film industry is bustling like a "big temple fair". It cannot be said that it is all profit and money, but it is difficult to escape the fate of being kidnapped by the box office. If you don’t need to follow the trend, try to figure out your face, don’t struggle to please the audience, you only need expression from the depths of your heart, and you only need to concentrate on studying skills and methods, how happy it would be. The Beijing National Film Exhibition once received a unique work "See You". This is not a national film, nor can it be included in a religious film, but I decided to recommend it for screening.
Just like the film’s director, Qiao Mei, said: “If someone can calm down for a few minutes after watching a movie and think about the meaning of life and the value of life, then it’s worth my time to make this movie.”
Qiao Mei is a monk. He studied at the Advanced Buddhist Academy in Huangsi, Beijing, but never entered the film academy.
The monk may be the first in China as a film director. This also makes the aesthetic characteristics and pursuit of "Zhi Jian" even more unique: without the slightest humility of the current commercial film hegemony, and the aesthetic view of popular art films. There is no negotiation and dialogue in terms of values.
"Seeing" is "Seeing", it reminds me of a sentence: There will always be many same failures on the same road, and there will always be many different successes on different roads. The creation of
"See You" is on a path of pursuit of ultimate care for people, which is produced by the expression of film authors who have religious and emotional experience, which is logical. The
film tells the story of a blind child’s mother who found the child by blindfolding her eyes to listen to the child’s heart in order to find the child who had run away.
Since the mother puts on the blindfold to simulate the child’s inner life, the soul opens to her the deep sense and reflection experience between mother and child. The child’s inner pain becomes the mother’s enlightenment. With the help of the child’s spiritual world,
mother is in the world. The dusted soul slowly became clear and unobstructed. The mother's spiritual awareness is that she broke free from the constraints of the material world in the process of finding the missing child. The process of making this film has become a way for the photographer to practice himself.
It should be said that this is a kind of happiness. The color of the film is old, and it doesn't feel dazzling when you look at it. It should be the "Dunhuang color" used in the color adjustment, which is a faded effect of ancient murals. The color description is coordinated with the plot of the story, making the audience feel considerate and comfortable.
only used an ARRI 50 anamorphic widescreen lens when shooting, without changing any lenses. It is said that this made "Photography" the world's first full-length film with one lens.
Qiao Mei Rinpoche said: It is the photographer's suggestion to take a mirror to the end, don't change the angle, just let the Buddha equal the audience. As a living Buddha, Qiao Mei was shocked and decided to give it a try.
Many people persuaded him to shoot in this way too risky, and even more professionals suspected that he did not understand the film chaos. But he did it this way, and thought that shooting in this way would make the eyes more comfortable and the heart calmer when watching the movie.
, the young director in a robe, his artistic life began in a temple at an altitude of 4000 meters. Qiaomei Rinpoche was born in the Gatang grassland of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province. The "stage play" that
first encountered as a child was the puja of Tibetan Buddhism, and his young heart was shocked by the Vajra Dance. According to the explanation of Tibetan Buddhism, during Qiao Mei’s childhood, the gods have all lived in the sky and no longer often go to the lower realms. Under the attack of people and gods, demons consciously have nowhere to escape, but they find To find a better place to go, that is the human heart, so one must fight against his own "heart demons" of all kinds.
sometimes wins, but often loses, and the number and energy of demons are far beyond people's imagination. This may be something we should pay attention to when interpreting Qiao Mei's exploration and establishment of director aesthetics in film creation. His consciousness is more derived from his unique knowledge structure formed over the years-a system of Buddhist culture.
The results are presented to us and let us realize at least two aspects: First, the author has discovered a certain decisive effect of art forms on the expression of content, photography, music, editing and other styles are crucial to the artistic production of films , Thus forming a unique film narrative and artistic style;
second is the artistic practical application of the concept of "Human Buddhism", conveying the cultural power of the Buddhist "compassion" view and its influence on people's soul in daily life. The reason why "Photo Seen" came laterSince the professional attention of the film industry, it has repeatedly won film festival awards, precisely because of its alternative value in the current film ecology and its spirit of creating "new species". Why is
called "Photos"? When it comes to religious wisdom, I think it’s best to quote the words of philosophers if it is ideologically in-depth. For example, the Indian philosopher Krishnamurti (1895-1986) whose views have a great influence on the international academic community, he Said: "Truth is purely personal realization. You must use your own light to illuminate yourself. In traditional Chinese culture, only Zen can clarify. It can also be said that the film "Zhen Jian" is new and modern. Zen Koan.
