"Bull Fighting" is directed by Guan Hu, a geek known as the sixth generation director. His works have profound humanistic care and a unique style of playfulness, such as his carnival trilogy. As part of the carnival trilogy, this film is full of the director’s unique style. The film is adapted from Zhao Dongling’s novel of the same name. Although there are no exquisite props and international superstars in this film, he Relying on a solid script and skilled narrative strategy, as well as the director's keen talent, the rich life atmosphere has achieved great success, and the use of skillful techniques to analyze life and death issues in depth.
This film uses a playful comedy style, through a two-line narrative method, tells the legend of Niu Er, a small character in Ma Muchi Village, and a foreign cow in multiple wars, the two sides rely on each other and help each other. The director uses vivid pen and ink. Using black humor and biochemical humanity themes, cross-narratives strengthen the anti-war connotation, and multi-audiovisual enrichment of individual confrontation subjects. The theme of
not only contains the meaning of social life reflected, but also the director's understanding of it. Black humor is a color of absurd despair, and his works amplify and distort the inconsistent phenomena to make them even more absurd. In addition to the film, the pure and trustworthy individual image of Niu Er is displayed in a rich manner. The dark humorous method expresses the ups and downs of the individual in the war age, praises the good side of human nature, and deepens the theme of human nature. .
"Bullfighting" is unfolding with the elements of comedy, with the will to survive, the ideal of survival, the pink theme as the background, and the grander tragedy beauty as the basis. The process of interweaving and merging comedy and tragedy has produced a huge aesthetic tension. In the humorous laughter, the tragic beauty of the story is revealed, and the style of black humor is presented. The director cleverly puts the characters in adversity in the film. At this time, the characters must deal with powerful opponents and deal with many troubles. This is the best display of conflict. Whether you win or lose, the struggle itself is respected by historical figures. The film is full of expressions of the pain of life, the lingering desolation and heaviness, which makes the audience smile and cry at the same time. To the glorious beauty of human nature.
cross-narrative refers to two stories, the plots are quickly and frequently intertwined, the development of one of the clues often affects the other clue, this method can easily cause suspense, and explain the causes and consequences of things, the film is in the storyline The setting and the design of the relationship between the characters are ingenious and thought-provoking. By describing the vitality before the destruction of the village and the silence of the village after the destruction, a strong contrast and conflict are formed, highlighting the crime of war and strengthening the connotation of anti-war.
"Bullfighting" looks at the War of Resistance against Japan from a unique perspective. It uses the first-person narrative perspective of the little character Niu Er from Mamuchi Village to revolve around the plot of protecting the bull and the bull, and through the intersection of two clues before and after the village is destroyed, and a large number of flashback narration To perform time and space performances, which creates a certain amount of suspense and deepens the psychological performance of the characters. For example, the opening of the film creates suspense between Niu Er’s reaction in the post-war village and the previous time and space, and externalizes Niu Er’s psychology, and uses character emotions as a transition technique to reflect the character’s nostalgia and memories of the past. The most important thing is to compare the visual impact psychological contrast before and after the war through the corner of the image, and finally achieve the effect of deepening the anti-war connotation.
uses close-up shots to depict the face of the protagonist Niu at the beginning of the film, vividly depicting Niu’s helplessness and despair after waking up, and then through the use of panoramic shots, a complete record of the village before and after the war is formed. The visual impact is more prominent, and the use of color is more prominent. Jiu'er wearing a red padded jacket looks particularly dazzling in a gray and black environment. In fact, Jiu'er is a non-mainstream representative from beginning to end. In the clan, he is bullied by the group and is an xenophobic image with no right to speak. But in the film, although the individual has challenged the restrictive orthodoxy, this rebellion is always a failure. of. Under the dim light and shadow, there are a person and a cow, gradually disappearing figures. The joking story contains the cruelty of war and the sinisterness of human nature. The tenacity and perseverance of small people are exactly the director's hope for society. "Bullfight" uses its infectious and interesting plot to make the audience really laugh with tears.
