people……

Jan Svankmajer was born in Prague, 4th September, 1934. He loved surrealist film from he was studing in the school. Then he studied the Europe puppet show, the living theatre, poem writing, and the film production, and so on. His artefacts always using any kinds of element: bread, wood, crockery and so on..

‘Little Otik’ is one of his famous films, it is not only a surrealist film, but also a animadvertion film, very bitingly and profundity. It reflect the human’s desire and the other relism issues. Everyone do everything in order to get what himself or herself want. Just like Karel in the film,  she always protect Otik, she knows Otik eating people clearly. And the girl in the film, she just care about the sex. And the father in the film, he hadn’t kill Otik, because he think Otik is his son, although Otik has no kin with him.

We can find the love and the seamy side of people in this film.

And Jan Svankmajer hadn’t use the high-tech of cartoon produce in this film, he just want to show the actual side and compact menu. He took a lot of close shot and close-up, just want to give the viewer to see the Otik clearly. Not just see Otik, but see the love and seamy side of people.

I think this film make me unhappy, but indubitability it’s a good film, for the way of production and the conceive of Jan Svankmajer.

Cinema Verite movement

Sometimes the cinema verite is just a record film, just been nature, been easy. The camera is as your eyes, then you use it to see everything you want to see.

Leacock and Drew, these filmmakers were getting excited by the possibilities of this new approach to recording events and people. They have some characteristics,

just like they use the hand held cameras, they ditch the tripod and dolly, don’t use overlaid sound, all the time they don’t ask any questions, and the important is they

don’t ask anybody to do anything.

The camera is like your eyes, and it can express the train of your thought. What is interesting, then you will look at that place;what makes you feel curiously, you will

look at that place. The camera can reflect it very turely. This kind of record film, can make the viewers into a real space of the producer want to express. And it’s not only

truely and nature, but also is very pureness and believable.

And the sound is very turely, too. They use the live sound, not the overlaid sound, so this kind of film can make the viewers beleable.

Obstructions in film making

In the film ‘The Perfect Human’ which is making by Jorgen Leth, and remaked in 1967 with a number of restrictions. Just like no edit greater than 12 frames,no set,shot in Cuba and so on.

In this film, something always been repeat, just like ‘Cuba’,'cigar’, ‘man’,'woman’ and so on. I think it is the main element in the film and in the producer’s head. So repeating with thinking.

And,focusing on the perfect man,the repeating changes into the man’s face, eyes, mouth, the look of cigaring, the clothes, the woman who lelongs to the perfect man, and the inner space of the man, and so on. Find out almost every element of the perfect man, and choose several main elements to express them.