Chinanews, July 24th, 23rd, the online movie “Our New Life” was launched. The film is directed by the Olympic Games, Bao Beier, Yao Tingting, Lu Zhengyu, Zhang Luan, and tells the story of ordinary characters in pursuit of a better life through five unit stories.
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Compared with “Me and My Motherland” and “Me and My Hometown”, although the “cut” of the film “Our New Life” is smaller, what remains unchanged is the expression of groundedness, through the form of video. Annotate the “life” of the moment.
In the film, many characters such as Cai Ming, Bao Wenjing, Yang Chaoyue come from different industries, not only condensing the current life status of ordinary people, but also emphasizing the emotions of ordinary people at the moment, which resonates with the audience.
However, how do directors with different creative orientations maintain the balance of their artistic personalities? How to maintain the unity of narrative style between different types of stories? How do different characters balance the emotional tone of coordination?
“Our New Life” uses empathic narrative techniques on the one hand. For example, in “The Concert on the Clouds”, the dream-catching music of several children “escape” from their hometown, which seems to be “rebellious” but “reasonable and reasonable” narrative mode; there are also commercial types The skilful application of contradictory narratives, such as “Calm Down”, the male and female protagonists face various trivial reversals of true feelings in the marriage relationship, and “The Most Burning Sunset in Red”, the fun narrative of the female protagonist’s later years. The interaction of multiple narrative techniques makes the storytelling interesting and effectively mobilizes the joy of watching the movie.
On the other hand, the successful grasp of stylized narrative art allows the tone of the film to always be better controlled in a simple, affectionate, warm and enterprising dimension, which not only creates a life texture and an atmosphere of the times with distinctive regional characteristics, such as urban and rural areas. , The living landscape of the market, the lifestyle preserved on smart appliances, and presenting a vast social scene and living capacity. The joining of many individual actors has also played an important role in guiding the narrative, such as Wang Xun who is full of dialects, Wen Song who is full of smiles, and Bao Beier who is a security guard. The ingenious design of these characters makes the story full and powerful.